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@DavidLloydRADIO

2 years

Victory in Nottingham - and the Castle turns red #NFFC

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1 year

What was the magic of Paul O'Grady on radio? A few thoughts - after listening to the repeat just now of his Christmas Day show @BoomRadioUK BLOG

What is the Magic of Paul O'Grady?

It was the Yule log and flip-flops that did it.In Paul O’Grady’s Christmas Day show, repeated today on Boom Radio in a novel Easter tribute, he told of the struggle of eating (producer) Malcolm’s...

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@DavidLloydRADIO

2 years

@simonmayo Mine too, as I left Hull. I’d only driven two hours to get there to be helpful that day. I do compare BBC farewells to the truly magnificent @Absoluteradio hallway clapping. One mark of a great organisation is the farewell. Recognition in good circumstances; dignity in others.

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3 years

Tomorrow, radio will make a difference like no other Christmas.

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5 years

This Day: 1995. The remarkable Kenny Everett died. It’s so great his memory continues to live, and his work is applauded by later generations. How he would have loved playing on Adobe - and podcasting - and maybe his own national dedicated DAB channel. #radiomoments

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3 years

This is a very clever device. Must get one for Christmas.

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6 years

I can't WAIT to hear @eddiemair unbridled on @LBC . With due respect to all his new colleagues - many of whom will agree with me - stand by for some of the best radio the UK has ever witnessed. Yet to witness his genius @BBCRadio4 ? Here's a bit of him from the other medium...

Pileus Media

@thepileus

6 years

So Boris Johnson stabbed David Cameron in back in 2016 and in now 2018 resigns to stab Theresa May in the back. No surprise as he has a history of betraying people as this clip shows

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📻 David Lloyd

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4 years

Full marks to the BBC’s @reetacbbc Reeta Chakrabarti on holding the fort flawlessly as she awaits the PM. Reading from statements. Filling on the hoof. Calm excellence.

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📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

3 years

Really privileged to be awarded an Honorary Doctorate from @TrentUni today. Leaving school and going straight into this mad industry, I never thought I’d ever be donning the robes. Lovely sunshine day in so many ways.

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📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

1 year

The funeral of BBC local radio as we know it. Sad - and needless. A fresh BLOG post with a heavy heart:

The funeral of local radio

I can understand how DG Davie got to this place with local radio.An expensive local radio network is costing a huge amount per listener to deliver – to a declining audience - at a time when an...

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📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

4 years

BBC local radio reaches over a quarter of 65+. I hope it’s refining its plan to stay on-air locally on all sites, using few staff and all possible technical options. To talk, listen and to co-ordinate neighbourhoods. At this time, to this audience, radio is a life-saver.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

2 years

Steve Wright - making essentially much the same content each day sound as exciting as ever - every day - for decades. That - genuinely - is one of the great skills of music radio presentation. Good luck, Steve.

Stuart Clarkson

@stuartclarkson

2 years

Not often a radio show changing presenter makes the main evening news! Includes a Wogan House doorstep with the Big Show host himself!

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@DavidLloydRADIO

3 years

Can we just salute the determined scientists around the World - for your quiet, determined endeavours of late - and the years of quiet study before which equipped you for the task. Just thank you.

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📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

6 months

This station is the most exciting thing I’ve done in radio since walking into Radio Trent 43 years ago. Exhausting though!

BoomRadioUK

@BoomRadioUK

6 months

We're so happy to report that in the official audience figures out today, our audiences have grown for the eighth successive time! Total listening has almost doubled in the last year. Not bad for a team of presenters - average age 70 - from their sheds, lofts and back-bedrooms!

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@DavidLloydRADIO

2 years

Celebrating exactly 18 months of @BoomRadioUK - and a listener response beyond our wildest imaginings

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@DavidLloydRADIO

11 months

This one is from the heart. We shouldn't have to explain radio to the people at the BBC who are supposed to run it in our name. But, just in case - here are a few words from the people who really matter. BLOG

Why radio matters

People are now getting their news online - so we are shifting cash from local radio to online to better serve our licence fee payers, says the BBC.You might just as well terminate the Today programme...

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@DavidLloydRADIO

1 year

What a memorable and moving night as the whole @boomradiouk team assembled for the first time in person. At the Ivy in London, we toasted two years of success and unbelievable audience reaction.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

5 years

Few people can carry off what John Myers did. So focussed but so human. So outspoken but so liked. So able to speak but such a listener. So serious but so funny. Such a leader but he delegated. Thoughts today and always with the family he adored. There will never be another John.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

4 months

Nothing like being on the radio on New Year’s Eve. Have a good one.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

6 months

Great to see. A man who’s done radio proud.

Greatest Hits Radio

@greatesthitsuk

6 months

Introducing Ken Bruce MBE. ⚡️ We're so proud of @RealKenBruce and his contribution to broadcasting, charity and autism awareness - and couldn't be any happier to have him as part of our Greatest Hits Radio family. Learn more here:

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📻 David Lloyd

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4 years

This Day: 1976. @piratejw Johnnie Walker announced his intention to quit @BBCR1 after turning down a new contract for lunchtimes which'd been conditional on sticking to the playlist and forsaking his album tracks. #radiomoments

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@DavidLloydRADIO

4 years

@Marilyn54450419 @thecarolemalone ,,,,,it’s not real.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

4 years

Just heard Steve Wright @BBCRadio2 say much the same thing about ‘getting in touch’ that he’s been saying in the afternoons for 34 years. Sounded as fresh as if he’d never, ever said it before. That’s talent.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

3 years

After launching a national station @BoomRadioUK in lockdown - it was so emotional to gather the team tonight in London

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📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

2 years

Does no-one learn how to edit audio any more? BLOG POST

Does no one learn how to edit any more?

Does no-one teach audio editing these days?Great editing can make audio sound better. The audio becomes more powerful, better ordered, fewer distractive avenues, fewer interruptions – and takes less...

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@DavidLloydRADIO

1 year

Very proud of our little baby, which is growing up so quickly.

BoomRadioUK

@BoomRadioUK

1 year

It's a bit like 'O'-Level results day for us as today as our latest audience figures arrive. Thanks to you, we've grown to over 630,000 listeners weekly - a growth of 119% on last year. May we say a huge thanks for listening - and for your support for Boom.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

3 years

This Day: 1995. We lost the great Kenny Everett, aged 50. #radiomoments

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@DavidLloydRADIO

4 years

Ah. Seeking a radio job in the ‘80s was much easier. Or was it?

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@DavidLloydRADIO

6 years

This Day: 2007. First @GregJames programme on @BBCR1 , on the day after he graduated. (Stick that up your pipe, @NME . He was the very freshest of talents - promptly identified - and now brilliant enough for a job which demands real experience). #radiomoments

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📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

1 year

A beautiful farewell to '1215' tonight as @absoluteradio shut down its AM. The frequency had been used by the original Virgin, after being relinquished by the BBC, which used it for Radio 3 and launching Radio 1 - after being a Light Programme relay.

1215 Closedown

An episode by Radio Moments - Clips

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@DavidLloydRADIO

12 days

You get to the end of a day and then realise belatedly it was a special one. This Day: 1980. Aged 19, I appeared on proper radio for the first time. Lates on Trent - filling the gap after some footy match. 44 years on, I'm still LOVING radio's magic.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

1 year

There’s something very grown up about having regular programme listings in the @RadioTimes at last.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

1 year

. @RealKenBruce leaves @BBCRadio2 after more than thirty years - here's his farewell. A job well done, Ken.

Ken's last appearance on Radio 2 - 2023

An episode by Radio Moments - Clips

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📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

5 years

Delighted the @britishlibrary @soundarchive has said it will lock away the ‘Radio Moments - Conversations’ podcast series so future generations may enjoy the character and colour of the analogue age. Thanks if you have taken part - or listened

RadioMoments - Conversations

Radio people tell their stories - in their own words - alone.

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📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

3 years

I have a theory that @ChrisMasonBBC is actually an avatar. How can one man present so many BBC programmes and podcasts - so perfectly - and also reply courteously to just about every social media post, even the idiots?

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@DavidLloydRADIO

11 months

Another ambition ticked off here. I just need a Radio 4 continuity shift - and my list of dreams is done.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

5 years

It’s the last day since 1975 when someone will sit in Nottingham at breakfast and broadcast on 96.2 FM. Farewell, my friend. John Peters, Peter Quinn, Guy Morris, Bob Snyder, Dale Winton, Peter Tait, Danny Cox, Burton, Miller + Costello/White/James, Jo & Twiggy/Emma, Dino & Pete

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@DavidLloydRADIO

3 years

In 42 years in radio - I’ve never known anything like this. Literally thousands of listener comments about our new @BoomRadioUK . I’m so tired - these have just had me sobbing. Thanks too to lovely comments from industry friends.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

4 years

I love the atmosphere of key meetings at the BBC. The process; the lanyards; the finding-the-room; the getting in; the characters; the handshakes & explaining why you aren’t the person from last time, the expectation; the log- on rituals. The performance. Each one a mini drama.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

4 years

This virus is exposing the difference between those who care for others and take due account of decisions made by informed and qualified people - and those who are just thick.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

4 months

The BBC's Acting Chair has written to me on local radio. Everything's fine. Everyone was consulted; Ofcom happy; programming "well received by audiences" & restructure was carried out “as efficiently and compassionately as we can”. My letter back is below.

The BBC Chair responds

I've despatched quite a few tetchy missives about the BBC's local radio changes, including to members of the BBC Board. You'll recall that when the Trust closed, there were assurances that the Board...

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@DavidLloydRADIO

3 years

From a daft idea last July to full national coverage on DAB from today - all hatched in a pandemic. So proud of the little baby and the whole team who’ve made it sound so great, so quickly.

BoomRadioUK

@BoomRadioUK

3 years

Following David Hamilton’s announcement just now, we’ve just rushed off a quick memo on the Remington.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

2 years

When a listener realises a station’s taking a financial hit through no ads in this obituary period…and offers to send some cash to help. That moves one to tears - after a very challenging 24 hours operationally. Radio. It’s special.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

6 years

This Day: 1997. Mark and Lard finished on @BBCR1 breakfast @Themarkrad @marcrileydj . At just 8 months it's the shortest official spell for any act on the show - but it's fondly remembered - let's salute Mark just now. #radiomoments

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@DavidLloydRADIO

1 year

I am inundated with stories - sad, annoying, perplexing - about BBC local. It is more dysfunctional than ever. Given it’s publicly- funded, there’s no justification for this strategy. It has to stop. If you believe in public service broadcasting, now is the time to speak out.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

3 years

Goodness. Launching a radio station from home in the midst of a pandemic. A month to go. There’s another book in this. Thanks for your support. We’re blown away. Like most boomers - there’s still another big adventure in each of us.

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5 years

What a day! My first ever half-marathon. Impressive route support. Thanks! Aimed for two hours - and looks like I managed it without crashing the news. Official time awaited, but hopefully even time for a short song. #robinhoodhalf

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@DavidLloydRADIO

6 months

Is there something in the air today? Listener complains as she heard birds tweeting during the Armistice silence. We reminded them they’re fully entitled to turn their radio down or off and reflect in their own way. Meanwhile we’ll have a word with the Cenotaph sparrows tomorrow.

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📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

3 years

This Day: 1980. First time I appeared on 'proper' radio. 9.15 p.m - 10.00 on Trent. One never forgets that day. I never dreamed that 41 years later, I'd still be at it. I've been very, very lucky. Thank you, radio.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

4 years

25 years on. This Day: 1995. The radio world lost Kenny Everett. He died aged 50. #radiomoments

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@DavidLloydRADIO

4 years

This Day: 1944. Radio received the best present it could hope for - as Kenny Everett was born, in Seaforth, Lancashire. At 13, when he asked for a tape recorder as a gift, his dad was initially reluctant: 'Not likely, you'll only take it to pieces'. #radiomoments

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@DavidLloydRADIO

3 years

The baby is born at 00.10. Hello, United Kingdom @BoomRadioUK

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1 year

Very, very pleased. A passion project that's truly flown - hitting huge audiences from back bedrooms, attics and sheds. Proving that you can still achieve great things - aged 60+.

Record audience increases at Boom

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BoomRadioUK

@BoomRadioUK

1 year

Time to toast! Thanks for listening - and thanks for helping to more than double our audiences in the last year - according to official figures out today.

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📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

1 year

There will never be anything quite like the Steve Allen show. For so many breakfast show presenters on other UK stations, he started their days.

Steve Allen

@steveallenshow

1 year

Some news from me,firstly thanks for all your questions. My contract with LBC is up shortly and following discussions , I’m stepping down from LBC today I’d like to thank you all for listening over the last 44 years it’s been an honour and a privilege.

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2 years

I always knew it would come to this. This network has been poorly led & managed for too long, despite the gifts of lone voices within. It can no longer be afforded. Local can work - but you need to know how to do it well and efficiently.

BBC local radio stations face big cuts to content made for their area

Exclusive: cost-cutting plans would leave local stations in England with hardly any programmes made for their own listeners

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@DavidLloydRADIO

3 years

I’m not a fan of birthdays, let alone landmark ones. But this surprise missive from TM studios in Dallas is the present about which teenage me would never have dared to dream.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

6 months

How embarrassing it'd be if Yoko called Paul now to say she'd just popped up to the loft to get the Christmas decorations down - and found another C60.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

1 year

Always good to catch up with fellow @BoomRadioUK presenters. A rare occurrence for our lovely remote venture.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

3 months

Clearing out our storage unit (still!). One cart. One life. A time and place.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

4 months

This was the year that the reins of local radio were seized by those without a clue. Thoughts with the disenfranchised listeners, those forced out, and the great people still working there and trying their very best.

Jonathan Cowap

@joncowap

4 months

For many people working in BBC Local Radio 2023 will probably go down in history as a year of sadness, uncertainty and stress. For many listeners it will be the year that the service they loved & depended upon changed beyond recognition. I hope those responsible will reflect…

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📻 David Lloyd

@DavidLloydRADIO

3 years

So pleased to unveil my new project with @radioriley . A radio station for today - for people who dare to have been born a few years ago. Boom Radio - for us baby boomers. Launches next year. It'll be fun.

BoomRadioUK

@BoomRadioUK

3 years

OK, Boomers. You know what it's like when people treat you as old but you're really not - cos you're still busy LIVING, with plans and dreams. We understand. We're a new radio station for you, set to launch in 2021. Share your ideas with us.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

4 years

Thanks to the @RadioTimes for making abundantly clear what’s in store next week on BBC local radio.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

5 years

I know it’s a mid-life crisis. I know my mother would have been disgusted. But I do like it, now the redness has subsided. Thank goodness I’ll never fall out of love with radio.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

11 months

As BBC staff strike for the second day about the BBC local changes, here's my latest summary of the issues at stake

BBC Local Radio changes - state of play

The BBC suggests it needs to invest more in local online news services and it can only do this by saving money from local radio. It claims that with a flat licence fee settlement it is wrong to focus...

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@DavidLloydRADIO

1 year

After BBC local radio in England loses 1.3m listeners year-on-year, who's responsible? A few thoughts:

What's happened to BBC local radio's audience?

Today, we learn of a drop in BBC local radio weekly audiences of over a third of a million listeners - and compared to this time last year, more than a million appear to have decided that BBC local...

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@DavidLloydRADIO

11 months

How can a mother possibly manage to deliver such inspiring words so beautifully in the most awful circumstances imaginable? Emma did. #NottinghamTogether

Sky News

@SkyNews

11 months

Barnaby was 'more than a victim of a senseless murder'. The mother of Barnaby Webber, Emma Webber said the suspect is "just a person, please hold no hate that relates to any colour, sex or religion" 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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3 years

This Day: 1967. The names of the first @BBCR1 jocks were announced (8 week contracts!). 'Paid more than they earned at the pirates which was £30 a week' The most famous pic of all was taken beside Broadcasting House - and badges were handed out: 'Ring a-247-ding'. #radiomoments .

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@DavidLloydRADIO

5 years

Nice to know the court agreed with me that @SouthernRailUK should not be selling tickets as 'first class' when the only difference from standard is the antimacassar on the seat back! You would have saved yourselves, me and the court a lot of time had you admitted it. Now stop it.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

7 months

Here's another thought. What is the long term damage to the quality of UK radio generally as so many staff leave so quickly in this ill-advised BBC local radio strategy.

The silent killer

A few years ago, whilst jobbing one sunny day on a BBC local station outside my area, I arrived for my programme to be greeted by a huddle of three enthusiastic programme producers in the control...

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@DavidLloydRADIO

4 years

I want to become Chairman. And I’ll keep them all open.

RadioToday UK

@RadioToday

4 years

Kelvin MacKenzie wants to become the new BBC Chairman, and says he will shut all national radio stations except BBC Radio 4 if he gets the job

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11 months

Well deserved. Ken loves radio and he’s given brilliant service. And he’s a decent guy.

Greatest Hits Radio

@greatesthitsuk

11 months

Introducing Ken Bruce MBE… 👏👏👏 We’re pleased to announce that @RealKenBruce has been honoured on this year’s King’s Birthday Honours List. Learn more here:

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@DavidLloydRADIO

2 years

79 Today! This Day: 1943. @TonyBlackburn was born. Happy birthday to a hard-working legend whose career has spanned the entire journey of UK pop radio. From Caroline in 1964 - to @BBCRadio2 and others in 2022. #radiomoments

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@DavidLloydRADIO

4 years

I really, really, really was not going to post anything on today's announcements for BBC local radio.....

Let's start at the top...

I really was not going to post yet more on BBC local radio. Today's announcements make me break my promise.As ever. I write this because I care about it. And I care about the BBC. Those who knock it...

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@DavidLloydRADIO

3 years

The UK’s never been so anxious since the Gareth Gates vs. Will Young Pop Idol final.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

5 years

Overheard today from a non-media person arriving into work: "Have you heard @BBCR1 - I just wanted to carry on listening but I had to go to work". In 2019, radio still cracks it - in gifted hands. #HideAndSeek

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1 month

Not many people are still on the air daily after 65 years in the business. Happy anniversary, David Hamilton. His debut was on April 5th 1959 - at the Cologne studios of the British Forces Network in Germany.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

7 months

Thanks to the @theipaper for inviting me to pen a few words on 50 years of commercial radio - and a few other things!

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@DavidLloydRADIO

1 year

The @BoomRadioUK management meet two years on - for the first ever IRL ‘let’s talk about how things are going’ day. Some good plans afoot! And we’re having fun.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

4 years

Some local stations just happen to be local. Others truly embrace their towns and build good audience share and business. For those who’ve worked hard and done the job well in smaller patches - good luck for tomorrow’s last fling- and be proud.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

3 years

Shall we start a list of the great human beings in radio? The gifted, supportive, thinking, generous, hard-working individuals? Thankfully, there are many.

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@DavidLloydRADIO

2 months

Only the BBC could lose 1m C2DEs from local radio and .8m from R2 - from its own various failures in just two years - and then plan to spend even more money to get them back - whilst demolishing local radio in the process. That takes gall.

Andy Carter MP

@MrAndy_Carter

2 months

I’m really concerned that the BBC are cutting investment into local radio which delivers unique public service content and at the same time planning to launch new national music service with little public value and that directly target innovative, commercially funded services.

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1 year

Thirty was my worst birthday. I gather that’s a common thing for a bloke. Today was a celebration in Bordeaux for just a few more… But still busy living!

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@DavidLloydRADIO

6 months

There’s an irony that the decimation of BBC local radio would be a bigger story - and its folly exposed - were it not….well….a local story. Well done @guardian

BBC faces broad backlash over cuts to local radio output

Exclusive: Fallout includes anger from listeners, potential legal action and concerns from Ofcom

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@DavidLloydRADIO

5 years

If you share your life with a TV correspondent, do they pause for four seconds at home before replying to anything you ask?

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4 years

An anniversary. This week 40 years ago, I began my dream job - at Trent. Then, as now, getting a gig was tough. My career's been a privilege and I'm thankful to many. (If it was your era too, catch my book ‘Radio Moments’ for candid personal reflections)

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5 years

Delighted to be elected chair of the local TV network. Looking forward to interesting times - with over thirty channels across the UK.

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7 months

So fitting to see this throng assembled to mark the unveiling of the plaque at @LBC 's old Gough Square site as the 50th anniversary of UK commercial radio approaches.

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10 months

The BBC has confirmed it conducted no focus groups with the ‘specific purpose of consulting the public’ prior to the BBC local radio changes. It refuses to share the general focus group research’.

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5 years

40 years on. This Day: 1979. Buggles released 'Video Killed The Radio Star'. Radio now attracts 49m adult listeners in the UK - and is often visualised. We won. #radiomoments

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7 months

When I started in commercial radio in 1980, Radio Trent was a formidable place. All my idols. I was out of my depth. Programme secretary Jean Hook was my anchor. A breath of normality. She gave radio divas short shrift. She’s now 97. Thank you, Jean

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3 years

The best Christmas present ever for radio. This Day: 1944. Kenny Everett was born. He would have been 76 today. #radiomoments

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19 days

Farewell, Lincs FM. We started, survived, grew and thrived - against the odds. I was there when there were three of us, a landline phone and a notepad. Au revoir. Good luck to all involved in radio's next chapter. I trust all wore ties on the farewell day.

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8 months

Is there any remaining democratic avenue to help remind the BBC to serve its public with the local radio they’ve paid for?

Clinging to the wreckage

Through gritted teeth, DCMS makes clear once more its frustration at the BBC’s plans for local radio.“We continue to be concerned over the Digital First strategy at the BBC and how it will impact on...

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4 years

Radio right now is showing its mettle. So many great examples from all three sectors. Working in challenging circumstances; using the right words to reassure & inform; and giving the odd smile and uplifting story. There’s nothing like radio’s conversation at times like this.

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1 year

If you didn't manage to catch the BBC defending its local radio changes on @BBCr4today this morning - here are some quotes and a few thoughts:

BBC Local Radio seeks to explain itself

On the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning, Jason Horton, Director of Production at BBC Local, had the difficult job of defending the indefensible. The plan to reducing vibrant BBC local radio...

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4 years

10 years on. This Day: 2009. The final ‘Wake Up to Wogan’ on @BBCRadio2 . His words would become ever more poignant. #radiomoments

Terry Wogan says a breakfast goodbye - 2009

Overseas radio consultants often struggled to understand the approach of market-leading Radio 2 when Wogan ruled the airwaves. No teasing, or benchmarks; and few of the mechanics associated with a...

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4 years

I’ve said it before, but @NickFerrariLBC is just one of the top broadcasters of his generation. His questioning. Story-telling. Squeezing the drama from the moment. Mood changes. Just the best - instinctively - with every sort of caller. & that voice. He’s at the top of his game

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1 year

5 years on - remembering dear Dale!

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1 year

Is the BBC now equipped for the job of local radio? A few thoughts. BLOG:

Is the BBC now equipped for the job of local radio?

BBC local radio will still be required to broadcast an all-speech breakfast show, despite its wish to get some Dua Lipa between the interviews. The verdict comes from Ofcom in the new Operating...

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3 years

Just had a @BoomRadioUK weekend presenter - who’s not 21 anymore - in tears of happiness over managing to conquer the technology and get on-air. ‘You don’t know what this means to me’.

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