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(March 2013)

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LL
London Lite Founding member
Neil Jones posted:
AlexS posted:
Brekkie posted:
Isn't 6-10.30pm peaktime though?

For TV maybe but peak for radio must be the morning and evening rush hours as most listening is in cars


Hence why many local radio stations network outside of breakfast and "drive time" and become effectively national networks with presumably (mostly) local adverts between 10-4 and usually after 7pm unless something's happened that they think they should deal with locally, like snowfall or something.


They'll also provide 'local' news within an approved area during network hours. For example, a Global station such as Heart or Capital will add a local story to an otherwise national bulletin compiled from London.
WO
Worzel
London Lite posted:
Neil Jones posted:
AlexS posted:
For TV maybe but peak for radio must be the morning and evening rush hours as most listening is in cars


Hence why many local radio stations network outside of breakfast and "drive time" and become effectively national networks with presumably (mostly) local adverts between 10-4 and usually after 7pm unless something's happened that they think they should deal with locally, like snowfall or something.


They'll also provide 'local' news within an approved area during network hours. For example, a Global station such as Heart or Capital will add a local story to an otherwise national bulletin compiled from London.


And they can take control of any station on their networks at any time too. Useful for breaking travel news outside of 'local' hours.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
It's smarter than that - the network presenter can pre record their link during the previous record for specific stations, then go live on the rest. Providing they don't screw up the timings, it can be pretty seamless.
WO
Worzel
Steve in Pudsey posted:
It's smarter than that - the network presenter can pre record their link during the previous record for specific stations, then go live on the rest. Providing they don't screw up the timings, it can be pretty seamless.


Yes, I knew that too.
MA
Markymark
cityprod posted:
Markymark posted:
dvboy posted:

Vanessa Feltz would often stand in for Jeremy Vine, and they'd find someone else to stand in for Vanessa's early morning show.



You're absolutely right, though I was thinking 'mainstream daytime', which is really 7am to 7pm ?


Close. 6am to 7pm generally. Some stations might have slightly different times, but OFCOM recognizes daytime as 6am to 7pm.


OFCOM have clearly never been up and about at 6am this time of year Cool
CI
cityprod
Markymark posted:
cityprod posted:
Markymark posted:

You're absolutely right, though I was thinking 'mainstream daytime', which is really 7am to 7pm ?


Close. 6am to 7pm generally. Some stations might have slightly different times, but OFCOM recognizes daytime as 6am to 7pm.


OFCOM have clearly never been up and about at 6am this time of year Cool


Depends where you are. Most cities are already quite active by 6am, I've seen that myself. More rural areas definitely don't become active until about 7am.
MA
Markymark
cityprod posted:
Markymark posted:
cityprod posted:

Close. 6am to 7pm generally. Some stations might have slightly different times, but OFCOM recognizes daytime as 6am to 7pm.


OFCOM have clearly never been up and about at 6am this time of year Cool


Depends where you are. Most cities are already quite active by 6am, I've seen that myself. More rural areas definitely don't become active until about 7am.


Yes, I was thinking more about the presence of sunlight in January.......
London Lite, itsrobert and bilky asko gave kudos
RN
Rolling News
Joanna Gosling doing the One today from the studio with Ben Brown in Westminster.
AS
AlexS
Rolling News posted:
Joanna Gosling doing the One today from the studio with Ben Brown in Westminster.

Looks like most of the regions just did a Ben Brown and regional presenter namecheck into the bulletin.
RN
Rolling News
AlexS posted:
Rolling News posted:
Joanna Gosling doing the One today from the studio with Ben Brown in Westminster.

Looks like most of the regions just did a Ben Brown and regional presenter namecheck into the bulletin.

Think it might have been a last minute thing as I think it was supposed to be Ben in the studio with Simon at Westminster but Simon is off ill.



AS
AlexS
Shame they're not using Maryam as a co-presenter on afternoon live this afternoon as it seems weird to have the majority of the hour covering non political stories from Westminster.
JW
JamesWorldNews
Maryam is also an excellent presenter. I like her a lot in both news and non news segments. Capable and also humorous too.

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