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Global Radio axes all regional/local breakfast shows

(February 2019)

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LL
London Lite Founding member
To all intensive purposes, the station will be the same. The 'local' breakfast presenters are staying, local ads will still be played out, along with the same mix of pop music and local promotional activities. The only thing will be that four hours a day will come from Sheffield with 20 hours from Manchester. (It's currently 16 from MCR).
PA
Parker
Perhaps there should be a sweepstake: how long before they are all re-branded and become one national station?


A lot of the Viking originals are still around. I think Fewster runs a local station in Beverley which seems to employ most of the Classic Gold staff, Tim Jibson & Les Smith etal. Old Redgrave can be heard as TV continuity announcer for the Look North Levy show, John Harding seems to own a radio station called Great Yorkshire Gold (My auntie loves it) Embarassed
Old dogs never die Laughing
DV
dvboy
To all intensive purposes,


The phrase is "intents and purposes".
SP
Steve in Pudsey
John Harding seems to own a radio station called Great Yorkshire Gold (My auntie loves it)


That was one of the brands Viking's medium wave oldies station went by for a long time (comparatively, by their standards) networked to Hallam and The Pulse. Notable for the genius idea of picking a name with the same number of syllables as "Radio 1" and getting JAM to reading old R1 jingles.

Hopefully the reincarnation will be more successful than the previous station John Harding ran with an appropriated heritage ILR name. Pennine FM, nee Home FM in Huddersfield which he was MD of under TLRC.

They were selling off a number of stations, Harding bought it and it went into adminstration about a year later, with the emergency CD at the transmitter playing on a loop for about a month until someone else came in to buy what was left of the station.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
No one ever does well working on local radio Laughing
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And they couldn't even spell Jon's name correctly!
MA
Markymark
dvboy posted:
To all intensive purposes,


The phrase is "intents and purposes".


Has anyone caught Lorna Order yet, and what is it she's done?
SP
Spencer
John Harding seems to own a radio station called Great Yorkshire Gold (My auntie loves it)


That was one of the brands Viking's medium wave oldies station went by for a long time (comparatively, by their standards) networked to Hallam and The Pulse. Notable for the genius idea of picking a name with the same number of syllables as "Radio 1" and getting JAM to reading old R1 jingles.

Hopefully the reincarnation will be more successful than the previous station John Harding ran with an appropriated heritage ILR name. Pennine FM, nee Home FM in Huddersfield which he was MD of under TLRC.

They were selling off a number of stations, Harding bought it and it went into adminstration about a year later, with the emergency CD at the transmitter playing on a loop for about a month until someone else came in to buy what was left of the station.


Harding’s station is actually called Great Yorkshire Radio, rather than Great Yorkshire Gold.

It’s a bit of a strange listen - most of it seems to be pre-recorded with generic links. Even the travel news is pre-recorded, usually simply announcing, “It’s slow where you know,” no matter what’s going on.
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SP
Steve in Pudsey
GYR is also a previous name of that station, at least the Bradford end of it.
PA
Parker
Seems there is another 'Great' radio station.

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SP
Spencer
Seems there is another 'Great' radio station.

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There was also a plan to launch Great Manchester Radio on the Manchester DAB mini-mux, although it’s been ‘coming soon’ for over three years now.
IS
Inspector Sands
dvboy posted:
To all intensive purposes,


The phrase is "intents and purposes".


Has anyone caught Lorna Order yet, and what is it she's done?

She's a bit of a damp squid...
Last edited by Inspector Sands on 14 August 2019 8:28pm - 2 times in total
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Markymark
dvboy posted:

The phrase is "intents and purposes".


Has anyone caught Lorna Order yet, and what is it she's done?

She's a bit of a damp squid...


That's a casing point

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