John Myers: Team! It's only radio
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James Cridland posted on Saturday 27th October 2012 at 11:13This book comes out on Monday, but it’s already available on Kindle… so if you want to beat your colleagues to reading the book, you can buy it on Kindle here
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I suspect there’ll be quite some conversation about the contents: so it’ll be interesting to see what you make of it.
And… for balance James. Quite a few people I do like. Glad you liked the book and thanks for the comments. Appreciated.
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Good gathering in Brum last night; Phil Riley and John Myers discussing at length why their old companies never got into bed with each other (the mind boggles)... and why were the CEOs of the old regional stations of the 90s so uniformly huge… and stuff not fit to print, but very very funny.
The book was a really good read. I loved John’s definition of jazz as “anything with a trumpet” and would have loved to have heard even more about the clash between stations and the regulators, and his views on those stations which had been licenced after a long Ofcom lunch. Maybe in the 2nd edition!
Also, can I put in a request for a multimedia version which could include gems like this
One of my (minor) regrets is that when I worked in radio, John Myers was one of the few top brass I never introduced myself to. Almost had the chance at one of the Radio Festivals when I caught a glimpse of him on his own in one of the halls, but caught apprehended by someone else en-route. A lucky escape for John, you might say!
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My favourite bit…
...vaguely familiar to a blog post
Having finished it, it’s a good book: particularly interesting during the GMG years. The deals that get done in the radio business are fascinating, and the stories are enjoyable and good. It’s not, quite, as explosive as we might have been lead to believe; but there are some fairly damning passages in the book (it’s clear that there are a few people he doesn’t like).
Lord Carter comes over as a pretty amazing character: the speech he apparently gave at the beginning of a commercial radio get-together was particularly good. And, by the way, spot on. I very much enjoyed that. Quite an eye-opener.