Media UK

Former BBC editor joins Wise Buddah
From Radio Today. Posted August 21 2008, 11.51pm
Mark Goodier's production company Wise Buddah have hired former BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 interactive editor Helen Pendlebury as head of digital and business development. (more)

Ferrari presents for the President
From Radio Today. Posted August 21 2008, 12.16pm
LBC 97.3 presenter Nick Ferrari is to broadcast live from the USA to cover the results and reaction of the US presidential elections in November. (more)

Kiribati: National radio struggles to stay on air
From Media Network Weblog. Posted August 21 2008, 11.43am
Text of report by Radio Australia text website on 21 August Radio Kiribati is facing an acute shortage of daily earnings, and had to cut its staffing to remain on air. Pacific Magazine reports the national radio station’s acting manager, Tibwere Bobo, says the problem began two weeks ago, when Radio Kiribati’s AM transmission was off-air [...] (more)

New deal tracks down Virgin Radio
From Radio Today. Posted August 21 2008, 8.18am
As the station prepares to relaunch as a new music and entertainment brand, Virgin Radio have partnered with Garmin Satellite Navigation for an on-air and online sponsorship of the Rock ‘n’ Roll football show presented by Russ Williams. (more)

Classic Case Teases Out Shennan's Point
From allmediascotland - Spike. Posted August 21 2008, 7.49am
Francis Shennan picked his words carefully on Tuesday evening while speaking on the legal pitfalls of public relations. The journalist and law lecturer was the guest presenter at an event being staged by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and beforehand he had the radio station,... (more)

Prague 1968 - Truth Shall Prevail - from the Media Network audio archive
From Media Network Weblog. Posted August 20 2008, 5.24pm
Jonathan Marks writes in the Critical Distance Weblog: I’m thinking of Prague at the moment, partly because there are all kinds of archive programmes on BBC Radio 4 looking back at the night of 20th August 1968 when the Russians invaded what was then Czechoslovakia. Radio Prague has a nice page up at the moment [...] (more)

L107: the incredible bouncing station?
From Radio Today. Posted August 20 2008, 4.34pm
When Lanarkshire's L107 ended its programming on Monday morning, many industry observers believed it to be the end for a service that had had more than its fair share of problems. (more)

Israel shuts down three West Bank radio stations: Palestinians
From Media Network Weblog. Posted August 20 2008, 1.41pm
Israeli security forces raided and shut down three local radio stations in the occupied West Bank town of Hebron today, witnesses and the radios’ owners said. ”They raided our offices, they confiscated our equipment, and they detained everyone,” said Ayman al-Qawasmi, the owner of Radio Hurriya. “This has happened before,” he told AFP. At least two people were [...] (more)

Deutsche Welle partners with Indira Gandhi National Open University
From Media Network Weblog. Posted August 20 2008, 1.03pm
Deutsche Welle recently added a new partner in India by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). As part of the partnership, “Gyan Vani FM” will broadcast DW-Radio programming in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and English over campus radio at 29 associated universities. In addition, “Tomorrow Today”, the science [...] (more)

Dick and Dom exit Radio 1
From Radio Today. Posted August 20 2008, 12.51pm
Children's TV presenters Dick and Dom are to leave Radio 1, just a year after joining the station. A new weekend breakfast show has also been announced in the second round of high profile schedule changes in a week. (more)

China continues to jam international radio stations during Olympics
From Media Network Weblog. Posted August 20 2008, 12.41pm
The Chinese authorities are continuing to jam the Chinese, Tibetan and Uyghur-language broadcast of several international radio stations although they promised to respect press freedom and the free flow of information during the Olympic Games, says Reporters Without Borders (RSF). “An international media outcry forced the Chinese government to stop blocking access to websites, but there [...] (more)

XFM launches art and music event
From Radio Today. Posted August 20 2008, 12.17pm
The XFM network is spearheading a new art and music festival, to be held in Manchester next month. (more)

Lanarkshire Station Saved from Closure
From allmediascotland - Spike. Posted August 20 2008, 12.08pm
Breaking news (noon): A Lanarkshire radio station is going back on air - within less than a week after being closed down. On Monday, at 10am, the song, Scottish Rain, looked set to be the last track to be played on L107, but a former radio boss - who has been working outside the industry for... (more)

New City Talk campaign is balls
From Radio Today. Posted August 20 2008, 12.07pm
City Talk 105.9 in Liverpool has launched a major new outdoor marketing campaign to mark the start of the new Premier League season.The campaign uses ex-footballers John Aldridge, Ian St John, Ian Snodin and new signing Graeme Sharp with the strapline "We’ve got balls - have you?". (more)

CPJ says Georgia blocking Russian broadcasters & websites
From Media Network Weblog. Posted August 20 2008, 11.57am
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged the Georgian government to stop blocking Russian broadcasts and websites.  According to the Moscow-based radio Ekho Moskvy, Russian Television International (RTVi)  was cut off after it aired Ekho Moskvy’s interview with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the conflict in South Ossetia and the future of the relationship between [...] (more)