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This is an archive of news about BBC London 94.9. Some links may no longer work, due to the transient nature of the internet.

BBC locals celebrate RAJAR
From Radio Today. Posted May 1 2008, 11.56pm
BBC Coventry and Warwickshire adds 15,000 listeners, Radio Gloucestershire adds 6,000, and Vanessa Feltz's audience on BBC London 94.9FM rises to an all time high. Those are the highlights from the BBC local radio stations for quarter 1, 2008. (more)

Bam Bam joins BBC London 94.9
From Radio Today. Posted March 15 2008, 6.52pm
Former Kiss 100 and Capital DJ Bam Bam has re-surfaced on BBC London. His first show was covering for Danny Baker on Friday and is scheduled to re-appear next week. (more)

Paul Ross joins BBC London radio
From Media Guardian. Posted February 20 2008, 7.07am
Paul Ross is to join the breakfast show on BBC London 94.9 two months after leaving rival talk radio station, LBC 97.3. By John Plunkett (more)

DJ Norman Jay leaves BBC London
From Media Guardian. Posted February 18 2008, 12.53pm
Veteran DJ Norman Jay MBE has left BBC London 94.9 rather than see his Sunday night music show moved to a 'digital-only' slot. By John Plunkett (more)

Lesley Joseph joins BBC London
From Radio Today. Posted September 28 2007, 8.48pm
Lesley Joseph is set to host a week of breakfast on BBC London 94.9 as she sits in for JoAnne Good whilst she is on holiday next week. The Birds of a Feather television star will be accompanied by Jo's sidekick Max Rushden. (more)

Alastair Campbell on BBC London 94.9 Breakfast
From Merry Media. Posted August 7 2007, 12.50am
Alastair Campbell will be joining JoAnne Good on Tuesday between 8 and 9am in a special one-off appearance to help present the BBC London 94.9 Breakfast Show.. (more)

Record high for BBC London
From Radio Today. Posted February 1 2007, 5.58pm
BBC London 94.9's celebrating its best ever RAJAR figures, after a quarter-on-quarter increase of 65,000 listeners. Average hours are up from just over 5 to 8 hours per listener per week, meaning a market share of 2% of all London radio listening - up from 1.5%, (more)

RAJAR Q4-06 - BBC Radio London
From Merry Media. Posted February 1 2007, 4.45pm
BBC London 94.9 are today celebrating its best set of Rajar results ever. In the last three months, BBC London 94.9 recorded a weekly audience reach of 559,000 listeners, gaining 65,000 listeners from the previous quarter and an increase of 13,000 listeners on the previous year.. (more)

Jason Donovan joins BBC London
From Radio Today. Posted December 22 2006, 5.16pm
For one week only, former Neighbours and jungle star Jason Donovan is to co-host the breakfast show on BBC London 94.9 with JoAnne Good. Jason will be on the show from Tuesday 2nd to Friday 5th January 2007 between 6 and 9pm. (more)

Jason Donovan to Host Radio Breakfast Show
From Merry Media. Posted December 22 2006, 2.33pm
Fresh from his stint in the Australian jungle, Jason Donovan is to take the hot seat of fellow Aussie Jono Coleman on the BBC London 94.9 Breakfast programme.. (more)

BBC London poaches rivals' news staff
From Media Guardian. Posted December 12 2006, 12.00am
11.15am: The BBC's London radio station, BBC London 94.9FM, has raided its commercial rivals to make two senior appointments. By John Plunkett. (more)

Jono Coleman leaves BBC London
From Radio Today. Posted October 31 2006, 12.58pm
BBC London 94.9 breakfast presenter Jono Coleman's leaving the station to return home to Australia.Co-host Jo Good will take over on her own until a permenant replacement is found. (more)

Jono leaves BBC London breakfast
From Media Guardian. Posted October 31 2006, 12.00am
1.30pm: Jono Coleman is leaving the BBC London 94.9 breakfast show a year after succeeding Danny Baker. By John Plunkett. (more)

Henry Bonsu: My Life In Media
From The Independent. Posted September 11 2006, 12.00am
Henry Bonsu, 38, is director and presenter on Colourful Radio, the new speech-based digital station aimed at Europe's African and Caribbean communities. Perhaps best known as the man axed for being "too intellectual", he has been a journalist since 1990, working on BBC radio and TV programmes including Today, World at One, Public Eye and Black Britain. For two years he anchored the Drivetime news programme on BBC London 94.9, interviewing leading politicians, business people and celebrities. He has written for The Times, The Mail on Sunday, Daily Express, The Voice, New Nation, Pride magazine and the London Evening Standard. He lives in Brixton, south London, with his girlfriend Sharlene. (more)

Frank Gillard Award Nominations 2006
From Merry Media. Posted September 5 2006, 10.25pm
The nominations for this years Frank Gillard Awards have been announced today. A record number of 25 stations  have achieved nominations in the awards which celebrate BBC Local Radio. BBC London 94.9 leads the field by being nominated in five categories and BBC Radio Berkshire with three will be hoping that lightning can strike twice - last year the station converted all three of its nominations to gold. In the Breakfast category BBC London 94.9's Jono and Jo Breakfast Show pits its metropolitan strength against the breakfasy offerings of Mark Cummings and BBC Radio Gloucestershire and Rod Whiting of BBC Radio Lincolnshire.. (more)

Fontaine to co-host London show
From Radio Today. Posted August 9 2006, 2.15am
Valley Fontaine is to become Dotun Adebayo's new co-host on BBC London 94.9's programme for black Londoners (Sundays 8.00-10.0pm) from 20 August 2006. The programme, which is produced by the BBC London Community Affairs Unit, covers news and issues affecting London's black communities. Valley says, "I'm really excited about joining a show that offers a unique perspective on current affairs as they affect black Londoners. And as someone who enjoys lively debate, I'm really looking forward to working with Dotun and thrashing out the issues with the show's diverse audience." (more)

Former Voice journalist to join BBC London 94.9
From Press Gazette. Posted August 8 2006, 2.51pm
BBC London 94.9 has announced Valley Fontaine as the new co-host on the station’s programme for black Londoners. (more)

BBC London Valley Fontaine to Co-Host with Dotun Adebayo
From Merry Media. Posted August 8 2006, 12.56pm
Valley Fontaine is to become Dotun Adebayo's new co-host on BBC London 94.9's programme for black Londoners (Sundays 8pm to 10pm) from 20th August 2006. The radio programme, which is produced by the BBC London Community Affairs Unit, covers news and issues affecting London's black communities. Valley Fontaine has worked for BBC London for five years where she combines the roles of presenter and broadcast journalist with TV reporting and camera work.. (more)