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

Rail campaign success for Derbyshire local magazine
From Press Gazette. Posted March 3 2008, 12.00am
A free local magazine in Derbyshire is celebrating a campaign success after it spearheaded a petition for better rail services. (more)

Radio head
From Media Guardian. Posted December 6 2007, 11.51pm
Zoe Williams on In Our Time | Victoria Derbyshire | (more)

Charity calendar for Peak FM
From Radio Today. Posted November 23 2007, 12.36am
North Derbyshire's UTV station Peak FM has unveiled its annual charity calendar. The 2008 edition features amateur models, as seen in our picture, who were nominated by themselves, friends and family following a request by the station for potential ‘Miss July’s’ and ‘Mr March’s’. (more)

Brain tumour claims life of Derbyshire journalist
From Hold the Front Page. Posted November 12 2007, 12.00am
Peter Hampson wrote for the Belper News, Derby Trader and Derby Evening Telegraph (more)

£7.35m tabled for midlands winners in Connect Midlands Investment Challenge
From Press Release, via webitpr. Posted October 16 2007, 10.29am
Nine Midlands companies were last week (October 10) announced as winners in the Connect Midlands £5 Million Investment Challenge. The East Midlands winners were Nottingham-based CellAura Technologies and Pacemaker UK, SAKS Electronics from Derby, SynchroPulse Ltd from Lincoln and Daventry-based Green Energy Options and the West Midlands winners were Coventry-based Opscape and PPL Party, RedWeb Security from Tamworth and Aldridge Piling Equipment from Cannock. The Challenge, sponsored by BT Business, offers up to £5 million... (more)

BRMB jock moves to RAM
From Radio Today. Posted September 29 2007, 9.02am
BRMB overnight presenter and breakfast producer J is moving within the GCap Media group to join RAM FM. He will take over the mid morning show from Monday in Derby, after a five year stint at the Birmingham station. (more)

BBC Radio Derby gets Wise
From Radio Today. Posted September 13 2007, 8.37am
Wise Buddah has made the move into producing jingles for the beeb's local radio networking by completing a brand new custom package for BBC Radio Derby. The new pack includes eleven separate elements all with alternative lite mix outs. (more)

Ram FM does Derby deal
From Radio Today. Posted August 17 2007, 8.55am
Gcap Media's 102.8 Ram FM has arranged a deal with Derby County FC to broadcast full match commentary on all games for the 2007/2008 season. The station has also signed with the Derbyshire Building Society to sponsor the match day coverage. (more)

Derbyshire DAB Multiplex Awarded to NOW Digital
From Merry Media. Posted July 6 2007, 3.28pm
Ofcom have awarded thew DAB Multiplex licence for Derbyshire to NOW Digital (East Midlands), a consortium made up of GCap Media, Sabras Radio and the Chrysalis Group.. (more)

NOW Digital for Derby
From Radio Today. Posted July 6 2007, 7.51am
Ofcom has awarded the new local DAB digital radio multiplex for Derbyshire to the only applicant, NOW Digital. The consortium is owned by GCap Media plc (72.5%), Sabras Sound Ltd (20%) and Chrysalis Group plc 7.5%. (more)

Ofcom awards new local digital radio multiplex licence for Derbyshire
From Ofcom. Posted July 6 2007, 6.00am
A new item from the Ofcom website. (more)

Peak FM joins UTV syndication
From Radio Today. Posted June 14 2007, 10.02am
Ofcom has granted permission to UTV Radio-owned The Pulse in Bradford and Peak FM in North Derbyshire to fully join the northern network of syndicated programmes which are already broadcast across other UTV stations. The Pulse already takes the syndicated output till 1am weekdays. (more)

Changes at Station of the Year
From Radio Today. Posted May 30 2007, 3.02pm
Recent Sony Award winning station BBC Radio Derby is revamping its weekday schedule, with Shane O'Connor taking over the breakfast show from Monday week. Shane switches from his current mid-morning slot after 5 years at the station. He's no stranger to breakfast radio in the Midlands though, having previously worked with Paul Franks to help BBC WM to its best ever breakfast Rajars. (more)

New Breakfast Host on BBC Radio Derby
From Merry Media. Posted May 30 2007, 11.38am
Shane O'Connor has been named as the new host of the BBC Radio Derby Breakfast Show in the new time slot of 7am until 10am from Monday June 11th.. (more)

Radio Five Live at the Vodafone Derby Festival
From Merry Media. Posted May 24 2007, 1.14pm
BBC Radio Five Live will be providing live coverage of the 2007 Vodafone Derby Festival with listeners and punters getting the chance to take part in a live question time.. (more)

BBC Sport Coverage of Vodafone Derby
From Merry Media. Posted May 14 2007, 12.13pm
BBC Sport will provide viewers with live and comprehensive coverage of The 2007 Vodafone Derby which will take place at Epsom racecourse on 1-2 June.. (more)

Just one goes for Derbyshire DAB
From Radio Today. Posted April 17 2007, 3.00pm
Only one application's been received by Ofcom for a licence to run the digital radio multiplex for Derbyshire. The Now Digital bid proposes to use a network of 5 transmitters and bring 9 stations onto DAB in the county by next summer. (more)

Telegraph's Derbyshire moves back to the Mail
From Media Guardian. Posted February 15 2007, 12.00am
12pm: The Daily Telegraph's consumer affairs editor, David Derbyshire, is to move to the Daily Mail. By Stephen Brook. (more)

BBC Radio Derby Gets Phone Call From Director-General
From Merry Media. Posted February 11 2007, 12.33am
BBC Director-General Mark Thompson took to the phones as "Mark from London" to surprise BBC Radio Derby Breakfast Show host Andy Whittaker for his 3,000th show this morning.. (more)

BBC boss rings Radio Derby
From Radio Today. Posted February 10 2007, 9.34am
Mark Thompson, the BBC Director-General, disguised himself as "Mark from London" to surprise BBC Radio Derby Breakfast Show host Andy Whittaker for his 3,000th show this week. Andy's show has been running on the station since 1994. (more)

Ofcom Advertise Derbyshire DAB Licence
From Merry Media. Posted January 16 2007, 3.03pm
Ofcom today advertises a new local Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) radio licence to cover the county of Derbyshire, including the Unitary Authority area of Derby, and parts of Staffordshire.. (more)

Ofcom advertises Derby DAB
From Radio Today. Posted January 16 2007, 10.56am
Ofcom has today advertised the DAB multiplex licence for Derbyshire and parts of Staffordshire. It's the second advertisement of a number of new digital local radio multiplex licences planned to develop digital radio coverage for local services in those parts of the country not already served. (more)

Ofcom advertises new local digital radio multiplex licence for Derbyshire
From Ofcom. Posted January 16 2007, 10.01am
A new item from the Ofcom website. (more)

Derby paper forces police to release pics of escaped killer
From Press Gazette. Posted January 12 2007, 8.00am
8am: The Derby Evening Telegraph has forced police to release pictures of two murderers on the run. (more)

Bannister fills in for Derbyshire
From Media Guardian. Posted November 17 2006, 12.00am
12.30pm: Matthew Bannister will stand in for Victoria Derbyshire on Radio Five Live's morning phone-in for six months while she is on maternity leave. By John Plunkett. (more)

New listeners for BBC local
From Radio Today. Posted October 27 2006, 10.30am
Many of the local radio stations operated by the BBC around the UK have reported an increase in listeners with the latest RAJAR results.Amongst the stations with an increase in audience are Radio Oxford, Cornwall, Derby, Lancashire, and Gloucestershire. (more)

Red faces over BBC's Salford radio blunder
From via Breaking Radio. Posted October 18 2006, 3.51pm
Victoria Derbyshire's showing her true feelings about the 5 Live move to Salford - "NO!" indeed... (more)

Derby Evening Telegraph publishes video plea
From Press Gazette. Posted October 12 2006, 2.00pm
The Derby Evening Telegraph has posted a video online of a woman pleading for her partner to be allowed to stay in the country. (more)

BBC Radio Derby Searches for County Flag
From Merry Media. Posted August 3 2006, 3.09pm
BBC Radio Derby's Breakfast show presenter, Andy Whittaker, has been on a quest to acquire a flag for the county of Derbyshire. Now the search is entering the final stages, and the shortlist of three final designs is unveiled for the first time on Friday morning (4th August). The search for a flag of Derbyshire began when Andy received an email from a listener visited Cornwall and remarked that the area had its own banner flying across the region and how the locals were obviously very proud of it.. (more)

BBC RAJAR Headlines
From Radio Today. Posted May 12 2006, 1.15am
BBC Radio Five Live and sister station Five Live Sports Extra added nearly half a million listeners in the last quarter, according to figures released today by Rajar, The figures show a quarterly increase of 492,000 listeners across both stations. There are notable gains for Five Live Breakfast (from 2.12m to 2.32m) and Victoria Derbyshire (from 1.57m to 1.88m), while Sports Extra benefited from increased Premiership coverage, Six Nations rugby and Test cricket. (more)

Derby paper criticised for terrorist child pic
From Media Guardian. Posted February 14 2006, 4.15pm
4.15pm: The Press Complaints Commission has criticised the Derby Evening Telegraph for publishing a photograph of the seven-year-old son of an attempted suicide bomber. By Claire Cozens. (more)

RAJAR Results Feed for Q4 2005
From Radio Today. Posted February 2 2006, 8.49am
Today the listening results for Quarter 4 2005 are published to the public via the RAJAR website. RadioToday.co.uk once again features a continuous news-feed of articles from the various radio stations and groups all day. Click here for our news feed. You can also see the full set of results from the official RAJAR website. (more)

Horse racing: BBC1 may shift the Derby for England match
From Media Guardian. Posted January 9 2006, 11.46am
The BBC's coverage of this year's Derby may be undermined by a clash with the World Cup warm-up match between England and Jamaica. By Ron Cox. (more)

Peter York on Ads: A green, clean machine to wow them in W11
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
The Queen's just done a deal. She's going to America - state visit, tour of dude ranches/ Kentucky Derby and so on - which will involve some emissions, some sky-smearing from planes. So she's redeeming herself by planting a small forest, or similar. She's got tremendous worldwide experience of practical tree-planting and she'll have them in there in a moment. So while her grandsons are out there in Boujis or Mahiki, polluting away, granny's up with the eco-players. Carbon footprint - last year's big word, so clear it should get a prize - is now in absolutely universal circulation, on every corporate social responsibility department agenda, a sub-text in every other Radio 4 programme, part of a very big conversation. (more)

Victoria Derbyshire: Victoria's reality check
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
Victoria Derbyshire sits at the corner bar in her games room, with its pool table and wall-mounted Brazil football shirt autographed by Pele, and ponders the relationship between the BBC and the Great British public. (more)