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GTN hires more producers
From Radio Today. Posted July 4 2008, 8.03am
Global Traffic Network UK has signed two new producers to work at its existing airborne operations base at Oxford and Plymouth Airports. (more)

JACK continues Oxford deal
From Radio Today. Posted June 9 2008, 9.01am
The team at JACK fm are extending their commentary deal with Oxford United for another year. The station will also continue to sponsor the back of the home and away kits. (more)

Times of India group acquires Virgin Radio
From Biz Asia. Posted May 31 2008, 9.06pm
The Times of India group (TIML Golden Square, a wholly owned subsidiary of Times group) has made its first ever foray into the overseas media space by acquiring the Virgin Radio Holdings Ltd and its subsidiaries in the UK, for a phenomenal £53.2 million from SMG Plc. With this acquisition, TIML will obtain the lucrative AM national licence, FM London licence and DAB national licence. TIML will manage the station along with Absolute Radio, the European group that already owns the music station Jack FM in Oxford. The deal comes without the Virgin brand which will go back to Richard Branson's Virgin Group. TIML will undertake a £15 million rebranding exercise. However, RadioToday.co.uk understands TIML Golden Square Ltd have the option of continuing to use the Virgin Radio name in the UK, for a licence cost of a further £8million. TIML has 90 days from the completion of the sale to rebrand. Mr. A P Parigi, managing director & CEO of TIML says: "Now is a great period to be entering the UK market and the opportunity to acquire a valuable radio asset couldn't have come at a better time. We have worked with ARI for many years now and their experience and expertise, coupled with that of the award winning staff at Golden Square, will deliver our collective vision of a powerful and exciting new brand that will engage all key stakeholders." The acquisition is not being made by ENIL, a listed company promoted by Bennett Coleman & Co. that operates Radio Mirchi. "The reason could be that Virgin Radio operates in a matured market. The promoters of Bennett Coleman would rather fund the acquisition and create more value to that business. They may not have wanted to put ENIL under funding pressure," says a market analyst to IndianTelevision who is closely tracking the development. It is also understood that Virgin Group, which owns Virgin Radio in countries throughout Europe and Asia, is keen to reclaim the Virgin Radio brand and launch a British station, possibly on DAB. It is understood that Virgin Group would look to relaunch Virgin Radio with a partner. Excerpts from Times Online, Indian Television and Radio Today (more)

Virgin Radio sold for 53million
From Radio Today. Posted May 30 2008, 10.03pm
BREAKING NEWS: The much anticipated sale of Virgin Radio by SMG has taken place. TIML Golden Square Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Times of India Group, have bought the station and will spend a further £15million on re-branding away from the Virgin brand. The new station will be managed by Absolute Radio, owners of JACK fm and FM107.9 in Oxford, and a team comprising Media and Entertainmentspecialists from TIML. (more)

Virgin Radio sold for £53million
From Radio Today. Posted May 30 2008, 10.03pm
BREAKING NEWS: The much anticipated sale of Virgin Radio by SMG has taken place. TIML Golden Square Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Times of India Group, have bought the station for £53 million and will spend a further £15 million on re-branding away from the Virgin brand. The new station will be managed by Absolute Radio, owners of JACK fm and FM107.9 in Oxford, and a team comprising Media and Entertainmentspecialists from TIML. (more)

New sponsor for JACK and FM107.9
From Radio Today. Posted April 28 2008, 7.59am
Oxfordshire radio stations JACK fm and FM107.9 are teaming up with Oxfordshire County Council to encourage parents and children to walk to school rather than drive. (more)

EXCLUSIVE: Full Sky Digital EPG listings after reshuffle
From Biz Asia. Posted April 24 2008, 11.52am
BizAsia.co.uk brings you the full Sky Digital channel listings as they will appear after the reshuffle. There are no changes planned for following EPG categories Documentaries, Sports, Adult and Radio. Sky plans to implement a marketing campaign through a number of different media prior to the changes taking place in order to inform viewers of the changes. The new channel line up is currently scheduled to be implemented on a genre by genre basis between 05:00 and 08:00 on the dates specified below. 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JACK hits The Sun headlines
From Radio Today. Posted April 11 2008, 7.50am
Oxfordshire's JACK fm made The Sun newspaper yesterday with details of an interview with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in which he revealed his latest choice in music. (more)

Barry Davies gets Boat Race on LBC
From Media Guardian. Posted March 3 2008, 6.49am
Four years after he last commentated on the Boat Race for the BBC, Barry Davies is to return to the historic annual contest between Oxford and Cambridge with London talk station LBC. By John Plunkett (more)

Oxford Times moves with the times
From Hold the Front Page. Posted February 21 2008, 9.30am
Broadsheet weekly switches to tabloid but "values remain the same" (more)

Oxford Times follows trend to go tabloid
From Press Gazette. Posted February 20 2008, 12.00am
The Oxford Times is the latest regional newspaper to go tabloid, bringing the number of UK paid-for regional titles that have made the switch in the past year to six. (more)

JACK goes to Afghanistan
From Radio Today. Posted February 13 2008, 6.14am
Oxfordshire's 106 JACK fm has sent its morning presenter Greg Burke to the Helman Province in Afghanistan to experience work by the men on the front line. (more)

Oxford's new mid-morning show
From Radio Today. Posted February 8 2008, 7.22am
BBC Radio Oxford is launching a new love affair on Valentines Day - a new mid-morning programme with Danny Cox and Louisa Hannan. (more)

JACK fm goes flying
From Radio Today. Posted February 7 2008, 8.29am
Absolute Radio's JACK fm in Oxfordshire is ready to launch a new traffic and travel service from the sky thanks to a deal with GTN. (more)

JACK fm Launch The Flying Jack
From Merry Media. Posted February 7 2008, 1.05am
JACK fm is set to launch a traffic spotting plane called The Flying Jack that is sponsored by Guy Salmon Jaguar. The Flying Jack will take off daily from Oxford Airport providing Oxfordshire with the latest traffic information. . (more)

Oxford's FM107.9 Talk About Health
From Merry Media. Posted January 30 2008, 1.25pm
Oxford radio station FM107.9 has joined forces with the Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust to talk directly to local teenagers about their health, how to improve it and how to maintain it. . (more)

FM107.9 gets into schools
From Radio Today. Posted January 30 2008, 1.25am
Oxford's FM107.9 is swapping the studio chair for the school yard, taking The Breakfast Fiasco on location for an entire week. (more)

GTN recruits traffic experts
From Radio Today. Posted January 30 2008, 12.18am
Global Traffic Network is expanding its UK operations following the signing of a three year deal with UKRD. The travel news provider has hired Matt Jones as Senior Developer and Stuart Barton as a reporter in Oxfordshire. (more)

Global Traffic for UKRD stations
From Radio Today. Posted January 18 2008, 10.35am
Global Traffic Network has signed a three year deal with the UKRD group to supply all stations with traffic and travel reports. It is the second contract for GTN who already provide services to Absolute Radio's Jack FM in Oxfordshire. (more)

One sponsor for two stations
From Radio Today. Posted January 11 2008, 8.10am
A car dealership in Oxford has signed up to sponsor the breakfast show on two local radio stations. JACK fm and FM107.9, both owned by Absolute Radio, secured the deal with Hartwell Ford & Vauxhall to join FM107.9’s Breakfast Fiasco and JACK fm’s Morning Glory. (more)

WKD promotion for FM107.9
From Radio Today. Posted December 5 2007, 8.56am
Oxford's FM107.9 recently ran a station-wide promotion with WKD to give listeners the chance of winning up to £10,000. The FM107.9 RUNaway carried a different cash bounty every day, and listeners were given clues to his or her location. (more)

Neil Fox: Rise and shine, the Fox is prowling the Magic airwaves
From The Independent. Posted December 3 2007, 12.40am
At precisely 5am each weekday morning, Neil Andrew Howe Fox steps out of his Chelsea home, climbs aboard his Harley and for the next 11 minutes purrs through the trafficless streets of London on his way to the radio studio behind Oxford Street where he plies his trade. In appropriate weather, he will don a pair of sunglasses for the duration of his commute. (more)

My Life in Media: John Lloyd
From The Independent. Posted November 26 2007, 1.35am
J hn Lloyd, 56, is the co-creator of QI - now in its fifth series and currently airing on Friday nights on BBC2. An acclaimed writer and radio and television producer, his list of credits include creating long-running radio series Quote ... Unquote, The News Huddlines and The News Quiz and TV comedy hits Not The Nine O'Clock News, Blackadder and Spitting Image (which he co-originated). Lloyd also co-wrote the first series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with his friend the late Douglas Adams. Since 1987 he has directed commercials including campaigns for Boddingtons, Barclaycard and Phileas Fogg. In 1999 Lloyd set up Quite Interesting Ltd ? a company dedicated to making life less boring in all media. Lloyd is the co-author of The QI Annual, published this month, and The Book of Animal Ignorance. He lives in Oxfordshire with his wife Sarah and three children. (more)

GCap bags Oxfordshire DAB
From Radio Today. Posted November 8 2007, 5.21pm
NOWdigital has won the new local DAB digital multiplex for Oxfordshire. NOW, owned by GCap and Passion Radio (Oxford) (owners of JACK fm and FM107.9), beat off stiff competition from MuxCo and will provide nine digital channels including BBC Radio Oxford. (more)

Ofcom awards new local digital radio multiplex licence for Oxfordshire
From Ofcom. Posted November 8 2007, 5.00pm
A new item from the Ofcom website. (more)

JACK fm launches in the UK
From Radio Today. Posted October 18 2007, 1.09pm
The first Jack formatted radio station in the UK has launched at 1:06pm today. Jack won a licence to broadcast in Oxfordshire 12 months ago from Ofcom, and follows the 'Playing What We Want' format as heard in the USA and Canada. (more)

JACK fm Name Oxford United Team
From Merry Media. Posted October 16 2007, 1.14pm
JACK fm have announced the team and sponsors involved with Jack's Big Banana - the brand new Saturday show that will follow every Oxford United game as they battle for promotion.. (more)

Ex-GCap jocks join JACK
From Radio Today. Posted October 1 2007, 1.17pm
Former Capital FM and BRMB presenter Trevor Marshall will team up with ex-GWR FM programme controller Sue Carter to host the breakfast show on Oxfordshire's JACK fm. The duo will be joined by morning journalist Greg Burke from FM107.9. (more)

JACK fm Announce Breakfast Show Team
From Merry Media. Posted October 1 2007, 1.12am
JACK fm in Oxfordshire have announced that Sony Gold Award winners Trevor Marshall and Sue Carter will host the breakfast show on the station when it launches on Thursday 18th October at 1.06pm.. (more)

JACK gatecrashes Fox party
From Radio Today. Posted September 29 2007, 9.12am
JACK fm is causing a stir already, and the station has not even launched yet. JACK bosses recently gate crashed Fox FM's 18th birthday party, giving out a special birthday card "love from Jack - Oxfordshire's newest radio station". (more)

Radio 4's new book debate
From Radio Today. Posted September 26 2007, 1.49pm
To mark the publication of David Hendy’s new book Life on Air: A History of Radio Four, Oxford University Press and the University of Westminster are holding a public debate tomorrow evening (Thursday) with guest speakers Mark Damazer, Controller of BBC Radio 4, Peter Hennessy, and David Hendy. Organisers have informed Radio Today that a few tickets are still available. (more)

Heat radio: Your ears will be burning...
From The Independent. Posted September 24 2007, 1.00am
To anyone who manages to get through the week without Heat magazine's merry-go-round of gossip and celebrity, Lucie Cave's description of Heat Radio, which opens for business tomorrow, might sound slightly unsettling. "It's Heat in surround sound!" beams the diminutive features editor, as she tackles a shopper outside Topshop on London's Oxford Street to interview her for "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly", a style segment that Cave is recording with Heat stylist Bronagh Meere for the magazine's new digital radio station. (more)

JACK fm gets closer to launch
From Radio Today. Posted September 19 2007, 9.39am
JACK fm will launch in the UK next month on 106.8 and on DAB next year, with an official start date to be confirmed. In the meantime, the Oxford-based station has appointed First Radio Sales as their national sales house. (more)

JACK FM Choose Sales Partner
From Merry Media. Posted September 19 2007, 12.05am
JACK FM in Oxfordshire has chosen FRS as its national sales representation partner. The station is the first JACK FM to be launched outside of the US.. (more)

Two apply for Oxfordshire DAB
From Radio Today. Posted August 8 2007, 10.51am
Two applications have been received by Ofcom to operate a local DAB digital radio multiplex licence to cover the Oxfordshire area. Once again GCap Media's Now Digital is going head to head with MuxCo to provide a variety of programming services including Traffic Radio and the new JACK fm. (more)

JACK-fm Gets Behind Oxford United
From Merry Media. Posted August 7 2007, 12.55am
New Oxfordshire radio station JACK-fm has become rear shirt sponsors of Oxford United FC and will be getting right behind the team when the station launches.. (more)

Back of the shirt for JACK
From Radio Today. Posted August 6 2007, 3.32pm
JACK-fm hasn't even arrived in the UK yet, but already it's getting involved with the local community in Oxford. The station's signed up to sponsor the shirts of the city's football team and broadcast every game live on the new station once it launches this summer. JACK-fm's promising a dedicated sports show every matchday, covering Oxford United at home and away. (more)

Water level rise puts Oxford Mail HQ in jeopardy
From Hold the Front Page. Posted July 25 2007, 12.00am
But paper will be published as staff are told: keep away from flood-hit base (more)

FM107.9 search for radiostar
From Radio Today. Posted June 28 2007, 12.42pm
FM107.9 has launched a search for a new local Oxford personality. The winner will join Adam and Anna on FM107.9’s Breakfast Fiasco, and awarded a three month contract to host their own shows on the station. Potential radio stars can upload their demo at the stations website. (more)

Oxfordshire DAB advertised
From Radio Today. Posted May 9 2007, 12.57pm
Ofcom has advertised a new DAB Digital Radio licence for Oxfordshire. In addition, the body has replaced the planned licence for York & Scarborough with a licence for North Yorkshire, and joined the previously seperate multiplex licences for Guildford and Reigate & Crawley together as one to cover the county of Surrey. (more)

Ofcom advertises new local digital radio multiplex licence for Oxfordshire
From Ofcom. Posted May 9 2007, 9.01am
A new item from the Ofcom website. (more)

Sophie and Susie join JACK
From Radio Today. Posted April 20 2007, 1.12am
JACK-fm, the new commercial radio station for Oxford is busy getting ready for launch later this year, and has made two new appointments. Sophie Bruce will host a live weekday evening show whilst Susie Hall has been appointed Financial Controller for both JACK-fm and FM107.9. (more)

Changes at BBC Radio Oxford
From Radio Today. Posted March 22 2007, 9.36am
Shabina Akthar is set to take over the breakfast show on BBC Radio Oxford from Monday from 7am. She has most recently been heard on the station during weekday afternoons. Also, Sybil Ruscoe will be back in April, completing the new Spring line-up. (more)

New Breakfast Host on BBC Radio Oxford
From Merry Media. Posted March 21 2007, 4.27pm
From Monday 26 March 2007, Shabina Akthar will take over weekday mornings on BBC Radio Oxford.. (more)

Absolute move for Mix Manager
From Radio Today. Posted March 12 2007, 12.24pm
The Station Manager at TLRC station Mix 96 in Aylesbury, Rachel Faulkner, is leaving to join Absolute Radio to head up its Oxfordshire businesses. Faulkner has been appointed as Commercial Director for both Oxford's FM107.9 and new station JACK fm Oxfordshire. (more)

Steve Penk joins GCap's Fox FM
From Radio Today. Posted March 1 2007, 3.50pm
GCap Media radio station Fox FM is set to sign-up former Capital Radio and Key 103 DJ Steve Penk, RadioToday.co.uk can exclusively reveal. Penk will host the breakfast show as competition for listeners in Oxfordshire steps up with the launch of JACK fm later this year. (more)

New Breakfast Host at Oxford FM
From Merry Media. Posted February 1 2007, 5.43pm
Oxford FM 107.9 has a new presenter for The Breakfast Fiasco. Adam Weighell will be hosting the show each morning from 6.30am.. (more)

Greg Burke Swaps Juice FM for Jack FM
From Merry Media. Posted January 9 2007, 2.12pm
Following the recent award of the new Oxfordshire FM licence to Absolute Radio's JACK fm, award winning journalist and news anchor Greg Burke has announced he is leaving 107.6 Juice FM Liverpool to join the new station.. (more)

Jack hires Burke from Juice
From Radio Today. Posted January 9 2007, 11.01am
Jack FM, the new radio station for Oxfordshire has hired the first person to join the current affairs and music based Breakfast Show. Journalist and news anchor Greg Burke will leave the breakfast team at Juice FM Liverpool to take up the position later this year. (more)

Oxford Times top at NS Awards
From Press Gazette. Posted December 14 2006, 5.11pm
The Oxford Times has been named weekly newspaper of the year at the Newspaper Society weekly newspaper awards. (more)

Radio Oxford Listeners Raise Cash for Charity
From Merry Media. Posted December 13 2006, 9.27pm
BBC Radio Oxford listeners have raised more than £6,200 for BBC Children in Need through the sale of their book of short stories, The Traveller's Tale And Other Stories.. (more)

BBC Radio Oxford Aims for Xmas Record
From Merry Media. Posted December 2 2006, 5.43pm
BBC Radio Oxford 95.2FM is hosting a county-wide bid to beat the record for Oxfordshire's biggest simultaneous Christmas Carol Concert.. (more)

Adultery and the Archers: An everyday story of radio hype
From The Independent. Posted November 7 2006, 12.00am
Tonight, hundreds of thousands of Archers fans will be glued to their radios, agog to hear the climax of a storyline that has shaken their faith to its foundations. Ruth, who, as the wife of David Archer, is the series' matriarch-in-waiting, will be wrestling with her conscience and, quite possibly, with Sam Batton, who has booked a hotel room in Oxford with the intention of consummating their illicit love. Will she throw aside 18 years of happiness, the welfare of her three children, her share in Brookfield farm, and all vestiges of plausibility, to play Madame Bovary with a cowman? Or will sanity prevail, and Ruth head back to dowdy contentment? (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)

Jack-FM® is going global with UK radio licence award
From Media Network Weblog. Posted October 24 2006, 2.31pm
SparkNet Communications LP, owner of the Jack-FM® radio brand, is taking Jack-FM international. Ofcom, the UK’s independent communications regulator, recently announced that Absolute Radio International (ARI), who launched their bid with the Jack-FM format, successfully won the new FM radio licence for Oxford and the surrounding South Oxfordshire area. While already a huge success in North America, [...] (more)

Ofcom lists reasons why Jack won Oxford
From via Breaking Radio. Posted October 23 2006, 4.42pm
Ofcom tell us that co-location, a mix of genres and an advertisers survey is the way to go (well, for Oxford at least). (more)

Ofcom explain Jack FM award
From Radio Today. Posted October 23 2006, 3.45pm
Ofcom have published details of why it decided to award the new radio licence for Oxford and South Oxfordshire to Jack FM. Among the reasons were that it would increase listener choice in the TSA with a Pop, Rock and Classic Rock music policy, and dedicated local current affairs programmes containing 40% speech. (more)

?Oxford BBC Guide to Pronunciation? to be published on 26 October
From Media Network Weblog. Posted October 19 2006, 1.55pm
The BBC is publishing a book which will help viewers and listeners pronounce words with as much polish as its famously well-spoken newsreaders, its authors said today. Van Gogh (van gokh), Al-Qaeda (uhl kah-id-uh) and Uranus (yoor-uh-nuhss) are among the entries in the “Oxford BBC Guide to Pronunciation”, which will be published on 26 October. It is drawn from [...] (more)

Absolute Radio wins Oxford licence with Jack FM
From Brand Republic. Posted October 13 2006, 11.10am
LONDON - Absolute Radio has won the Oxford FM radio licence with its Jack FM classic hits format, which it has also put forward for the Manchester and Liverpool licence contests. (more)

Jack FM Wins Oxfordshire Licence
From Merry Media. Posted October 13 2006, 12.01am
Ofcom has been awarded the new FM local commercial radio licence for Oxford and South Oxfordshire to Jack FM.. (more)

Jack FM Win Oxford
From via Breaking Radio. Posted October 12 2006, 6.16pm
Absolute Radio International have won their first licence with Jack FM Oxford. ARI will be operating the new station alongside Oxford's 107.9FM (nee Passion) which they acquired earlier this year. (more)

Jack FM wins Oxford
From Radio Today. Posted October 12 2006, 5.01pm
The new FM licence for Oxford and South Oxfordshire has been awarded to Jack FM, following a 5-horse race. (more)

Ofcom awards new FM commercial radio licence for Oxford and South Oxfordshire
From Ofcom. Posted October 12 2006, 4.00pm
A new item from the Ofcom website. (more)

Oxford FM licence goes to Absolute Radio
From Media Guardian. Posted October 12 2006, 1.00am
Oxford's over-thirties are to get a new music radio station with the award of a new commercial FM licence to Absolute Radio. By Julia Day. (more)

Oxfordshire gets ‘funky’ new package
From Press Gazette. Posted October 5 2006, 12.00am
The Oxford Courier Journal has relaunched and reverted to the original names of its two editions, following a takeover by Tri Media Publishing. (more)

An absolute runaway for Oxford
From Radio Today. Posted October 3 2006, 12.46pm
The former Passion station is launching a new promotion which hopes to capture the City’s imagination. (more)

Terry Lloyd inquest begins in Oxford
From Media Guardian. Posted October 3 2006, 1.00am
11.30am: ITN journalist Terry Lloyd was 'anxious' to cross into Iraq just days before he was killed in the conflict in March 2003, Sir Trevor McDonald told an inquest today. By John Plunkett. (more)

Absolute takes the Passion away
From Radio Today. Posted September 14 2006, 5.30pm
After six hours of Eugene Sully playing non-stop Mana Mana from The Muppets, Oxford's FM 107.9 has launched. Previously known as Passion 107.9, the station was acquired by Absolute Radio International in June, and has spent the past three months asking Oxford consumers and advertisers about what they want from the station and what it can do better. (more)

Eugene takes over Passion 107.9
From Radio Today. Posted September 14 2006, 11.30am
Eugene of Big Brother fame is currently playing the muppets theme non-stop in a 'takeover stunt' until the management change the format of the station. It's all part of the re-launch of the station as Oxford's FM 107.9 at 4:30pm today. He started playing the muppets at 10:07am and is set to continue till management listen to his views on how the station should sound. (more)

No more Passion in Oxford
From Radio Today. Posted September 14 2006, 7.15am
Passion 107.9, the youth station targeting 15 to 29 year olds in the Oxford area is set to re-launch as Oxford's FM 107.9. The station was acquired by Absolute Radio International in June, and has spent the past three months asking Oxford consumers and advertisers about what they want from the station and what it can do better. The re-launch will include a full re-branding and a strategic marketing/promotional campaign. New landmark programmes, including extended local news output and specialist programming, will feature and a new website, which currently has over 800,000 monthly hits, will be launched. (more)

Juice man heads to Passion
From Radio Today. Posted June 24 2006, 7.00pm
Following last week’s acquisition of Passion 107.9 in Oxfordshire, Absolute Radio has announced the appointment of Graham Lysaght from Juice FM in Liverpool as Sales Manager. Graham obviously made a great impression on Absolute Radio when they owned Juice, so the team at Absolute wasted no time in hiring Graham to join them at Passion. For the past 3 years he oversaw a 60% growth in year on year sponsorship and promotions revenue as head of the team at Juice. (more)

Five bid for Oxford licence
From Radio Today. Posted June 12 2006, 11.45am
The battle for the new Oxford/South Oxfordshire commercial radio licence looks like it will be an interesting one. Applications have been received from Oxford Local Radio (Castle FM), GCap Media (Fox Gold), Spirit of Oxfordshire Radio (Inspire 106), Absolute Radio International (Jack FM) and South Central Media (More FM). Ridge FM, the group backed by Milestone Group have failed to make a bid. Ofcom estimates that this licence could achieve coverage of an area with an adult (aged 15+) population of around 300,000. The exact coverage will be determined by the location of the transmission site and other technical characteristics. (more)

MORE FM get local vote
From Radio Today. Posted June 10 2006, 10.00pm
MORE FM has submitted its application for the new radio licence for Oxford and South Oxfordshire, with exclusive support from the South Oxfordshire area MP’s Boris Johnson and Ed Vaizey. (more)

Jack FM want to win Oxford
From Radio Today. Posted June 9 2006, 5.30pm
Amoungst the applications for Oxford today (yet to be announced by Ofcom), will be an application submitted by Absolute Radio as JACK-FM, the popular music format currently heard in Canada and the USA. JACK-FM delivers a completely new and different emphasis on listener-focus with less clutter and a fresh compelling presentation style with attitude. In a recent US study, Jack’s synonymous slogan “Playing What We Want” was found to have attained higher listener recognition than McDonald’s “I’m lovin’ it”. (more)

Absolute to invest in Passion
From Radio Today. Posted June 9 2006, 8.15am
Following on from the sale of Passion 107.9 to Absolute Radio, the new owners have confirmed they have developed a range of initiatives which it will quickly implement at the station, the first is to introduce Ian Walker as General Manager and Programme Director. Absolute Radio International is building its presence in UK radio through both acquisitions and applications. It is currently involved in applications for new FM services in Bristol and Liverpool, and will continue with its application for the new Oxford licence. ARI say the acquisition of Passion is a significant first point of entry for them into the Oxfordshire market. They also intend to be an active participant in the development of DAB in the Oxfordshire and Northern Home Counties. (more)

Milestone sells Passion 107.9
From Radio Today. Posted June 8 2006, 9.30am
Milestone Group have now disposed of all of the Company's radio interests - with the selling of Passion 107.9 to Absolute Radio. It comes following a strategic review of its radio assets with the disposal of the entire issued share capital of Passion, free of intra group loans, to Absolute Radio International Limited for a cash consideration of £300,000. Passion is a youth targeted local radio station operating in the Oxford area. In the financial year ended 30 September 2005, Passion reported losses of £284,000 on sales of £178,000. (more)

Passion 107.9 attracts the ladies
From Radio Today. Posted May 11 2006, 8.15pm
Milestone also today announces it has successfully broadened the appeal of Passion 107.9, its wholly owned radio station for Oxford and south Oxfordshire, from its traditional base of young males to a more general audience with a particular under-35 bias. The latest (Quarter 1, 2006) official RAJAR audience figures show that the station has achieved more female than male listeners - in line with its strategy of widening the breadth of the audience delivered to advertisers within its market. The figures give the station 21,200 adult listeners in total every week. (more)

New exhibition in UK: Marconi and the making of radio
From Media Network Weblog. Posted May 1 2006, 2.03pm
Paul Rascoe writes: The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford has opened a new special exhibition: 'Wireless World: Marconi and the making of radio'. It contains some remarkable material and is really worth seeing. This week the radio station GB4MHS is transmitting from the top floor of the Museum - see www.mhs.ox.ac.uk - and a range of events takes the programme through till the close of (more)

Absolute Radio bid for Oxford
From Radio Today. Posted April 12 2006, 11.45am
Absolute Radio has announced that it will be bidding for the new Oxford & South Oxfordshire FM radio licence recently advertised by industry regulator Ofcom. The new licence will cover the city of Oxford and the South Oxfordshire area, including Kidlington, Abingdon, Wantage, Didcot and Wallingford. It was advertised by Ofcom on 10th March and the closing date for applications is 9th June . The licence will be awarded in September 2006, with a prospective on-air date of Late Spring/Summer 2007. (more)

FT man heads Oxford press faculty
From Press Gazette. Posted March 30 2006, 12.00am
Financial Times contributing editor John Lloyd has been appointed director of journalism at the newly formed Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. (more)

Media Diary: Snow finds his voice; Déjà vu at the 'FT'; Mystery man at Radio 4; Don't read all about it; Lost in translation; Critic finds a new stage
From The Independent. Posted March 19 2006, 12.00am
*** Happy 30th anniversary at ITN to Jon Snow, the Channel 4 newsreader. In his regular Snowmail email missive, he recalls that, at his screen test, he appeared as "a long and floppy- haired man with a purple shirt with collars that dip down below his chest and a voice that seems to have just stepped out of Eton (I went to Scarborough Polytechnic)". In his Who's Who entry, he makes no mention of Scarborough but boasts "Liverpool University (no degree, sent down following political disturbances)". His professed surprise at the poshness of his voice is also odd. True, Snow didn't go to Eton but he did go to another public school, St Edward's in Oxford, whose other old boys included Laurence Olivier. Hats off to Comrade Snow for his efforts in adopting a proletarian accent in later years. (more)

Anne Diamond to quit BBC Oxford
From Radio Today. Posted March 16 2006, 1.41pm
Anne Diamond is leaving BBC Radio Oxford's breakfast show after 18 months to pursue her writing. Anne, who is working on a new book, will present her last breakfast programme for the station tomorrow, but may return for some special features in the future. (more)

More FM are ready for Oxford
From Radio Today. Posted March 15 2006, 1.53pm
Local radio team More FM is celebrating after the communications regulator, Ofcom, advertised a new licence to serve the city of Oxford and much of the south of the county. More FM has campaigned for over ten years for a new county radio service and has already operated a number of trial services in the area. (more)

Ofcom advertises new FM commercial radio licences for Bristol and for Oxford and South Oxfordshire
From Ofcom. Posted March 10 2006, 1.00pm
A new item from the Ofcom website. (more)

Ofcom advertise Oxford licence
From Radio Today. Posted March 10 2006, 11.59am
Ofcom have today invited applications for a licence to provide an FM commercial radio service to cover Oxford and South Oxfordshire. RadioToday.co.uk currently know of two groups who will be applying for the licence - Ridge FM (backed by Milestone Radio Group) and More FM who have ran two RSL trail services and are working with CN Group to apply for the licence. (more)

Bristol and S. Oxon advertised
From Radio Today. Posted March 10 2006, 11.17am
Ofcom today advertises two new local FM commercial radio licences. One licence is advertised for Bristol and the other for Oxford and South Oxfordshire. BRISTOL Ofcom is advertising an FM commercial radio licence to cover the city of Bristol and the surrounding area. Ofcom estimates that this licence could achieve coverage of an area with an adult (aged 15+) population of around 500,000 . The exact coverage will be determined by the location of the transmission site and other technical characteristics. The closing date for the receipt of applications is 3.00 p.m. on Friday 9 June 2006. A non-refundable fee of £10,000 will be payable for each application submitted. The full details for this licence, including the guidelines and procedures for the submission of applications, can be obtained from the Ofcom website at: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/car/advts/bristol (more)

Milestone left with just one
From Radio Today. Posted February 28 2006, 6.50pm
Further to the announcements of 1 February 2006 and 17 February 2006, Milestone announces completion of the disposal of its 52 per. cent controlling shareholding in Rugby Broadcasting Company Limited (trading as Rugby FM) to CN Group Limited for a total cash consideration of £644,961.20. This means the company now only have an interest in one station, Passion 107.9 in Oxford. (more)

Banbury now In Touch
From Radio Today. Posted February 25 2006, 3.40pm
Banbury's newest radio station 107.6 Touch FM launched today at 10AM from the Castle Quays Shopping Centre. The station went live across much of Oxfordshire and beyond when popstars The ugababes "Pushed the Button" with a special message, as their chart-topping single was played out as the first song. (more)

Tony Grundy joins Oxford bid
From Radio Today. Posted February 17 2006, 8.33am
The upcoming local commercial radio licence for Oxford is expected to attract up to half a dozen applications when it is advertised by Ofcom next month. One of the applications will come from Laser Broadcasting who have just announced that Tony Grundy, until recently Founding Chief Executive of Reading 107, has joined the bid. Tony started his career at Piccadilly Radio in Manchester before moving to Radio Aire in Leeds and Radio Victory in Portsmouth before becoming Chief Executive of Radio 210 in Reading. (more)

Oxford job for Lloyd?
From Press Gazette. Posted January 26 2006, 12.00am
FT Magazine contributing editor John Lloyd has expressed interest in becoming director of journalism at the newly created Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. (more)

Snow stars in C4 podcast debut
From Media Guardian. Posted January 19 2006, 10.10am
Oxford Convention: Channel 4 has unveiled plans for its podcasting debut with a programme on drug-taking hosted by Jon Snow. By Claire Cozens. (more)

Steve Orchard: My Life In Media
From The Independent. Posted January 9 2006, 12.00am
Steve Orchard, 47, operations director of GCap Media, graduated from Oxford University with two degrees - one in history, and a Masters in applied social studies. He became a social worker (specialising in families and teenage delinquency) but switched to the radio industry, working as a football reporter and a breakfast DJ. He has worked his way through the ranks of Britain's largest commercial radio group and is now leading the relaunch strategy of flagship station Capital FM. A rock fanatic, he owns a vintage Rockola jukebox. He has two children and lives in Marlborough. (more)

My Mentor: Sian Williams on Nick Clarke
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
I had been working as a producer at BBC Radio Liverpool when I came down to London to work on The World at One on Radio 4. Liverpool was very busy and very newsy and I felt comfortable there, but I was 26 and still quite naive. Everybody working at The World at One - Jim Naughtie was presenting - was from Oxford and Cambridge. I had been to a poly and I thought I was out of my depth and would never fit in. (more)