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

Debbie McGee joins BBC local
From Radio Today. Posted June 9 2008, 9.13am
Debbie McGee, celebrity wife of Paul Daniels has joined BBC Radio Berkshire on a permanent basis to host a new Sunday morning show, from 9am till midday. (more)

Bruno is back on the radio
From Radio Today. Posted May 15 2008, 12.11am
Former BBC Radio One presenter Bruno Brooks is back on the radio this weekend, covering the Sunday morning show for one week only on BBC Radio Berkshire. (more)

Maidenhead Advertiser owner buys two Berkshire titles in expansion move
From Press Gazette. Posted May 9 2008, 12.00am
Baylis and Co, publishers of the Maidenhead Advertiser, has bought two newspapers from Berkshire Media Group, a subsidiary of Dunfermline Press. (more)

My Life in Media: Sports commentator Barry Davies
From The Independent. Posted March 24 2008, 12.00am
Sports commentator Barry Davies, 70, has been broadcasting for over 40 years. He has covered 10 World Cups, 10 Olympic Games, seven Winter Olympics, seven Commonwealth Games and many Wimbledons. On Saturday he reprises his role as "Voice of the Boat Race", commentating for LBC Radio. He lives in Datchet, Berkshire, with his wife Penny, whom he met on his first job for BBC Radio. Their daughter, Giselle, is director of communications for the International Olympic Committee, and their son, Barry, is managing director of the online betting shop Betfair. (more)

BBC Berkshire in Google Maps experiment
From thenoise.co.uk. Posted July 31 2007, 8.19am
BBC Radio Berkshire has finished a week-long trial into using Google Maps to bring together photos, audio and video reports from listeners and reporters. The station had created a mash-up to make sense of the hundreds of individual contributions sent in by listeners affected by the recent spate of flooding. The feature allowed users to zoom in [...] (more)

Sale of Berkshire Regional Newspapers is completed
From Hold the Front Page. Posted July 31 2007, 12.00am
Plus: Award for Western Mail farming editor, Northern Echo reports sales success - and more news in brief (more)

Trinity Mirror sells Berkshire regionals for £10m
From Media Guardian. Posted July 19 2007, 1.00am
10.15am: Trinity Mirror today agreed to sell 14 regional newspapers in Berkshire, including the Reading Chronicle. By Chris Tryhorn. (more)

BREAKING NEWS: Trinity Mirror sells Berkshire Regional Newspapers for £10m
From Hold the Front Page. Posted July 19 2007, 12.00am
Dunfermline Press group buys 14 titles including the Reading Chronicle series (more)

Trinity sells Berkshire Regional Newspapers in £10m deal
From Press Gazette. Posted July 19 2007, 12.00am
Trinity Mirror is to sell Berkshire Regional Newspapers for £10m to the Berkshire Media Group, a subsidiary of The Dunfermline Press. (more)

BREAKING NEWS: Trinity Mirror sells Berkshire Media Group for £10m
From Hold the Front Page. Posted July 18 2007, 12.00am
Dunfermline Press buys 14 titles including the Reading Chronicle series (more)

Time FM DJ goes non-stop
From Radio Today. Posted May 8 2007, 7.43am
Mike Russell, mid-morning presenter at Time FM in Berkshire is just one week away from hosting what they hope will be the longest continuous radio broadcast by a single presenter. Mike aims to go five days without sleep to complete the task, despite being advised not to by doctors. (more)

Time FM?s Mike Russell to do 125 hours non-stop
From thenoise.co.uk. Posted April 28 2007, 12.01am
Time FM in Berkshire is to become the latest in a long line of radio stations across the world to attempt to break the record for the longest continuous radio broadcast by a single presenter. Mid-morning show presenter Mike Russell is hoping to broadcast for 125 hours without sleep — that’s five days and five hours, [...] (more)

Top award for BBC Manchester
From Radio Today. Posted September 29 2006, 8.28am
BBC Radio Manchester beats off competition from Berkshire and London to win station of the year (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)

BBC Radio Berkshire & Reading FC Team Up
From Merry Media. Posted August 1 2006, 4.50pm
Reading Football Club and BBC Radio Berkshire announced yesterday a new broadcasting and promotional deal that will see commentary on the club's matches being broadcast next season on the BBC station. The future of match coverage was the subject of speculation following the announcment that the two parties were initially unable to agree terms. However, after more talks between the club and the BBC both parties were able to agree a partnership that will see Radio Berkshire continue its popular service of commentaries, news and other programming following the Royals progress.. (more)

Reading FC deal for Radio Berkshire
From Radio Today. Posted August 1 2006, 4.45pm
Reading Football Club and BBC Radio Berkshire have agreed a new broadcasting and promotional deal that will see commentary on the club's matches being broadcast next season on the BBC station. The future of match coverage was the subject of speculation following the announcement that the two parties were initially unable to agree terms. However, after more talks between the club and the BBC both parties were able to agree a partnership that will see Radio Berkshire continue its popular service of commentaries, news and other programming following the Royals' progress. The station's popular commentary team of Joel Hufford and Tim Dellor will be joined by ex-Reading player Mick Gooding. (more)

New studio for Reading
From Radio Today. Posted April 12 2006, 10.45pm
Hospital Radio Reading have become the latest hospital radio station to install the Sonifex S2 Solutions Studio Package. The station, known on-air as Blast 1386 took advantage of a move from Battle Hospital in West Reading to the site of Royal Berkshire Hospital to ditch all their old equipment in favour of a complete new station package based around Sonifex S2 (also recently installed recently launched ILR stations such as 107 The Bee in Blackburn) and the Myriad automation and playout computer software from PSquared. (more)

Lizz Loxam joins Radio Berkshire
From Radio Today. Posted March 3 2006, 4.34pm
BBC Radio Berkshire has appointed Lizz Loxam as Acting Editor while current Editor, Marianne Bell, is on a year’s maternity leave. Lizz will join the station in May. Lizz is a highly experienced BBC producer, manager and editor. She is passionate about local radio and Berkshire in particular and is keen on community projects. (more)

Milestone dispose of Rugby FM
From Radio Today. Posted February 17 2006, 11.50am
Further to the announcement made on 1 February 2006, Milestone announces it has today completed the sale of its beneficial controlling shareholdings in Kestrel FM Limited ('Kestrel FM') and West Berkshire Radio Limited ('Kick FM') to Provincial Broadcasting Companies Limited ('Provincial'). Additionally, Milestone confirms it intends to seek to complete the proposed disposal of its beneficial controlling shareholding in Rugby Broadcasting Company Limited ('Rugby FM') to CN Group Limited on or before 27 February 2006. (more)

Tindle acquires two stations as Stiby retires
From Press Gazette. Posted February 2 2006, 12.00am
Tindle Radio has acquired Milestone Group plc’s shareholdings in Kestrel FM Limited (Basingstoke) and West Berkshire Radio Limited (Kick FM, Newbury). (more)

GMG Radio sell stake in Reading 107
From Radio Today. Posted December 15 2005, 10.49am
GMG Radio have sold their 60.3% share in Berkshire station Reading 107 to the Goodhead Group plc, a company controlled by Reading Football club chairman John Madejski. GMG Radio took control of the station just three months ago when they increased their share from 37.8% to 60.3% after Milestone Radio Group decided to sell its stake. (more)