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

Kiss shouts about breakfast
From Radio Today. Posted June 17 2008, 8.08am
Kiss 100 is celebrating its position as London’s third biggest commercial radio station by launching a major marketing campaign to support the Rickie and Melvin breakfast show.The campaign is part of a £1.5 million investment in Kiss by Bauer Radio over the summer months and includes 48 sheets, 6 sheets, bus sides and digital media on the London Underground. (more)

Usher defends Big Weekend gaffe
From Digital Spy. Posted May 13 2008, 2.30pm
R&B singer Usher explains why he shouted "hello Manchester" at Radio 1's Big Weekend. (more)

Country house trashed by 500 partygoers
From Media Guardian. Posted March 17 2008, 12.02am
Mother may sue BBC after 'shout-out' on Radio 1 as gatecrashers cause thousands of pounds of damage (more)

Smoothly does it in London
From Radio Today. Posted January 31 2008, 8.31am
After numerous relaunches and lineup changes, GMG Radio's 102.2 Smooth Radio finally has something to shout about, with the best hours of any commercial radio station in London. Real Radio Scotland is now more listened to than Capital, while there were losses for both Century stations. (more)

Sick of Shouting at the TV? Think You Could do Better? Put on Your Managers Coat and Lead Your Team to Victory
From Press Release, via webitpr. Posted October 29 2007, 9.22am
- Ojom launches Manager Pro Football 2008 - (London, 29th October 2007) Ojom GmbH, a leading creator and global publisher of mobile games, today announced the launch of Manager Pro Football 2008 for mobile phones, the highly anticipated follow up to the 2006 edition. The game allows you to experience the highs and lows of being a football manager as you lead your team to glory. As manager you control every aspect of your team... (more)

RNW Newsline Special on Thursday 4 October at 1400 UTC
From Media Network Weblog. Posted October 3 2007, 4.37pm
Radio Netherlands Worldwide is preparing a special Shout with Short Wave edition of current affairs show Newsline this Thursday, 4 October, which will focus on the continuing oppression of democracy and free speech in Myanmar/Burma. The broadcast will coincide with a day of international action by Bloggers who will leave their Internet pages blank, replacing their usual content with a banner [...] (more)

RNW ?shouts via short wave? as Myanmar curbs Internet
From Media Network Weblog. Posted September 28 2007, 3.20pm
Hundreds of people have been smuggling out pictures and eyewitness reports of the protests in Myanmar this week. Thanks to the Internet and mobile phones they’ve been able to break the military government’s monopoly on information. Now the junta has realised just how important these “citizen journalists” are. From today, Internet access in Myanmar has [...] (more)

RNW “shouts via short wave” as Myanmar curbs Internet
From Media Network Weblog. Posted September 28 2007, 1.26pm
Hundreds of people have been smuggling out pictures and eyewitness reports of the protests in Myanmar this week. Thanks to the Internet and mobile phones they’ve been able to break the military government’s monopoly on information. Now the junta has realised just how important these “citizen journalists” are. From today, Internet access in Myanmar has [...] (more)

KCFM goes live in Hull
From Radio Today. Posted August 1 2007, 6.10am
KCFM 99.8 has started broadcasting this morning in Hull. Breakfast presenter and local lad Steve Jordan launched KCFM 99.8 at 6am with an interview between PC Tim Jibson and Chairman Ian Blakey followed by Twist and Shout by The Beatles. The station, serving Hull and East Yorkshire, promises to be a local station for local people with 24 hour news, music and sport. (more)

Capital shouts about Bambam
From Radio Today. Posted May 30 2007, 8.39am
GCap Media is launching a new advertising campaign designed to let Londoners know that sacked Kiss 100 DJ Bam Bam plus sidekick Streetboy are now on-air every weekday evening on Capital 95.8. The bus adverts continue the Sound of London campaign, which uses recognisable London images. (more)

US-funded radio offers new voice on Darfur border
From Media Network Weblog. Posted May 29 2007, 3.31pm
Radio Sila, based in the village of Goz Beida in Chad, is funded mostly by US taxpayers broadcasts into a violence-region suffering the spillover from the Darfur conflict next door. “People follow our car in the streets, shouting ‘radio, radio,’” said Fiacre Munezero, the station’s supervisor. “It’s a good start.” Broadcast from a metal cargo container converted [...] (more)

Rajar: TalkSport has something to shout about
From Press Gazette. Posted May 10 2007, 7.53am
The nationwide commercial talk station, TalkSport, is toasting its highest audience figures since 2004, according to Rajar. (more)

Tarrant praises Virgin's O'Connell, Virgin buys some posters to celebrate
From Breaking Radio. Posted October 31 2006, 10.40pm
Chris Tarrant leaves a message on Christian's answer phone as part of Who's Calling Christian, Virgin buy some posters to shout about it. (more)

Virgin shouts about praise from former Capital DJ Tarrant
From Brand Republic. Posted October 31 2006, 11.10am
LONDON - Virgin Radio has splashed posters across London and the South quoting former Capital Radio breakfast DJ Chris Tarrant telling Virgin host Christian O'Connell how good his show is. (more)

Magic RAJAR figures for Emap
From Radio Today. Posted October 26 2006, 7.33am
Emap Radio are today shouting about their latest set of RAJAR results. And with good reason too. Q3 2006 has delivered the group with its highest ever set of listening figures.Magic 105.4 moves down to second place in the battle to be the number one commercial station in London giving the baton back to Heart 106.2. (more)

'You've got to go and shout at the bastards or they won't respect you'
From The Independent. Posted September 3 2006, 12.00am
All newspaper editors attract colourful tales from the journalists they employ, but few can boast of death threats. Few can have bashed a phone as forcefully against a wall as he is known to have done. Few can shout so loudly that their nose begins to bleed. In the Fleet Street mythology, then, Martin Clarke is already well established even if London Lite, his new baby, is just a week old. (more)

Emap shout about RAJAR results
From Radio Today. Posted August 3 2006, 8.30am
Kiss 100 recorded the biggest growth in listenership across all radio in London, according to today's RAJAR figures. Each week, 1,499,000 listeners tune in to hear Kiss� infectious mix of the best dance music � adding 211,000 in the last three months. The rise in listenership is reflected across the UK with 2,363,000 people tuning in nationwide. Kerrang! continues to rock the nation with 1,240,000 guitar music fans tuning in each week across the UK � a 24.6 per cent rise on the year. In the West Midlands, Kerrang! 105.2 has 363,000 listeners � up by 39.6 per cent on the year. (more)

"WildVoice" Offers Online and Download Options For Free Podcast Creation
From radio.about.com. Posted July 25 2006, 7.51pm
The "WildVoice Shout" web recorder is an online application which allows anyone with a PC, a microphone, and an Internet connect the ability to create their own Podcast directly from... (more)

Chrysalis shout about Heart
From Radio Today. Posted May 11 2006, 7.30am
Chrysalis are promoting good RAJAR figures today by claiming the Heart Network Remains UK's No.1 Commercial ILR Brand. The Q1 2006 Rajar results, released today, show a solid year on year performance from the Chrysalis Group, with total weekly hours for Chrysalis Radio increasing to 52.3m, up 1.4%. (more)

Rwandan man arrested for phoning radio show with genocide threats
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 21 2006, 1.28pm
A man suspected of calling in to a live talk show on local radio and threatening to "finish off" survivors of the 1994 genocide has been arrested, police said on Wednesday. On 12 April, half-way the genocide commemoration week, an anonymous caller on Radio Contact shouted "we will finish you off again" during a memorial programme. "After extensive investigations, we arrested a 26-year old man who (more)

Radio Show Brings Death Row Inmates and Family Together
From radio.about.com. Posted February 28 2006, 9.00am
From MySanAntonio.com: "Just a few miles down the road from the prison in Livingston, a tiny radio station is connecting death row inmates with family and friends. It's called the Shout Out show, where families call in, and inmates send... (more)

Virgin shouts about O'Connell's arrival as breakfast show campaigns kick off
From Brand Republic. Posted January 11 2006, 11.01am
LONDON – Virgin Radio and Heart will be competing to win new breakfast show listeners as they each launch ad campaigns next Monday. (more)