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This is an archive of news about Sound Radio 1503 AM. Some links may no longer work, due to the transient nature of the internet.

'Two Jags' tunes up for Northsound Radio dinner
From The Scotsman. Posted September 6 2008, 12.00am
"JOHNNY Two Jags" is heading for the Granite City to deliver a witty and erudite after-dinner speech at Northsound Radio's 16th annual business soiree. (more)

Citybeat hopeful for award
From Radio Today. Posted October 16 2007, 7.59am
Citybeat is up against the big boys in the Best Radio Station Event category of the Radio Academy Promotions and Marketing Awards tomorrow. The station is competing against Capital 95.8, Northants 96 and Northsound Radio, and say if they won, it would be a dream come true. (more)

Latest Community Radio awards
From Radio Today. Posted June 29 2007, 12.34pm
Ofcom has awarded five new community radio licences to groups in Northern Ireland and Scotland. They are Drive FM (Derry/Londonderry), Aldergrove and Antrim FM (Aldergrove and Antrim), Ballykinler FM (Ballykinler, County Down), Holywood FM (Holywood, County Down) and Speysound Radio (Badenoch & Strathspey). (more)

Scooped: Radio station websites lack updates
From Biz Asia. Posted April 1 2007, 11.24pm
This week BizAsia.co.uk's sleuths scooped down on the websites of a few Asian radio stations in the UK and were appalled to see how most of them have not been updated in weeks, months, and even, years! These discoveries were correct as of 19:00 on Sunday 01st April 2007: Sunrise Radio: -An hour before the event is about to reach its end, a banner advert on the homepage still invites exhibitors to book their stand for the Asian Lifestyle Show in Birmingham, which it says is "Coming Back"! -No one has reviewed any Bollywood movie ever since the release of the dud 'Zindaggi Rocks', almost eight months back! -The presenters' page does not have any profiles for nearly half a dozen presenters. -The Entertainment section has a solo snippet on Ram Gopal Varma being criticised for trying to remake 'Sholay' - a news item that is more than six months old! -The Celeb Files section features only Hrithik Roshan, who has been there for nearly half a year now. -The news snippets in the Bollywood section vary from being three to six months old! -The Events page is still busy celebrating the Diwali 2006 occasion at the Square in London! Club Asia: -The Playlist C has no tracks! -The Essential 20 Chart features only 19 tracks! What happened to No.20? -The little box on the 'Highest New Entry' features an image of the film 'Dil Apna Punjabi', released last year. -The Urban Session Playlist hasn't been updated since 01/10/2006. Asian Sound Radio: -After more than a year, the website continues to state 'The Asian Sound Radio website is currently being updated'. Radio XL: -The page with the Schedule has been missing for over two years! -The links for Daily Bollywood Top Ten and Bollywood News take you nowhere. Ditto for the links for News & Weather, Asian Love & Message Board. The only sites that seem almost fully updated belong to Sabras Radio and BBC Asian Network. If you've spotted any unusual or strangely funny items on Asian TV, radio or in print, please contact BizAsia.co.uk today and we will publish the best goof ups on the website. (more)

New boss named at Radio City
From Radio Today. Posted February 1 2006, 9.34am
Radio City 96.7 in Liverpool has named the new Managing Director as Iain McKenna. Ian is currently MD of Northsound Radio in Aberdeen but will switch to his new role some time after April 1st 2006. Radio City has been operating without an appointed Managing Director since Tom Hunter suddenly left the station in October 2005 'at his own request to concentrate on other interests'. (more)

Ofcom explains Community awards
From Radio Today. Posted December 20 2005, 11.12am
Ofcom today explain why they awarded seven community radio stations recently, and decided not to award 32 others. The seven awards made on December 12th were: West Hull Community Radio (West Hull), Radio Reverb (East and Central Brighton), Colchester Garrison FM (Colchester), Spirit of Plymouth (Plymouth), Resonance FM (Central London), Desi Radio (Southall, West London) and Sound Radio (Hackney, East London) (more)