Archive for May, 2015
If you still buy a physical newspaper, you are either old or don’t have access to the internet. I can’t remember the last time I bought one, or even read one on actual paper. I get all of my news online. I realised this week that I’ve done the same with radio. In the car, […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Broadcasting, Newspapers | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, AM, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, broadsheet, DAB, FM, Graham Mack, Internet, Newpapers, Northern Echo, Radio, Tabloid
Radio presenters work on the outskirts of show business. Sometimes we’re asked to appear on stage. These appearances never go well. One of the worst ones I ever did was one afternoon in 1998 when I was working at 2CRFM in Dorset. A shopping centre in Poole booked my co-host, Richie Firth and I to […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Broadcasting, Gladiators | Closed
Tags: 2CR, 2CRFM, AFTRS, Aircheck, Bournemouth, Broadcasting, Dorset, Gladiators, Poole, Radio
Why Are We Standing For This?
The railways in Britain are rubbish. Half a million people have taken to Twitter in the last 12 months to shame the train companies responsible. This has led to people calling for the railways to be re-nationalised. That is not the answer. The problem is, they’re not private enough. Capitalism works because free-market competition forces […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Aircraft, Broadcasting, Railways, Trains, Transport | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, American Airlines, BOB fm, British Rail, Business Clas, Capitalism, Economy class, First class, Nationalisation, Trains, Twitter
Sometimes you get a nickname because of a mistake. In 2005, I was the Program Director at 2CRFM on England’s South Coast. From time to time we had work experience kids with us. One of the keenest was a bloke, barely out of his teens called Jimmy Luff. Jimmy was desperate to go on the […]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Closed
What is a Terrorist?
This week, Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron announced plans to fast-track new powers to tackle radicalisation and set out his intention to include a new counter-extremism bill in his Queen’s Speech later this month. It’s all because the fear of religious extremists has reached a new high. But it’s an irrational fear. According to statistics […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Broadcasting, Politics, World | Closed
Tags: Aircheck, BBC, BOB fm, Britain, David Cameron, Europol, Governments, Islam, Muslim Extremists, Napoleon, politicians, Prime Minister, Queen's Speech, Terrorist
When you broadcast from outside the safety of a radio studio, anything can happen. Unfortunately in commercial radio, sometimes the sales team will sell a client a package for an outside broadcast then once the deal is signed, expect everything to magically come together on the day with no planning whatsoever. The salesperson that drops […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Broadcasting, Comedy | Closed
Tags: 2CR, 2CRFM, AFTRS, Aircheck, BOB fm, Bournemouth, Broadcasting, Hampshire, Marwell Zoo, Outside Broadcast, Zoo Keeper
In Hot Water But I’m Innocent!
It’s easy for people to get the wrong idea. I drink a lot of coffee while I’m on the radio. I drink it black with no sugar and I’m happy with instant, I’ve got a jar of it stashed in the studio. I spoon it into a mug and run out to the kitchen now […]
Filed under: Accused, AFTRS, Broadcasting | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, BOB fm, Coffee, drink, genius, kettle, unstant
