'News: "Gaydar" Co-Founder Frisch Found Dead As UK's First Full-Time Gay Radio Station Celebrates Fifth Birthday This Week' by Grant Goddard
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News story about the death of Gary Frisch, co-founder of the UK's first full-time gay radio station 'Gaydar' which is about to celebrate its fifth birthday, written by Grant Goddard in February 2007 for The Radio Magazine.
![News: 'Gaydar' Co-Founder Frisch Found Dead As UK's First Full-Time Gay Radio Station Celebrates Fifth Birthday
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©2007 Grant Goddard
'Gaydar Radio' co-founder Gary Frisch, aged 38, was found dead below the
balcony of his eighth-floor flat in southwest London last Saturday afternoon.
Wandsworth CID is treating the death as 'unexplained' and is investigating the
circumstances.
Gaydar had planned a party to celebrate its fifth birthday this week as the UK’s
first full-time gay radio station. The company issued a statement saying that
the event would go ahead as planned: “Gaydar Radio was one of Gary’s
proudest achievements to date and that is what he would have wanted”.
Frisch had moved from South Africa to the UK in 1997 and co-founded the IT
consultancy firm QSoft, before launching the Gaydar website in 1999, now the
world’s most popular online dating forum.
Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell paid tribute: “Gary and Gaydar have had
a huge impact on the gay culture. They have created an unprecedented online
community and now branched out into radio. Gary will be long remembered by
the hundreds of thousand of gay people who have benefited from the Gaydar
phenomenon he helped create."
[First published in 'The Radio Magazine' as 'Gaydar Chairman Dies', #775, 14 February 2007]
Grant Goddard is a media analyst / radio specialist / radio consultant with thirty years of
experience in the broadcasting industry, having held senior management and consultancy
roles within the commercial media sector in the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia. Details at
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'News: "Gaydar" Co-Founder Frisch Found Dead As UK's First Full-Time Gay Radio Station Celebrates Fifth Birthday This Week' by Grant Goddard
- 1. NEWS: 'GAYDAR' CO-FOUNDER FRISCH FOUND DEAD AS UK'S FIRST FULL-TIME GAY RADIO STATION CELEBRATES FIFTH BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK by GRANT GODDARD www.grantgoddard.co.uk February 2007
- 2. News: 'Gaydar' Co-Founder Frisch Found Dead As UK's First Full-Time Gay Radio Station Celebrates Fifth Birthday This Week page 2 ©2007 Grant Goddard 'Gaydar Radio' co-founder Gary Frisch, aged 38, was found dead below the balcony of his eighth-floor flat in southwest London last Saturday afternoon. Wandsworth CID is treating the death as 'unexplained' and is investigating the circumstances. Gaydar had planned a party to celebrate its fifth birthday this week as the UK’s first full-time gay radio station. The company issued a statement saying that the event would go ahead as planned: “Gaydar Radio was one of Gary’s proudest achievements to date and that is what he would have wanted”. Frisch had moved from South Africa to the UK in 1997 and co-founded the IT consultancy firm QSoft, before launching the Gaydar website in 1999, now the world’s most popular online dating forum. Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell paid tribute: “Gary and Gaydar have had a huge impact on the gay culture. They have created an unprecedented online community and now branched out into radio. Gary will be long remembered by the hundreds of thousand of gay people who have benefited from the Gaydar phenomenon he helped create." [First published in 'The Radio Magazine' as 'Gaydar Chairman Dies', #775, 14 February 2007] Grant Goddard is a media analyst / radio specialist / radio consultant with thirty years of experience in the broadcasting industry, having held senior management and consultancy roles within the commercial media sector in the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia. Details at http://www.grantgoddard.co.uk