Issue no. 3, dated 23 October 1992, of 'Radio News' weekly newsletter for the UK radio broadcasting industry, written and published by Grant Goddard in October 1992.
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'Radio News: No. 3, 23 October 1992' by Grant Goddard
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THE WEEKLY UPDATE ON THE ilK RADIO INDUSTRY
THREE
'l'bree COIIIIIercial stations have been
fined £1000 each by the Radio
Authority, two for "a serious breach
, of the licence conditions" that
require them to record their entire
output, and one for failure to camply
with its Promise Of Performance.
Buzz FM,iBirmingham and Kinster
FM/York's negligence to make
recardinqs became apparent when
listeners filed canplaints about
programning they had heard. The Radio
Authority's standard procedure is to
demand a cassette tape copy fran the
relevant station of the offending
output in order to decide whether the
complaint is valid.
Buzz FM blamed "a fault with the '
logging machine" while Kinster FM
said there were "teething problems"
with its recorders during its first
few weeks on-air. Buzz had to
substitute written music logs and
Minster pr;ovided a "reconstruction"
of the progranma ~nt for the
Radio Authority to determine the
validity of the caoplaints, both of
which it eventually dismissed.
The third station, 096 FM/Paisley,
was fined for failing to provide
eight daily local news bulletins,
each at least three minutes long, as
STATIONS FACE FINES
required by its Promise Of
Performance. It claimed this was
''because of inexperience, untried
staff and the early pressures of a
newborn station", but the Authority
upheld the comp-laint as a
"fundamental breach" of licence
conditions.
Two other justified complaints
concerned ccanents made on-air about
the Duchess of York, one for
"excessive use of bad language" by a
Moray Firth/Inverness phone-in host,
including the phrase "Fergie's tits",
the other for an LBC afternoon
presenter's reference to her as "a
stnJnpet".
The Authority also upheld' complaints
against two restricted service
licensees for [LT/Glasgow's
afternoon broadcast of the
unexpurgated version of Prince's You
S-M, and for a Link FM/Havering
breakfast show guest who used the
words "you fucking prick".
Other recent warranted ccaplaints
include: an LBC/boodon interview with
a manufacturer of car number plates
that avoid police detection equipment
who was invited to give his ccapany's
name and phone nllDber;
Spectrum/London's broadcast in its
RADIO DIARY
Arab progranme of a poem inciting
hatred and murder of Jews; Southern
Sound/Brighton's evening news
bulletin graphically reporting
details of a man who strangled his
girlfriend during sex; and a Chiltern
Supergold/Luton presenter's undue
endorsement of a holiday caupany
advertising on the station.
lrongst caaplaints the Authority
dismissed were: an allegation that an
expletive was uttered in the
background of Classic FM's birdsong
test tape; a complaint that Mercia
FM/Coventry closed its
Warwick/Leamington relay transmitter;
an accusation that the owner of
Spectrum/London's Arabic service is
connected with the Iraqi regime; and
a Classic FM listener who, after 45
minutes, concluded the station was
"an insult to music and musicians".
**** In America, WALE/Providence
morning DJ Geaff Charles is being
sued by traffic warden Valerie Perry,
who he called a "fat black bitch" on
air when she stuck a ticket on his
car parked outside the studio. The
station was disciplined by the FCC
authority last year for falsely
telling listeners that one of its DJs
had been shot.
24 OC'I' }IUS STUDENT PIED!! CONFERENCE in London includes Guardian/WS awards for student broadcasting organisatioo of the
year and student broadcaster of the year
26 ocr RADIO & PRIMARY SCHOOLS seminar (provisional). Info: Voice Of The Listener & Viewer, 101 Kings Drive, Gravesend,
Kent DA12 5BQ tel:0474-352835
V/28/7!J OC'I' THE ODD COUPLE? Arts Council conference on the arts, television and radio in the 90s at The Dome, Brighton.
Info: Conference Profile, 1 Wardrobe Place, London EC4V 5AH tel:071-236-4938 .
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£59.55 + VAT. Info: London Media Workshops, 101 Kings Drive, Gravesend, Kent DA12 5BQ tel:0474-564676 , I'
28 OC'I' RAIDERS FM restricted service licence starts broadcasting on FM to SouthWest London for 28 days. Info: 54 Moring
Rd, Balham, London SW17 3DL tel:081-682-3323
30 OC'I' ONE LOVE restricted service licence starts broadcasting on FM to SouthEast London for 28 days. Info: 441 New Cross
Road, London SE14 6TA tel:081-691-4618
31 OC'I' INVICTA FM 8th birthday party at the Whitbread Hop Farm, tickets £5. tel: 0622-872068
1/2/3/4 IIOV JOINT CONVENTION & NATIONAL TRADE SH<IJ OF THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS and WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF
BROADCAST ENGINEERS at Vancouver, Canada
13/14/15 JOy COMMUNITY BROADCASTING EXPO 1992 organised by The Public Broadcasting Association Of Australia at Albury
Convention &Performing Arts Centre, Sydney. Info: (02) 310-2999
16 JOy RADIO CEREDIGION new Aberystwyth commercial station starts broadcasting on 96.6/103.3 FM. Info: Unit 6E, Science
Park, Cefnllan, Aberystwyth tel: 0970-626626
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2. INDEPENDENTS • DAYS
BBC Radio is organising a series of
one-day seminars this auttmm for
independent production companies
intending to sell programmes to the
five national networks as part of
their declared 10% "indie" quota.
Attendance on the Independents' Day
courses will cost participants £200
per person, though this will be
refunded should the BBC decide to
purchase one of their productions.
In addition to seminars discussing
how to submit a progranrne proposal,
technical quality, contracts and
costings, each delegate will be given
an accompanying handbook, a set of
BBC Guidelines and cassette
recordings of pertinent Q&A sessions
with Radio MD David Hatch and the
five Network Controllers.
Glyn Jones of BBC Radio Training says
attendance is not a "qualifying
hurdle" for a successful coomission,
though the seminars will convey
"masses of useful information". He is
circulating a questionnaire to
interested parties to elicit opinions
on their exact format. Initial
responses suggest that independent
radio production is unlikely to
number as many as sixty companies,
even by 1996/7.
**** Radio 5 is requesting bids fran
independent producers for contracts
to supply three of its live weekly
evening youth progranmes. The three
shows must reflect the North,
Midlands and South regions of
England, and will replace similar
output presently produced by BBC
Regional Centres. Tender documents
are available fran the Radio 5
Controller.
CHRISTMAS CRACK.ER
Radio Cracker, the temporary
pre-Christmas station raising funds
for third world charities, is about
to finalise a deal with BSkyB to
broadcast on one of the Astra
satellite radio channels. These
transmissions will then he relayed
overnight by the project's 85 local
FM stations if they are unable to
originate their own prograoming.
The Radio Cracker station in Harrow
is to provide the llpm to 7am
sustaining service, as well as hourly
news bulletins throughout the day,
and its studios will he linked by BT
landline to a satellite uplink at
Euston. Direct bane reception of the
station across Europe will he
possible for the first time.
Last year the nationwide schaoe,
based on a network of local church
groups, raised over £~ by using the
slogan "Tune In, Pay Outt!, a target
it aims to beat in this year's
one"1OClllth marathon broadcast starting
28th Nov.
Basic radio studio equipnent - mics,
turntables, mixer, cartridges et a1 -
is urgently needed ON LOAN to
cauplete the Harrow studios. Offers,
however antiquated, will he
gratefully received by Rob Lancaster
on 081-907-698~.
**** Solar Radio's Astra satellite
service has closed, following several
roonths of test broadcasts. Another
Astra station, Euronet, now carries
progranmes by Israeli Voice Of Peace
founder Abi Nathan.
PENNY·S FROM SEVERN
Chiltern Radio
Penny Holton as
its Gloucester
Sound.
plc has appointed
Chief Executive of
subsidiary Severn
Holton, aged 31, takes up the post on
1st Nov in addition to her existing
responsibilities as Director of
Chiltern Radio Network Promotions &
PR, the area of the company's
operation in which she has worked
since joining in 1986. She plans to
move house from Milton Keynes to
Cheltenham in the next few weeks.
"l am delighted to be moving to
Severn Sound," says Holton, "from
concrete cows to real cows. 11
Ron Coles, who has caretakered the
post for the past three months, is
now to work on Chiltern's bid for the
new Severn Estuary regional licence.
RADIO CONTACTS
Launched in 1980, Severn Sound was
acquired last year by Chiltern, who
subsequently branded the two services
Hot FM and Supergold AM in ccmnon
with the rest of its network. The
stations face additional competition
next year from new Cheltenham AM "CD
6O~u, and their three frequencies are
to he readvertised by the Radio
Authority next May.
OOLPHIIi RADIO, 144a Albert Road, Parkstone, Poole, Dorset. 'l'el: 0202-722846 Lomond Handley [coomunity radio group]
BR<lADCAS'fIB6 snJIDARDS COOIfCIL, 5-8 The Sanctuary, London SWIP ~S. Tel: 071-233-0544 [cauplaints body]
RADIO CRACKER, Oasis (West Midlands), Cornerstone House, 5 Ethel Street, Birmingham B2 4BG. Tel: 021-633-0873 [restricted
service licences nationwide from 28 Nov]
BBC RADIO 'i'RADIIIG, 379 Euston Road, London NW1 3AU [organisers of BBC Independents' Day seminars]
BROADVISl(1I RADIO, Longwood House, Bushcombe Lane, Cleeve Hill, Gloucestershire 6L52 3PIiI. Tel: 0242-672399 [radio
consultancy]
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3. RADIO 2's J1Mny Young show is to be
hosted by Heil Kinnock for a week
from 2nd Nov while JY bids us TFN and
goes on hols ********** IRI has
moved to new owner ITN's offices and
its Newslink ad break is sold by
Capital's salesbouse MS&M. John
Perkins appointed MD and Charles
Morrissey Editor ********** Purchase
of Radio Monte Carlo by media group
Havas blocked by referral to France's
fair trade coomission ********** A
RADIO ItERCORY DJ heard changing the
studio ligbtbulb live on-air.
Maintenance cutbacks? ********** The
introduction of new BBC/IloR joint
RlJlR audience research from 21
Se~ember spe1t tbe end of the BBC's
Daily Survey of radio listening, and
redundancy for its 750 interviewers,
30 supervisors and 32 office staff.
When CLASSIC fill went on air, the
Beeb' s survey showed how many were
listening within days, something
RAJlR cannot do ********** Which
NorthWest England ILR station
telephonist, when asked for its
Prograome Director on a Monday
afternoon just after three, replied
coolly ''Oh no, be's gone. He's
finished for the day"? **********
IIVICD ni, whose publicity
proclaims it ''Betta, StrOnga, Hotta,
Brighta", has leafleted 580,000 Kent
homes for its Check In competition
giving away Virgin holidays until
Christmas. The station celebrates its
OPINION
The public campaign against the BBC's
decision to remove RADIO 4 from
longwave is less remarkable for its
substantive argunent than for the
coverage itbas earned in the
broadsheet press. Anyone would think
the station itself was under threat
of abolition, judging by the
listenership's hostility and their
threat (now suspended) to march upon
Broadcasting House.
In fact, the network is merely
relinquishing one of several channels
it presently uses for simultaneous
transmissions, a wasteful practice
lingering from the days when the BBC
was the only radio broadcaster. The
government has belatedly tackled such
anachronisms, forcing the Corporation
to either provide distinct services
on its frequencies or hand them over
to commercial radio.
Two years ago RADIO 2 lost its
medium wave channels to the new
RADIO 5 network. Last year RADIO
R.ADIO WAVES
8th birthday witn a Ghosts Around The
Oasts night at the Whitbread Hop Farm
on 31 Det, with fireworks, lasers and
a dcmed stage. Info: 0622-872068
********** Is David MelIor really
auditioning for RADIO 5's Saturday
football phone-in Six-O-Six,
presently hosted by Danny Baker?
********** A fOl'llle.r BBC contract
security guard has been charged with
false imprisonment after holding a
BBC DLD SERVICE secretary against
her will in her Bush House office for
five hours ********** IWlIO 3 needs
an Assistant Manager for its music
lib£ary, working six IIIOOths maternity
cover. Info: 071-580-4468 x3075
AAAAAAA*** BBC Producti~ Assistants
are required in the YJW) SERVICE
Brazilian section (~7l-240-34S6
x2514), Radio Drama (071-580-4468
x495l), and RADIO 1 News 92
(071-580-4468 x2476) ***-*
RADIO 1 also needs a Researcher for
its social action projects
(071-580-4468 xSOO3) ********** BBC
RADIO SOSSEI's Julian Clegg show
needs aProgranme
lssistant/Researcher. Info:
081-749-7000 *~AA***AAA RADIO 1
profiles record producer JiIImy rovine
(Sat 24th 2-3pm) uuuuu IWlIO
5's Earshot sbaJ (TIle
10.10-midnight) includes a Rational
Demo Debut feature for unsigned
bands. Send cassettes to: Earshot, Kt
Box 370, Glasgow G12 8XY ****A*****
SAVE R.ADIO 4
3 sacrificed its medium wave
frequency, which had always been
plagued by nighttime interference
from Radio Albania, to too
VirginITY-AM rock station opening
next year. Soon RADIO 1 will cease
transmissions on 275/285 AM, to be
replaced by a commerci~l talk station
in 1995.
None of this rationalisation
precipitated the kind of outcry that
now surrounds the Radio 4 plan,
despite sports fans having lost
ball-by-ball cricket commentary this
season as a direct result of the
Radio 3 change. Music radio stations
have commonly lost presenters,
changed progranmes, and virtually
abandoned their formats with
impunity, merely ruffling a few
feathers and causing some protest
letters. But 00 one started a mass
campaign to tear up their TV licences
(which pay for radio) or demanded the
resignation of the BBC Chairman.
kd lang is In Concert (RADIO 1
9-1Opm) and Candi Statoo boards
Gloria Gaynor's Gospel Train (RADIO
2 9.45-l0.3Opm) on Thu 29th
*AAAA*A*** Singer Andy Prior,
supposedly described by Frank Sinatra
as his "natural successor", appears
on the RADIO 2 Arts Progranme (Fri
30th lO-midnight) UUAAU** THE
RADIO ACADERY presents A Celebration
Of Music Radio dinner with John Peel
and Jonathan King at London's Hard
Rock Cafe from 7pm on Thu 19th Nov.
£15 tickets from 071-323-3837
********** The Broadcasting Standards
Council has rejected a listener's
complaint about explicit sexual
references in an edition of RADIO
WM's youth show Samantha's Sunday
Night Party that discussed the
correct use of condoms ********** Can
debt-ridden Gloucester satellite
station QOALITY EUROPE nI be
serious about plans to ·"rescue"
RADIO LODlIIlOORG's dying satellite
service? ********** This week's atJ
conference in New York includes
college radio sessions entitled ''Why
Can't Jobnny ProgrlllJlle?" and
"Activism .At Your Radio Station"
****- Tbe Prince Of Wales has
written to BBC Chairman Marmaduke
Hussey about plans to remove RADIO
4 from longwave ********** Dolly
Parton plays a radio talk show host
in oor new film smAIGHT !ALl: for
whicA she wrote ten songs **********
LONGWAVE?
Bizarrely, the BBC's proposal will
actually increase the choice
available to Radio 4 listeners by
replacing its longwave relay with a
national all-news network in 1994,
thus satisfying current affairs
junkies frustrated by LBC's slide
towards trivialisation and Tory
dogma. But the protesters are simply
averse to change, any change, and
would rather see Radio 4 fossilise
than keep up with the 90s.
And the quality press, whose
newsrooms commonly listen to Radio 4
for tips and quotes, oblige by
aCCOlllllOdating the protesters who form
tbeir ABCI readerships. When Radio 1
sacked DJ Janice Long; when Capital
Radio abandoned its specialist music
prograomes; when Spectrum incited the
murder of Jews in its Arab progranme,
you probably didn't read about it.
But the Campaign To Save Radio 4
Longwave? BIG NEWS, hub?
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