Admittedly I didn’t buy it but the track listing is on Discogs link here.
You’re right was a great time for dance music!
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Certainly was a great time for EDM. I often think that again EDM is on the cusp of comeback but then I see KISS’s ratings and think maybe not.
TVHead is right is saying that that these stations now all seem to be just Hits Radio repeaters… (I think Rock 97.4 FM might be the only exception).
But I guess none of them (apart from Kiss) were EDM stations, they only took the Friday night show?
Still pretty good though. Thanks for sharing. I must admit that Kiss was my station of choice when I visited London.
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More local programming cuts following the Media Act. Bauer’s turn again as local breakfast shows in England & Wales are getting the chop. Steve & Karen (North East) are moving to new spin-off station, Hits Radio 90s. The fate of the other presenters are currently unknown.
These changes will also see the closure of studios in Birmingham, Nottingham, Redruth, Lincoln, Sheffield & Swansea.
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I guess it’s a small positive they are putting a breakfast show on the digital-only 90s station. There should be more of that here.
That’s the future of radio right there. It’s not about local. We’re not going to tune into Alan Partridge on ‘North West Essex’ anymore, but on a national station for a particular listening group (such as fans of 90s music). Our communities have shifted.
I used to listen to ‘The Slump’ on Absolute 90s. A group of middle class English blokes who shared alot in common with their listeners everywhere. University educated, latte drinking, into condiments with a weird fixation with sinkholes.
That’s the listening community we have these days. It’s not about local, it’s about having a sizeable national audience with a particular shared interest.
I guess that’s what CADA have tried to do here. Forget about trying to be all things to all people in Penrith. But there’s a national audience who have a shared love of Hip Hop and RnB (with a little EDM).
North Norfolk, if you’re going to try to be funny.
All of the FM frequencies of these stations are now Hits Radio, which will be fully national apart from “local” news and ads once the local breakfast shows go. Only a national Kiss continues on DAB.
The BBC Radio 2 spinoff proposal is provisionally blocked by Ofcom.
The geoblocking proposal is delayed until alternative platforms for the other stations are secured.
that’s great news!
Staying with CNN, but will be doing podcasts for Global too.
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If you’re going to play Billy Ocean, surely ‘Loverboy’ or ‘European Queen’ or even ‘Get outta my dreams’ would be a better fit.
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I must admit, Billy Ocean in a sea of modern rubbish is a little out of place. Clinging to the life raft of 80s schmaltz…or is that one popular with the yoof for some reason?
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It must be linked to some tik tok video or some other youth thing. They wouldn’t play it otherwise
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It’s in an ad campaign over here at the moment.
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Radio X is running the simplest competition I’ve heard for a while - they’ve put the name of an artist in a “box” and every day they offer a single opportunity to open the box by using the correct artist’s name
- One artist.
- It’s an artist we play on Radio X.
- Chris doesn’t know who it is.
- Dom doesn’t know who it is.
- None of the other Radio X presenters know who it is.
- Every day we will get a new caller on the air to guess a name.
- We lock in that name… Then we ask The Box if it’s the correct answer…
- If The Box opens you win £25,000!
- Every day we will get a new caller on the air to guess and if you name the artist… you win!
- Get the artist wrong? You’ll still take home £1,000!
Last time they ran it, the competition ran for weeks
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A bit of disruption to today’s morning shows on BBC Radio 2 and Greatest Hits Radio, courtesy of problems on the railways. Vernon Kay failed to make it in for his Radio 2 show, whilst Ken Bruce was over 90 minutes late.
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