Issue no. 8, dated 27 November 1992, of 'Radio News' weekly newsletter for the UK radio broadcasting industry, written and published by Grant Goddard in November 1992.

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'rHE WEEKLY UPDATE ON THE UK RADIO INDUSTRY
GR.EEN PAPER ON BBC·S FUTURE
The government's Green Paper on the
future of the BBC suggests that its
national radio networks use more
recorded music to save money, and
that "further rationalisation" might
result in the closure of stations
such as Radios One and Two.
The 43-page consultative document
notes that BBC Radio currently uses
less recorded music than its
commercial counterparts and suggests
"it would be possible to reduce the
costs of radio services by relying
more on records and reducing the
output of current affairs, drama,
features and documentaries."
Though the Paper makes no
rec~~ndation to cut specific radio
services, it does emphasise that
"there could be changes to the BBC's
radio output" and details savings
that could be made: "Local radio
services cost the BBC over £5Om a
year; so does Radio Three; Radio Two
costs £47m a year. Removing any of
these services would save about 4% of
the BBC's income from the licence
fee."
Statistics in the document
demonstrate that Radio One, the BBC
network with the heaviest reliance on
recorded music and tbe largest
listening share, is also the
cheapest, costing £4000 per output
hour. By comparison, Radio Three,
with its financial commitment to BBC
Orchestras, costs twice as much as
Radio One but attracts only a twelfth
of its listening.
The Green Paper records how the
expansion of commercial radio has
steadily eroded the BBC's audience,
from an 80% share of listening in
1981, when half the UK's local
stations were BBC, to 62% in 1991
when only a quarter of the 160 local
outlets belonged to the BBC. The
government accepts that the loss of
Radio One, Two and Three's AM
frequencies to commercial radio has
forced the BBC to make "difficult
decisions" about its programming
(such as the creation of Radio Five).
But it warns that "some further
rationalisation may be necessary" and
argues that "BBC Radio should no
longer try to broadcast such a wide
range of prograrrmes", and could axe
some of its services.
Ominously, the example the Green
Paper uses to illustrate the argument
envisages the closure of Radios One
and Two: "If the BBC is not expected
to broadcast popular music, then it
might have three national radio
channels, rather than five." But no
direct threat to these stations'
livelihoods occurs elsewhere in the
document.
The idea to privatise Radios One and
Two, first recoarnended by the 1986
Peacock Committee, is reiterated,
though the Green Paper predicts that
their sell-off would only reduce the
TV licence (which pays for BBC Radio)
by £4. The document also queries
whether there would be sufficient
advertising revenue to support Radios
One and Two as commercial stations,
and estimates that £14Om per annura
would have to be earned by the two
networks and local radio, were they
to depend upon advertising.
But the government also accepts that
new technologies, such as satellite
radio and Digital Audio Broadcasting
[DAB], will provide the BBC with
opportunities to expand into new,
highly specialised radio services, as
well as to improve reception of
existing national networks which, the
Paper says, one million people
presently have difficulty receiving
OD FM.
In other recommendations affecting
BBC Radio, the Green Paper suggests:
* more services for minority groups,
including ethnic minorities
* special channels for children,
elderly people, news and education
* more autonomy for BBC services
covering Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland
* the World Service to consider
whether it needs to be heard
worldwide
* the proportion of independent
productions to be increased
* BBC transmission networks be
privatised
* the Corporation become a more
flexible organisation and reduce
bureaucracy.
In the document's foreword, Secretary
of State For National Heritage Peter
Brooke is emphatic that "the BBC
cannot remain unchanged in a changing
world" but says "the government will
listen to the arguments and weigh
them", before making its final
decisions.
Asked in a TV interview whether the
BBC will be forced to reduce its
radio services, Brooke replied: "I
don't think they're likely to have it
imposed upon them, but I think it is
still a sensible question for the BBC
and its audience to ask in the
context of this process."
In his initial response to the Green
Paper, BBC Director General Kichael
Checkland said he was "pleased that
it's a start of what I think is going
to be a genuine and important public
debate" and admitted that maintaining
the status quo at the BBC is "not an
option." He said the document's
suggestion to axe some radio stations
would not affect the planned launch
of a BBC all-news service on Radio
Four's longwave channel.
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2. BBC RESPONSE TO GREEN PAPER
The BBC is proposing radical changes
to its pop music radio stations that
would spell the end of Top 40 music
prograrrrning on Radios One and Two and
introduce significantly more
speech-orientated output and
specialist music shows.
The Corporation's 88-page response to
thegovernrnent Green Paper, entitled
"Extending Choice", recognises that
commercial radio now focuses almost
exclusively on pop music, and argues
that the BBC "should withdraw from
programne areas or types in which it
is no longer able or needed to make
an original contribution." An
increased emphasis on speech within
Radios One and Two would "have
profound implications for the BBC's
radio services" and would "leave
little or no room for radio
programnes which consist of non-stop
Top 40 music."
Instead, Radios One and Two would
introduce "recognisably distinctive
and innovative" prograrrrning that:
* emphasises range, diversity and
innovation, with in-depth coverage of
specialist music genres
* emphasises live performance, new
work and ideas
* has more speech content than
commercial radio, with increased
news, information, humour, drama and
social action
* uses "clearly informative and
intelligent" presenters.
The BBC argues that these radical
changes would transform the music
stations into "services which are
unlikely ever to be matched in the
commercial marketplace," much like
Radios Three and Four. But they would
also increase the networks' costs
substantially because, as the Green
Paper points out, speech programming
and live music is far more expensive
than playing records.
The BBC recoDIIIeIIdations represent a
serious blow for the top management
of Radios One and Two, who had argued
internally that such a shift in
emphasis towards the "higher ground"
of speech programming and specialist
interests will automatically lose the
stations their mass audiences. They
predict that the resultant shift of
listeners to commercial radio for
unadulterated pop music will only
make Radios One and Two more
vulnerable to future cutbacks, and
argue that such action ignores the
stations' existing commitment to
breaking new acts which already
differentiates them sufficiently from
coomercial competitors.
THE FUTURE FOR RADIO ONE
Coomenting on the BBC document, Radio
One Controller Johnny Beerling
staunchly denied any suggestion that
an axe was hanging over the station
in its present form. "I don't feel
under threat at all," he said. "1
have a view of great confidence and
clarity about the future. We
understand exactly what we have to
do. We've been working towards it and
I'm sure we will deliver a service
that will survive."
Addressing a London conference
organised by the Voice Of Listeners &
Viewers, Beerling was in
uncharacteristically downbeat and
defensive mood, emphasising the
networks's popularity, that it was
"not a Top 40 station", and that
significant changes had already been
achieved under his leadership.
"1 believe there is a very strong and
viable future for the way in which we
present popular music," argued
Beerling. "Radio One is currently the
UK's favourite radio station. It is
the brand leader despite twenty years
of competition from coomercial radio.
In all major cities and conurbations,
except three, Radio One is the first
choice with young British people. We
are already considerably distinctive
-and different from rivals operating
in the coomercially funded sector."
He mentioned the BBC's internal
argument as to whether Radio One
should move towards "the high ground
of public service" or should aim to
maintain its large audience, and
suggested that Steve Wright's show,
by combining bath music and public
service information, was "a model for
the way ahead."
"I don't want anyone to be alarmed at
stories that Radio One is going to
become a predominantly speech-based
channel - it isn't," said Beerling,
contradicting the BBC's own
recoomendations. "This doesn't mean
half an hour of worthy programming
baIted onto the middle of the Steve
wright show or the breakfast show."
And he announced that Radio One had a
new "mission statement" for the
future "to serve the music,
information and entertainment needs
of the young adult audience by
providing them with a distinctive,
quality radio service."
But Beerling admitted that large
audiences will no longer be the "be
all and end all of Radio One's
existence" and that the network would
instead provide "a quality, public
service for the largest number of
young people." He catalogued the
network's successes and innovations
in recent years, including the comedy
and social action content the
Corporation now seeks to increase,
and concluded that "Radio One will
survive in the new broadcasting
environment."
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3. A TOUCH OF JAZZ
A survey of Jazz FM/London's output
shows less than 6% of its daytime
music to comprise mainstream jazz
recordings. Soul/R&B accounts for
almost two fifths of music played,
making the station similar to the
black music formats of the capital's
KISS FM, Choice FM and WNK.
Despite its D8IIIe, Jazz FM's peak
progranrning has moved away from the
jazz genre since the station was
purchased by Golden Rose last year,
and towards popularist music played
by existing stations in the market.
The survey found almost a quarter of
daytime music to be jazz/soul fusion,
the vast majority instrumental. A
further 18% was devoted to blues, and
12% featured rock/pop acts such as
Simply Red, Eric Clapton, The Rolling
Stones and Steely Dan.
Jazz FM's 1989 licence application
promised 72- plays per day of "jazz
classics and standards drawn from the
great performers of the past, such as
Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Ella
Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Ray
Charles....•.Also the famous Big
Bands such as Duke Ellington, Count
Basie, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw,
Glen Miller and others". But only one
of these artists (Charles) was heard
during the survey's sample period.
Hancy Wilson was the only other
"great performer" noted, but in a
collaboration with fusion artist
Grover Washington Jr rather than
performing a "jazz classic". No big
band music was heard.
Soul music was featured extensively
in all daytime progranIlleS, including
five songs back-to-back by Eddie
Kendricks, James Brown, Marvin Gaye,
Arthur Conley and Anita Baker.
Records by Stevie Wonder and Marvin
Gaye each accounted for 2% of the
day's output sampled, and the
breakfast show additionally included
two instrumental versions of the Gaye
song What's Going On within an
8O-minute period.
But Jazz FM ProgranIlle Director Graeme
Moreland refutes suggestions that the
majority of the station's daytime
output is not jazz. "Jazz, in daytime
from 6am to 6pm, is still the most
exposed category," he asserts. "It is
followed by blues, and then by
soul/R&B. Jazz is still the most
dominant."
Moreland admits that the mainstream
jazz mentioned in the licence
application is little heard outside
FM
of evening and weekend progranIlles.
"Traditional jazz artists," he says,
"we wouldn't play a lot during the
daytime, because that's when the
station [would] become less focused."
Responding to criticism that a
surfeit of instrumental fusion tracks
in daytime makes Jazz FM resemble a
muzak station, Moreland laughs:
"Don't say that about us, for god's
sake" and then asks rhetorically:
"Does [fusion] have a natural appeal
to the jazz person or someone who's
into the funk thing? Probably not.
But I think it's something they may
pick up on and may get to enjoy.
Moreland confirms that Golden Rose
will re-apply for the station's
licence, advertised next March, with
the same name and format. 75
listeners' complaints to licensor The
Radio Authority about the revamped
music format were rejected on the
grounds that the station is
"attempting to become more attractive
to listeners and advertisers by
adopting a wider, more familiar
playlist".
[The survey, by Radio Hews, covered
all 153 tracks played on Jazz FM 6am
and 6pm one Monday in November.]
AUTHORITY SETS INR. PAYMENTS
The Radio Authority has announced the
principles on which it will levy
annual charges on national commercial
stations' income. Classic FM and
Virgin Radio will each pay 4% of
their "Qualifying Revenue" to the
Authority, who then forwards the
monies to the Treasury. No fees have
yet been set for the third
speech-based national service to be
launched in 1995.
The calculation of Qualifying Revenue
comprises advertising revenue (less a
maximum 15% agency commission),
sponsorship and co-funding income,
and costs of commercial production.
Non-broadcasting related revenue,
progranIlle sales, merchandising,
concert promotions, 0898 phonelines,
facilities hire and investment income
are all exempt from the figures.
NEW SCARBOROUGH LICENCE
A new commercial radio licence for
Scarborough and Filey has been
advertised by the Radio Authority,
serving 70,000 adults on the North
Yorkshire coast. It is the first new
local area to be offered since
August, representing a slowdown of
the Radio Authority's expansion
policy since the one licence per
month achieved during the first
half-year.
The area advertised is currently
unserved by ILR, although fringed by
Metro Radio Group's Hull stations
Viking FM and Great Yorkshire Radio.
Applicants are offered a choice of AM
or FM, since cleared frequencies are
available on both, though the
Authority has "no plans in the
foreseeable future to advertise a
second ILR licence in the Scarborough
area" on whichever channel remains
unused. Applicants' closing date is 9
Mar 1993 and a decision is expected
within two months.
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4. MELODY" "-SAVES TFIE CHILDREN
An ingenious Melody Radio promotion
is appealing to listeners' charitable
sympathies to help raise funds and
the station's ratings in the current
RAJAR audience survey period. Using
the slogan "Introduce A Friend To
Melody Radio", the station is
promising a £1 contribution to the
Save The Children charity for each
"friend" an existing listener
introduces to the London easy
listening station.
Promotional postcards, distributed in
Radio/TV Times, local papers and from
London retailers, feature a photo of
children who have been helped by the
charity, alongside the plea: ".....we
want you to introduce more people to
Melody Radio on 104.9 FM. So tell a
friend and you can help Save the
Children." The card explains that
participants in the promotion "will
help raise £50,000 for the Fund's
vital work in London," half of which
has already been guaranteed by
Melody.
The listener and their friend each
have to list three consecutive
records played on Melody Radio on
different occasions, and then mail
the postcard for inclusion in a daily
on-air draw to win £100 Selfridges
vouchers. The three records' duration
alone would qualify each participant
to be included in Melody's weekly
reach, were they one of 3000 adults
whose radio listening is being
monitored by RAJAR.
"We've always been looking for new
ways of using the radio that haven't
been tried before," explains Melody
Radio MD Sheila Porritt. "In these
stringent economic times, it's
RADIO DIARY
difficult to ask people to contribute
funds to worthy causes. So we're
trying to make a simple way that they
could feel they were doing
something."
In the most recent London JICRAR
survey, Melody Radio tumbled from
sixth to ninth place in six months,
with a 43% fall in hours listened.
Until then, the station had been
lauded as the most successful
incremental launch to attract
listeners.
''We try to be first and innovative
with various ideas," says Porritt.
"I'm interested in the way everybody
bas copied our advertising since we
launched. Suddenly everybody is using
big posters and bus-sides, and we
were the first radio station to do
that."
28 JOV RADIO CRACKER 85 local stations start one month of FM broadcasting to raise funds for Third World charities. Info:
Oasis (West Midlands), Cornerstone House, 5 Ethel Street, Birmingham B2 4BG Tel: 021-633-0873
3 OEC WHAT FUTURE FOR CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMES? debate at Committee Room, House of Commons 6-7.3Opm. Voice Of The Listener &
Viewer, 101 Kings Drive, Gravesend, Kent DA12 5BQ tel: 0474-352835
7 OEC INDEPENDENT RADIO ADVERTISING AWARDS at Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London tel:071-799-1565
8 DEC WOOLWICH YOUNG RADIO PLAYWRIGHTS COMPETITION (LBC/IRDP) Presentation of Finalists at The Purcell Room, South Bank,
London. Info: Woolwich Building Society, Watling Street, Bexleyheath, Kent DA6 7RR tel: 081-298-5488
9 DEe WHAT FUTURE FOR SPEECH AND DRAMA? debate at Committee Room, House of Commons 6-7.3Opm. Voice Of The Listener &
Viewer, 101 Kings Drive, Gravesend, Kent DA12 5BQ tel: 0474-352835
10 OEe RADIO ACADEMY 10th Anniversary Patron Lunch at The Savoy, London. Individual place £47, table for ten £423. Info:
Radio Academy, PO Box 4SZ, London W1A 4SZ tel: 071-323-3837
14 OEC RADIO CEREDIGION new Aberystwyth commercial station starts broadcasting on 96.6/103.3 FM. Info: Unit 6E, Science
Park, Cefnllan, Aberystwyth tel: 0970-626626
16/17/18 OEe VIVE LA RADIO conference in Paris of Association Nationale des Radio
1 JAM RADIO AUTHORITY new tariff rates for licences come into force. Info: Radio Authority
5 JAM SEVERN ESTUARY closing date for licence applications for first regional FM station serving 1.6 million adults in
Cardiff, Newport, Bristol, Bath, Somerset &West Wiltshire. Info: Radio Authority.
12 JAM ABERDEEN closing date for re-applications for AM &FM licences serving 230,000 adults, starting 29 Jul 1994. Info:
Radio Authority
24/15/26/27/28 JAIl MIDEM RADIO at Palais Des Festivals, Cannes, France. Info: International Exhibition Organisation,
Metropolis House, 22 Percy Street, London W1P 9FF tel:071-528-oo86
25 JAIl RAJAR first audience research figures from joint BBC/ILR system released publicly
27 JAIl WHAT FUTURE FOR RELIGIOUS BROADCASTING? debate at Abbey Centre, London SW1 10.30am-4.3Opm. Voice Of The Listener &
Viewer, 101 Kings Drive, Gravesend, Kent OA12 5BQ tel: 0474-352835
9 FEB LEEDS closing date for licence re-applications for AM &FM licences serving 1.23m &770,000 adults respectively,
starting 1 Sep 1994. Info: Radio Authority
9 FEB SOUTHEND/CHELMSFORD closing date for licence re-applications for AM &FM licences serving 1.53m and 770,000 adults
respectively, starting 12 Sep 1994. Info: Radio Authority
10 FEB WHAT FUTURE FOR REGIONAL BROADCASTING? debate at Committee Room, House of Commons 6-7.3Opm. Voice Of The Listener &
Viewer, 101 Kings Drive, Gravesend, Kent DA12 5BQ tel: 0474-352835
17 FEB WHAT FUTURE FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES? debate at Abbey Centre, London SW1 1O.30am-4.3Opm. Voice Of The Listener &
Viewer, 101 Kings Drive, Gravesend, Kent DA12 5BQ tel: 0474-352835
3 MAR WHAT FUTURE FOR LIVE MUSIC? debate at Committee Room, House of Commons 6-7.3Opm. Voice Of The Listener &Viewer, 101·
Kings Drive, Gravesend, Kent DA12 5BQ tel: 0474-352835
9 MAR SCARBOROUGH closing date for new licence serving 65,000 adults on AM or FM. Info: Radio Authority
10 MAR WHAT FUTURE FOR FARMING &RURAL PROGRAMMES? debate at Abbey Centre, London SW1 2-4.3Opm. Voice Of The Listener &
Viewer, 101 Kings Drive, Gravesend, Kent DA12 5BQ tel: 0474-352835
2/3/4 !PR WHAT FUTURE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING? - A GLOBAL ENQUIRY FOR LISTENERS &VIEWERS conference in London.
Voice Of The Listener &Viewer, 101 Kings Drive, Gravesend, Kent DA12 5BQ tel: 0474-352835
19/20/21/22 !PR NAB 93 organised by the National Association of Broadcasters at the Las Vegas Convention Centre. Info:
202-429-5350
25 JUli APRS 93 at Olympia 2, London
13/14 JUt RADIO FESTIVAL at International Convention Centre, Birmingham. Info: Radio Academy, PO Box 4SZ, London W1A 4SZ
tel:071-323-3837
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5. 1 24-page Classic FM supplement,
ljsting music critic Edward
Greenfield's 100 best classical CDs
and celebrities' favourite classical
pieces, is inserted in The Guardian's
3 Dec issue ***** Virgin Radio has
appointed John Crowley as Head of
Research &Planning and is talking to
prospective ad agencies about its
launch campaign ***** LBC presenter
Mike Carlton hosts this year's
Independent Radio Advertising Awards
at London's Grosvenor House Hotel on
7 Dec (071-799-1565) *****
Mid-Anglia Radio/Peterborough MD
Stewart Francis is the AIRC's first
Chairman to be elected for a third
consecutive year. Lines FM/Lincoln
MD Michael Betton is new Chairman of
AIRC's Technical Committee ***** Was
that really a taxi driver shouting
"I'm at Broadcasting House" into his
two-way radio interrupting Jakki
Brambles' live IFM interview with
Mick Hucknall? ***** BBC
WM/Birmingham's coverage of this
year's Motor Show wins an award from
the Society Of Motor Manufacturers
***** Choice FM gospel DJ Benny
King is organising a December
listeners' trip to Israel
(071-738-7969) ***** Radio 3 is
increasing its opera coverage to
eleven this season, starting with
Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore on 5 Dec
and ending with Wagner's Ring cycle
next April ***** The Best Of From Our
Own Correspondent Volume 3 is
published this week in paperback
(BBC World Service, £10.95) *****
Ex-KISS FR DJ Nick Power is now on
London rave pirate Pulse FM
mercilessly plugging his Music Power
record shop ***** The new Shanghai
Doogfang Broadcasting statim wants
to forge links overseas to introduce
popular foreign music to China *****
BBC World Service launches a new
series of business training
programmes in January for broadcast
on Russian radio, including a topical
business magazine, a documentary
series on free market societies and a
R.ADIO WAVES
daily soap, the £3m cost raised SO/SO
from Government and sponsorship *****
Studio G has a new catalogue of 800
production music library CDs
(0604-770511) ***** Eleven radio
categories figure in this year's
Radio Times Comedy & Drama Awards
at London's May Fair Theatre on 1 Dec
in the presence of Prince Edward
***** Ebenezer Geode's drug
references are under fire, but
regular airplay on Jazz FM of Eric
Clapton's Cocaine seems to have
attracted no complaints, despite its
opening lines "If you wanna hang out,
you've got to get her out - cocaine.
If you warma get down, down on the
ground cocaine" ***** In
Czechoslovakia, Prague's twelfth FM
station KISS 98FR was opened by
former Irish Deputy PM Brian Lenihan
whose son Conor is a reporter there.
98FM/Dublin is behind the 60s/70s
oldies station targeting 25-50 year
olds ***** BBC GLR needs
Producer/Presenters for its major
daytime speech-based shows
(071-224-2424) ***** BBC Bortbern
Ireland needs a Belfast-based
(classical) Music Librarian
(0232-338000 x38291) ***** DJs with
"strong presence and zany
personality" are required to work in
American nightclubs, playing Top 40,
country, rock and dance
(0101-615-259-3978) ***** Production
Assistants are needed by BBC Radio
Hews & Current Affairs (071-580-4468
x2678) and BBC Radio Bedfordshire
(0582-459111) ***** Excuses? What
excuses? In the Pacific, Cook Islands
PM Sir Geoffrey Henry warns state
radio station CIBC it will be
sacked for contravening a law that
requires it to broadcast full
parliamentary proceedings. ClBe had
cited "technical failures" *****
Radio Cracker 101.4/Harrow presents
a gala charity premiere of the film
Home Alone 2 on Thu 10 at Harrow
Cannon for £12.SO (0753-647209) *****
John Dunn interviews Larry Adler for
Radio 2's two-part biography The
Long Playing 78 (Tue l/Wed 2 9-1Opm)
***** IFR marks World AIDS Day with
a weekly youth discussion series Talk
About Sex (Wed 2 8.30-9pm) that
probably can't resist using
Salt'n'Pepa as its theme song *****
Radio 2' s Folk On Two (Wed 2 8-9pm)
features artists from August's
Cropredy Folk Festival, the annual
Fairport Convention reunion,
including Julianne Regan of All About
Eve ***** Radio 4's Woman's Hour
(Thu 3 10.30-11am) talks to jazz diva
Elizabeth Welch ***** Faith No More
play live for 1FM's Jakki Brambles
(Fri 4 12.45-3pm) ***** Lucy Duran
presents Radio 3's new three-part
series on The Music Of Central
America (Fri 4 4.30-5pm) highlighting
Cuba, Dominica, Columbia and Paraguay
***** Radio 5's Euromix (Fri
8.30-9pm) launches a competition for
budding young travel writers to win a
free trip across Europe ***** On the
25th anniversary of otis Redding's
death, IFM's Johnnie Walker pays
Tribute To A King (Sat 5 2-3pm) *****
Petula Clark's Bristol Hippodrome
concert is Radio 2's Nightride (Sat
5 night 2-3am) ***** Radio 3 has
Carla Bley recorded at the Glasgow
Jazz Festival (Sat 5 10.30-12.30am)
***** Radio 5's Afropop Worldwide
(Sat 5 9-10.15pm) visits a reggae
dancehall session ***** Having
successfully programmed classical
music in the city's underground
system for seven years,
WNCIjPittsburgh is producing 100
one-hour CDs for play in the newly
opened local airport ***** Networked
American shock-jock Howard Stern is
in more trouble! Not only has the Fce
authority fined KLSX/Los Angeles
$105,000 for indecencies in his
shows, but the Congress Of
Filipino-American Citizens has sued
Stern for $65m, over on-air remarks
that Filipinos "eat their young" and
Filipino fathers "sell their
daughters for sex" *****
31« 'n' JiI
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AM 47m
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ADVERTISED CLOSED BIDS AWARD WINNER
NATIONAL LICENCES
4 Feb 92 5 13 May 92 VlRGIH RADIO
REGIONAL LICENCES
rock
speech
FREQUENCY
Mar 93 1197/1215AM
Spring 95 1053/1089AM
Severn Estuary FM 1,600,000 30 Sep 92 5 Jan 93 1 Sep 94
Aberdeen AM
Aberdeen FM
Leeds AM
Leeds FM
Southend/Chlmsfd AM
Southend/Chlmsfd FM
230,000
230,000
1,230,000
no,000
1,530,000
770,000
Scarborough AM/FM 70,000
High Wycombe AM ?
Pembrokeshire FM 85,000
Weymouth FM 80,000
North Wales AM/FM 130,000
Carlisle FM 150,000
Glenrothes FM 260,000
Colchester FM 120,000
Alton FM 25,000
Slough/Windsor FM 390,000
Harlow FM 100,000
Morecambe Bay FM 180,000
Montgomeryshire AM ?
Cheltenham AM ?
Ceredigion FM 45,000
RE-ADVERTISED LOCAL LICENCES
8 Oct 92
8 Oct 92
4 Nov 92
4 Nov 92
6 Nov 92
6 Nov 92
Z1 Nov 92
7 Aug 92
1 Jul 92
8 Jun 92
12 May 92
27 Apr 92
7 Apr 92
7 Feb 92
22 Jan 92
12 Jan 93
12 Jan 93
9 Feb 93
9 Feb 93
9 Feb 93
9 Feb 93
29 Jul 94 1035 AM
29 Jul 94 96.9 FM
1 Sep 94 828 AM
1 Sep 94 96.3 FM
12 Sep 94 1431/1359AM
12 Sep 94 96.3/102.6FM
NEW LOCAL LICENCES
9 Mar 93
17 Nov 92 4 1170 AM
20 Oct 92 1
8 Sep 92 5 6 Nov 92 Regent Radio/Orchard FM
25 Aug 92 3 1 Oct 92 Marcher Coast FM/Marcher Sound
28 Jul 92 4 7 Sep 92 CRFM
21 Jul 92 3 7 Sep 92 [no award]
19 May 92 6 2 Jul 92 Colchester FM/SGR-FM
28 Apr 92 1 4 Jun 92 Wey Valley Radio
31 Mar 92 9 2 Jul 92 Tristar Bdcstng
24 Mar 92 1 7 Sep 92 Harlow Radio/Essex Radio
10 Mar 92 2 14 May 92 Bay Radio
18 Feb 92 1 4 Jun 92 RADIO MAImYR community spring 93 756 AM
14 Jan 92 5 6 Mar 92 rn 603 AC Mar 93 603 AM
10 Dec 91 2 7 Feb 92 RADIO CEREDIGIOII community 14 Dec 92 96.6/103.3FM
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