Bauer Media’s Place portfolio of stations are to air a two hour special on Robbie Williams including a live performance.
Stations including Metro Radio, Forth One and Radio City will broadcast live from the Manchester leg of his Take The Crown stadium tour on Thursday 20th June.
Pre-recorded interviews will air from 8pm till 9pm followed by a live stage feed from 9pm till 10pm.
The day before, a special In:Demand show with Alex James will broadcast live backstage from Robbie’s show at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester with special guest Olly Murs.
Each Place station’s breakfast show will run a competition to give listeners the chance to win a pair of tickets to attend the Manchester concert on 19th June.
The Scotland Breakfast show competition will run on 12th June whilst the England breakfast show competition kicks off on 14th June. In:Demand in England and Boogies Big Saturday Show in Scotland will also offer a meet and greet with Robbie.
Owen Ryan, Group Programming Director, Bauer Media Place Portfolio, commented: “Robbie is a legend in the UK music industry with over 70 million worldwide sales, and so we are pleased to be able to offer our listeners access to such exclusive, brilliant content across the multiple platforms of our Place Portfolio.
“At Bauer Media, we are committed to providing quality music experiences, including live events, for loyal and local communities and this campaign is an example of our drive to bring listeners the best and most exciting content out there.”
Phil Witts, Head of Regional Radio for Island, said: “We are delighted to be working with Bauer Media on such an exciting project. Robbie is the ultimate showman and always puts on a brilliant performance. We wish all the competition entrants the very best, the winners are in for a fantastic show.”
Posted on Thursday, June 13th, 2013 at 12:12 pm by RadioToday UK