Industry

Radiocentre is helping to coordinate the latest appeal by the DEC across commercial radio in response to Cyclone Idai.

The owner of Dundee’s Wave 102 has bought Abderdeen station Original 106 and Fife’s Kingdom FM.

The BBC's Director of Radio and Music, Bob Shennan, is to become the corporation's Managing Director from next month.

Ofcom has completed an assessment of 2BR's output saying its rebrand to Capital will not require any variations to its licences.

The BBC is asking for volunteers to take redundancy in its Radio & Music Production and Operations department to help cut 50 jobs.

Global's News Editor for Scotland Corrie Martin, and Global's Chief Strategy Officer Will Harding have appeared in the Scottish Government's Debating Chamber to talk about upcoming changes.

Bauer's recent acquisition of the UKRD group will be investigated by the Competition and Markets Authority, with the stations being run under a Hold Separate arrangement until it is complete.

Bauer is starting its third new radio station this year as Country Hits Radio gets ready to launch on a number of DAB multiplexes in the UK.

The cover journalist who read out the inaccurate news was hired by the station at the same time the Bauer Radio Awards were taking place in London.

Capital's new networked breakfast show has been confirmed as Roman Kemp, Vick Hope and Sonny Jay - the current presenters for Capital Breakfast in London.

Five Capital and Heart stations in Wales will need to provide their own Drivetime programmes going forward, despite Ofcom creating an "Approved Area" for the entire nation.

Steve Allen was honoured at the Global Awards at London’s Eventim Apollo Hammersmith last night when he picked up The LBC Award.

Half of the prizes at this year's IRN Awards have been won by reporters or teams from Scottish commercial radio stations.

Radio Audio Week is returning for a second year to London consisting of a series of events including conferences, seminars, awards and networking sessions.

Bauer Media has quietly closed one of the radio stations it bought recently.

The Competition and Markets Authority has ordered Bauer Media to run Lincs FM Group, Celador Radio Group and Wireless local stations in England and Wales as stand-alone businesses until an…

Bauer Media continues to buy radio groups in the UK with the purchase of UKRD.

Scotland now has two "Approved Areas" whilst Wales gets just one following a second consultation on localness rules in the two countries.

Bauer's latest radio service, Scala Radio, launched as planned at 10am on Monday 4th March 2019.

Smooth Country has just appeared on the Global Player app, and online via the Smooth Radio website.

ASDA has changed the supplier of its in-store radio stations from KVH Studios to Mood Media.

The Bauer Academy has announced a new project in collaboration with training provider Collage Arts, and supported by JPMorgan’s Chase Foundation.

Analysis by RadioToday shows presenter numbers across the UK could drop by more than 250 if Global and Bauer take full advantage of Ofcom's changes to rules on localness.

Former UKRD radio station 2BR will join the Capital network from April 8th and move all output to Manchester and London.

Global will broadcast national breakfast shows on the Capital, Heart and Smooth network by the end of this year.

The Competition and Markets Authority is investigating the completed acquisition by Global Radio Services Limited of Semper Veritas Holdings.

The Radio Academy will be celebrating International Women’s month with a special networking event and panel discussion on gender equality and diversity in the media.

Imagine Radio has been acquired by Like Holdings and Helius Media as a joint venture.

The Radio Times has named what it considers to be the '30 greatest radio shows of all time' - but every single one is a BBC programme.

Ofcom has decided not to impose any additional requirements on the BBC following a consultation on its commissioning activities.

Ofcom has received a request from Love Sport and Panjab Radio to swap the format of each licence.

Dixi Stewart, Grace Hopper and Philippa Ayott have been picked to join the Radio Academy board following a vote by the charity's members.

Chris Evans has told listeners to his Virgin Radio breakfast show that Wireless' talkRADIO is going to rebrand as talkNEWS - and suggested Nick Ferrari and John Humphrys would be great signings.

Wireless has sold its local radio stations in England and Wales to Bauer Media.

Communicorp has made its first radio acquisition with the purchase of Connect FM in Kettering and Heart in Hertfordshire from Adventure Radio.

Hits Radio in Manchester continues its downward trend in the latest listening figures, and now has 271,000 weekly reach compared with 325,000 last quarter.

Radio's total reach has dropped more significantly in London over the past 12 months, with the BBC seeing audience drops across almost all its networks.

The last three months of digital radio listening in 2018 remained almost the same quarter on quarter, with a slight increase from 52.4% to 52.6%.

The quarterly RAJAR Infographic is here with all the data you need for Q4, 2018, including All Radio Listening, Average Hours Per Listener and Digital Platforms.

The latest Quarter 4 2018 listening figures for UK radio stations show a number of changes this time round.

Simon Mayo has responded following industry criticism of his comments about local radio in a recent magazine interview.

Nation Broadcasting is continuing to expand in England with the purchase of five more radio licences.

Bauer leads the commercial radio groups with 23 nominations for this year's IRN Awards, just ahead of Global's 19.

Bauer Media has bought itself 33 new analogue radio stations and three digital services after buying Lincs FM Group and Celador Radio, but will sell some of those for competition reasons.

Bauer Media Group has bought Lincs FM Group, which comprises of nine licences across Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and Rutland.

Bauer Media has bought all of Celador's radio stations, which includes 25 analogue stations and two digital services.

The Young ARIAS, a new awards scheme celebrating radio and audio created by under 18s are now open for entries.

Global's Director of Broadcasting Richard Park is said to be 'doing very well' following an emergency operation last weekend because of a small bleed around the brain.

The BBC says it rejects the headline findings of a report by academics at the University of Kent into the levels of news and current affairs output on Radio 5 live.

BBC Local Radio is changing its music policy in a bid to increase community visibility and appeal to younger audiences.