Here’s a little local story. I spent a LARGE chunk of my working life, just under 20 years, working for BRMB, the first commercial station in Birmingham, in the UK. I joined them 35 years ago, pre-launch, as a baby rock jock, and left as Head of Music and Research, having done pretty much everything [...]
Categories: Commercial, Community, Deregulation, Localism, Ownership, Programming
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I love radio … it is important. Part of the way we do things. “Socially central” in many ways.
So, I like to think about what happens when we reconfigure the radio spectrum as a tradable commodity in a free market, rather than a social, cultural, economic and political asset that belongs to the [...]
Categories: Commercial, Deregulation, Ownership
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