Radio Items
7Apr/101

Sony Award Nominations: Absolute Success

Absolute Radio look to be the success story of the 2010 Awards as the nominations are announced.

Absolute have picked up 12 nominations, including UK Station of the Year, two for Best Entertainment Programme (Christian O'Connell Breakfast and Frank Skinners' show) and Digital Station of the Year for their sister station, Absolute Classic Rock.

Check out the full list of nominees.

Also up for UK Station of the Year are Radio 5 Live and talkSPORT.

LBC's Nick Ferrari faired well, picking up no less than four nominations for his speech breakfast show.

5Apr/100

BNP To Appear On ‘Today’ Programme

The British National Party are reportedly to be invited onto Radio 4's Today following the BBC's leg of the General Election leadership debate.

The controversial party will be given an interview slot after the debate between the Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem leaders.

Beeb Director General Mark Thompson says they're keen to avoid any sort of bias within the corporation during the run up to the General Election. To make up for the additional coverage received by the major parties, others such as the Green Party and UKIP are likely to be allowed extra air time.

1Apr/101

Nicky Campbell F***s Up

If the language in the above title is rather too fruity for you, for goodness sake don't listen to what's below:

Nicky Campbell (Photo:BBC)

Radio 5 Live breakfast presenter Nicky Campbell is prone to the odd slip of the tongue (no individual appears more often on radio cock-up websites). You'd think therefore he'd've been particularly mindful of his mouth this morning when discussing the Countryside Alliance. Or should that be 'Hountryside'...

27Mar/105

Fans Protest 6 Music Closure

Today presenters have lead a protest against the closure of BBC 6 Music outside Broadcasting House.

Radio Items was there today. Here's our report:


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11Mar/104

119 Radio Don’ts

An American radio boss has issued his newsreaders with a massive list of banned words and phrases.

Randy Michaels (CEO of Chicago's WGN) sent a memo round the station's staff detailing 119 forbidden "Newsspeak" terms.

In it he explained: "The real goal here is to avoid using words that make you sound like you’re reading, instead of talking — that shatter the image you’re speaking knowledgeably to one person. By not using ‘newsspeak,’ you enhance your reputation as a communicator.”

The memo was leaked by media blogger Robert Feder, thanks to a tip-off from the speech station's News Director.