• Joseph Zubier named new managing editor at Classic FM
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from Radio Today
    Classic FM appoints Joseph Zubier as its new Managing Editor
  • Greatest Hits Radio presenters return for themed cruise
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from Radio Today
    Greatest Hits Radio presenters join listeners on a European cruise next spring with live shows, DJ sets and a special edition of PopMaster
  • Gaydio launches new series of travel podcast with British Airways
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from Radio Today
    Gaydio’s travel podcast Gaydio In Europe returns for a third series with British Airways, exploring LGBTQ+ friendly destinations including Porto, Palma and Verona
  • Ofcom updates guidance on politicians presenting news
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from Radio Today
    Ofcom updates its rules on politicians presenting news, keeping Rule 5.3 unchanged but clarifying how impartiality applies to modern broadcasting
  • Bay Broadcasting completes Galway Bay FM acquisition
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from Radio Today
    Galway Bay FM joins Bay Broadcasting’s Irish radio portfolio as Fionnuala Rabbitt and Keith Finnegan take new leadership roles
  • New Channel Islands show for radio VO Elisa Canas
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from Radio Today
    Elisa Canas joins BBC Channel Islands to host a new live Saturday Breakfast show across Jersey and Guernsey
  • Ofcom sets out initial rules to protect radio on smart speakers
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Radio Today
    Ofcom proposes new rules to protect radio access on Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant as smart speaker listening continues to grow
  • Edith Bowman to host BBC Radio 3’s Sound of Cinema
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Radio Today
    Edith Bowman joins BBC Radio 3 as the new host of Sound of Cinema, celebrating the best in film music every Saturday at 4pm
  • Over 400 UK audio businesses call for recognition
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Radio Today
    Over 400 UK podcasting and audio companies unite to demand government recognition as a core Creative Industry, prompting a new DCMS study
  • Classic FM’s Pet Classics returns for fireworks season
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Radio Today
    Classic FM’s Pet Classics returns with Dan Walker and Charlotte Hawkins offering a calm musical refuge for pets during fireworks season
  • Katja Mia joins 2FM weekend mornings
    Thursday, October 16, 2025 from Radio Today
    Katja Mia makes her 2FM radio debut this weekend, standing in for Bláthnaid Treacy on Saturday and Sunday mornings
  • Round Midnight wins jazz award for BBC Radio 3
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Radio Today
    Folded Wing’s BBC Radio 3 show Round Midnight has been named Jazz Media Award winner at the 2025 Parliamentary Jazz Awards
  • National conference to celebrate 100 years of Irish radio
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Radio Today
    Irish radio celebrates 100 years with a major two-day conference at University College Cork featuring broadcasters, academics and industry leaders
  • BBC seeks to drop Radio 5 Live commentary reporting rule
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Radio Today
    The BBC has asked Ofcom to remove the requirement to report how many hours of live commentary are provided for each sport on BBC Radio 5 Live
  • BBC seeks change to local radio sharing rules
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Radio Today
    The BBC wants to change the hours that count towards its quota for locally made programming on BBC Local Radio
  • BBC Asian Network launches new weekly speech show
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Radio Today
    BBC Asian Network adds Asian Network Trending, a new Wednesday night show exploring major stories and issues affecting British Asians
  • Coast FM launches survival campaign to stay on air in Cornwall
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Radio Today
    West Cornwall’s Coast FM launches urgent appeal to keep its volunteer-run community radio service on air
  • Help I Sexted My Boss joins Global Player
    Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from Radio Today
    Global and Audio Always team up to offer early access to Help I Sexted My Boss exclusively on Global Player
  • Coimisiún na Meán opens €550k fund for media training
    Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from Radio Today
    Coimisiún na Meán has opened the first round of its new Media Skills and Development Programme, offering up to €550,000 in funding for training, learning and development in Ireland’s media sector
  • Radio presenters reunite to support air ambulance
    Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from Radio Today
    John Darin and Chris Brooks reunite to film a Christmas appeal supporting Essex and Herts Air Ambulance
  • Freedom FM returns to the airwaves across Ireland
    Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from Radio Today
    Freedom FM is back on FM across Ireland for 30 days, bringing 90s and 00s hits plus guest DJs from TV and radio
  • Greatest Hits Radio launches 2025 Top 500 countdown
    Monday, October 13, 2025 from Radio Today
    Greatest Hits Radio’s Top 500 countdown returns this year, with Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody hoping to defend its crown as the ultimate Greatest Hit
  • STV Radio unveils fresh logo as launch nears
    Monday, October 13, 2025 from Radio Today
    STV has quietly unveiled a new logo for its soon-to-launch radio service as it readies for a full branding rollout ahead of launch this year
  • Capital XTRA Comedy Club returns to raise funds
    Monday, October 13, 2025 from Radio Today
    Capital XTRA’s Comedy Club returns to Soho this November with top comedians raising money for Global’s Make Some Noise
  • Community radio leaders to gather in Bradford for UKCRN Conference
    Saturday, October 11, 2025 from Radio Today
    Community radio leaders and presenters head to Bradford on 25th October for the UKCRN Conference celebrating 20 years of local broadcasting
  • Global’s Make Some Noise appeal raises record £4,814,808
    Friday, October 10, 2025 from Radio Today
    Global’s Make Some Noise appeal raises record £4.8 million
  • Rebecca Frank to leave KISS after five years
    Friday, October 10, 2025 from Radio Today
    KISS Network Content Director Rebecca Frank is leaving Bauer Media Audio UK after five years, with Paul Gerrard stepping into an expanded role
  • RTÉ Radio 1 reveals major new weekday line-up
    Friday, October 10, 2025 from Radio Today
    Here it is..... Radio 1's new schedule starting later this year following the departure of Ray D'Arcy
  • Evie steps up to host Vale Breakfast weekends on Bro Radio
    Friday, October 10, 2025 from Radio Today
    Bro Radio Academy graduate Evie joins the weekend line-up as the new host of Vale Breakfast every Saturday and Sunday morning
  • Radio audience measurement tool launched for non-RAJAR stations
    Friday, October 10, 2025 from Radio Today
    Radio stations who aren't part of RAJAR but need audience reach data using recognised metrics are being encouraged to sign up for a new, free service from Local Radio Support.
  • Tim Westwood faces charges over sex offence allegations
    Thursday, October 9, 2025 from Radio Today
    Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood has been charged with rape and sexual assault offences involving seven women between 1983 and 2016
  • Former BBC controller fears for World Service independence amid defence funding push
    Thursday, October 9, 2025 from Radio industry | The Guardian
    Liliane Landor says World Service journalism must not be ‘linked or subordinated’, as BBC explores new funding sources Using Britain’s defence budget to help fund the BBC World Service risks subordinating its journalism to the...
  • Influencers make the AFR Power List for the first time as Coalition left out in the cold | Weekly Beast
    Friday, September 26, 2025 from Radio industry | The Guardian
    Inclusion of Abbie Chatfield, Konrad Benjamin and Betoota Advocate annoys veteran Fin Review journo. Plus: Nine looks to offload talkback stations Want to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter...
  • Thursday mornings won’t be the same without Melvyn Bragg | Letters
    Friday, September 12, 2025 from Radio industry | The Guardian
    Steve Brown reveals how In Our Time has provided a superb resource for his teaching, plus letters from Robert McNulty , Helen Read and Moxley Cooper Your editorial (5 September) on the brilliant – and probably irreplaceable – Melvyn...
  • ‘It’s been quite a ride!’ Melvyn Bragg to step down from Radio 4’s In Our Time after 27 years
    Wednesday, September 3, 2025 from Radio industry | The Guardian
    The broadcaster is leaving the hit BBC programme after presenting more than 1,000 episodes and having ‘enriched the lives of millions’ Melvyn Bragg has announced that he will be leaving BBC Radio 4 show In Our Time after hosting it for...
  • Mark Radcliffe: ‘Hosting the Radio 1 breakfast show was an embarrassing moment that lasted for nine months’
    Saturday, August 23, 2025 from Radio industry | The Guardian
    The author and DJ on his worst job in radio, surviving cancer, and the person he despises most of all Born in Bolton, Radcliffe, 67, studied at the University of Manchester and began his career at Piccadilly Radio in 1979. Between 1991...
  • Theologian in Jenrick xenophobia row says pair ‘could work together’
    Thursday, August 14, 2025 from Radio industry | The Guardian
    Exclusive: Krish Kandiah invites Tory shadow minister to help him ‘de-escalate fear and anger’ after BBC controversy The theologian who accused Robert Jenrick of xenophobia on the BBC has invited the shadow justice minister to work with...
  • These rural radio stations are a lifeline for their communities. Trump’s cuts threaten their future
    Thursday, August 14, 2025 from Radio industry | The Guardian
    ‘Phones can’t go down into a canyon or around a mesa, but radio does,’ Richard Grey of Arizona’s KGHR says Since Republicans last month slashed over $1bn in funds designated for public broadcasting, non-commercial TV and radio stations...
  • BBC apologises over Thought for the Day ‘xenophobia’ claim against Jenrick
    Wednesday, August 13, 2025 from Radio industry | The Guardian
    Corporation says Krish Kandiah’s criticism of senior Tory not appropriate for faith-based radio segment The BBC has apologised and retrospectively edited a segment of Radio 4’s Thought for the Day after the head of a refugee foundation...
  • TalkTV host James Whale dies aged 74
    Monday, August 4, 2025 from Radio industry | The Guardian
    Obituary read on air as tribute paid to TV and radio broadcaster who had stage four kidney cancer The TV and radio presenter James Whale has died at the age of 74, TalkTV has announced. His colleague and friend Mike Graham read an...
  • Khruangbin, again? I quit Spotify for a month to escape samey algorithms – this is what I learned
    Thursday, July 24, 2025 from Radio industry | The Guardian
    After being served the same artists again and again, my tastes were narrowing – so I tried vinyl, iPods and radio to see if I could rediscover the joy of finding new music Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email If you use music to...
  • NPR’s editor-in-chief to step down days after Congress cuts $1.1bn in funding
    Tuesday, July 22, 2025 from Radio industry | The Guardian
    Edith Chapin’s announcement comes after Congress approves Trump bill to cancel all federal funding for public broadcasters The editor-in-chief of the US public radio network NPR has told colleagues that she is stepping down later this...
  • US Senate passes aid and public broadcasting cuts in victory for Trump
    Thursday, July 17, 2025 from Radio industry | The Guardian
    Members vote 51 to 48 in favour of president’s request to slash $9bn in spending already approved by Congress Senate Republicans on Wednesday won passage of a bill demanded by Donald Trump that will claw back $9bn Congress had previously...
  • Kyle and Jackie O face possible prosecution for contempt for comments made during Erin Patterson’s triple murder trial
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from Radio industry | The Guardian
    ‘I encourage all commentators to engage their brains before they open their mouths,’ judge said Erin Patterson found guilty of murdering relatives with lunch laced with death cap mushrooms Five key moments in the murder trial of...
  • Antoinette Lattouf wins against the ABC - podcast
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from Radio industry | The Guardian
    What started as five casual radio presenter shifts has turned into one of the most closely watched court battles in Australian media. In 2023, Antoinette Lattouf was removed as a fill-in host of an ABC radio program after she shared a...
  • Federal court rules ABC unlawfully terminated Antoinette Lattouf after ‘orchestrated campaign by pro-Israel lobbyists’
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from Radio industry | The Guardian
    Journalist was taken off air three days into five-day contract in December 2023 after sharing Gaza post on social media Australia news live: latest politics updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The ABC...
  • Live Aid concert to be broadcast on radio to mark 40th anniversary
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from Radio industry | The Guardian
    Greatest Hits Radio to air original performances from stars such as Queen and David Bowie in 10-hour show on 13 July The 1985 Live Aid broadcast that featured legendary performances from Queen, David Bowie, the Who and Paul McCartney...
  • Cuts to BBC World Service funding would ‘make us less safe’, MPs tell ministers
    Sunday, June 8, 2025 from Radio industry | The Guardian
    Reducing budget would involve closing parts of institution promoting UK soft power abroad, leaving gap for Russia to push propaganda Hours before Rachel Reeves stood up to deliver her budget last year, government officials were still in...
  • NPR lawsuit aims to strike a blow for press freedom against Trump’s attacks
    Sunday, June 1, 2025 from Radio industry | The Guardian
    Lawsuit challenges president’s move to cut federal funding as station says it is ‘matter of necessity and principle’ In the Trump administration’s unprecedented war on the American media, a lawsuit brought by public broadcasters could...
  • The BBC World Service is a vital beacon of truth in the fight against fake news | Letters
    Friday, May 30, 2025 from Radio industry | The Guardian
    The BBC World Service must be properly funded if it is to remain a vital source of truth amid growing global disinformation, writes Diana Hirst . Andrew Campbell fears that cuts will harm Britain’s reputation and economy. You are right...
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