Monday, May 10, 2010
**UK:** BBC Radio 1 morning host Chris Moyles is facing backlash over a [series of weight jokes](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1275738/Radio-1-DJ-Chris-Moyles-faces-backlash-listeners-making-offensive-fat-jokes-Beth-Ditto.html?ito=feeds-newsxml) he made about singer Beth Ditto, which included "'When she goes to KFC...
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Friday, May 7, 2010
**UK:** Bauer Media grabs 14 nominations, and Absolute Radio scores six nominations for next month's Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards ... BBC Radio Leeds hires Martin Kelner for mornings starting...
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Mike Smith's "Log In To Lunch" program was on the air live on Lanarkshire's L107-FM (107.5) When all of a sudden, the signal went dead. Just after 12:00pm, thieves swiped...
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Monday, April 5, 2010
**RUSSIA:** NewsCorp will sell their Nashe Radio, with branches in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Best FM and Ultra-FM to Russian Senator Vitaly Bogdanov for an undisclosed price, says the [Moscow...
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Friday, March 19, 2010
The students on the University of Glasgow internet station Subcity's "Party Party" show claimed on the air they were drinking a liter of tequila. They also cursed and discussed various...
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Friday, February 12, 2010
**ENGLAND:** London's Capital FM (95.8) was red-faced after morning co-host Jodie Kidd dropped an "F-bomb" on the air. You can hear Kidd's miscue [here](http://radiofail.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/breakfast-show-open-fail/) ... Absolute Radio signs a 3-year...
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Friday, February 5, 2010
**SCOTLAND:** A new survey finds BBC Radio Scotland has lost almost 250,000 listeners over the past three years, and their flagship Good Morning Scotland [lost 75,000 listeners in a year](http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Radio-Scotland-losing-1500-listeners.6046144.jp)...
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Monday, December 21, 2009
**SCOTLAND:** Twenty-eight year old Khalid Mamoun Sarwar was charged with murder and theft in connection with the death of AWAZ-FM relationship host Nasim Jamil ... **ENGLAND:** **Global Radio**, thanks to...
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Friday, December 18, 2009
**SCOTLAND**: Police in Glasgow are continuing their investigation, but a man was arrested Friday in connection with the death of Awaz-FM host Nasim Jamil, who may have been killed by...
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Monday, December 14, 2009
**SCOTLAND:** Police are zeroing in on a motive in the brutal killing of Glasgow's Awaz FM host Nasim Jamil. Police speculate a [listener may have been angered](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1235690/Murdered-agony-aunt-killed-airing-family-feuds-radio.html) by Jamil's on-air...
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Friday, December 11, 2009
**ENGLAND:** BBC Radio 2's Sir Terry Wogan was honored with induction into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame. He's stepping down as morning host in January ... **SCOTLAND:** Police in...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
**ENGLAND:** Heart Radio morning show hosts **Jez & Greenie** will let their facial hair grow unshaven for a month to raise money for the Prostate Cancer Charity ... Network Brand...
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Friday, November 6, 2009
**ENGLAND:** The BBC has come under fire for spending $41.5 million on the Birmingham-based digital station **Asian Network**, which "[hardly anyone listens to](http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2716809/DJ-Anjum-Rafiq-on-the-Beeb-spending-25m-on-a-radio-station-hardly-anyone-listens-to.html)" ... BBC Radio Leeds mid-morning host **Graham...
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Friday, October 30, 2009
**ENGLAND:** **BBC Radio 4** had their [best ratings leap in a decade](http://www.mnilive.com/2009/10/bbc-radio-4-has-added-more-than-750000-listeners/), adding over 750,000 listeners, averaging 10.2 million listeners weekly, according to the latest ratings ... The ratings news...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
**SCOTLAND:** The BBC is considering pulling the evening-hours of Radio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Live, Radio Scotland and the World Service off the Freeview platform, [in favor of the...
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Friday, October 23, 2009
**SCOTLAND:** Bauer's Radio Tay (1161-AM ) cuts seven jobs, five of them full-time. One of those was newsman Greg Russell, who announced his firing on the air and his feelings...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
**ENGLAND:** There's a [shakeup on BBC Radio 5](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/daily-slots-for-gabby-logan-and-richard-bacon-in-bbc-radio-5-live-shakeup-1805872.html), with weekend host **Gabby Logan** to host a new daily early-afternoon show, Tony Livesey will host a nighttime sports show, and Richard...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
**CZECH REPUBLIC:** Former Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reporter Snjezana Pelivan has [filed a discrimination lawsuit](http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zpravy/croatian-reporter-sues-czechrep-in-strasbourg-for-discrimination/401566) in the European Court of Human Rights, saying the nation failed to protect her rights...
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Monday, October 5, 2009
**ENGLAND:** BBC Radio 5 host **Nigel Adderly** [collapsed](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/10/05/radio-5-revive-115875-21723410/) during the live broadcast of a Premier League soccer game. Listeners heard groans, and someone asking for help ... US-based Premiere Radio...
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Monday, September 14, 2009
**UGANDA:** Four radio stations remain shut down under [orders of the government](http://cpj.org/2009/09/four-ugandan-radio-stations-shut-debate-programs-b.php), and all political shows are canceled following riots that have killed over 20 people ... **MONTENEGRO:** Police detained...
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