Friday the 3rd of April 2009 – a sad day for two London radio stations, Time 106.8 (serving South-East London and Greenwich) and South London Radio 107.3 (for Lewisham and Bromley), as they vanished from the airwaves. It’s a tough time for the UK commercial radio industry at the moment, and we’re sure that these [...]

The clock is ticking for the UK commercial radio industry. Ad revenue is falling, the big players are struggling to make money, listening is down, digital’s not taken off, and big names have scaled back their plans for future radio services. That’s the bleak picture being painted by many, and at the recent Changing Media [...]

Today marks another nail in the coffin of UK radio. It used to be that local radio stations had an identity – they slotted well into their local community, went out-and-about to meet their listeners, and listening was near enough compulsory to many. I grew up in a small town that got its first local [...]