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Grant Goddard : radio broadcasting expert, 54 episodes.

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DAB Radio Switchover: Dead As The Dodo

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Growing DAB radio usage in the UK. Confused? You should be!

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UK listening growth demonstrates radio's strengths in a multi-tasking world

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UK commercial radio sector revenues Q1 2011: local advertising hits 10-year low

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Andy Parfitt leaves BBC Radio 1 on a high: separating the man from the myth

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When is a consultation not a consultation? When Ofcom consults about radio

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DAB in cars: the straw that will break digital radio switchover’s back

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Radio Invicta: the genesis of black music radio in London ... still unfulfilled

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Government expenditure cutbacks clobber UK commercial radio

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When UK radio listening figures are this good, why does RAJAR need to fib?

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DAB Radio Downgrade: how is ‘90% of FM coverage’ a sensible target for DAB to replace FM?

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Which? says: DAB radio switchover must be “consumer led or not at all”

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DAB Radio Downgrade? The new masterplan to deliver DAB radio reception worse than FM

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DAB radio sector rubbishes its own digital radio receiver sales figures

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AM/FM switch-off of national radio stations? An empty threat whose expiry date has long passed

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Public spending cuts impacted commercial radio 2010 revenues by £24m

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Does the nation love its digital radio stations? 86% of UK adults say ‘no’

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Rubbish DAB radio reception: why is Ofcom working hard NOT to fix the problem?

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DAB radio numbers: why do they keep making them up?

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DAB radio switchover: the view from the government bunker

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Bauer Radio talks the DAB talk, but walks its Magic brand off DAB

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Q: Who is the government commissioning to produce an objective report on the costs & benefits of DAB radio switchover? A: The government

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UK commercial radio revenues Q3 2010: still no sign of “renewed growth”

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Ofra Haza: the making of world music’s first international star

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GERMANY: planned 2011 re-launch of national DAB “solved a problem that did not exist”

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Which? advises: two of “seven Christmas gifts to avoid” are DAB radios

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Roll up! Roll up! Enjoy the radio industry pantomime: ‘DAB Radio’

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Trick or treat? £55m to be spent scaring UK consumers into buying DAB radios

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Lobby the EU to mandate Europe-wide digital radio switchover? No chance!

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The Digital Radio Stakeholders Group: another ‘faux consultation’

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DAB radio usage: going nowhere slowly

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Digital Radio Upgrade? More like Digital Radio Groundhog Day

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David vs Goliath: commercial radio spends £27 per hour on programmes, BBC Radio 2 spends £4,578

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UK commercial radio: Q2 2010 national revenues down 40% since 2003

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Having DAB cake and eating it: temper tantrums in the Global Radio playpen

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The exit strategy for DAB radio switchover: the Consumer Expert Group addresses Vaizey’s “big if”

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Without local commercial radio, switchover to DAB will not happen

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Back to the future of radio – the FM band

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UK commercial radio audiences: one swallow doesn’t make “long-term and sustained growth”

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Download The First Annual Not ‘The Ofcom Digital Radio Progress Report’ Report

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Lies, damned lies and … Ofcom’s first digital radio progress report

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Digital radio switchover: talk is cheap, action will never happen

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DAB radio: a national platform that no one wanted

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Choice FM R.I.P.: the birth and near death of licensed black music radio in London

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The cost of upgrading DAB radio: why it will never happen

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What is RAJAR’s function? Cheerleader or research bureau?

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UK commercial radio’s growing reliance on public sector funds

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Digital Economy Act 2010: a smokescreen for backroom radio ‘deal’

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Marketing DAB radio: misleading listeners only damages the medium

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Digital radio stations: listeners abandon ship

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Criteria and a date for digital radio switchover: where’d they go?

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Kiss FM: it’s the same old songs

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Internet radio: denigrate it, ignore it, marginalise it … consumers will still listen

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DAB radio UK sales: 10m in 10 years is “an incredible achievement”?