Let your fingers do the walking … in the cash register : 1976-1978 : Kay, DSU Bookshop, Dunelm House, Durham University

FIRST YEAR. I had landed in a ‘one-bookshop town’. The lone academic book retailer in Durham City was bizarrely named ‘SPCK’, aka the ‘Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge’ founded in 1698 by English clergyman Thomas Bray. Naturally, it was packed with books about... [continues]
#DurhamUniversity #GrantGoddard #journalism #Palatinate #student
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New upstarts clobber complacent commercial radio industry two-decade market monopoly : 1973-2005 : Independent Local Radio, UK

The UK commercial radio industry has grown dramatically since the first station launched in 1973. The history of the industry can usefully be divided into two chapters:
1. 1973 to 1990
At the beginning of this period, local commercial radio stations were opened only...[continues]
#BBC #commercialradio #GrantGoddard #radio #media #broadcast
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He’s the queen of snubs : 1989-1991 : Gordon McNamee, KISS 100 FM, London

September 1989. The other information I needed was a copy of the finished KISS FM application form from the last bid [for a London FM commercial radio licence - see blog], and a copy of the huge appendix that had accompanied it. [Pirate radio station co-founder Gordon] McNamee pulled out... [continues]
#career #radio #GordonMcNamee #GrantGoddard #KISSFM #London #pirateradio #broadcasting #media
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I don’t want to be like my daddy : 1972 : Red Carpet Inn, Daytona Beach & ‘Baby Sitter’ by Betty Wright

Having answered the front door, its frame was filled by the 11pm silhouette of a large black man wearing overalls and carrying a toolbox. The only words I could discern from his Southern drawl were ‘air con’. Aha! He must have arrived to fix the air conditioning malfunction of which I had... [continues]
#Camberley #childhood #GrantGoddard #music #radio #soul #USA
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The birth and near death of licensed black music radio in London : 2010 : Choice FM, London

31 March 1990 was the memorable day when London‘s first licensed [South London community of interest] black music station, ‘Choice 96.9 FM’, arrived on-air. Until then, the availability of black music on legal radio had been limited to a handful of... [continues]
#commercialradio #GrantGoddard #localradio #London #media #regulation #music #pirateradio #radio #reggae #soul
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Tell your friends about dub : 1995 : King Tubby, 18 Dromilly Avenue, Kingston, Jamaica

difficult to recommend budget titles for king tubby since most cd compilations and reissues are all full price. my pick of the reissues are:

king tubby's special 1973-1976 [trojan cdtrl 409]
this is the cd version of a double lp released in 1989 with excellent sleeve notes by reggae expert steve barrow and beautiful... [continues]
#GrantGoddard #music #reggae #dub #KingTubby #Jamaica
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Bob Marley sang “I remember when we used to sit in a government’s yard in Swedes Town”?? : 1995 : Catch The Words, Kenya

one entertaining source of reggae lyrics can be obtained from: jkn productions, po box 57066, nairobi, kenya. they produce a series of little printed booklets called "catch the words" that sell in music shops for 45 kenyan shillings.

catch the words volume 29 includes... [continues]
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Aggrieved by UK government insistence it launch a national popular music radio station, the BBC unilaterally created a high culture network : 1945 : BBC Radio 3

In terms of delivering value for money for the Licence Fee payer, ‘Radio 3’ is easily the most expensive of the BBC's five analogue radio networks. My calculations for 2009/10 show it had cost 8.5p per listener hour, compared to 1.7p for... [continues]
#BBC #GrantGoddard #media #radio #broadcasting #Radio3
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Diversity within UK radio workforce largely confined to stations targeting minorities : 2010 : BBC Trust

In the United States, ‘diversity’ has been described as:
* One of the “paramount goals of broadcast regulation in America”;
* “One of the foundation principles in communications policy”;
* “A broad principle to which appeal can be made on behalf of both neglected minorities and of consumer... [continues]
#BBC #radio #GrantGoddard #media #broadcasting #diversity
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Prising open Britain's rarefied airwaves to independent productions : 1930-2010 : BBC Radio

In 1930, while the new London headquarters of the BBC, Broadcasting House, were being built, a venture called the International Broadcasting Company [IBC] launched from adjacent premises in Hallam Street. It sold commercial airtime to British advertisers and incorporated these messages into pre-recorded and ... [continues]
#BBC #GrantGoddard #London #radio #broadcasting #media
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