According to the latest RAJAR figures for Q2, Radio 1Xtra was the big winner among BBC music stations with a 9.8% increase in audience reach over the three months.
As ...
Speaking to Music Week at the launch of Radio 1’s 50th anniversary programming, Cooper said: “In record company weekly meetings, the first thing executives want to know is, Have you ...
I t becomes quite physical if it’s muddy,” says Philippa Aylott. “Last year, I remember going out with Lauren Laverne and it was absolutely peeing it down. She was in ...
As in boxing, so in radio. If reach isn’t the deciding factor, then time often is. And, in an era when networks compete with a variety of other platforms – ...
Following the announcement of the seventh annual AIM Awards, the organisation’s CEO Paul Pacifico has hailed the “unique dynamic” that exists in the independent sector.
“It serves many purposes to ...
Once upon a time, there was a set way of releasing albums. After months of beavering away in the studio, an artist would relinquish their precious work of art (or ...
BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra presenter MistaJam has hailed the power of specialist radio when it comes to breaking new artists, telling Music Week that it “can’t be replicated anywhere ...
There used to be a famous Bill Hicks routine in which he watches rolling TV news and sees endless stories of death and disaster, only for him to open his ...
Ben Cooper, BBC Radio 1 controller, has defended the role of Radio 1 after last week’s RAJAR Q4 report showed its audience had dropped to 9.56 million, describing the figures ...
