After their relationship ends he meets Jason, a photographer who came out after divorcing his wife. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. He opens up about his various spells at BBC local radio - and shares stories so typical of the age from a new Radio Wyvern in Worcester. Anonymous Official Benjamin Fulford Black Conservative Patriot Brian Hyland cobra CURRENT INTEL DAHBOO77 David Icke David Seaman David Zublick Channel DESTROYING THE ILLUSION Digital Perspectives DISCLOSURE Donald J Trump dutchsinse ExtraVOD FADE TO BLACK Radio Finance . Former Radio Trent DJs Andy Marriott and Bill Bingham also have slots on the new station. Howard says he has the capability to adjust levels if necessary, but this is not an instantaneous process. On Valentines Day 2021, David and his business partner Phil Riley launched Boom Radio, a DAB station aimed firmly at the Baby Boomer generation. The station has big-name national broadcasters and big-money backers. Instead, we would do it in the cloud and rely on somebody elses racks room, with all the presenters working from home., Home setup: Boom Radio equipment package for presenter Les Ross. Much as I love Boom and have enjoyed the listeners chart, I'm missing my 80's fix of Pet Shop Boys, Human League, Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Eurhythmics etc. The idea for Boom Radio was conceived and developed by Phil Riley and David Lloyd, two radio executives with lengthy careers in commercial radio, who felt there was a gap in the market for a station aimed at the baby boomer generation, which they felt was being overlooked by other stations. Use our service to find it! . Though sadly not for Dene. Our playlist stores a Boom Radio track list for the past 7 days. Boom Radio was the idea of former Radio Trent presenter David Lloyd. It broadcasts nationally via Smart Speaker streaming and online web streaming. Boom was launched on Valentines Day and is Britains first national radio station aimed at over-60s the baby-boomers born between 1946 and 1964. Relaxed afternoon company with Jane. . Boom Radio DJ David 'Diddy' Hamilton, and artists Dusty Springfield, Neil Diamond, Tom Petty and Barbra Streisand. Greedy old people flouncing us out of Europe and millennials splurging their house deposits on flat whites and avocado toast are equally pernicious caricatures of disparate groups of people that foster mistrust and division. It wins listeners over with its 10,000 song playlist and pirate radio feel! The stations audience has more than doubled over the last 12 months to 443,000 a week, according to data from industry body Rajar. History. just like them," said programme director David Lloyd, himself a veteran of radio programming. 'What was I thinking?! But at the newly launched station aimed at Baby Boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964 there's plenty of competition. Frankly, Dave Lloyd over on Boom Radio was more rigorously sceptical. 'But if you can't trust us blokes and women! On a quiet Sunday in August, for the first time in more than half a century, pirate radio filled Britains airwaves. Boom! Named for the generation it planned to cater for, Boom Radio would initially be available in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Portsmouth and Glasgow, as well as broadcasting online, and offer a mix of music, conversation and presenter personality. Founder, Boom Radio 3 Wochen . Boom Radio is an independent commercial radio station, run by Baby Boomers for Baby Boomers. It is targeting BBC Radio Twos 14 million listeners and believes it will have its own half-a-million-strong audience within three years. Booms high-profile presenters who all broadcast from their own homes include former Radio One DJs David Hamilton, David Kid Jensen, and Nicky Horne. [2], In October 2021, RAJAR published its first set of audience figures since the COVID pandemic, and the first to include Boom listenership. David Lloyd is an English radio presenter and a former radio executive. Who are these boomers? Music and conversation - from bees to the garden, handicrafts and medical matters. David Lloyd, co-founder and programme and marketing . When expanded it provides a list of search options that will switch the search inputs to match the current selection. We are the friend who is always in the room and its a huge privilege to be in that position.. The biggest problem with the culture wars? 'We can all do far more than people think we can,' says Dene. Johnnie Walker and Roger Day, who earned their stripes as DJs on Radio Caroline in the 1960s, led the line-up of presenters. This is a radio station for people like us. Boom_Radio; dbr:BBC_Radio_Nottingham; dbr:BBC_Yorkshire_and_Lincolnshire; dbr:Capital_Manchester; dbc:British_radio_DJs; dbc:British_radio_executives; Some of our presenters live in Spain, in traditional villas with a lot of stonework. He believes Boom is in the right place at the right time. There are some areas of innovation, though. Kapag na-expand, nagbibigay ito ng listahan ng mga opsyon sa paghahanap na magpapalit ng mga input sa paghahanap para tumugma sa kasalukuyang pinili. A Digital Television Group gathering to contemplate The TV of Tomorrow Today focussed on the niggly problems streaming can suddenly shock engineers with, sustainability ambitions around IPTV, and the over populated Codec market, reports George Jarrett. But Diana Luke, a mother of four and grandmother of nine who hosts BOOM's 10pm to midnight slot with her fantastically gravelly late-night voice experienced the flip side of the coin. On your smart speaker, it's 'Alexa - Play Boom Radio' or 'Hey Google - Talk to Boom Radio'. But at 52, I am nearly a Boomer so perhaps I'm just limbering up for the next stage of life. David is a public school teacher and former monastic monk. I dont know what I would do without you. For years, local radio was unofficially for the over-50s. A keen radio historian, Lloyd is also the author of How to Make Great Radio (2015), Radio Moments (2017) and Radio Secrets (2019). So I wrote a book to keep myself occupied!'. [18], Once the station's infrastructure was established, it was then possible for content to be assembled using scheduling software that enables presenters to record spoken content to correspond with scheduled tracks known as Voice-tracking. he chirps. Another brand campaign touts the stations motto Feel Young Again, while a major outdoor advertising push will soon be appearing around the country. Their comments have just blown everything we expected out of the water and I think we are all overwhelmed by the number of listeners who talk about the difference we have made to their lives. Paul who formerly presented the BBC Radio Nottingham Notts Nostalgia programme, now on Notts TV said: The station is deeply-rooted in Notts there are so many local folk involved. In April 2009, Lloyd was appointed as Head of Regional and Local Programming for BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, based in Hull, but left that role after only a few weeks after being appointed group programming and marketing director of the newly-established Orion Media and its five Midlands-based FM stations BRMB, Mercia FM, Wyvern FM, Beacon Radio in the West Midlands, and Heart 106 in the East Midlands. Owned by Boom Radio Ltd, the station is aimed at baby boomers, the generation of people born between 1946 and 1964, and is the first radio station in the UK to specifically target this age demographic. I was around 60 when it happened and media is very much a young persons industry nowadays, so I settled down into doing some consulting for stations around the world, wrote a few books about radio, and thought I would carry on doing that for as long as people still wanted me.. Adam Faith, wearing a nautical cap, with DJ Simon Dee, left, aboard pirate station Radio Caroline, where some of Booms veterans got their break. To go back to how it was before., The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. Founder, Boom Radio 3w . After all, this is the generation who experienced the explosion of rock music. Some of the presenters already had home studios, but for those who didn't, a package including a laptop, microphones and acoustic foam was provided to them. ', Back then, DJs revelled in the groupies, the parties and the absence of any hint of political correctness. Imagine that today!' Nr du klickar p den visas en lista med skalternativ som byter skinmatningar s att de matchar det aktuella valet. We do everything ourselves to make the shows happen, so some of us have had to familiarise ourselves with a lot of new technology, says David. 'I went through some stuff,' she says darkly. [6], Following the initial launch the station planned to expand to DAB in other parts of the UK throughout 2021. Instead, we would do it in the cloud and rely on somebody elses racks room, with all the presenters working from home, Quentin Howard. Radio and TV exec and consultant. 'And they're tuning in for really long periods.'. At 59, Lloyd is the youngest member of the Boom Radio team, the average age being about 67. From a less than promising spell in banking, David began in commercial radio in Nottingham as a teenager, fullfiling a dream he'd nurtured since appearing on BBC local radio reading a poem aged 6. In their own words. Radio enjoys a special place in people's lives - and Boomers love it, with 93% of us tuning in. Hence, of course, the emergence of Andrew Neils GB News, busy signing up a roster of presenters from Sky News and TalkRadio; hence the boom of TalkRadio itself, whose most voluble and contrarian presenters, from Julia Hartley-Brewer to Dan Wootton and the mask-ripping Mark Dolan, have created a very special niche for themselves during the pandemic by taking a position of so-called lockdown scepticism. David Hamilton's Million Sellers Jenny Hanley John's Jukebox Judi Spiers Les Ross My Generation Roger Greenaway The '70s Hour The Vintage Charts The World of Bill Bingham Music and chat for Baby Boomers Boom Radio UK Or you can simply ask Alexa or Google to play Boom Radio on your smart speaker. The show is assembled on playout, with the automation playing in the presenters voice and corresponding music. Something lovely about climbing into a London cab and hearing your own station. Been listening to Dave Brown and not so long ago he played the late Nanci Griffith song "A lone state of mind" and after the song finished he paid Nanci a lovely tribute which I very much. It was a rain-sodden Friday night at the end of another week of lockdown ennui and anxiety; what could be more soothing than pottering about, aperitif on the go, listening to some decent tunes? The station has suffered a recent exodus of presenters, with Steve Wright, Graham Norton and Simon Mayo among a string of big names to part ways with the Beeb after years of service. 'I really regret that. Founder, Boom Radio 3w Report this post . On air the station is targeting the 60+ audience, which founders Phil Riley - a radio executive (Chrysalis Radio and Orion Media) - and David Lloyd, who has worked variously as a presenter, programme controller and managing director, saw as abandoned by most stations but which still wanted to hear not only the music they grew up with but also contemporary artists. Let's hope not. Vice Media Group chief executive officer Nancy Dubuc is leaving the company after five years. [19] With an estimated baby boomer population of 14 million at the time of the station's launch,[20] Boom Radio aims to attract half a million listeners within its first two to three years on air. I just love communicating. [2] On 14 January Travel Weekly reported that Silver Travel Advisor, a mature travel information hub, had signed an exclusive deal to provide travel content for Boom Radio. Former BBC Radio 2 and Radio Devon presenter Judi Spiers is to host a show on Boom Radio, whilst Dave Brown joins for a weekly slot. James Cridland, an audio specialist, describes Boom as an incredible success story, partially because of the way its managed to get a sizable audience in very little time, but also because its a radio station without an actual radio station. 10 of the best online radio stations, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Dene, a veteran of Capital, Smooth, Virgin and Magic, is still pinching himself to be back in his favourite slot from 7.30am to 10am. [9][21], The launch of Boom Radio came at a time when BBC Radio 2, a station favoured by the boomer generation, began to cut down on the number of older songs it was playing in an attempt to attract a younger audience, and in particular a demographic it described as "Mood Mums", women in their 30s and 40s with busy lives and children. All Rights Reserved. Just prior to launch, Boom Radio co-founder David Lloyd talked to Yvette Dore from Digital Radio UK about how the station was created.https://www.boomradiouk. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. I am listening to Boom Radio illegally, as it were; I was born four years after its official cut-off birth year of 1964 and must, I suppose, wait for a radio station dedicated entirely to me. James Brown 1y ago. . We wanted it to be as simple as Googling or email. [21] City A.M. describes Boom Radio's music output as including groups and artists such as The Beatles, Tom Jones and ABBA "as well as favourites from contemporary artists" such as Adele and George Ezra. Helmed by veterans and ex-pirates, listeners abandoned by the BBC are turning to Boom. Boom Radio, which went on air in the UK on 14th February, is a new music and talk station for Baby Boomers (people born between 1946 and 1963/64). An unavoidable consequence of launching during the pandemic, bosses now see it as an advantage, allowing them to lure in talent without the need to commute into London studios. Neglected. Riley says: The most passionate response we get is from listeners who say: Its great I found you, Ive fallen out of love or stopped listening to Radio 2 because it no longer completely satisfies my tastes.. Her attitude towards the station could be construde as being ageist. David Lloyd Zoekopdracht uitbreiden. Davids husband Paul Robey is the stations content director, selecting the eclectic music mix that has won Boom critical acclaim from national pundits. In that article Boom radio is thought to be the 1st National station without a central studio. Biography [ edit] Lloyd began his radio career in December 1977 on Nottingham Hospitals' Radio, from which he had previously been turned away for being too young. And it is not alone in understanding that, as platforms and technologies converge, audiences themselves are ripe for atomisation. In a broader context, covertly pitting the generations against one another has become a disquieting feature of our collective psyches problems. Bei Erweiterung erscheint eine Liste mit Suchoptionen, die die Sucheingaben so ndern, dass sie zur aktuellen Auswahl passen. Phil Riley asked me how would we set it up technically and I suggested not having an office or studios, Howard comments. Alone. Background Check Background Check Sponsored by Truthfinder Paid Service Search for criminal & traffic records, bankruptcies, assets, associates & more Public Records Jenny Green Palawakin ang paghahanap. In its push for younger audiences, Radio 2 has been sliding down the age scale. It is also available nationally through internet radio (TuneIn), as well as the RadioPlayer streaming app and smartspeakers (Alexa and Google Nest). 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