Two radio engineers have called for the Broadcasting Bill to be amended to require Irish public broadcaster RTÉ to operate its longwave radio transmitter [on 252 kHz] at full capacity.  The former RTÉ employees believe the decision by the State broadcaster to end its mediumwave service earlier this year means it must focus on providing a better service [...]

Celestial Radio is a radio station broadcasting from a crystal ship, The Celeste, its surface coated in sixty thousand mirror tiles. During July, the Celeste will anchor in the harbours of Margate and Folkestone in southern England from where it will broadcast, on 87.7FM, a specially recorded soundtrack. Inspired by the legendary final broadcast in 1974 [...]

A new version of the BBC's iPlayer will offer high quality streams of the corporation's radio services.

Online and digital station NME Radio has launched on Sky Digital channel 0184 and Virgin Media channel 975. First song played? Muse - Knights of Cydonia, as voted for by three and a half million readers of NME.The station promises the best in new and alternative music, the latest music news, up-to-the-minute gig-guides and exclusive live sessions.

Bono disagrees with U2's manager Paul McGuinness over Radiohead's In Rainbows.

A former senior producer on the all-speech, Edinburgh-based radio station, talk107, is to become breakfast show host on a radio station dedicated to the local army regiments. Mark McKenzie is joining 98.5 Garrison FM, the British Army’s own radio station. This is his second spell...

The Street Team from Bauer Radio's Lancashire station Rock FM have unveiled their new collection of station vehicles - four branded 49cc mopeds.

A new mini DAB and FM portable radio has been launched by PURE Digital. The ONE Mini is, as you'd expect, a smaller version of the popular PURE ONE radio set.

Earlier this week, during a discussion about football player, Adam "Pacman" Jones, a remark by Don Imus sparked a controversy which has put him back in the racial bullseye. (Right:...

Earlier this week, during a discussion about football player, Adam "Pacman" Jones, a remark by Don Imus sparked a controversy which has put him back in the racial bullseye. (Right:...

A long term plan should be developed to move all radio services in the UK across to digital, according to the Digital Radio Working Group (DRWG), in its interim report published this week. In the medium term, the group recommends migrating all national, regional and large local stations to Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB), with FM continuing to [...]

Police in Harare have charged a street vendor for listening to a special news programme on Zimbabwe broadcast by the Voice of America, as President Robert Mugabe’s government tries hard to limit alternative information available to voters ahead of a run-off presidential election next week. The vendor, Noel Tichawana, who was arrested about three weeks [...]

Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-ADAG) is all set to launch a 24-hour FM radio station in Singapore that will broadcast Indian film music, news and other entertainment trivia in a collaborative venture with local station MediaCorp Radio. The station will be called Big Bollywood 96.3 FM. “This is the first time an Indian FM station [...]

Ofcom have awarded the new local digital radio multiplex licence for North Wales to MuxCo Wales. It brings the total number of licences due to be operated by MuxCo consortiums to nine.

The International Office of Migration’s (IOM) Southern African Counter-Trafficking Assistance Programme (SACTAP) has released a thrilling new drama to radio stations throughout Mozambique to raise awareness of the dangers of irregular migration and trafficking.   Produced by the Johannesburg-based Community Media for Development (CMFD), the 13-part drama entitled “Troco” or “Change” is inspired by the desire of many Mozambicans [...]

Online and digital station NME Radio has launched on Sky Digital channel 0184 and Virgin Media channel 975.The station promises the best in new and alternative music, the latest music news, up-to-the-minute gig-guides and exclusive live sessions.

Senator the Hon. Kay Forbes-Smith, Parliamentary Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister of the Bahmas, said during the budget debate last week that the transformation of the Broadcasting Corporation of the Bahamas (ZNS) “is critical” to the growth and development of the country. She said that the government is addressing the challenges facing the [...]

GMG Radio is launching a multimillion-pound TV ad campaign for Smooth Radio in which listeners take shots of album sleeves covering parts of their body. By Mark Sweney

102.2 Smooth Radio in London is launching a multimillion-pound marketing featuring well-known album covers being used to mask parts of people’s bodies

Not quite 6 months into his new stint doing mornings on WABC/New York, Don Imus is once again at the center of a race controversy. During a discussion about football...