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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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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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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
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2025/09/i-dont-want-to-be-like-my-daddy-1972.html -
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
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-birth-and-near-death-of-licensed.html -
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]
#GrantGoddard #Kenya #music #reggae #BobMarley #lyrics #newsgroup
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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
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2025/06/diversity-within-uk-radio-workforce.html -
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
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2025/06/prising-open-britains-rarefied-airwaves.html -
KISS FM rejected, government awards first London-wide radio station in 16 years to its jazz codger chums : 1989 : Jazz FM, London
Alongside the revolution in television broadcasting, a similar battle of the airwaves is being waged on the radio. Will this forever wipe away the narrow choices offered by existing stations? Or is it possible to have faith in a revolution being... [continues]
#radio #GordonMcNamee #GrantGoddard #KISSFM #London #media #regulation #music #jazz
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2025/05/kiss-fm-rejected-government-awards.html -
Why are Canadian radio station audience data a state secret? : 2000 : BBM Canada
Letters to the Editors, Marketing Magazine, Toronto
Dear Sirs
I am a radio programming consultant based in Toronto with twenty years’ experience in the industry. My work has created successful commercial radio stations in the UK, Russia, Hungary, Latvia, Czech Republic... [continues]
#GrantGoddard #radio #Canada #radiostation #research #ratings #media #broadcast #audience #listener
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2025/02/why-are-canadian-radio-station-audience.html -
The great brains robber fearful his collar will be touched : 1991 : Gordon McNamee, KISS 100 FM
“If this gets out, we’re screwed,” my boss told me. Actually, I have paraphrased because at least one expletive was guaranteed in this man’s every sentence.
He looked very worried. I was baffled. I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about.
“I... [continues]
#career #radio #GordonMcNamee #GrantGoddard #KISSFM #London #pirateradio #broadcasting #radiostation #media
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-great-brains-robber-fearful-his.html -
LBC 97.3 FM, London's whitest conversation? : 2007 : 'Is Radio Racist?', The Radio Academy
The conversation at the Radio Academy event in London entitled 'Is Radio Racist?' became heated when the chairman, 'LBC' morning show presenter James O’Brien [JO], was questioned by 'BBC Five Live' overnight presenter Dotun Adebayo [DA] about the absence of ethnic... [continues]
#radio #radioindustry #media #broadcasting #racism #discrimination #grantgoddard #work #job #employment
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2024/11/lbc-973-fm-londons-whitest-conversation.html -
The customer is always "a crazy, crazy man" : 2000 : Indian Consulate visa office, Toronto
India? I might have loved the 1980 song of that name by ‘The Psychedelic Furs’ but had never entertained going there. Then an email arrived from John Catlett, who had hired me the previous decade to assist him rebooting radio stations in Russia and East Europe, informing me that he had just been... [continues]
#India #Toronto #GrantGoddard #radio #radioindustry #StarTV #RadioCity
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Congratulations on the birth of music genre 'world music'! : 1987 : The Empress of Russia, London
WORLD MUSIC? The phrase is used with such regularity by the media in recent times that you might think the term had existed forever. But 'world music' was in fact a name artificially created by a small group of music industry people who met monthly during 1987 in a public house in London, England... [continues]
#music #worldmusic #marketing #inovation #grantgoddard #london
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Congratulations on the birth of music genre 'world music'! : 1987 : The Empress of Russia, London
WORLD MUSIC? The phrase is used with such regularity by the media in recent times that you might think the term had existed forever. But 'world music' was in fact a name artificially created by a small group of music industry people who met monthly during 1987 in a public house in London, England... [continues]
#music #worldmusic #marketing #inovation #grantgoddard #london
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2024/08/congratulations-on-birth-of-music-genre.html -
Congratulations on the birth of music genre 'world music'! : 1987 : The Empress of Russia, London
WORLD MUSIC? The phrase is used with such regularity by the media in recent times that you might think the term had existed forever. But 'world music' was in fact a name artificially created by a small group of music industry people who met monthly during 1987 in a public house in London, England... [continues]
#music #worldmusic #marketing #inovation #grantgoddard #london
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2024/08/congratulations-on-birth-of-music-genre.html -
Congratulations on the birth of music genre 'world music'! : 1987 : The Empress of Russia, London
WORLD MUSIC? The phrase is used with such regularity by the media in recent times that you might think the term had existed forever. But 'world music' was in fact a name artificially created by a small group of music industry people who met monthly during 1987 in a public house in London, England... [continues]
#music #worldmusic #marketing #inovation #grantgoddard #london
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2024/08/congratulations-on-birth-of-music-genre.html -
Congratulations on the birth of music genre 'world music'! : 1987 : The Empress of Russia, London
WORLD MUSIC? The phrase is used with such regularity by the media in recent times that you might think the term had existed forever. But 'world music' was in fact a name artificially created by a small group of music industry people who met monthly during 1987 in a public house in London, England... [continues]
#music #worldmusic #marketing #inovation #grantgoddard #london
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2024/08/congratulations-on-birth-of-music-genre.html -
There is not less of #NASA in #ISS than of #Cordwalles in #GrantGoddard.
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The genesis of black music radio in London ... still unfulfilled : 1970-1984 : Radio Invicta 92.4
I only knew 'Roger Tate' (real name Bob Tomalski) through listening to his programmes on the radio. He was a DJ on 'Radio Invicta', London’s first soul music radio station, launched in 1970. Invicta was a... [continues]
#communityradio #GrantGoddard #KISS100 #localradio #London #media #regulation #music #pirateradio #radio #broadcasting #radiostation #soulmusic #blackmusic
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-genesis-of-black-music-radio-in.html -
Sacked by a boss desperate to steal my success : 1991 : Gordon McNamee, KISS 100 FM, London
It was a little after seven o’clock in the morning when the phone rang. Normally, I would already have been out of bed by that hour on a weekday. However, the previous night’s ‘DJ meeting’ [open to all 44 KISS FM... [continues]
#career #commercialradio #GordonMcNamee #GrantGoddard #KISS100 #localradio #London #pirateradio #radio #broadcasting #radiostation #media #job #work
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Welcome to the terrordome : 2006 : Enders Analysis at Denton Wilde Sapte, City of London
The first of April proved not such an innocuous date on which to have started my new job. Within weeks, I began to wonder if I was the fool to take on a position as ‘media analyst’ that I had never known existed, let alone submitted a job application. The... [continues]
#career #ClaireEnders #EndersAnalysis #GrantGoddard #London #media #analyst #radio #job #work #Denton
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2024/05/welcome-to-terrordome-2006-enders.html -
Attempted murder on the Waterloo express? : 1971 : Bagshot railway station
Kapow! There was an explosion. Before I even grasped what had just happened, I could see I was covered with shards of glass. What was that noise? The train window I was sat next to had suddenly vanished and was in pieces on me and the seat. Luckily, I had not been looking towards the window... [continues]
#Camberley #childhood #France #GrantGoddard #Strodes #school #student #travel #train #Bagshot
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2024/04/attempted-murder-on-waterloo-express.html -
Walking on the Chinese glass ceiling : 2004 : FM 102 Radio, Women’s Media Centre of Cambodia
I was standing over the motionless body of my line manager. He was dead to the world, naked under the sheet on his bed. Neither my arrival in his studio apartment through its wide-open front door, nor the chatter of little ‘street boys’, nor the... [continues]
#BBC #Cambodia #career #communityradio #GrantGoddard #radio #radiostation #travel #WomensMediaCentre #media #job #work
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The day the (reggae) music died : 1981 : Bob Marley, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Matumbi
“Bob Marley has died!” I exclaimed. Having switched on the car radio before starting the engine, one of Marley’s songs was playing on John Peel’s ‘BBC Radio One’ ten-to-midnight show. I knew immediately what that meant. Peel was a longtime reggae fan, though I had not heard him... [continues]
#BobMarley #career, #DurhamUniversity #GrantGoddard, #music #Peterlee #radio #reggae #student
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Stoking the star-maker machinery behind the popular song : 1980 : Kate Bush, EMI Records & Metro Radio
“I’m SO sorry,” I grovelled to the petite musician on whose foot I had just accidentally trodden. We were stood side-by-side in the record library – my ‘office’ – of local commercial station ‘Metro Radio’ in Newcastle. Kate Bush was kindly... [continues]
#career #commercialradio #GrantGoddard #KateBush #localradio #MetroRadio #music #radio #reggae #EMI #job
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Mister Soul Of Jamaica … and Thamesmead : 1938-2008 : reggae artist Alton Ellis
The first record played on the first week’s show of the first reggae music programme on British radio was a single by Alton Ellis, a magnificent singer/songwriter too often overlooked when reggae legends are named. I immediately fell in love with his soulful voice, his perfect pitch and his beautifully... [continues]
#GrantGoddard #Jamaica #loversrock #music #radio #black #Thamesmead #reggae
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You can’t tell me what I’m doing wrong… : 1976 : And Mother Makes Four, Camberley
“Why are you choosing a university so far away?” aunt Sheila demanded of me. “You should commute from home to Guildford so you can help your mum.”
I was seething. It was the first time we had spoken in years and THIS was her ‘advice’ to me? How dare she! It was three years since my middle-aged... [continues]
#Camberley #childhood, #DurhamUniversity #GrantGoddard #music #Strodes #student
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Land of a thousand cockroaches : 1986-1987 : Deptford Housing Co-operative, London
“Gimme your money!” he shouted, pointing a pistol at me. He had jumped out from behind some bushes. It was a dark winter evening. I was alone. Nobody was about. I was ten metres from the entrance to New Cross railway station, about to return home, having walked my girlfriend to her train after an evening together... [continues]
#GrantGoddard #London #Deptford #housing #career #job #work
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Mining for radio news in an editorial black hole : 2004-2007 : Paul Boon, The Radio Magazine
Magazine editors. What do they do? “They create editorial calendars, develop story ideas, manage writers, edit content and manage the production process…” according to Google. Makes perfect sense. Except sometimes…
Journalism started for me in 1976 when I... [continues]
#career #commercialradio, #GrantGoddard #media #regulation #Ofcom #PaulBoon #radio #media #journalism
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Some men see things as they are and ask "Why … change?" : 2003 : Neil Stock, Ofcom
A colleague would arrive at my workplace some Mondays with evident cuts and bruises. A tragic case of domestic violence? No. He was a loyal fan of Millwall Football Club, a team characterised by its “historic association with football hooliganism” (Wikipedia). Did I overhear... [continues]
#career #commercialradio #GrantGoddard #media #NeilStock #Ofcom #radio #RadioAuthority #regulation
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My thwarted career as teenage reggae music journalist : 1972 : Jamaica
I blame Jesse James. Though cowboys and westerns held zero interest for me, something about the record ‘Jesse James’ appealed, much as an Israeli novelty song ‘Cinderella Rockefella’ the previous year had possessed sufficient charm to become my... [continues]
#BBC #Camberley #career #CharlieGillett #childhood #GrantGoddard #Jamaica #localradio #music #radio #radiostation #recordshop #reggae #travel
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The media analyst in the cupboard : 2006-2009 : Claire Enders, Enders Analysis
“CRUELLA DE VIL”, our teacher had chalked onto the blackboard at the front of our classroom hut. We had been reading aloud excerpts from the 1956 children’s novel ‘The Hundred and One Dalmatians’ and were completing our lesson with content analysis for ten-year olds... [continues]
#career #ClaireEnders #commercialradio #EndersAnalysis #GrantGoddard, #mediaanalyst #media #radio #job #work
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See no evil, hear no evil, speak no regulation : 2003 : Dumfries & Galloway licence, The Radio Authority
When my wife took a job at the United Biscuits factory in Harlesden, she understood she would be making ‘Digestives’ … and she was correct. When I took a job at The Radio Authority, I anticipated I would be regulating Britain’s commercial radio... [continues]
#career #commercialradio #GrantGoddard #localradio #media #radio #RadioAuthority #radiostation #media #job
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Life in a Northern town … for a Southerner : 1982-1984 : Peterlee, County Durham
My car would be going nowhere. All four of its tyres had been slashed during the night. It had been parked on the street below the block of flats where I lived. This was not the first occasion. The same act of vandalism had occurred a few months earlier. Why did someone hate me so? I had done... [continues]
#career #GrantGoddard #Peterlee #PeterleeCommunityArts #Sherburn #Durham #job
https://peoplelikeyoudontworkinradio.blogspot.com/2023/12/life-in-northern-town-for-southerner.html