Grant Goddard

In January 1985, I had arrived in Israel to work as a DJ on a radio station, but this was no ordinary radio. …

July 1989. I had just broken up with my girlfriend of three years, after a particularly bitter confrontation …

Dear John Since we last spoke before Xmas, I have made a move …. to Phnom Penh. I am writing this sitting …

FIRST YEAR. I had landed in a ‘one-bookshop town’. The lone academic book retailer in Durham City was bizarre…

The UK commercial radio industry has grown dramatically since the first station launched in 1973. The history…

September 1989. The other information I needed was a copy of the finished KISS FM application form from the l…

Having answered the front door, its frame was filled by the 11pm silhouette of a large black man wearing over…

Another day, another meeting. Though this one was most unusual. Not a word had been spoken during the past ho…

Pop music had been outlawed by the British government. Twiddle the dial of an AM transistor radio and you wou…

August 1989. There was a momentary lull in the usually frenetic activity at the [former London pirate radio s…

31 March 1990 was the memorable day when London‘s first licensed [South London community of interest] black m…

In March 1989, an advertisement appeared in the press, seeking staff to work for a new radio industry magazin…

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one entertaining source of reggae lyrics can be obtained from: jkn productions, po box 57066, nairobi, kenya.…

In terms of delivering value for money for the Licence Fee payer, ‘Radio 3’ is easily the most expensive of t…

In the United States, ‘diversity’ has been described as: * One of the “paramount goals of broadcast regulat…

In 1930, while the new London headquarters of the BBC, Broadcasting House, were being built, a venture called…

Alongside the revolution in television broadcasting, a similar battle of the airwaves is being waged on the r…

It is a sad fact that, alongside other by-products of the affluent society in which we live such as the Natio…

Letters to the Editors, Marketing Magazine, Toronto Dear Sirs I am a radio programming consultant based in To…

"If this gets out, we're screwed," my boss told me. Actually, I have paraphrased because at least one expleti…

Technological advances made during the last two to three decades have changed our world almost beyond recogni…

"I am here for the Accommodation Office, please," I said with trepidation to the uniformed man behind the hug…

I was seated in the London Coliseum in St Martin's Lane watching a performance, hardly my usual weekday eveni…