David Lloyd

How great it would be to know how listeners actually respond minute-by-minute to the careful offering we’ve sweated to create. Not how we...

With due razzamatazz, Nottingham Castle has re-opened after a £30m refurbishment. Deep in its sandstone basement, there’s a special...

One of the great things about online stations is you have a really good handle on how many people are listening. That can also be a bad...

'Prime Minister, we’re just gonna move your microphone - you’ve just moved away from it.’ Boris was the 8.00 guest on the launch day of...

Everyone loves local radio. Many of us started our media lives working in it – and know how brilliant the service it provides can be – at...

The BBC is required to publish its annual plan each year. Just as with every broadcaster, however – and every industry – this year’s is...

The great thing about not running a radio station myself now is a) I sleep at night; and b) I can afford the luxury of spending some time...

In times like this, you turn to your friends. And radio is a friend. Day or night, it’s there to pick-you up, to comfort you, to explain,...

It’s eerie listening back to the 1939 announcement of war on the BBC Home Service. After the solemn words from Chamberlain, Alvar Lidell...

"It is submitted in the interest of broadcasting, not of the British Broadcasting Corporation”. Lord Reith, in making a 1925 submission...

If you read some media press, it’s easy to form the view that live radio only has one listener left. Thank goodness for the fine work...

As the dawn of the decade was toasted, Chris Moyles was about to end his record spell on the Radio 1 breakfast show. As self-declared...

As the Netherlands celebrated the official centenary of radio proper, I was invited to fly across to Amsterdam to opine about radio past,...

Quentin Howard loves his DAB. Not surprisingly, he was chosen to make the medium’s case provocatively in the engaging opening...

In the 1950s, radio was approaching a crossroads. TV had Ewbanked up audiences, stolen evening peaks and radio questioned just how the...

Wow. Global strikes again with another UK station launch – LBC News. The old LBC News service on AM/Digital for London is re-purposed as...

The seasonal Midas survey brings riches, as befits its name. The folk at Rajar shine another welcome beam of insight into a fast-changing...

It was not unexpected news to read of Global Radio’s changes - those regulatory sands shifted many moons ago. Most Global people I have...

When a non-radio person gallops up wide-eyed and says: “Have you heard Radio 1 this morning? I just wanted to carry on listening but I...

Ask the question: ‘is local radio a good thing?’, and you’ll get the same answer as you would to the question: ‘are local  corner shops a...