David Lloyd

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

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 from Rajar which pumps ...

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 "saviour of Radio 1", h...

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

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

George was 18; and he loved his Model T Ford. Well, not many blokes his age had a car at all, given it was May 1922. The car was probably good for his court...

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

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 a pan-UK offering, w...

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

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

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 had to go to work”, ...

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 good idea?’. Albeit...

I can’t be the only person who watches the opening sequence of the Ten ‘O Clock TV news – and then promptly switches over.  It’s a far cry from when I’d sit ...

“Great people coalesce around great leaders – and who they can learn from.” (Simon Cole, former UBC/7 Digital exec) Bookshops in airports are full of cheap p...

Forty years ago today, the Buggles released Video Killed the Radio Star. Since that unseasonably warm day in 1979, we’ve had to tolerate that miserable headl...

Fiddling around with some Apple devices, the words hit me in the face once again like a wet fish: 'Apple Radio'. And when I ask Alexa for a radio station, sh...