David Lloyd
High on Emotion
There’s a beautiful conviction of youth. You know what you want; and are blissfully unaware how challenging it may be to achieve. Such is...
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David Lloyd
- Jun 26
- 3 min
Does no one learn how to edit any more?
Does no-one teach audio editing these days? Great editing can make audio sound better. The audio becomes more powerful, better ordered,...
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David Lloyd
- Dec 11, 2021
- 5 min
The best audience research - ever
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...
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David Lloyd
- Jul 31, 2021
- 2 min
Not quite the Olympics but...
I summoned the spirit of Peaty, Daley, Learmouth, Shriever and Co as my Parkrun resumed this morning after the Covid hiatus. I suspect I...
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David Lloyd
- Jul 14, 2021
- 5 min
What radio presenters can learn from designer Paul Smith
With due razzamatazz, Nottingham Castle has re-opened after a £30m refurbishment. Deep in its sandstone basement, there’s a special...
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David Lloyd
- Nov 22, 2020
- 4 min
Is BBC local radio out of control?
I’m not going to have a go at the BBC Radio London presenters and producers who allowed an egregiously offensive caller to persist...
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David Lloyd
- Sep 9, 2020
- 6 min
Is local online radio the future?
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...
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David Lloyd
- Jun 29, 2020
- 7 min
Times Radio - Day One
'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...
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David Lloyd
- Jun 22, 2020
- 9 min
Is there a future for local radio?
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...
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David Lloyd
- May 20, 2020
- 11 min
What does the BBC's Annual Plan say about Radio?
The BBC is required to publish its annual plan each year. Just as with every broadcaster, however – and every industry – this year’s is...
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David Lloyd
- May 13, 2020
- 4 min
Rajar - The Big Long View
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...
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David Lloyd
- Apr 12, 2020
- 5 min
What can radio learn from how it has handled COVID 19?
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,...
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David Lloyd
- Mar 15, 2020
- 4 min
Radio in times of crisis
It’s eerie listening back to the 1939 announcement of war on the BBC Home Service. After the solemn words from Chamberlain, Alvar Lidell...
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David Lloyd
- Mar 1, 2020
- 7 min
Where does BBC radio go from here?
"It is submitted in the interest of broadcasting, not of the British Broadcasting Corporation”. Lord Reith, in making a 1925 submission...
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David Lloyd
- Jan 18, 2020
- 5 min
What are listeners listening to - and how?
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...
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David Lloyd
- Dec 23, 2019
- 11 min
Radio's Dramatic Decade
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...
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David Lloyd
- Dec 10, 2019
- 7 min
Radio - what does the future hold?
As the Netherlands celebrated the official centenary of radio proper, I was invited to fly across to Amsterdam to opine about radio past,...
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David Lloyd
- Nov 25, 2019
- 9 min
All You Need to Know on The Latest Tech
Quentin Howard loves his DAB. Not surprisingly, he was chosen to make the medium’s case provocatively in the engaging opening...
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David Lloyd
- Nov 6, 2019
- 8 min
BBC Radio - Where next?
In the 1950s, radio was approaching a crossroads. TV had Ewbanked up audiences, stolen evening peaks and radio questioned just how the...
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David Lloyd
- Oct 28, 2019
- 4 min
Where the News Never Stops
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...
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