David Lloyd

In the words of Tatum McGreal on-air earlier today: “You definitely won’t know who I am.. all this week we’re gonna have a full line-up...

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,...

Any HR director and human behavioural expert will tell you that one of the worst things in life is uncertainty. It eats into you. I feel...

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

Ten years ago, Absolute Radio launched Absolute 80s, now reaching 1.8m 'adults' weekly. This prescient decision contributed to the...

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...

It doesn’t take anyone in radio much effort to imagine how Radio 4 ‘You and Yours’ listeners were treated accidentally to the voice of...

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

Social media is full of angry moans about BBC partiality. The vast majority of them are ill-informed, ill-judged and irrational. Some are...

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...

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...

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

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

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...