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If there is one thing that tickles those of us in radio more than anything else, it is the endlessly clichéd way that we are depicted by the other areas of the media when they deem it necessary to acknowledge our existence. This isn’t often by the way, as in a classic case of “class war” radio is [...]
Something To Talk About
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It has been an extraordinary few weeks to work where I do. In my entire career I don’t think I’ve experienced anything quite like it. Yet one fact stands out from the madness. I work for the most talked about radio station in the country, one which has managed to achieve a level of publicity and [...]
Live Football. Breathe Football. Part Six.
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Finally!
Funny sometimes how you can pass by the same thing every day and never really notice it, so much is it a part of your routine. Walking down the road towards the office that Sunday evening it struck me that it was more or less exactly eight years to the week that I had first made this [...]
Live Football. Breathe Football. Part Five
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Let Me Illustrate
Do you remember a time long ago when you had to wait until people returned from trips away in order to be subjected to their endless holiday photographs? Our new brave digital age means these waits no longer exist, and at times it appeared that the remote team in South Africa [...]
Live Football. Breathe Football. Part Four
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Hoping For A Double Deflection
OK so we are notionally covering the whole of the World Cup. The big selling point of talkSPORT’s dedication to the tournament was our proud boast that we were to cover Every Game Live and most importantly, communications issues aside, without any interruptions. This [...]
Live Football. Breathe Football. Part Three
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Bzzzzzzzzzzzz
Amazing wasn’t it? The most significant aspect of the opening days of the World Cup and one which caused both broadcasters and organisers the biggest headaches was nothing more than a cheap plastic trumpet.
The thorny issue of the vuvuzelas and the cacophonous noise they made was [...]
Live Football. Breathe Football. Part Two
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Communication Let Me Down
Before the World Cup kicked off there was a fair amount of nervous talk about the implications at staging such an event in an African country (albeit one of the most developed ones of all). Would safety be an issue? Would the stadiums be up to scratch? Would the transport [...]
Live Football. Breathe Football. Part One
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….and RELAX. The uncharacteristic radio silence emanating from Masterton towers over the past few weeks is naturally down to a certain football tournament taking place in South Africa at the present time. Working for a sports radio station and also being one of the main live sport producers on said [...]
“Gilo, You’re Ruining The Take”
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It only took me 16 years of working in the radio industry, but on Monday night I finally got to sip from the same cup as the elite. The 2010 Sony Radio Awards ceremony was a night where I could truthfully say “I was there”, along with a great many other of my most valued colleagues.
I’ve blown [...]
Porky Face
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To lighten the mood a little, I thought I’d take the opportunity to gratuitously share with you something which has achieved the near impossible. Our ever innovative creative department at work have managed to craft a programme trail that makes the entire office stop in its tracks every time it is [...]
