James Masterton
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Believe in 1998 – Part Two
0November 1, 2010
by James
in Chart Rewind
You know what, in October 1998 I was happy. Insanely happy. I was producer and co-host of an enormously successful local radio breakfast show in Bradford, working alongside a former Radio One presenter who essentially dumped everything he ever learned onto me and brought me on in leaps and bounds [...]
Believe in 1998 – Part One
4October 22, 2010
by James
in Chart Rewind
A confession. This next series of retrospective articles is a tiny bit of a cheat. Regular visitors to these pages will be aware that the overarching concept for archive Top 40 reviews is as an excuse to dip into the vast collection of old Radio One Top 40 shows that I have stockpiled on cassettes [...]
Does The Pope Shit In The Woods?
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Anyone studying the intimate details of my personal Facebook profile will come across one particular semi-comic line. Years ago when first creating the account, under “Religion” I put: ‘Self’. It is a gag that either nobody gets or one which most visitors treat with the contempt it deserves, but I [...]
My Life In Boxes
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They say that changing your job and moving house are two of the most stressful experiences a person can go through in life. Touch wood it has been quite a while since I’ve had to change my job, but the reason for what has been by and large radio silence from this neck of the woods over the last few [...]
10 Reasons Why I Suck
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For someone who spends a disproportionate amount of his enthusiast-reserved time dealing with rundowns of charts and rankings of this, that and the other, I’ve never been much of a fan of the Top 10 list as a source of creativity and or comedy. List based writing and humour has its place I guess, [...]
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 [...]
