London pirate radio - news and discussion

[DaveCinzano]

For the class:

Special Branch getting worried about the popularity of Radio Is My Bomb...

https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/UCPI0000028596.pdf

Special Branch getting palpitations over imagined flying columns of anarchist transmitter squads picking off Radio Investigation Service teams in highly orchestrated rooftop ambushes

https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/UCPI0000028591.pdf

Spotted in amongst swathes of documents (700+!) released by the Undercover Policing Inquiry in relation to spycop Bob Lambert...

 

[DaveCinzano]

...And more on the 1980s Radio Interference...

https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/UCPI0000028545.pdf

 

[ska invita]

I just got rickrolled by Venture

 

[ska invita]

Just scanned through the FM and 100 is some crap called Hits. Kiss sold up and no longer on digital. End of an era (of course Kiss itself is long dead and it's pure commercial music product content output converter belt for years now)

 

[cupid_stunt]

Just scanned through the FM and 100 is some crap called Hits. Kiss sold up and no longer on digital. End of an era (of course Kiss itself is long dead and it's pure commercial music product content output converter belt for years now)

Bauer Media has owned Kiss for some years, but flipped its FM outlets to Hits last Sept., but it's still on DAB, together with other Kiss branded stations.

Hits Radio will replace KISS on FM in London, Norfolk and the West of England this Monday, 23rd September 2024.

This change is sooner than anticipated, even with Bauer announcing details in August.

RadioToday understood the move would wait till the new Media Act was implemented, eliminating the need to request format changes for frequencies changing from KISS to Hits.

Hits Radio takeover of KISS 100 FM London frequency is happening this Monday

Hits Radio will replace KISS on FM in London, Norfolk and the West of England this Monday, 23rd September 2024.

radiotoday.co.uk

Now the new Media Act has been passed, the radio companies can just flip formats and station names, without even getting advanced approval from OFCOM.

The can also drop any regional output, and basically network everything from London, or wherever. Global has recently announced they're doing that across England, but keeping some regional output in NI, Scotland & Wales.

Bauer has already done that, there's a chap that drinks in my village micro-pub that used to all the IT stuff for their regional output, he got made redundant on the run up to Christmas.