Former Invicta FM, Capital Gold and KMFM presenter Tim Stewart has died at the age of 52, after a difficult battle with pancreatitis. Tim worked in radio for most of his life, starting at Margate's Hospital Broadcasting Service in 1975 and working his way through various radio stations before spend...
This month, Wavestreaming.com released its new Multi-Skin Mp3 Shoutcast Player to the public. The player looks like a standard player but is an industry first reliable flash player. It can play any Mp3 SHOUTcast stream (even non wavetreaming ones) and contains over 20 themes that will suit your webs...
With over a million online radio stations and over 2000 just in your stations genre, how can you stay on top or reach the top? You can by watching your rivals in your genre. Its the same with a business, a job and pretty much everything in your daily life. You have to be competitive some time in you...
Broadcasting World is one year old, a thousand valued members more and ten-thousand posts in our forums. Are we happy? Ofcourse not, how many times has the BW team coded and redesigned this place? Yeah, now you think different. But anyway.. This year brings new sections to our site! Here they are ex...
Virgin Radio [Absolute Radio] Planet Rock, Classic FM and talkSPORT - leaders in their field, each one offers their radio audience something different - not uniquely different, in fact other stations provide exactly the same in their respective genres. Not one of these stations are completely compet...
Tomahawk Radio, the owner of Original 106.5fm in Bristol, has today completed the acquisition of Bristol’s Star 107.2. The purchase from UKRD means that the two stations will now broadcast from single premises in the city. Jonathan Arendt, director Tomahawk Radio, said “We are delighted to have...
UKRD's Chairman Trevor Smallwood has bought over 11 million extra shares in The Local Radio Company, taking his and UKRD's share in the company to over 25 per cent. The 11.5m shares, which were announced on Monday afternoon, were bought for two pence each giving the UKRD boss a 16 per cent stake in...
Liverpool pop and rock band The Wombats are to become the first guests on a new regular series of live sessions on Xfm called An Evening With. ‘An Evening With’ is when one of Xfm’s favourite artists plays an intimate session in the Xfm studios for 30 lucky competition winners. The Wombats wil...
Lost your radio job? Dust yourself off and get digital, free. 50 Radio Professionals Can Now Go Back to Work. Spacial Audio will move you from despair to the future by donating the software and hosting to create new internet radio stations. So what if you've just been given a pink slip? Start your o...
Omni-directional Microphones pick up sound equally in all directions around the microphone. These are usually found as Lapel microphones and some handheld microphones. The lines shown on the picture to the right are a representation of the polar pattern of the microphone (remember this is a two dime...
