Radio Moments - Clips

A music charts hit their 50th anniversary, Mark Goodier was in the BBC Radio 1 Sunday night chart seat. Hear this flawless presentation, as he whizzes through the Top Ten for his final time in 2002.

Mark hosted the Top 40 twice (1990-1992 and 1995-2002). Hear, here the chart styles collide. The functional ‘up one….and down two’ short links still exist, in part using traditional foreground power presentation, yet with just a touch more realism than earlier.. The accapella year jingles are long gone, just as they had on much UK radio by then, replaced by the occasional voiceover.

By this time, in this more competitive age, promos for other shows were included. Towards the end, hear the informality and ‘talking to the stars’ which was to become part of the programme in the years to follow.

Enjoy his stylish and hugely professional farewell, as befits the man, with a nod to the wise, for those who remembered the famous DLT goodbye.

Thanks to Richard White for audio

Jingles on radio stations and within commercial ads are now part of life. They were once a new idea.

The first sung advertising jingle is said to date back to 1926, aired on WCCO in Minneapolis- St. Paul on Christmas Eve. The product was 'Wheaties', from General Mills, a range said to be on the verge of extinction, rescued by this distinctive radio ad campaign. The vocal sound was barbershop, with four male singers, later dubbed 'The Wheaties Four'.

In a fascinating twist, this was a time when suspicions ran high about radio advertising. There was a worry that sullied messages such as these might provoke a "strong and general prejudice against all forms of advertising on the radio". Thus, the ad had to get around NBC radio rules which outlawed direct sales messages in ads. This copy escaped the regulatory hammer by advising listeners just to 'try' Wheaties. Not necessarily buy them.

We can therefore lay the credit for the creation of today's radio station jingle industry at the feet of ad agencies. Indeed, PAMS was one such ad agency, which famously was to switch from singing the virtues of soap and oats to the merits of hits and memories and become the first, and some say the greatest, radio jingle company of all.

Each week, the fine Radio Academy podcast features interviews and content from the world of radio at http://www.radioacademy.org/podcasts/.

The Academy podcast concludes with a slice of audio memories from the radio week in history, as they invite me to assemble a weekly compendium of my daily #radiomoments tweets @davidlloydradio, with audio and narrative.

Here's just that #radiomoments weekly review on its own, for the week ending 14th Nov 2014, without the sensible interviews and discussion.

This audio is now also heard at the end of the excellent weekly @radiotoday podcast http://audioboo.fm/channel/radiotoday

For a generation, the BBC chart was part of growing up. A Sunday night ritual. You knew from Tuesday lunchtime's news which songs had gone up and down, but one had to wait until Sunday to hear them in full - and in stereo, given the AM-only Radio 1 borrowed Radio 2's FM frequencies for the show.

There were no rival chart shows, as commercial radio had just begun and its separate 19 proud independent companies were in no mood to co-operate very much.

This edition was special, being the first where the top 40 were included in this two hour show, as opposed to the top 20.

Simon Bates did a typically stunning job here, with the voice powering out, his mic levels leaping out of the waveform on this audio. Flawless presentation, and he tells me he kicked himself when he said 'this week's..British' before playing the fab 'Britain's Number 1' JAM jingle.

The backing track for the rundown is Scots Machine by Voyage - and if you wonder what happened to the absent show which follows, it should have been the Moody Blues story on 1 and Brain of Sport on 2.

Thanks to Richard White for sending me this for posterity.

Each week, the fine Radio Academy podcast features interviews and content from the world of radio at http://www.radioacademy.org/podcasts/.

The Academy podcast concludes with a slice of audio memories from the radio week in history, as they invite me to assemble a weekly compendium of my daily #radiomoments tweets @davidlloydradio, with audio and narrative.

Here's just that #radiomoments weekly review on its own, for the week ending 7th Nov 2014, without the sensible interviews and discussion.

This audio is now also heard at the end of the excellent weekly @radiotoday podcast http://audioboo.fm/channel/radiotoday

The first 'news bulletin' was heard on 14th November 1922 on 2LO; the day the early stations were handed over to the newly amalgamated British Broadcasting Company. It was delivered at 6.00 and 9.00 p.m. by the director of programmes, Arthur Burrows, was instructed to read each bulletin twice - once quickly and once slowly - before asking listeners to say which they preferred. There was a pause subsequently afterwards to allow any corrections to be identified.

Early bulletins that night included the story of the opening of the Old Bailey sessions; a speech by Conservative leader Bonar Law, the aftermath of a "rowdy meeting" with Winston Churchill; a train robbery; the sale of a Shakespearean first folio' London fog; and the latest billiards scores. Luckily the second day of bulletins had less room for billiards and more for the results of the General Election.

Each week, the fine Radio Academy podcast features interviews and content from the world of radio at http://www.radioacademy.org/podcasts/.

The Academy podcast concludes with a slice of audio memories from the radio week in history, as they invite me to assemble a weekly compendium of my daily #radiomoments tweets @davidlloydradio, with audio and narrative.

Here's just that #radiomoments weekly review on its own, for the week ending 31st Oct 2014, without the sensible interviews and discussion.

This audio is now also heard at the end of the excellent weekly @radiotoday podcast http://audioboo.fm/channel/radiotoday

Each week, the fine Radio Academy podcast features interviews and content from the world of radio at http://www.radioacademy.org/podcasts/.

The Academy podcast concludes with a slice of audio memories from the radio week in history, as they invite me to assemble a weekly compendium of my daily #radiomoments tweets @davidlloydradio, with audio and narrative.

Here's just that #radiomoments weekly review on its own, for the week ending 24th Oct 2014, without the sensible interviews and discussion.

This audio is now also heard at the end of the excellent weekly @radiotoday podcast http://audioboo.fm/channel/radiotoday