Programme 08

The Radio Festival 2008 headed to Glasgow. Below you can find out about the sessions and listen to audio from each of them

MONDAY 30th JUNE

This House Likes it Local

Chair: Sally Magnusson.

For the motion: Pat Loughrey, Director of BBC Nations & Regions. Pat Kane, Media consultant and one half of Hue and Cry. Stewart Lochhead, Chair, Leith FM.

Against the motion: Anvar Khan, author, broadcaster and journalist. Robert Beveridge, lecturer, Napier University Edinburgh. Peter Curran, writer and broadcaster.

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TUESDAY 1st JULY

Digital Radio Working Group

The Digital Radio Working Group has been working for 8 months to produce recommendations to DCMS and OFCOM on the future direction for radio, and in particular, on how to secure radio’s digital future. Today they reveal their interim findings and take questions from the floor.

Barry Cox (DRWG), Mark Friend (BBC Audio & Music), Peter Davies (Ofcom), Laurence Harrison (Intellect), John Mottram (DCMS)

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The View From Out Here

The Guardian’s director of digital content, Emily Bell, canvases the views of media movers and shakers including Peter Bazalgette and Alan Rusbridger to find out what the future holds for the Radio industry. Whatever the opposite of navel gazing is, this session provides it in spades.

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Festival Factoid 1: Hey Mr DJ Put a Record on!

Radio and music have always gone hand in hand but both industries are currently facing unprecedented change. In light of this, RadioCentre commissioned new research to explore this evolving relationship further. Revealed for the first time at the Radio Festival, hear how radio and music fits into the lives of four distinct groups of music consumers. Research by RadioCentre, audio illustration by Steve Wright and the team.

Who Pays The Digital Piper?

As sales of music continue to decline, the copyright collection agencies are looking for new revenue streams. We're hearing the word 'usage'. What might this mean to the radio industry? Are we entering the second battle of needletime? Peter Leathem (PPL), Andrew Shaw (PRS)

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Music Radio – The Future

Music radio faces increasing and improving competition, not just from other radio stations but from a whole range of new platforms, technologies and brands. At the same time station budgets are tighter, music is becoming devalued and the record industry is in turmoil. So what are the secrets of successfully programming a music radio station in these challenging times, and what can we learn from our new competitors? Francis Currie (First Person Limited), Laura Roberts (Sparkler), John Simons (GMG Radio), Clive Dickens (Virgin, Absolute), George Ergatoudis (BBC Radio 1)

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Festival Factoid 2: What Presenters Think of Their Managers

The presentation team is ultimately at the sharp end of the business- talking to your listeners and largely accountable for maintaining or building audience loyalty. Are we giving them the right tools for the trade? – are we loving them too much or too little? Research by Hallett Arendt, audio illustration by Steve Wright and the team.

Comply Or Die

Former Director of BBC Radio Matthew Bannister talks to 4 people sacked for breaking compliance. Quizzes were taken off air, producers and managers were sacked, and compliance was strengthened. But is regulation’s growing stranglehold now killing creativity?

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Diversity – Time To Wake Up

Daniel Owen, deputy chair of the Radio Industry Diversity Group, explores the moral argument and the business case for encouraging on and off-air diversity in radio with Elaine Williams, Mark Story, and Lorna Clarke. Political correctness or commercial imperative? Hear about some of the practical and pragmatic benefits from making your workforce more diverse. Daniel Owen (Rulebook Consulting Ltd), Elaine Williams (Radio Academy), Mark Story (Bauer Radio), Lorna Clarke (BBC 1Xtra), Adil Ray (BBC Asian Network)

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Community Radio - The Story So Far

Community Radio is held in low esteem by ‘mainstream’ broadcasters but claims to fill niches which are ignored by them. Two years into their first license, three of Glasgow’s community stations are joined by the city’s newest licensee to challenge the notion that community radio is amateurish nonsense, produced by (and for) anoraks. How do they operate day-to-day in a city with a market so crowed it has run out of FM slots? Duncan Campbell (Radio Forth), Yvonne Milne (Insight Radio), Bob McWilliam (Celtic Music Radio), Javed Sattar (Awaz FM), Raymond Weir (Pulse FM)

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‘Radio’ Fighting Talk

Hosted by Colin Murray. with John Myers, Phil Riley, Scottie McClue

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