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Monday 17 January 2005

It's all for charidee, mate

Strange day on Brit radio - every commercial station (as opposed to the BBC) are broadcasting the same programme, a 12 hour long 'radiothon' to raise money for tsunami relief. Which is all well and good and busts open the Harry Enfield-generated stereotype of Radio DJ's 'doing a lot of work for charity, but not wanting to talk about it, and then talking about it.'

The lineup is interesting, though. As well as the good intentions, it would have been a great opportunity to showcase some of the great radio skills out there. So a schedule of 6am - 8am you get Davina McCall and Dermot O'Leary (TV Presenters); 8am - 10am Chris Evans (famous for screwing over the BBC); 10am - 12pm Simon Bates (Antique former BBC presenter currently hibernating at Classic FM); 12-2pm Zoe Ball (Ex Radio 1 breakfast show host); 2-4pm Mark Goodier (Ex Radio 1 chart show host); 4-6pm Johnny Vaughan (Ex Ch4 breakfast TV presenter & currently hiding from 85% of the country on Capital FM). There's been some good performances from the regions; as they cross to various jocks around the UK for 'updates' on what's happening ... these are the people that should have taken centre-stage, IMHO.

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Comments

I thought that was every commercial station except Sunrise Radio? ;) x

Posted by: MJ

on January 17, 2005 06:36 PM