Beryl and Brenda – oldest ever Sony winners!

The Sony Awards are the Radio Oscars however never before have two ladies been the recipients of the award for their sparkling wit and repartee on Radio Humberside.

The Sony radio award judges said: ‘A joyous, entertaining  double act, having fun with the medium and unconstrained by any ingrained ideas of what works and what

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The end of BRMB

BRMB logo (1994)

We are on the verge of the demise of the original names of BRMB, the other stations in the Orion Network with the creation of Free Radio!

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BBC not pulling out of Birmingham

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I thought this might be an interesting quote on BBC Birmingham – for the purposes of this post I won’t say who made it or when but a guess would be a good idea! “The BBC is not pulling out of England’s second city. Now that we have a much clearer picture of production requirements in Birmingham, we are in a position to give output guarantees…”

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BRMB and Free Radio – some thoughts

BRMB logo (1994)

It is a very sad day to lose the name of a radio station that was an important part of the radio story in the UK. BRMB was the first commercial radio station in England outside London, and has been at the forefront of so many programme innovations over the years that we now take for granted.

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