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BBC Hereford And Worcester
BBC Hereford & Worcester is the BBC's local radio station serving the counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire, which were one county from 1974 to 1998. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and online via BBC Sounds from studios on Hylton Road in Worcester. According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 62,000 listeners as of May 2025. History The concept for siting a local BBC Radio station within the, soon to be combined county of Hereford and Worcester, emerged as early as 1973 as part of the BBC's evidence to the Crawford Committee on Broadcasting Coverage and reinforced in the BBC's response to the Annan Report of 1977. However due to concerns about competition, and in particular a smaller than expected rise in the BBC's license fee following the report, further local radio station ambitions were halted. The station began broadcasting on 14 February 1989 (Valentine's Day), and to mark the unusual, two-centre set-up for the radio station, the first rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worcester, England
Worcester ( ) is a cathedral city in Worcestershire, England, of which it is the county town. It is south-west of Birmingham, north of Gloucester and north-east of Hereford. The population was 103,872 in the 2021 census. The River Severn flanks the western side of the city centre, overlooked by Worcester Cathedral. Worcester is the home of Royal Worcester, Royal Worcester Porcelain, Lea & Perrins (makers of traditional Worcestershire sauce), the University of Worcester, and ''Berrow's Worcester Journal'', claimed as the world's oldest newspaper. The composer Edward Elgar (1857–1934) grew up in the city. The Battle of Worcester in 1651 was the final battle of the English Civil War, during which Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army defeated Charles II of England, King Charles II's Cavalier, Royalists. History Early history The trade route past Worcester, later part of the Roman roads in Britain, Roman Ryknild Street, dates from Neolithic times. It commanded a ford crossing o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frequency Modulation
Frequency modulation (FM) is a signal modulation technique used in electronic communication, originally for transmitting messages with a radio wave. In frequency modulation a carrier wave is varied in its instantaneous frequency in proportion to a property, primarily the instantaneous amplitude, of a message signal, such as an audio signal. The technology is used in telecommunications, radio broadcasting, signal processing, and Run-length limited#FM: .280.2C1.29 RLL, computing. In Analog signal, analog frequency modulation, such as radio broadcasting of voice and music, the instantaneous frequency deviation, i.e. the difference between the frequency of the carrier and its center frequency, has a functional relation to the modulating signal amplitude. Digital data can be encoded and transmitted with a type of frequency modulation known as frequency-shift keying (FSK), in which the instantaneous frequency of the carrier is shifted among a set of frequencies. The frequencies m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Academy Awards
The Radio Academy Awards, started in 1983, were the most prestigious awards in the British radio industry. For most of their existence, they were run by ZAFER Associates, but in latter years were brought under the control of The Radio Academy. The awards were generally referred to by the name of their first sponsor, Sony, as The Sony Awards, The Sony Radio Awards or variations. In August 2013, Sony announced the end of its sponsorship agreement with The Radio Academy after 32 years. Consequently, the awards were named simply ''The Radio Academy Awards''. In November 2014, it was announced that The Radio Academy would not be holding the awards in 2015, and would be looking for other ways to recognise achievement in the future. The awards were relaunched in 2016 as the Audio & Radio Industry Awards (ARIAS). Awards format The awards were organised into various categories, with nominees being announced a few weeks before the main awards ceremony. The categories varied slight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Radio 5 Live
BBC Radio 5 Live is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It broadcasts mainly news, sport, Talk show, discussion, interviews and phone-ins, and is on air 24 hours a day. It is the principal BBC radio station Broadcasting of sports events, covering sport in the United Kingdom, broadcasting virtually all major sports events staged in the UK or involving British competitors. The station broadcasts from MediaCityUK in Salford, England, and is a department of the BBC North division. Radio 5 Live was launched in March 1994 as a repositioning of the original BBC Radio 5 (former), Radio 5, which was launched in 1990. It is transmitted via analogue radio in AM broadcasting, AM on medium wave 693 and 909 kHz and digital radio in the United Kingdom, digitally via Digital Audio Broadcasting, digital radio, digital television, television and on the BBC Sounds service. Overnight programming of 5 Live are also simulcast on BBC Local Radio stations throughout t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Garvey (broadcaster)
Jane Susan Garvey (born 23 June 1964) is a British radio presenter, until recently of BBC Radio 4's ''Woman's Hour'', and co-founder of the weekly podcast series ''Fortunately'' (from March 2017-November 2022). She now hosts a Times Radio show and the "Off Air" podcast with Fi Glover. Garvey's was the first voice on BBC Radio 5 Live when it launched at 5:00 am on 28 March 1994. She presented the station's breakfast programme and the relaunched ''Midday'' show, and co-presented its ''Drive'' show on weekday afternoons with Peter Allen (UK broadcaster), Peter Allen, for which she and Allen won four Sony Radio Academy Awards, Sony Gold Awards. Early life and education Garvey was born in Crosby, Merseyside, Crosby, near Liverpool, in 1964. Her father is Ray Garvey, and her mother, Maureen (born O'Neill), was a hospital receptionist. She was educated at Merchant Taylors' Girls' School in Crosby, a Private schools in the United Kingdom, private school in Merseyside. She is a gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz MacKean
Elizabeth Mary MacKean (30 November 1964 – 18 August 2017) was a British television reporter and presenter. She worked on the BBC's ''Newsnight'' programme and was the reporter on an exposé of Sir Jimmy Savile as a paedophile which was controversially cancelled by the BBC in December 2011. The decision to axe the ''Newsnight'' investigation became the subject of the Pollard Inquiry. She and colleague Meirion Jones later won a London Press Club Scoop of the Year award for their work on the story. She also won the 2010 Daniel Pearl Award for her investigation of the Trafigura toxic dumping scandal. MacKean went freelance after leaving the BBC, and reported on the Cyril Smith case for Channel 4's '' Dispatches'' series in September 2013. In 2014, she reported on Russian vigilante gangs entrapping and attacking gay men in the documentary ''Hunted''. ''Hunted'' won multiple awards, including the Grierson award for best current affairs documentary, and led to a follow-up, ''Hunt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Collins
Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was the drummer and later became the lead singer of the rock band Genesis (band), Genesis and had a successful solo career, achieving three UK number-one singles and seven US number-one singles as a solo artist. In total, his work with Genesis, other artists and solo resulted in more US top-40 singles than any other artist throughout the 1980s. His most successful singles from the period include "In the Air Tonight", "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)", "One More Night (Phil Collins song), One More Night", "Sussudio", "Another Day in Paradise", "Two Hearts (Phil Collins song), Two Hearts" and "I Wish It Would Rain Down". Born and raised in west London, Collins began playing drums at the age of five. During the same period he attended drama school, which helped secure various roles as a child actor. His first major role was the Artful Dodger in the West End ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Hearts (Phil Collins Song)
"Two Hearts" is a song by Phil Collins from the soundtrack to the film '' Buster'' (1988) where it features in the end credits, in which Collins played the lead role. The song was written and produced by Collins and Lamont Dozier. It reached number one in the United States and Canada in January 1989. Released on 14 November 1988, "Two Hearts" charted in 19 countries, and topped the charts in the US, Canada, and Japan. The song topped the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for two weeks, the US ''Billboard'' Adult Contemporary chart for five weeks, and also reached number six on the UK Singles Chart. "Two Hearts" won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song (tying with " Let the River Run" by Carly Simon from ''Working Girl'') and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television in 1989. Background "Two Hearts" was composed by Lamont Dozier of Motown's Holland-Dozier-Holland (who also co-composed the music for the Supremes hit "You Can't ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day honoring a Christian martyrs, martyr named Saint Valentine, Valentine, and through later folk traditions it has also become a significant cultural, religious and commercial celebration of Romance (love), romance and love in many regions of the world. There are a number of martyrdom stories associated with various Saint Valentines connected to February 14, including an account of the imprisonment of Saint Valentine of Rome for ministering to Christians Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire, persecuted under the Roman Empire in the third century. According to an early tradition, Saint Valentine restored sight to the blind daughter of his jailer. Numerous later additions to the legend have better related it to the theme of love: tradition maintains that Saint Valentine performed weddings for Christian soldie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annan Committee
The Annan Committee on the future of broadcasting was established in April 1974 to discuss the United Kingdom broadcasting industry, including new technologies and their funding, the role and funding of the BBC, Independent Broadcasting Authority and programme standards. On 3 February 1977, the committee recommended: * Changes to BBC funding by licence fee * Fourth, independent, television channel * Long-term restructure and diversification of broadcasting * Establishment of Broadcasting Complaints Commission * Privatisation of local radio * Independence from direct political control * Increase in independent production Outcomes * Increased licence fee * Channel 4 (implemented in 1980) * Channel 4 being of a more "open" nature rather than one of balance such as the BBC Members * Lord Annan * Peter Goldman * Professor Hilde Himmelweit * Tom Jackson * Sir Antony Jay * Marghanita Laski * Hilda M. Lawrence * Dewi Lewis * Sir James Mackay * The Hon. Mrs Charles Morrison * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart Crawford
Sir Robert Stewart Crawford (27 August 1913 - 11 October 2002, Oxfordshire), known as Stewart Crawford, was a British diplomat. Background Crawford was the son of Sir William Crawford, founder of the advertising agency W. S. Crawford Ltd. Education After five years at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, he spent a term at University of Tübingen before going up to Oriel College, Oxford, where he took a First in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Career *1936: Joined the Air Ministry as a civil servant *1940-1946: Private Secretary to the Chief of Air Staff *1946-1947: Assistant Secretary, Control Office for Germany and Austria *1954-1956: Counsellor, British Embassy, Norway *1957-1959: Counsellor, later Minister, British Embassy, Baghdad *1959-1960: Deputy UK Delegate to Organization for European Economic Co-operation *1961-1965: Assistant Under Secretary, Foreign Office *1966-1970: UK Political Resident, Persian Gulf *1970-1973: Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hereford And Worcester
Hereford and Worcester ( ) was an English non-metropolitan county created on 1 April 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 from the areas of the former administrative county of Herefordshire, most of Worcestershire (except Halesowen, Stourbridge and Warley, which became part of the West Midlands) and the county borough of Worcester. An aim of the Act was to increase efficiency of local government: the two counties are among England's smaller and less populous counties, particularly after the same Act transferred some of Worcestershire's most urbanised areas to the West Midlands. The county bordered Shropshire, Staffordshire and the West Midlands to the north, Warwickshire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south, and Gwent and Powys in Wales to the west. It was abolished in 1998 and reverted, with some transfers of territory, to the two separate historic counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Creation The Local Government Boundary Commission in 1948 proposed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
