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Over the years I have interviewed many people I imagined I didnt like and, more often than not, having met and chatted to them, completely changed my mind.

The radio industry is marking International Women's Day with special events in the industry and on the radio.

Radio presenter Anna Raeburn and podcaster Sangeeta Pillai will be joining host Emma B for the next online Radio Academy event.

Hello, boomers’ radio. How did you end up in the culture wars? Alex Clark It was a rain-sodden Friday night at the end of another week of lockdown ennui and anxiety; what could be more soothing than pottering about, aperitif on the go, listening to some decent tunes? And hark! A brand new radio station to ring the changes, one promising not merely a schedule brimming with aural treats but one carefully curated to reflect the tastes, the sensibilities and the vitality of an ent...

Great Wave of Change, the podcast which captures the pre-eminent in finance, media, politics, and showbiz is this month featuring one of commercial radios most successful businessmen, multi-millionaire Phil Riley. Its hosted by the veteran City commentator, David Buik and long-time former Sky business editor, Michael Wilson. Riley is behind a new digital radio station called Boom – which as its name suggests, is targeted at the growing audience of the grey surfers – the Baby Boomers. Great ...

Meet the boomers taking on the BBC and launching a radio station for their generation As Radio 2 shifts towards a younger audience, a group of industry veterans has created a new platform that speaks to people just like them David Hamilton will be broadcasting from his home in Sussex Credit: Christopher Pledger for The Telegraph Baby boomers have found themselves increasingly dismayed when tuning into BBC Radio 2, the station that used to be theirs of choice. Time was when Terry Wogan would gre...

Boom Radio goes live for baby boomers on DAB Phil Riley and David Lloyd’s radio station, Boom Radio, has officially launched with breakfast host Graham Dene welcoming listeners at 10am. The first song? All you need is Love by The Beatles. The service is aiming to attract half a million listeners using digital-only transmission, starting off with DAB multiplexes in London, Glasgow, Birmingham, Bristol and Portsmouth. Former Capital breakfast presenter Graham Dene is joined on the l...

A breath of fresh air time: Graham Dene kicked off Boom Radio Credit: Handout Boom Radio believes it is at the forefront of a quiet listening revolution. Targeted at the country’s 14 million ‘Baby Boomers’ (approximately those born between 1945 and 1963), the station aims to serve a generation who have been abandoned both by mainstream commercial stations and by BBC Radio 2 which is now trying to attract ‘Mood Mums’, a term given to women between the ages of 35 and 44 who are time-poo...

Media release: Boom Radio unveils presenter line-up ahead of February launch New national radio station for Baby Boomers unveils launch line-up Announcement comes ahead of station’s February 2021 launch BOOM Radio, a new national radio station targeting the UK’s estimated 14 million Baby Boomers, has unveiled a line-up of familiar radio names ahead of going on air in February. Several well-known radio personalities from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s will be heard, including a weekday breakf...