Roger Day on Pirate Radio Is it just me or is radio ready for another kick up the backside similar to the explosion of the offshore stations in the sixties and indeed the eighties with Laser Radio?
Never since the days of the BBC Light Programme or the old ILR stations has it been less enjoyable to listen to the radio. I was always a great supporter of less regulation thinking that more stations meant more variety. How wrong can I have been? Look at London: so many stations, not much choice. Where are the individual personalities that can entertain the audience without a studio full of idiots? If I have to listen to one more zoo format with the all-too-predictable girl/boy duo, I shall go mad. It wouldn't be so bad if they were funny, but it is just mindless drivel. "Hey! Let's be original and take the piss out of the audience, use sexual suggestion and read show-biz gossip out of the 'Sun'."
No wonder sales of in-car mini discs and CD players are on the increase.
