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Mark Mayhew



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:03 am    Post subject: Is Richard Allinson Leaving BFBS Radio 2 Reply with quote

I think the coming week could be Richard's last on BFBS Radio 2.

He's dropped a few comments to this effect.

Wonder what his future plans are.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe he is leaving radio? He seems to be replaced by Simon Mayo, Aled Jones, Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie as daytime cover on Radio 2. The only time you hear him now on Radio 2 is when Sarah Kennedy is unwell or on Bank Holidays.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 5:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Wonder what his future plans are."

I thought you would have known if anyone did.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 8:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sadly it is Richard's last show on BFBS Radio 2 this coming Friday.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mark Mayhew wrote:
Sadly it is Richard's last show on BFBS Radio 2 this coming Friday.


It's obviously too much to hope that he's coming back to R2. Rolling Eyes Sad

(I'm enjoying listening to him this morning.... it's making me think it's Saturday afternoon from a few years back.)
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Has Lesley Douglas taken over the running of BFBS too?! Shocked
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interesting along with Richard's axing, a number of other presenters on BFBS Radio 2 are also leaving-before you ask I have had a note confirming this from one of the presenters on BFBS-not Richard I would hasten to add.

I wonder if Richard is going to reappear somewhere else soon.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

With me obviously not being a Richard Allinson fan... why has he been axed from BFBS Radio if he's as good as you believe him to be?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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With me obviously not being a Richard Allinson fan... why has he been axed from BFBS Radio if he's as good as you believe him to be?


Perhaps they are finding out that the cost of a DAB frequency means they have to cut back on presenters?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't think BFBS R2 has a DAB frequency, I thought it was only R1?

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You are correct Helen.

Interesting to see on another board that Richard's future plans have now been leaked to the Press.

I wonder where is he is going.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've just heard him say that as well on BFBS R2.

Puzzling, there is nothing on Media Guardian unless it's too early in the day?

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It must be a small leak as Dig Spy, Media Guardian and Radio Today haven't got it, YET!!

I can't see Radio 2 either. Maybe BBC Local?

Obviously he's been offered work somewhere else. It's April where contract will be signed!!

As they say Thats Showbiz" Who, where... Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

By the way Helen heard your mention on Richard's show earlier today.

Congratulations in getting the lyric game correct.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey, guys.

Haven't been around these boards for a while. This is a real shame, I loved the Saturday show on Radio 2 -it ended and now here we go again.

I've really enjoyed listening to Richard on BFBS - it was a great show. I wish him all the best in any new venture and hope to hear him in a regular slot on BBC Radio 2.

Cheers, Rich - good work.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

AndyAndy2 wrote:
Hey, guys.

hope to hear him in a regular slot on BBC Radio 2.




Welcome back. By the way Laughing Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So the mystery continues.

I read all the papers today, and none of them mentioned Allinson. Not a dicky.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gfloyd wrote:
So the mystery continues.

I read all the papers today, and none of them mentioned Allinson. Not a dicky.


LOL Wink

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mark M must be running out of fingernails.. Razz
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe Rich was joking about the media leak? Laughing

Seems to me he doesn't need a leak as the message boards will continue with his name in lights until we are put straight. Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

He puts a long track on when he needs a leak...
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

He's not the only one to do that! Wink

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Richard was indeed joking about his whereabouts/media leak.

He confirmed to me yesterday that "it was a casual reference to the reasons Harry had to come back from Afghanistan".

Still no news though about his future plans.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Am listening now but missed the first hour, nothing mentioned up to now.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nope, didn't hear any mention either.

What a great show it's been, going to miss it.

Keep your eyes out people.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No doubt he wouldn't have been able to say anything Laughing

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I see that Allinson is being replaced by a light classical show on BFBS 2. Allinson's out, Your Hundred Best Tunes is in. Laughing
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

gfloyd wrote:
I see that Allinson is being replaced by a light classical show on BFBS 2. Allinson's out, Your Hundred Best Tunes is in. Laughing


Out with old, in with even older stuff. Laughing
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Allinson Old Laughing Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Richard Allinson has gone silent so has BFBS.


Tuesday 01 April 2008: The month long trail of broadcasting British Forces radio station BFBS on the Digital One national multiplex has come to an end, leaving the DAB slot silent.

The channel on DAB is now broadcasting 112kbps of stereo silence, but text information still displays BFBS Radio - Pop Music. No news news has been released regarding the results of the trail, and whether or not it was successful.

Also tonight, GCap Media's theJazz has fallen silent, as promised by GCap Media chief executive Fru Hazlitt during her short time in charge.

Radio today
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mark occomore wrote:
The channel on DAB is now broadcasting 112kbps of stereo silence, but text information still displays BFBS Radio - Pop Music.


Lots of tumbleweed blowing across the DAB spectrum at the moment.

mark occomore wrote:
No news news has been released regarding the results of the trail, and whether or not it was successful.


Not quite true!

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BFBS on DAB "not an option"
Tuesday, April 1 2008, 11:32 BST

By James Welsh, International Editor

BFBS has ended its digital radio trial after three months.

BFBS Radio, one of many British Forces Broadcasting Service offerings, joined national digital radio multiplex Digital One back in January. At the time, Digital One chief executive Quentin Howard said that if the trial proved "popular and successful" he "would hope to be able to make the service permanent".

Today, BFBS Radio called the trial "a huge success" but said that it, in conjunction with the Ministry of Defence, had decided "that making the service permanent is not an option at this point".

Research undertaken during the trial indicated that it had achieved listening figures of 863,000 people per week. 62% of people in BFBS' "core target" group, defined as service personnel and their families, "said they were extremely or very likely to listen in the future".

BFBS added that the decision not to put a permanent service on DAB was not a reflection on the platform's wider popularity. In a statement, the service said: "We proved during the trial that DAB Digital Radio is accessible and popular and provides a route to air for radio stations that provide unique content and can’t get onto FM nationally."

It is not known at this stage what the slot on Digital One will be used for.

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I notice Radio Times and BBC Radio Oxford still show Allinson's Albums in their weekend schedules. My old-fashioned VHF ears don't stretch that far - is he still there?
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He is, played Eric Clapton's Change the World on Saturday, wonderful, wonderful song.

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Jolly good. I have refrained from making comment on him til now but I do think it a shame that his face no longer seems to fit with those who sit in the ivory tower of Broadcasting House, after all he has done over the years, especially at short notice covering for all and sundry recently. Elsewhere I compared him with Simon Mayo, who has obviously expressed a desire to return to music radio. They are both highly accomplished broadcasters but neither has the fizz and pzazz (or the compulsion to shout all the time) that seems to be wanted by some today, and I think it may have been a case of there not being room for both of them (pure conjecture, of course).

There are worse places to lie low for a bit than Radio Oxford, of course. Bob Harris spent a good part of the 80s there in his "wilderness years" after OGWT, so there may be hope yet!
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RockitRon wrote:
There are worse places to lie low for a bit than Radio Oxford, of course. Bob Harris spent a good part of the 80s there in his "wilderness years" after OGWT, so there may be hope yet!


If you scroll down this page, you get the complete Bob Harris CV. http://www.bobharris.info/pages/bio.asp
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Ron,

Can't agree more with what you've said. I'll have to get back into the habit of listening to Radio Oxford again, it's not a bad station.

I used to leave it on after Richard's Sunday show for Gillham's Gold and he plays some goodies. He is on Radio Devon earlier but it's a different show.

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lets not be all doom and gloom about Richard.

I'm sure Richard whilst taking a well earned break is considering his options carefully and will return to mainstream radio soon with a regular show.

Clearly Radio 2 is not going to be his future home-their loss but we still have Allinsons Albums to look forward to each and every Saturday afternoon on BBC Radio Oxford/York.

Whilst writing I must say imho Radio 2 is in terminal decline-The Douglas woman has lost the plot-I hardly listen to anything on Radio 2 any longer-I can't wait for it all to be completely changed-both the day and weekend schedules.
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We get Gillham gold here in Cambridgeshire on Saturday mornings, it's ok, bit cheesy but ok. Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RockitRon wrote:
I notice Radio Times and BBC Radio Oxford still show Allinson's Albums in their weekend schedules. My old-fashioned VHF ears don't stretch that far - is he still there?
He is still there... and he also does the show on BBC Radio York (not sure if they use the same show or a different one). Saturday 12:30 to 2:30 repeated Wednesday 7pm to 9pm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/content/articles/2007/05/02/richard_allinson_programme_feature.shtml
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fred-The same show goes out of both Radio Oxford and Radio York but it's just staggered to go out at different times.

Richard pre-records it at the Radio Oxford studios.
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