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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Mark Goodier's Smooth Radio morning show in London is to be expanded to three other Smooth stations around the country.

The GMG Radio-owned network will start broadcasting the Goodier show on its FM stations in the east Midlands, west Midlands and Glasgow from next month.

Goodier joined Smooth in March this year for his first daily radio show for a decade.

However, he will not be carried on the Smooth station in the north-west.

Smooth Radio launched in March, combining GMG Radio's existing Smooth network and its newly-acquired Saga radio stations.

It is aimed at a 40-something audience and positions itself as a "real alternative" to Radio 2.

Goodier, who presented Radio 1's Top 40 chart for a decade until 2002, has become a regular voice on Classic FM and Radio 2 and also runs production and talent company Wise Buddah.

"Mark is a giant in the world of broadcasting and Smooth Radio is delighted to be able to reunite him with audiences across the country that grew up listening to him," said John Simons, group programming director of GMG Radio.

Smooth Radio had a total audience of 2.03m listeners in the second quarter of this year, according to the latest Rajar figures published last week.

Goodier's show, which airs from 10am to 1pm, will be simulcast across the other three networks from September 3.

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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Things may start to cause problems at Radio 2? Mark has many loyal listeners over the years and will welcome him back to the North.

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gfloyd · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:03 am Post subject:

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

So, was there no requirement in their licence to maintain local service or input?

For the East Midlands region, I know that a lot of people are already disappointed at the lurch of their former Saga radio to the boring Smooth format, and the switch of their long-standing, highly experienced and much-loved breakfast show presenter (John Peters) to the afternoon, replaced by Gary Burton, who's a bog-standard, bland local radio jock. Still, I don't suppose many will notice any difference when Mark takes over, until he tries to pronounce local place names.
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RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

So, the conclusion to be drawn from all this is that the original remit, intention, requirement, call it what you will, of Independent LOCAL Radio, or even INDEPENDENT Local Radio, is now dead.
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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:19 am Post subject:

Not in Hull, Ron

We've now got KCFM. It is locally funded, staffed by locals mainly ex BBC.Magic,Viking, and a decent alternative to SW and CE
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gfloyd · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:30 am Post subject:

Local radio for the youth audience 15-34 will continue to be local focussed. The problem is with the older age bracket stations. I know I will be derided for this comment by the regulars, but older listeners are super served by the BBC and so the economics are not really there for real local radio for the over 40's. Only Classic fm at a national level has been successful with the 40+'s
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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

It's moving forward along the similar format to what Gold have done?

Smooth play a lot of different music to what other radio stations play and this may hit Radio 2? It does depend what type of show you like listening too. I disagree some of you are critising Smooth as an any old IR station. It must be proving something to let Ofcom' allow it to network one of their shows. The station does have a lot of well known broadcaster who people are familar with, which will help pull in the listeners.

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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Mark Goodier's networked mid-morning show will be part of the launch schedule at Smooth Radio in the north east when the station launches on January 8th 2008. Also joining the weekday line-up will be Tom Davis, Paul Wappat, Dave Johnson and Steve Wells.

Tom Davis will present breakfast, having previously hosted the same shift at TFM. Tom has also worked at Century and more recently BBC Radio Newcastle. Paul Wappat makes the move with Tom from the BBC to host drivetime.

Dave Johnson, currently Signal Radio’s head of presentation will be taking on the same role at Smooth as well as presenting the afternoon show between 1 and 4pm. Based at the Stoke station for 20 years, Dave will be working alongside programme director Kevin Howard who has also recently moved from Signal to the north east.

Evenings on Smooth will be looked after by Steve Wells who is currently working as a postman in Sunderland. He left radio twelve months ago and moved to the city with his wife where he took up his postie position as a way to keep fit after an extended stay in hospital.

The regional licence for the north east was won by SAGA in April 2006 but was sold to GMG Radio in December. The original winning application stipulated no more than seven hours per week would originate from outside the area, so Mark Goodier's network show will be mostly created for north east listeners. The station will join the Smooth brand of stations already broadcasting in London, north west England, Glasgow, and the East and West Midlands.

The weekday schedule will look like this:

6-10am Tom Davies
10am-1pm Mark Goodier
1-4pm Dave Johnson
4-8pm Paul Wappat
8pm-12am Steve Wells

Weekend programmes will be announced shortly.

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Ian Robinson · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject:

But we still can't get Goodier in the North West! Laughing

oh, boo hoo, boo hoo Laughing