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Tuesday, June 21, 2005 at 3:55 PM

Following the merger of my beloved ex-money provider GWR with Capital to form GCap, it transpires that Emap have decided to buy-out Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH):

Read the Guardian article here

Could it be a good thing?

My fecking arse.

Job losses, less choice, more networking... give it a few years and it'll be GCap-smap, a company fully owned by Clearchannel and networked for 18 hours a day from New York, with jingles allowing "local" shows:

[DJ] Hey, how're you doing today?  It's a -
[Jingle] Cloudy
[DJ] day in 
[Jingle] Wolverhampton
[DJ] which is
[Jingle] a bit bad.
[DJ] We're here on
[Jingle] Wolverhampton's Beacon Radio
[DJ] to provide you with great songs and a real local 
     feel for your area here
[Jingle] In Wolverhampton
[DJ] A great tune next that I heard on my way into 
     new yor-er, here this morning - next.
...

In fact, what am I saying? We'll just have a DJ-O-Matic at all the stations in the UK. At least Homer Simpson would enjoy it ;-)

Yep, I'm totally not bothered about radio anymore now I've decided to give it up. Totally not bothered.

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