23-511: Tony Currie may refer to: Tony Currie (broadcaster) (born 1951), Scottish broadcaster working for BBC Scotland Tony Currie (footballer) (born 1950), former England national team footballer Tony Currie (ice hockey) (born 1957), Canadian ice hockey player Tony Currie (rugby league) (born 1962), Australian rugby league footballer See also [ edit ] Tony Curry (1937–2006), baseball player [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
46-525: A clear identity for itself, while changing its format to focus on more populist content, including less speech and more music. The station was relaunched as Real Radio Scotland in January 2002 following a buyout by GMG Radio . Real Radio has since been succeeded by Heart Scotland . In early 1993, the Radio Authority invited applicants to bid for a new regional FM licence covering Central Scotland and serving
69-415: A fallout with Jeff Graham. Both departures and those of several staff, who disagreed with Graham over a schedule revamp, led to a drop in listening figures, with half of its audience share disappearing - Scot FM had been reaching 16% of the population in the east and 14% in the west. IRG Chief Executive Michael Connolly claimed the station's new schedule was starting to regain lost listeners, while speaking of
92-513: A potential audience of 3.3 million listeners. Seven groups contested the franchise: Central Scotland Radio was named as the preferred bidder on 10 December 1993. The Radio Authority argued that the station would extend listeners choice and could demonstrate financial stability and professional qualifications appropriate to launching and maintaining the service during its eight-year licence period . The company's founding chairman, Sir David Steel (a non-executive director of Border Television), pledged
115-849: A silver Sony award in 1999 and a nomination at the New York Radio Awards. Robin Galloway also returned to Scot FM in March 1999, presenting a Sunday lunchtime show from his home studio in Manchester. Scot FM's owners IRG were brought by the Wireless Group in October 1999 for £21 million. By this time, the station was still loss making, prompting the company to sell off Scot FM. After rejecting bids from Chrysalis and Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH offered £29m but rejected due to competition commission issues),
138-638: A station promising a unique Scottish view of Britain was carrying most of its news bulletins from an agency producing syndicated bulletins in London. Complaints about the station began to appear in the press. Meanwhile, Scot FM management went back to the Radio Authority four times to seek permission to reduce its speech obligations within the licensed format. The station itself had limited music resources with around 1000 tracks on its playout systems, leading to some members of staff reportedly visiting local music shops to buy CDs of artists who were appearing as guests on
161-459: A three-year plan to turn its fortunes around. By the end of 1997, Jeff Graham was replaced by John Collins, prompting another programming revamp and the arrival of more new presenters, including Gary Marshall (breakfast), Dougie Jackson (mid-mornings) and Donny Hughes (drivetime). A revamp of news operations saw Glenn Campbell become Scot FM's Head of News, presenting a daily 90-minute news magazine programme Lunchtime Live , which went on to win
184-492: A year. This caused even further problems when Northsound (official broadcast partner with Aberdeen F.C. ) complained as Scot FM did not cover the Aberdeen area. After two years in the role, Scot FM's managing director Tom Hunter resigned, another programme controller became ill with stress, and most of the presenting line-up departed. In 1996, Scot FM reported losses of around £1 million. In July 1996, Grampian sold Scot FM to
207-447: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This British biographical article related to radio is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Scot FM Scot FM was a regional radio station serving Central and Southern Scotland . Broadcast from studios at Albert Quay in Leith , the station was billed as radio for Scotland's thinking classes but was unable to create
230-462: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tony Currie (broadcaster) Tony Currie (born 1951) is a Scottish broadcaster who worked as a continuity announcer for BBC Scotland . He began working at KPFK Radio in Los Angeles in 1972 before joining Scotland's first independent local radio station, Radio Clyde as its first voice on
253-472: Is that it has changed owners faster than I've changed coats. It was badly launched. They gave an impression that they were going to do Radio 4 type speech and then they went and hired Scottie McClue . For the first time, Scot FM will have an owner that might actually give Scottish Radio Holdings a run for their money. Following the acquisition, GMG Radio relaunched and rebranded the station as Real Radio Scotland at 8am on Tuesday 8 January 2002. The station
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#1733085580619276-524: The Guardian Media Group brought the station for £25.5 million in June 2001 - a sale which, at 13 times the annual revenue of Scot FM, allowed the station to clear its debts quickly. Analysts were surprised that TWG sold Scot FM, widely regarded as one of its best assets, rather than disposing of some of its 18 smaller stations. John Myers , chief executive of GMG Radio said: The problem with Scot FM
299-587: The Independent Television Commission . After a spell as chief executive of AsiaVision, he set up Irish satellite television station Tara Television as director of programmes before becoming chairman and chief executive of Cambridge Cafe Radio . He then became a television announcer-director for BBC Scotland's television channels, BBC ONE Scotland and BBC TWO Scotland, taking a year out to schedule, produce, and present BBC Radio Scotland's overnight strand, Nightshift. As host of that programme, he
322-542: The Independent Radio Group for £5.25 million, The new owners aimed to make Scot FM profitable by 1998 and boost listening figures further by using the regional franchise to its advantage. Two months after the sale, Norman Quirk became Scot FM's managing director with Jeff Graham as programme controller. The station lost two of its presenters in 1997 - Scottie McClue left in January when contract negotiations broke down while Robin Galloway quit in March after
345-513: The air. In April 1976, he joined Scottish Television as a continuity announcer, after freelancing at the station as a trail voiceover. He became chief announcer reading the daily lunchtime and late-evening Scottish News bulletins and bulletins within the nightly regional news programme, Scotland Today . After leaving STV in January 1987, he became Controller of Programmes for the Cable Authority and, latterly, cable programming controller for
368-529: The launch and early days of radio Clyde). He is the director of internet radio station Radio Six International, which syndicates programming to 56 radio stations around the world. He presents various weekly shows, including Nothing But The Best and The Lively Lounge . In 1993, Currie led a failed bid for Radio Six to win the new regional FM license for Central Scotland as a 24-hour news and speech station . The consortium lost out to Scot FM (now Heart Scotland ). This Scottish biographical article
391-470: The majority of its programming would be a unique Scottish view of Britain, the world, and Central Scotland's place in it. We will be primarily a talk station with news, travel information, and weather reports. Sport, politics, and the arts will be covered and listeners will be heavily involved through regular phone-ins . There was some disagreement and even questioning of the decision to let two television companies already running regional ITV franchises operate
414-454: The new licence. Scot FM began broadcasting on Friday 16 September 1994, after two weeks of test transmissions. Problems arose even before the station went on air - none of the thirteen presenters listed in its original application schedule had remained with the company and its target of 50% quality speech output at peak times could not be achieved. The station's news service was contracted out to Reuters Radio, leading to some confusion over how
437-405: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tony_Currie&oldid=1002178474 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
460-502: The station took place shortly afterwards with the entire presenting team being replaced by new signings including Alison Craig, Robin Galloway and Scottie McClue . Despite the new presenting line-up and a reported improvement in weekly listening figures to 350,000, complaints regarding format and regulatory problems led to another shake-up at management level. The station replaced its syndicated Reuters Radio news bulletins with an in-house service, although this had limited resources and
483-435: The station. The first official RAJAR figures released in early 1995 revealed that the station had a weekly audience of 8%, far short of the target 13% share, making it one of the least successful UK radio stations in terms of audience share. Within seven months of the station going on air, five different presenters had hosted Scot FM's breakfast show and a programme controller had left owing to ill health . A major revamp of
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#1733085580619506-405: Was reportedly under-staffed with inexperienced young journalists who were even forced to travel by bus to help cut costs. In May 1995, Border Television pulled out of the company and sold its stake to Grampian, which became the sole owner of Scot FM. In another attempt to improve its fortunes, Scot FM brought exclusive rights to carry live Scottish Football League match commentaries for £155,000
529-934: Was the first to broadcast from the Corporation's headquarters at Pacific Quay, Glasgow. He chaired both the Royal Television Society of Scotland and the Radio Academy in Scotland. As a writer, he contributed to Radio Times , TV Times , The Guardian , The Herald , Scotland on Sunday , and the Glasgow Evening Times , and was a regular columnist for Broadcast magazine , Broadcast Systems International , The Times Educational Supplement , and Communications Monthly . He wrote three published books: A Concise History of British Television , The Radio Times Story, and Not Quite Altogether Now! , 2009 ) (the story of
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