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TIME FOR RADIO CHOICE.
Happy new year. I was struck by Bob Harris's comments in the pre-Christmas MW where he bemoaned the fact that he couldn't hear the music he played on his Radio Two show anywhere else.
One of my resolutions in 2001 is to try to catch his show (even if it means taping it, as many friends do) and then following up on the new artists he exposes that do not get any other exposure. His comment underlines the fact that one of the sad features of 2000 was the increasing homogeneity of UK radio. The Radio Authority is much to blame for being so lax in drawing the rules for new stations so that they can play what they like and ignore their original briefs. Let's hope that internet radio grows substantially in 2001 to provide at least some alternative to the boring state of what is on offer in the UK today.
Speaking of the internet, I was pleased to see that one third of British households are now online - which of course means that two-thirds are not. We need to be aware of ...