LBC News 1152 is London's only rolling news radio station. It broadcasts in Greater London on AM, DAB, Sky, Virgin Media and online.

Programming[link]

The station broadcasts between 7am and 7pm on weekdays; from 7am to 6pm on Saturdays and between 7am and 5pm on Sundays. The evening and overnight service is a simulcast of sister station LBC 97.3.

In January and February 2012 the station reverted to live presentation throughout the day. For the previous four years parts of the daytime schedule had been automated.

The following month the station adopted a revised format with a new strapline: "London's news, travel and weather in 15 minutes, every 15 minutes".

Every 15 minute segment includes news headlines, several longer news reports or interviews, a travel bulletin, sports headlines and (on weekdays) business news.

Weekend features include an events guide, movie news, a showbiz roundup and local newspaper reviews.

The station's suppliers include Sky News Radio and Trafficlink.

Presenters[link]

The station's weekday schedule is divided into three four-hour blocks presented by Jim Diamond (breakfast), Phil Kitromilides (daytime) and Andy Hayes (drive time). Weekend presenters include Chloe Aust, Frankie McCamley, Katy Murrells and Rupert Bhatia.

Past presenters include: Luisa Baldini, Rick Kelsey, Jamie Shepherd, Douglas Cameron, Peter Deeley, Sandy Warr, James Hirst, Maggie Doyle, James Hartigan, Declan Harvey, Sue Mansfield, Kim Michaels, Russell Hookey, Richard Midson, Clemency Norris, Richard Hakier and Jonathan Savage. Former Sky News anchorman Bob Friend was a guest presenter on the station at the time of the 2005 British general election.

History[link]

The frequency has a complicated history of format and ownership, most recently with the swap between 1152 AM and 97.3 FM. In January 2003 the station relaunched as LBC News 1152.

The history of continuous news radio in London dates back to the early 1990s. In September 1993 London News Radio was awarded the FM and AM licenses previously held by LBC. They proposed a continuous news service on FM and a news/talk format on AM.

By the time the license was due to start in October 1994 London News Radio had been through several upheavals, first acquiring LBC and then itself being bought up by Reuters.

At launch on 5 October 1994 the company was known as London Radio Services and it operated London News 97.3FM and London News Talk 1152AM.

London News initially operated on a 20-minute wheel. The first presenters on air were Michael Wilson and Clare Catford. The morning sequence was presented by LBC veteran Jonathan Staples with Nicky Broyd the afternoon presenter. Drivetime was in the hands of Christopher Terry and Brenda Ellison. John Terrett was the evening host.

By spring 1995 the rolling news format gave way to a more traditional schedule of news sequences and magazine programmes.

In summer 1995 the station's name was shortened to News 97.3.

In 1996 Reuters sold London Radio Services to the newly formed London News Radio (unrelated to the previous LNR company), in which ITN, DMGT, Reuters and GWR Group held equal shares.

In summer 1996 the station reverted to a rolling news format, initially with no name (the station was branded as 97.3FM).

In autumn 1996 - following a move to ITN's headquarters - the station was relaunched as News Direct 97.3FM and Chris Mann was appointed editor.

In 2000 the station was renamed ITN News Direct 97.3FM

In late 2002 - following the sale of the station to Chrysalis Radio - the station dropped the ITN prefix and returned to its previous name until the rebrand as LBC News 1152.

During Christmas and New Year 2002/03 an LBC News-branded rolling news service was carried on both 97.3FM and 1152AM prior to the full launches of LBC 97.3 and LBC News 1152.

In Spring 2007 it was announced that the station will be replaced by Sky News Radio.^[2] This move comes alongside Channel 4's 4 Digital Group second DAB multiplex bid.

On 18 October 2007, the station's new owners Global Radio announced that they and Sky had scrapped a joint venture to turn LBC News 1152 into a 24 hour Sky News branded station.^[3]

In Summer 2008 the 1152 service was substantially cut back. The overnight automated service was abandoned and replaced with a simulcast of LBC 97.3.

The daytime service became semi-automated, with much greater reliance on recorded audio from LBC's FM talk station and Sky News. LBC's five-and-a-half-year relationship with business news provider Bloomberg was also abandoned in favour of business updates from CNBC.

On 15 November 2010, LBC News 1152 was added to the Sky and Virgin Media EPGs, with the station using channel slots formerly occupied by Galaxy Yorkshire.^[4] This came six weeks ahead of Galaxy's rebranding to Capital FM.

Listenership[link]

LBC NEWS 1152 has 373,000 listeners every week, who listen for around 3.4 hours a week. Since 2005, the station has shown consistent moderate growth in terms of people listening, and roughly static total hours.

In terms of competitors, it falls short of sister station LBC 97.3, which achieves 928,000 listeners (who listen for 11.7 hours a week), and BBC London, which achieves 560,000 listeners (who listen for 5.5 hours a week).

(Source: RAJAR Q3 2010; Media UK)

See also[link]

• LBC

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website

Adi Godrej
Born	(1942-04-03) 3 April 1942 (age 70)
Residence	Mumbai
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Occupation	Chairman of Godrej Group, Chairman of Indian School of Business
Net worth	$2.4 billion (2012)[1]
Religion	Zoroastrianism
Spouse	Parmeshwar Godrej
Children	3

Adi Godrej (Hindi: अदी गोदरेज; born 3 April 1942) is an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. As of 2012^[update], he is one of the richest Indians with net worth of US$2.4 billion. He is also the second richest person of Parsi descent in the world after Pallonji Mistry.^[2]

Career[link]

Godrej received his undergraduate degree from MIT and his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a member of Tau Beta Pi. After his return to India, he joined the family business. He modernized and systematized management structures and implemented process improvements. Adi Godrej took the Godrej Group to great height during controlled economy era.

After the liberalization process, Adi Godrej restructured company's policies to meet the challenges of globalisation. In the early 2000s, the Group completed a 10-year restructuring process through which each business became a stand-alone company with a CEO/COO from outside the Godrej family.

Under Adi Godrej's leadership, the group is also involved in philanthropic activities. Godrej is major supporter of the World Wildlife Fund in India, it has developed a green business campus in the Vikhroli township of Mumbai, which includes a 150-acre (0.61 km²) mangrove forest and a school for the children of company employees.

He was elected as the president of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the year 2012-13.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Profile at Godrej Group
• Profile at Forbes
• Adi Godrej collected news and commentary at The Times of India
• Elected CII President collected news and commentary at The Economic Times of India

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Clive Bull Born: 23 January 1959 is an award-winning radio talk show host, best known for presenting a late-night show on LBC 97.3 in London, England.

Background[link]

Bull was educated at Dulwich College in south east London, between 1970-77 where he was a leading light of the tape based "College Radio". He has a degree in Educational Broadcasting from the University of London and a distinction in Radio Journalism from The National Broadcasting School.

He joined LBC as a telephone operator. He worked as a producer for Steve Allen's LBC show Nightline and later went on to review books for the same show. Later he presented a range of programmes including gardening phone-ins and the station's youth programme Young London. His big break was as host of the overnight Clive Bull Through the Night Show which ran for several years in the early 1990s. In 1994 he was hired by London News Talk 1152 (as LBC's AM service was briefly known) to host the weekend late-night slot. The following year he moved to weeknights where he remained for 16 years.

LBC 97.3 radio show[link]

Bull's show aired live Sunday to Thursday from 10pm to 1am. With slight variations in show times, Bull has occupied the same late night slot since 1995 despite numerous changes of station brand and ownership during this time.

Discussions tended to focus around two or three topics each evening based loosely upon what is in the news, or what interested or affected Clive. However, Bull encouraged callers to talk about whatever they liked, on the basis that more interesting discussions come from things people genuinely care about. There were special-interest nights, including the successful science hour series with Brian J. Ford. Between 1999 and 2007 Bull's show was produced by Bob Johnson, who produced his last show on Thursday 20 December 2007. Previous producer Dan Wright went on to work for Independent Television News.

The 1991 short television programme Night Caller followed the callers to Clive's through-the-night show. The programme is available on YouTube.

In June 2011 Clive said he would be taking a break from talk radio, stating that "After thirty wonderful years with LBC, I'm looking forward to being up all day and going to bed at a sensible hour".^[1] Clive Bull was succeeded on the Late Show by his friend and former LBC colleague Anthony Davis. Less than a year later, Clive returned to LBC presenting a Sunday evening show, starting on Easter Sunday 2012.^[2]

Acclaim[link]

In June 2005, Bull came 19th in the Radio Times survey of the forty most powerful people on radio, the highest ranked phone-in host. He was described as "a brilliant phone-in host who knows that the way to make captivating talk radio is not to rant or rage, but to create a separate world, away from the nonsense of current affairs - then invite his listeners into it. His show is the most listened-to night-time programme in London and is an understated joy,"^[3] while The Independent called him "The Emperor of night-time talk radio."^[4]

The Experts' Expert from The Observer wrote "There's no-one quite like him. You get the impression that he's living just a bit dangerously, and that's what makes phone-ins exciting".^[4]

He has won several awards including a Bronze Sony Radio Award. The judges described him "An exception to the run-of-the-mill phone-in. It was all down to the presenter who appeared so laid back that his callers could not see how he was teasing them. A very dry sense of humour and great fun." ^[4]

He won Best Talk Show Host at the New York Radio Awards in 2001.

Celebrity callers[link]

• Peter Cook made a series of calls with the pseudonym "Sven from Swiss Cottage", a Norwegian fisherman who'd come to London looking for romance and to escape the fish-obsessed phone-ins of Norway. Over time, Cook created an elaborate story of Sven's attempts to find love, or to find his estranged wife, often claiming to call from remote parts of the world where he believed his wife may have gone. These have been recorded in "Tragically I Was An Only Twin", a collection of his writings and are also available on Bull's subscription podcast. Peter Cook's former neighbour Rainbow George Weiss remains a regular caller with news of his political activities. ^[5]
• Michael Barrymore once phoned in to take part in a talent contest as himself. He came seventh. ^[5]
• Tony Blackburn called in to defend Smart cars.^[5]
• Bruce Mansfield (aka: Bruce Mane) is an Australian personality who is the presenter of nightline on the Australian talk radio station 3AW. He is an aussie larrikin on the show who is looking for a wife to take back to Australia. ^[5]
• Jane Horrocks answered a listener's question about a movie (featured on 20 December 2005 Celebrity Callers Special). ^[6]
• Patsy Palmer, called in to join a discussion about Cockney accents, and on another occasion, for listeners to look out for her lost dog, which was subsequently found and returned to her (featured on 20 December 2005 Celebrity Callers Special). ^[6]
• Kerry Katona called in just before leaving to play I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! when Bull wondered whether she'd had a cosmetic surgery, which she said she hadn't.^[5]
• Iain Lee, used to make prank calls to the show. Years later he had his own show on the station. ^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

• LBC 97.3 presenter page and mirror at [2]
• Clive Bull at the Internet Movie Database