: Miscellania, bookended by BBC news links
£1 coin counterfeit rate now at levels that caused other countries to redesign their coins. Funnily enough, no such problems with the euro.
I note that Power FM - one of the four Radio Actives that covers Southampton (that's when you know you live in a city - Weymouth had just one Radio Active, though I think it's just about possible to receive two others) - has been ticked off by OFCOM. I also note that their current on-air competition - text in when you hear a given song, and someone will be chosen to win tickets to the station's own Quirks-unfriendly club night in early October - has changed somewhat in the last week. Previously, someone would be phoned back within a minute of the song ending. The last few days, this has been delayed by around 15 minutes. I presume this is a response to OFCOM...
While I'm on a Radio Active rant, I'll note that around 11:30pm last night as I settled into bed I was flicking between various stations on my DAB set (haven't let go of it just yet and am actually listening to it more at present than I have in at least two years). One of the Radio Actives was playing
The jingle follows it.
Flicked to, eventually, another Radio Active, Wave 105. They too had a love show, and they pulled off an even more remarkable mistake, if that's possible, in playing
£1 coin counterfeit rate now at levels that caused other countries to redesign their coins. Funnily enough, no such problems with the euro.
I note that Power FM - one of the four Radio Actives that covers Southampton (that's when you know you live in a city - Weymouth had just one Radio Active, though I think it's just about possible to receive two others) - has been ticked off by OFCOM. I also note that their current on-air competition - text in when you hear a given song, and someone will be chosen to win tickets to the station's own Quirks-unfriendly club night in early October - has changed somewhat in the last week. Previously, someone would be phoned back within a minute of the song ending. The last few days, this has been delayed by around 15 minutes. I presume this is a response to OFCOM...
While I'm on a Radio Active rant, I'll note that around 11:30pm last night as I settled into bed I was flicking between various stations on my DAB set (haven't let go of it just yet and am actually listening to it more at present than I have in at least two years). One of the Radio Actives was playing
Hunter- my appreciation of Dido is reasonably well-documented, and I sung along an octave down as is my near-automatic response to a Dido song.
The jingle follows it.
This is The Love Show on RadioHello, people! It's an anti-love song! Have you been listening to the lyrics?!? Or are you too busy focusing on your extensive fawning coverage of a team soon to be playing in Division III?ActiveHampshire.
Flicked to, eventually, another Radio Active, Wave 105. They too had a love show, and they pulled off an even more remarkable mistake, if that's possible, in playing
Stepping Stoneinto the midnight news. I then flicked back to Radio Hampshire for said news which is where I heard this. Fortunately, this is about 4km from where I live, but didn't half scare me when I heard it.