The Radio Today Blog

It had to happen sooner or later.

Your radio industry news website is venturing into the familiar world of radio broadcasting, with our first actual radio show. Sure, we’ve played with podcasts in the past, but this will be a very special event.

The date: Monday 14th May
The venue: Grosvenor House Hotel, London
The event: Sony Radio Academy Awards 2012

The main thing you need to know is that if you are not attending the Sonys, but would like to find out who’s won, Radio Today is all you need. In previous years, we’ve tweeted and blogged the winners the second they are announced on stage. We’ll be doing that again this year of course, but in addition, Radio Today Live will commence at around 5pm and be with you all evening.

We’ll build up the atmosphere by chatting to those attending. The judges, the nominees, the VIPs and the lucky ones who managed to secure or blag a much wanted space in the Great Hall.

Just head over to radiotoday.co.uk/live - click the audio play button (if it doesn’t start automatically) then click the play button in the CoverItLive window. Then you can hear and see all the action. Live tweets, live photos, live interviews, live stage feed and live commentary.

The best thing is, thanks to our sponsor Broadcast Bionics, all this is free of charge. All we ask is that you tweet the hell out of our page and let everyone working in radio know about it.

If you tune in, you’ll hear our Editor - the man in the know - Stuart Clarkson, along with Pat Sharp bringing you all the action, balconyside, overlooking the entire event.

We hope you can tune in and spread the word!

Over the years we’ve tried to encourage people working in the radio industry to join and take part in a social network aimed at them.

We created a place presenters, producers, journalists, engineers, sales staff and even managers could share audio, photos, videos, memories and status updates. We tried it with raydio.org which attracted 500 members, then again with radiohub.co.uk, which we thought, was the perfect place to do so.

But once a registration was made, and a profile picture was added, people didn’t come back to join in the fun.

And lets face it - we’re not alone. Just look at Google +.

So instead of spending money on something which simply wasn’t wanted by the radio industry, we decided to close the site and transfer ownership of the domain and twitter address to someone who wanted to use the name “RadioHub” for something else (not another social network). It is radio related, and all will be explained soon by the nice people at G Media.

If you did register at radiohub.co.uk in the past - G Media did not buy your information - just the domain ownership. All your personal details have been destroyed.

Thanks for being a part of it!

We’ve always strived to cover all aspects of the radio industry - with news, comments, photos, links, videos and more. Until now, all content has been spread out over numerous domains and sub domains.

We’ve been doing some thinking and come to the conclusion that some of our content may not be reaching everyone who might like to see it - so we’ve decided to put most of our content in one place - in front of our 5,000 Facebook fans.

Most of the content will also appear on Twitter via @RadioToday - with our @RadioTodayLive account being reserved for coverage of major radio events.

Links which previously appeared on RadioTonight / Radio Today Extra will now appear in our Facebook feed. Our “Today in Radio” tweets will move to @RadioToday and also appear on Facebook, along with real-time radio information and comments, and our photos will appear mostly on Facebook.

These are just some of the features we’re working on, but as ever if you have any suggestions on how we can better serve the radio industry, please let us know.