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Local Radio Company rejects UKRD bid
LONDON - The Local Radio Company (TLRC) has rejected a takeover bid from rival group UKRD. ... UKRD, which owns stations including Pirate FM 102 in the West Country and Star 107 in Cambridge ... -executive director John Perriss strongly recommended the company's shareholders reject the UKRD bid. Perriss said the UKRD offer should be rejected on the grounds that the offer was lower than Hallwood's, that Hallwood ...
By James Quilter / Brand Republic 14-Apr-09
UKRD attacks 'ruthless' BBC over radio competition
LONDON - Local radio firm UKRD has told BBC director-general Mark Thompson that the corporation ... In a letter to Thompson dated June 30, UKRD chief executive William Rogers attacks the BBC's "growing commercial approach" and accused it of being determined to "dominate local markets by ruthlessly ... funding or income problem if it smacked them across the face," he said. UKRD owns 10 local stations ...
By by Daniel Farey-Jones / Brand Republic 03-Jul-06
Pirate FM owner hires TigerRed for integrated task
LONDON - Radio group UKRD has appointed TigerRed to handle an integrated marketing push across its ... UKRD is one of the UK's fastest growing commercial radio networks, targeting mainly 25- to 50-year ... marketing, events and website design for both the individual stations and the UKRD group as a whole. The aim is to increase each station's local share of audience, and strengthen the profile of the UKRD ...
By Staff, / Brand Republic 16-Sep-02
Protest pressures Ofcom to curb radio regulation
LONDON - Commercial radio company UKRD is protesting about the burden of regulation on small radio ... UKRD said it will stop broadcasts from Star FM in Stroud at the end of the month and hand back its ... executive of UKRD, called for a number of concessions from Ofcom to improve the lot of smaller stations ... and makes some sort of nod in the direction that is needed." Last year, Ofcom rejected UKRD's application ...
By by Daniel Farey-Jones / Brand Republic 22-Sep-06
Radio station owner warns industry after Ofcom 'yellow card'
LONDON - Ofcom has issued a 'yellow card' to UKRD radio station Star FM in Bristol for failing ... The decision prompted UKRD to warn other stations which must to keep to "difficult formats" that they are likely to fall foul of Ofcom's content policing as they fight for listeners amid lean times for ad revenues. UKRD group programme director Phil Angell admitted the station had "strayed over the line". He ...
By by Daniel Farey-Jones / Brand Republic 16-Aug-06
Global suffers advertising drop as bidders battle over radio minnow
radio stations in the UK, including Durham FM and Isle of Wight Radio. Bidders UKRD and Hallwood have been competing since UKRD first bid 2p per TLRC share on March 27. Hallwood yesterday raised its offer from 3.5p to 5p per share immediately after UKRD made an offer at 4p per share. Hallwood already owns ...
By Daniel Farey-Jones / Brand Republic 12-May-09
Shareholder ups The Local Radio Company offer to £2.5m
Normal 0 The offer has come from Hallwood, which had previously bid 1.8m for the company. Hallwood's new offer values the company's shares at 3.5p each. Yesterday, rival bidder UKRD offered 3.25p per share, after The Local Radio Company (LRC) rejected a 1.25m bid it made in March ...
By Jennifer Whitehead / Brand Republic 30-Apr-09
Radio 1 and 2 distinct from commercial sector says Thompson
commerciallyfunded national stations would not help commercial radio's cause. Yesterday, local radio firm UKRD ... broadcasting. In the letter, dated June 30, UKRD chief executive William Rogers attacked the BBC's "growing ...
By by Mark Banham / Brand Republic 04-Jul-06
Radio faces shake-up as Ofcom looks to the future
the national stations. Ofcom was alerted to the degree of discontent in local radio in September when UKRD ...
By by Daniel Farey-Jones / Brand Republic 16-Nov-06
GCap to hold on to stations after bids disappoint
GCap admitted that it would not have made sense to sell the stations at the level of the offers it received, although it claimed there were several bids. The interested parties are believed to include The Local Radio Company, UKRD and Ulster Television. Five of the stations are in the South West, including ...
By by Daniel Farey-Jones / Brand Republic 24-Mar-06
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