Gavin’s Gaily Gigest

The Guardian have published their student media awards shortlist (although unfortunately I can’t find it on their website at the moment) and Sam Read of the University of Reading has been shortlisted for “Broadcaster of the Year”. Thoroughly well-deserved if you ask me, as Sam worked on Junction11’s news for three years non-stop, often when [...]

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It has been a week since the following emails were exchanged and I’ve heard nothing back from Junction11, the student radio station I used to have a show on. To refresh your memory, here’s the original email from Junction11 and my reply.

For the sake of posterity, here’s the short and less than sweet email I [...]

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The slightly light-hearted reply I’ve sent to this email:
My re-collection of Monday’s show is that we certainly did not swear - I think the harshest thing I said was “bugger”. I appreciate that if I lived in the US and had the FCC to contend with, I’d be screwed, but “bugger” is hardly a post-watershed [...]

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Email received today from the head of Junction11, the student radio station my friend and I broadcast on once a week:

It was brought to my attention that your Monday show did not comply with the rules that we must follow as a broadcasting service.
Having listened to your show, I must stress that it contained several [...]

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