03-11-2023, 08:56 AM
(02-11-2023, 09:28 PM)lookoutwales Wrote: Minster FM went one further and outsourced their local news to YTV’s newsroom in their early years.It was no coincidence that Minster’s Chairman when they launched was a certain Richard Whiteley.
(02-11-2023, 09:28 PM)lookoutwales Wrote: Can anyone else think of such tie ups between local commercial radio (as it was) and ITV regions?Quite a few stations used to do this with their regional ITV news, including some (or possibly all) of the Real Radio stations, plus Minster used to have a drive time two-way with Calendar in the early 00s, continuing their relationship with them.
(one that does spring to mind is Westcountry doing a 2-way with the Drivetime host on Pirate FM to plug what was on Westcountry Live - and this was well into the ITV plc era)