LBC’s
original application to the Independent Broadcasting Authority for its
franchise talked about a daily breakfast-time programme that would “transmit
our own editorial conferences ‘live’ so that listeners can be involved in our
news-gathering … with no attempts to conceal our own mistakes”. This has been
quietly dropped. Says Mr Cudlipp (Michael Cudlipp, chief editor): “I’ve never
been at an editorial conference where journalists do anything other than mutter
or swear.”
The
programme director of Capital Radio, in which the Observer has an 11½% interest,
is a former BBC television producer Micahel Bukht, who says they will be an “adult
pop music station in the daytime”.
Between the music will be the usual interviews and news.
Drama will
be represented by several soap operas. The
Mistresses will be a bit of romance about King Charles II and his girls (Mr
Bukht describes it as “thigh-squeezing time”), Bed Sit will be about a London boarding house, and Me and ‘Er will be a topical
five-minuter. “If it’s raining outside,” says Mr Bukht, “we can have it raining
in the script.”
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