Osbourne: Part-Time, Work Experience, Chancellor

On the day when GB's Women Footballers kicked off the sporting action in an Olympics that is supposed to lift our spirits, we got word from the Office of National Statistics that showed the UK suffered a 3rd quarter of economic contraction, down a worse than expected 0.7%.

When publications such as The Daily Telegraph, and The New Statesman have such damning stories about a "part-time"... "work experience" Chancellor of The Exchequer, in other words, George Osbourne, you know you're in trouble.

But also, if you were a shareholder of a company that had seen three consecutive quarters of losses, 4 quarters of losses in 5, and 5 quarters of losses in 7,  you'd demand a change at the top level.  Both the CEO and CFO would be unquestionably under threat.  David Cameron and George Osbourne should be very seriously thinking about their positions, and George Osbourne should definitely resign.

Austerity Doesn't Work!

That should now be clear to every human being and your more discerning domesticated animals.

From my weekly show: Rangers Football Club

Earlier on, on my regular weekly web radio show on Spreaker, I asked whther you felt Rangers, in the wake of going into administration, should have been relegated to Division 3 of the Scottish Football League, or should they have only been relegated to Division 1, or Division 2.

Please leave your comments below.

Chris Moyles leaves Radio 1 Breakfast Show

Chris Moyles announced his departure from the Radio 1 Breakfast Show today, his final show will be around the beginning of September.  He is still contracted to the station until the end of 2014, so it's a sure fire bet that he'll have another show soon. 

Radio 1 has always been aimed for a younger audience.  Back in the late 1980s, it was regarded as a 15-34 station, a traditional Contemporary Hit Radio station.  But since those days, they seem to be aiming even younger.  Apparently, Radio 1's average listener is aged 30, and that's too old according to some in the industry. 

I find this whole idea of average listener age frankly ridiculous.  I find the idea of local stations going after specific demographics to be seriously flawed.  Local stations should be about serving local areas, rather than specific age groups.  Getting as many people tuned in to your station as possible, that should be the measure of success, along with revenue, and hopefully, profits.  National stations, like Radio 1, yes, you can do that, and still be successful, but for a local station to do that, and hope to gain enough listeners, I feel that as a strategy, it cannot win well enough to defeat a broad appeal station.