IN 1984 INDEPENDENT RADIO GAVE BIRTH TO ITS OWN SINGLES CHART SHOW IN
DIRECT COMPETITION TO THE CHART BROADCAST ON BBC RADIO ONE. IN
2005 THE CHARTS BROADCAST ON INDEPENDENT RADIO ARE LISTENED TO BY A
LARGER AUDIENCE THAN THE CHART PRGRAMME ON THE BBC.
THIS IS HOW THE I.B.A. VIEWED THE ILR NETWORK CHART BACK IN 1985:
David Jensen Broadcasting The Network
Chart on BRMB
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Despite a decline in
record sales over the years, there remains a very substantial interest
among listeners in the national charts. It had been known for some time
that a sizeable proportion of the audience for BBC Radio One's Sunday
afternoon chart show consisted of otherwise loyal ILR listeners. In
October 1984, ILR met the challenge and scheduled its first
simultaneously broadcast music programme directly against the BBC's
chart. The Network Chart Show is presented by David 'Kid' Jensen, of
Capital Radio, and taken by virtually all the independent Local Radio
stations in the UK. In its first six months on air it virtually doubled
ILR's Sunday
afternoon audience.
Record sales data
are drawn from a
panel of 300 record retailers throughout the UK, and compiled by MRIB.
The Network Chart is processed rapidly much faster than most other
national charts. The final positions are available to the show's
producers at Capital Radio early Friday afternoon and ready for Sunday
transmission at 5 p.m. The information is also immediately available,
by teleprinter, to all the other stations.
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David 'Kid' Jensen got his
nickname when he joined Radio Luxembourg and became that station's
youngest presenter. It stuck through his Radio Trent and Radio One days
and is still with him at Capital Radio where he also hosts a daily
show. The moment he opens his programme on Sunday afternoons his voice
is fed all over the country, through complex technical arrangements
including Independent Radio News' contribution line circuits. His
enthusiasm, pace and style of presentation, combined with up-to-date
information has created a winning formula for The Network Chart Show.
So much so that not only can ILR boast to be the first with new chart
positions, but David Jensen won a nomination for 'UK Personality of the
Year' in the 1985 Sony Radio Awards.
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