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Ian Collins leaves LBC after five years on-air

Late night presenter Ian Collins has left LBC to take some time off, just days before Eddie Mair is due to join the station. In a video posted on social, Ian confirms the reason for his sudden departure. “By the time you see this I will have left LBC after five years, I’ve done my very last late show." “There’s no conspiracy, I’ve not died or been fired, this is just about...

RAJAR Q2 2018: London and national brands update

Kiss has taken over from Capital as the biggest commercial radio station in London in the latest Q2/2018 RAJAR listening figures. Capital’s audience in the capital is down 10.8% year on year to 2.063m, while Kiss has had a great quarter, hitting 2.087m weekly listeners – 24,000 more than its rival. In third place is Magic (1.667m), which leapfrogs rival Heart this quarter (1.404m). LBC is in fifth on reach with 1.280m listeners in the capital (down 9.3% year on year).

Ofcom calls LBC meeting after Farage complaint

Ofcom has requested a meeting with LBC managers to discuss its compliance processes after it rejected a complaint about Nigel Farage. The presenter, who is on-air Monday to Thursday 7pm till 8pm, attracted a complaint from a listener after giving out five statistics regarding Brexit during his show on 3rd October 2017.

Eddie Mair confirmed for LBC from September

LBC has confirmed it’s hired Radio 4 PM presenter Eddie Mair to do a new show on the commercial station from September. It follows his news yesterday that he was leaving the BBC after more than 30 years. The Global station hasn’t yet said which programme Eddie will be presenting, but says it will announce more details over the next few weeks. Eddie says: “LBC has established itself as a ground-breaking broadcaster...