You may notice that we are paid to promote music events and venues either in actual money or maybe in free tickets to gift to our listeners. Examples are Mundell Music, That'll Be The Day and Rick Wakeman. Next year we will surely promote Legends Of Rock, Cambridge Rock Fest, maybe The Damned and other events.
I simply asked Alan not to compete with our clients by reading out tour dates and locations of bands he favours, for free just since he likes them. Other than that I left him to do as he pleased. On being sent my request he quit immediately and publicly. Now similar numbers of people, or actually slightly more, listen instead to Johnnie Reece.
Peter Philips is a wider subject and I will not try to put words in his mouth, but these are my views.
The period of time when he programmed Caroline at sea seems to be very important to him. When we revived local station Saint FM as Caroline Community Radio, Peter P was asked to programme it. Not by me I add, I had other intentions for the station. It was at once announced or suggested that this is how Radio Caroline would have sounded had it not been as was stated ' interrupted '.
It seemed to make sense to part combine CCR and Flashback but Peter P's view was that Flashback should move to his music policy, not that CCR should take Flashback programmes in their present form.
Mike Brill did not want to modernise FB. Peter P said that conversely he would not play dying music to a dying audience. Peter P has strongly held views and opinions that once formed don't change.
So as per usual within Caroline it is all down to arguing about music, always has been, always will be. As Peter himself said, rather wisely, ' the whole world is a programme director '.
Cliff Osbourne knew exactly how Caroline should sound and he took that and created Quasar Radio. Peter P created Radio Jupiter.
PM.
Funny innit,as soon as something contentious or not to his liking appears on the GS forum or even here 'Peter' pops up to opine about it all, it's almost as if he reads both forums every day. Yet when something concerning his baby gets mentioned he's nowhere to be read.
On the off chance he happens upon this thread maybe he'd also like to update listeners and followers on why the other 'Peter' was removed from his station.
Perhaps, Peter Moore would clarify the story, rather than lots of Speculation?
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