I like to think it was my recommendation that resulted in this:-
Emap has won the new FM local radio licence in Liverpool with a speech radio format, City Talk.
News, comedy, sport and “local issues” programmes are promised. If Radio City can pull this off successfully (given that proper, intelligent, speech radio can be quite expensive) this could quite possibly be the best thing to happen to radio in Liverpool for a long time.
But please don’t go down the American road of phone-ins starring loud-mouthed right-wingers.