Month: September 2021

Nicolau Santos, President of the Portuguese Public Media Service RTP, is the keynote speaker in the opening session at Radiodays Europe (RDE) 2021, which will take place in Lisbon from October 9 to 11.Santos is a former journalist with an experience of over 40 years, specialising in Economics. He is also the co-founder of two newspapers , the weekly  ‘Semanário Económico’ and the daily ‘Diário Económico’. Nicolau worked for almost two decades at the major Portuguese Weekly Newsaper, ‘Expresso’, where he served as Deputy Director. He co-hosted the weekly TV Show ‘Expresso da Meia Noite’ at SIC Notícias.During his career, Santos was also Director of the daily ‘Público‘ newspaper, working with the ANOP News Agency and several other newspapers, magazines and radio stations such as TSF and RTP Antena 1.

In 2018 was named Chairman and CEO of Lusa – the Portuguese News Agency. Since June 1, 2021, he has been the President of RTP.RDE 2021 will be a live in-person event, but it will also be available virtually, on-line.If you registered for the event in 2020 your ticket is still valid for the event in 2021. It is your choice whether to travel and attend in person or to attend the event virtually.Register here. […]

Content from BPRRadio stations are famous (well some infamous) for their April Fools Day stunts.

And so it was for Radio Windy (now The Breeze) based in the capital of New Zealand, Wellington.The promotions department at Radio Windy came up with what they thought would be an hilarious April Fools Day promotion.The idea was that the Inter Island Ferry linking the country’s North Island to the South Island would be running free joy rides on April 1.Now the catch was that these joy rides weren’t starting from the ferry terminal but from the large international dock where the cruise ships departed.This was a big event (if it were actually going to happen).The promotions team and a few of the presenters were there at the international dock ready to greet the gullible listeners with some free giveaways and a big April Fools day joke sign.It was a great laugh……. until a bus turned up full of disabled children who had travelled over two hours to be there.Of course the local paper, television stations and radio competitors had a field day.The promotions manager kept his job……well “a” job…. he was quickly dispatched back to the copy department.David Kidd […]