Douglas Muggeridge

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Douglas Muggeridge (born 1928 in Harrogate , Yorkshire , † February 26, 1985 in London ) was a director of BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 from February 1969 to 1976.

Life

Muggeridge first worked as a reporter for the Liverpool Post and in 1956 he joined the BBC as a radio producer. He was appointed head of Radio 1 & 2 in February 1969. Following Robin Scott, the first head of the two networks, Muggeridge attempted to update the BBC's thinking about pop music radio. Although he was not a big fan of pop music himself, he was responsible for giving the two radio stations their individual identity and for launching a twice daily news magazine on Radio 1. Under the title Newsbeat , this program runs to this day on Radio 1. In 1971 he appointed Rodney Collins - known through his weekly music columns in the daily newspaper as a supporter of pirate stations - as publicity officer for the two networks and thus tried to gain a larger share of the reporting for radio 1 in music magazines like New Musical Express , Melody Maker , Disc and Record Mirror . In 1971 Muggeridge endowed leading BBC broadcasters such as Tony Blackburn , Jimmy Young and Pete Murray with long-term contracts because the new private radio stations challenged state broadcasters. Muggeridge later served as the radio's program director and assistant manager before becoming executive director of External Broadcasting in 1981, overseeing the BBC World Service . He was a nephew of Malcolm Muggeridge .

Muggeridge died on February 26, 1985 in St Thomas' Hospital , London .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BBC annual report and handbook 1986 , 1985, ISBN 978-0563204480 , p. 160-1
  2. ^ A b Martin, Chad Andrew (2003) Paradise now: youth politics and the British counterculture, 1958-1974 , Stanford University Press, p. 134
  3. ^ A b " Douglas Muggeridge ", Toledo Blade , February 27, 1985, p. 14, accessed December 18, 2010
  4. ↑ a b Briggs, Asa (1995) The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, vol. 5: Competition , Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0192159649 , p. 704
  5. ^ " UK Radio Figures up, MOR Slant for Network, " Billboard , January 1, 1972, p. 27, accessed December 18, 2010


personal data
SURNAME Muggeridge, Douglas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and radio director
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Harrogate , Yorkshire
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1985
Place of death London