Ever caught up with people you used to work with? Laughed about the old days? Bet you didn't have days like these.
Twenty two years ago, I was in Sofia, Bulgaria training a young radio guy in Selector, then the leading - pretty much the only - music scheduling software for radio. Pertinently, we also spent a lot of time on Western radio programming styles.
Vladimir Daynov is a
big wheel in Bulgarian radio these days. Back then, he was the head
of music at the fledgling FM Plus; I'd been sent out there
by the then GWR group. Typically for the time, GWR had moved into Europe as the UK market matured.
Eastern European radio was not exactly regulated; after the Iron Curtain fell, expectations were wildly optimistic. Now, it's a lot closer to the Western model. That may or not be a good thing, depending on your point of view. We'll come back to that, Vladimir and me. We've been swapping notes for weeks...
Eastern European radio was not exactly regulated; after the Iron Curtain fell, expectations were wildly optimistic. Now, it's a lot closer to the Western model. That may or not be a good thing, depending on your point of view. We'll come back to that, Vladimir and me. We've been swapping notes for weeks...
