I’m really sorry for the prolonged silence on this blog. Truth is, I couldn’t work out what to say.
We had an incredible reaction to the launch of Amazing Radio and started to make major plans for the future, but I didn’t feel I could talk about any of them until they were more certain – especially as some had legal implications, contracts and stuff. That went on a long, long time – much of the summer and into October. We had similar problems on air – there’s a lot of things we want to change, but to do so, we need more people and more resources. And there we were in a bind: until we knew for sure we were going to extend beyond our six month pilot (which is scheduled to end at the end of this month), we couldn’t do much. It would be immoral to offer someone a job and expect them to leave what they were previously doing, for something which could in theory only last a few weeks. The result is that Amazing Radio has remained a bit becalmed, needing more ‘everything’, but we’ve not been able to change much; and I’ve not been able to say much about it either. There was a lot of paddling under the surface, of course, but nothing we could talk about. It’s been incredibly frustrating.
But …… we’re nearly there: soon, we should have some announcements to make. I hope you’ll like them, that you’ll be listening when we make them – and that you’ll forgive us for saying nowt, for so long.
Paul Campbell, amazing founder
