GCap Media has warned staff against using Facebook during working hours, after it emerged that the social networking website is the most-visited website across the entire group. In a company-wide email leaked to The Radio Magazine, the GCap Media technology department described the use of the popular website as “excessive”. According to the email, Facebook consumes almost 100 gigabytes of bandwidth each month across the group. This is twice as much as the second-placed website - the Highways Agency ...

Dublin radio station FM104 has banned the number one single from Sean Kingston after listeners complained about lyrics mentioning suicide. The Emap pop station has received a number of complaints about the song Beautiful Girls, which deals with unrequited love and includes the line: “You’ll have me suicidal when you say it’s over”. According to the Irish Independent, FM104 held a text poll of listeners, with 73 per cent agreeing that the song ...

The entire breakfast team at Galaxy 105 in Yorkshire has been suspended after a listener complaint about a discussion on drunken stealing. Breakfast presenter Simon Hirst and co-hosts Danny and Jojo were taken off the air for a week after their show on Monday morning. It is understood that the complaint came from a woman who was listening to Galaxy in the car with her two sons. For the full story, see this week’s Radio Magazine.

More details have emerged of the GCap One Network overhaul. First of the major changes to The One Network will be the launch of two new network shows hosted by celebirty DJs Myleene Klass and Jeremy Kyle. Additionally, on-air changes will include the enhancement of the stations’ local news, views and information by offering up to the minute breaking news, traffic updates, travel information, gig listings and details of local events. The network will undergo a full re-launch online. GCap’s Steve Orchard ...

Muxco has hired former GCap corporate development executive Matt Deegan to the newly created role of creative director. Deegan left GCap earlier this year - where he was responsible for drawing up the company’s digital multiplex bids, and also helped the broadcaster win the XFM South Wales licence. Since leaving GCap, Deegan has worked as a new media and radio consultant for a number of commercial and BBC radio stations under the name authenticbuzz.com. Muxco managing director ...

Muxco has beaten rival bidder Now Digital to win the local DAB multiplex licences for Herefordshire/Worcestershire and North-east Wales/West Cheshire. In Herefordshire/Worcestershire, MuxCo has teamed up with Murfin Media and Town and Country Broadcasting, and will launch an eight-station line-up, with three transmitters covering 80 per cent of the population by next September. Stations include GCap’s Wyvern FM, Sunshine 954 from Murfin, Easy Radio, religious station UCB and Traffic Radio from the Highways Agency. Other formats include Local ...

The BBC will ban polystyrene cups from the Media Centre and Broadcast Centre in White City, west London from next week. Today’s issue of BBC in-house magazine Ariel reports that disposable cups will be banished from the two buildings from 10 September – a victory for the magazine’s “Use Your Mug” campaign. BBC workplace communications co-ordinator Katherine Everitt said: “Staff need to remember to reuse and wash their mugs, stack dishwashers and wipe down their hub areas.” The move follows a one-week ...

GCap’s One Network is to undergo a major revamp this autumn, which will see the introduction of several group-wide network shows, The Radio Magazine can exclusively reveal. As part of the changes, Birmingham’s oldest commercial radio station, BRMB, is preparing for a relaunch in a bid to challenge Heart’s supremacy as the most listened-to station in the city – with a new programme director, new logo and a realigned music policy. Full details ...