{"id":222402,"date":"2025-10-18T14:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T14:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/222402\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T14:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T14:32:08","slug":"broadland-radio-has-strong-start-to-life-on-the-airwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/222402\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadland Radio has strong start to life on the airwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Broadland Radio was launched at the start of June and features several beloved presenters who have appeared on other local stations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Among the hosts are Rob Chandler and Stephen Bumfrey, who recently announced he would be taking a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25519688.rob-chandler-suspended-broadland-radio-christmas-song\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">step back from his weekday shows<\/a> following a cancer diagnosis.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Bob Norman, manging director of Broadland Radio(Image: Broadland Radio)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We&#8217;ve had a strong start,&#8221; Bob Norman, managing director of the station, said. &#8220;We&#8217;re into the tens of thousands for listeners now.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We don&#8217;t have an exact number, but we are also finding that the engagement and the number of people texting in are increasing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25519688.rob-chandler-suspended-broadland-radio-christmas-song\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Radio presenter suspended for playing Christmas song in October<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;However, it is vital that we do manage to break even as a station, and that is where more of an emphasis on the commercial side of things will come in.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Earlier this month, Chandler served a short suspension after being reprimanded for playing Mariah Carey&#8217;s All I Want For Christmas Is You &#8211; more than two and a half months before Christmas Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broadland Radio was launched at the start of June and features several beloved presenters who have appeared on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-222402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}