Loose Ends is a Britishradio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It is hosted by Ned Sherrin and consists of a mix of interviews, comedy sketches and musical guests. BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Ned Sherrin (born 18 February 1931 in Somerset, England) is a broadcaster, author and stage director. ...
Radio comedy, or comedic radio programming, is a radio broadcast that may involve sitcom elements, sketches, and many other forms of comedy found on other mediums.
British radio comedy also has a home on Australia's Radio National and in Ireland there are always a few comedy shows in the week's programming on RTÃ.
A British commercial station "Oneword" broadcasts American vintage radio comedy as part of their 24 hour-a-day programming of books, comedy and drama and this is streamed on the internet.
Meanwhile, FM broadcasters have requested the government to complete the licensing of the 80 odd radio channels in the balance 30 cities that was part of the tender document as Part-2 of the licensing process.
For the radio industry to move to 10 per cent of India's advertising revenues, which is also the international average, radio broadcasting needs to spread to at least the top 35-40 cities and the number of private radio channels must increase ten-fold to justify the investments.
Radio is a support medium and is used by national advertisers for multi-media campaigns and local promotional campaigns.