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6 unusual facts about LBC


1993–94 Wimbledon F.C. season

Ribero became Wimbledon's new kit manufacturers, while London radio station LBC became the kit sponsors.

Alan Maryon-Davis

His broadcasting began as the regular guest doctor on the London independent radio station LBC in the mid-1970s.

Brian Widlake

Widlake joined London's news and talk radio station LBC to present a breakfast programme on LBC Crown FM, later LBC NewsTalk 97.3 in 1989.

Laser Broadcasting

The group was founded in 2002 by Nigel Reeve—one of the launch directors of Classic FM and one time chief executive of London News Radio owners of LBC—and Nick Jordan, a media sales executive who previously worked at Invicta Radio, KFM and the Daily Express.

Oussama Rahbani

Between 2004 and 2007, he was a consultant in the reality TV show Star Academy produced by LBC giving musical culture lessons to the aspiring contestants.

The Kindness Offensive

As a consequence of all the media attention TKO has seen, they started their own Youtube channel, which follows them on BBC One’s London News, BBC London 94.9FM, LBC and others.


Adventure Line Productions

Adventure Line Productions has licensed many of its formats to broadcasters around the world including BBC, TV4, RTR and LBC.

Bassem Christo

And these renowned entertainment shows were not the limit of Christo's achievements with LBC, as he also famously directed a large number of musical concerts including the "Beat Machine" series, Scorpions, Julio Iglesias, and Raúl di Blasio.

Carl Donnelly

Donnelly has made various radio appearances such as BBC Radio 4's 28 Acts in 28 Minutes, LBC's Comedy Cabaret and Tim Shaw's The Asylum on Kerrang! Radio.

Gary Hailes

He has also performed several plays for BBC radio and voice-overs and had a regular slot "Hailes Horrors" on the Steve Allen show on LBC radio.

Ian Damon

In the 80s and 90s, after a stint at Blue Danube Radio in Austria, Ian worked for provincial stations in England including Pennine Radio, LBC, Essex Radio, Radio Mercury, Radio 210, KFM Tonbridge and Delta FM/ Wey Valley Radio.

Independent Radio News

It supplied news to its own London Radio stations (formerly LBC), plus Scot FM, Heart FM, and Virgin Radio.

LBC News 1152

LBC's five-and-a-half-year relationship with business news provider Bloomberg was also abandoned in favour of business updates from CNBC.

London Buddhist Centre

The London Buddhist Centre (LBC) in Bethnal Green, East London, is the main London base of the Triratna Buddhist Community, formerly known as the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order.

London Bulgarian Choir

Primarily a performing choir, the LBC perform around twenty concerts a year and have been involved in high-profile collaborations with British Sea Power, Doves and Orlando Gough.

Lucy Beresford

Her appearances include the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2, LBC, CNN, Daily Politics on BBC2, BBC Breakfast on BBC1, Daybreak on ITV, NewsTalk on Channel 5 and Women's Hour and the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.

Mark Dolan

Alongside the aforementioned C4 radio show, Dolan is a regular presenter on LBC radio and BBC London, as well as being a panellist on a wide variety of Radio 4 comedy shows including The Personality Test and the Jon Ronson Show.

Miranda Green

She has also appeared as a pundit and commentator on BBC Radio 4 The World Tonight, BBC World Service Newshour; BBC1 The Politics Show and This Week; BBC Radio 5Live, LBC and BSkyB.

Nick Abbot

In late 2007, Abbot took over LBC's Weekday evening show from 7-10pm whilst still continuing with the Planet Rock weekend show, which ended in September 2008.

Peter Deeley

From 1985-1990 he was the breakfast anchorman at LBC alongside Douglas Cameron.

RadioCentre

The CRCA was originally founded by the first radio companies under the name Association of Independent Radio Companies (AIRC) when independent radio began with LBC and Capital in 1973.

Rainbow George Weiss

The recording features a few of the notorious phone conversations between LBC radio's Clive Bull and Peter Cook under the guise of a Norwegian fisherman called Sven, many of which were made from George's home.

Tariq Alhomayed

Alhomyed has been a guest analyst and commentator on numerous news and current affair programs including the BBC, German TV, Al Arabiya, Al-Hurra, LBC and the acclaimed Imad Live’s four-part series on terrorism and reformation in Saudi Arabia.


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