If Freddie Mercury hadn’t been cremated, he’d be spinning in his grave. First, Apple’s digital radio station, Beats 1, launched with armfuls of Radio 1 staff — including Zane Lowe — and handfuls of potential commercial radio advertisers. Then George Osborne decided to load the pensioners’ licence fee onto the BBC, threatening the closure of at least one radio station. Then the BBC Trust announced a review of local networks; and finally, in a savage blow to the commercial sector, the dreary Chris Moyles looks set to join XFM. It’s not quite Radio Gaga, but the medium is under assault.

“Radio is definitely changing — if you’re running a station these days, you need to have considered how you sound and look on a mobile