Talk:Janice Long

Untitled
"At the end of 1987, Janice was fired from Radio One for being pregnant and un wed to her now partner of 19 years." Is there any evidence for this claim?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.42.26.251 (talk) 20:50, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * The article no longer makes this claim. Martinevans123 (talk) 17:31, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Airtime
Since this is becoming a regular edit, I feel it worth noting that the norm would be to either say that the Radio 2 show airs from Sunday to Thursday nights from midnight to 3pm, or Monday to Friday mornings from midnight to 3pm. I'm not sure why the user keeps making this change. TheRetroGuy (talk) 18:09, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Two and a half years later and some people still don't learn. As days in most TV guides run from 6am to 6am, it is right to say she is Sunday to Thursday nights. Now I know there's some weird way of doing it on the BBC website where they run from midnight to 6am the following day, but I think we need to apply some common sense here. I will revert any change to the timeslots which is similar to those above. By all means discuss it here, but don't just change it. TheRetroGuy (talk) 22:36, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Relationship with Jon Holmes?
An anonymous user keeps adding a sentence which basically reads 'She lives with her boyfriend Jon Holmes'. Since the information is unreferenced I've removed it, but as it's becoming an issue, I'm just wondering whether it is correct. TheRetroGuy (talk) 19:00, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

"Née Long" ?
I've never heard of this person, but she's apparently Keith Chegwin's sister and married someone called Long. Surely then she wasn't born with the name Long as the opening paragraph currently claims? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.40.136.10 (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Claims of death
Unconfirmed reports of her death are triggering changes. Need to wait for mainstream citeable source — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a02:c7f:9828:ef00:c64:1fb8:6772:8af (talk • contribs)


 * Thanks. You are quite right. Some clickbait sites are reporting it now but they are just regurgitating the rumour for clicks and clearly don't know any more about it than we do. The BBC are not covering it and I don't see anything in a Google News search. If it is true then it will appear in reliable sources soon enough. Until then we wait. We do not want to risk upsetting her friends and family if there is any possibility that the story is untrue. --DanielRigal (talk) 01:52, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

First Woman Presenter of Top of the Pops.
This was actually Annie Nightingale not Janice Long, on 30 September 1982. []. Stub Mandrel (talk) 13:59, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

True, but Annie Nightingale only appeared once and it was an episode featuring pretty much all the Radio 1 DJs, to celebrate the station's 15th anniversary. Janice was the first regular woman presenter - I've made this clear in the article. MFlet1 (talk) 21:49, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Radio London
The sentence "In 1989, she joined London station BBC Radio London, taking over from Nick Abbot on the breakfast show." is currently uncited in the article. this tweet is a photograph of a newspaper article that verifies she did indeed do this (when the station was named "Greater London Radio"), but I can't work out which newspaper it is. Can anyone help? Thryduulf (talk) 15:41, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Renate Kohler has been writer for the Daily Mail, The Sunday Times Magazine,The Observer and Radio Times? Layout looks a bit like RT to me. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:16, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
 * The tweet author has replied that it's the RT (don't know why I didn't think of asking them before asking here!). Thank you. Thryduulf (talk) 16:19, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Queries re: article organisation

 * 1) Every item in the section Other work was a broadcast appearance by Long, so, unless I'm missing something, shouldn't that section be a sub-section of the major, immediately prior section, Broadcasting (unless, we want to awkwardly rename Broadcasting to Deejaying career or Music show host or similar)?
 * 2) The following paragraph is in Personal life and death, but aren't the awards and patronage related to her career, so would anyone object to moving it to Other work?
 * In 2018 she received an honorary doctorate from Edge Hill University in recognition of her commitment to music. Also in 2018 she was featured in the Royal College of Art’s First Women UK exhibition, celebrating 100 pioneering 21st century British women. She was a patron of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.

Llew Mawr (talk) 03:28, 28 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I've been bold and fixed (1) by making that section a sub-section of the previous section. I also noticed some actual sub-sections were randomly marked up as sub-sub-sections (fixed), making me more certain that the article's incumbent organisation was in error.
 * As to (2), I realise that whilst it relates to her "work", awards aren't actually work by her nor part of her personal life, so I'll turn the paragraph into a main (albeit very small) section entitled "Honours"—something most other BLP articles have.
 * Llew Mawr (talk) 22:13, 29 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I'm sure those are both improvements, Llew. Many thanks. Teigr Bach 123 (talk) 22:21, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Please add link to video
Please add:



to the external links section. I have a CoI because I am working for the university, but I think this is a useful indication of Long's speaking voice, which is otherwise missing from the article, as well as being useful in its own right. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:20, 26 January 2024 (UTC)


 * ✅ Kind regards. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:45, 26 January 2024 (UTC)