About Us
Who Are We?
Start Me Up
The Buzz, it could well be said, actually started over 40 years ago, in a bedroom in North Manchester, with Rik and Adam making radio shows on cassette tapes with audio equipment that was more like furniture than technology.
Two Mancunian kids with too much imagination and not enough supervision, they spent their early years recording spoof phone-ins, mock adverts, and fake stations; for no other reason than the pure joy of making noise that felt like fun.
That love for radio never really left.
At fourteen, they ran a mobile disco together, built pirate radio stations, and then attended college and university together studying radio.
Young Guns (Go For It)
But, as is often the story, their passion got buried under careers, families, responsibility, and a world that steadily seemed to forget how powerful radio could be.
Adam did indeed go on to become an award winning radio presenter, while Rik became a producer and director in television.
And then, sadly, over the decades, radio lost its way. It became corporate and overly commercial.
Radio was no longer the centre of communities, something special to belong to, and the place where people discovered new music.
It lost its heart and soul.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Then, years later, came the quiet.
Lockdown. Stillness.
And in that space, something sparked.
An ongoing, three-decade long conversation between Rik and Adam became an actual possibility. A what-if.
What if they built their own station? Not one chasing trends or targeting demographics, but one that felt human again? Great music, but no ad breaks, news, weather, or travel reports.
Transmission
So, they did it. No funding. No filter. Just instinct, soul, and a hunger to return radio to its rightful place in the hearts of people who still believed in its power and who deeply loved music.
The result? People didn’t just listen. They felt it.
And The Buzz became more than a station. It became a signal. A gathering point. A shared frequency for people who still cared about music, meaning, and moments that matter.
We Built This City
And then the right people started showing up.
Rich arrived first. He didn’t come from the past, he came from a parallel path. A commercial wizard with decades of CMO experience and a passion for radio, Rich heard what was really going on underneath the music, and he brought the clarity, and commercial guts to help make it real.
With A Little Help From My Friends
Then came Nigel. It was a full-circle moment. He and Rik had lost touch for 34 years, after 9 years of sharing art rooms, and creativity, at school together, and then on to the same art college. Reunited by pure serendipity through their daughters, they realised that spark was still alive. The same love of design, of rebellion, and of doing things differently. Nigel came on board and brought his passion and incredible gifts for designing digital things with beauty and flow.
And with Nigel came Dave, his business partner of over 20 years, and a genius at building exceptional digital spaces that actually feel like something special. Together, they’ve helped shape The Buzz into a world you can live in, not just listen to.
Radio Ga Ga
So now there’s a team. A mission. A growing movement.
There are other incredible and important contributors working in the background too, whose work is just as vital. Some of it you’ll see, but most of it you’ll feel. You’ll get to meet them soon too.
Our philosophy, though, is simple: Re-Love Radio.
That’s our mission statement, manifesto, and promise all rolled into one.
And as Freddie Mercury so eloquently sang,
“Radio, what’s new? Radio, someone still loves you.”
And that’s us all over.
So, for The Buzz, where is it going next?
That’s the exciting part.
Because this is only just getting started.
