Category: Audio
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Radio Extra
Earlier this week, Global announced that it would soon be launching Heart Extra on national DAB. This is the first of a big DAB push. They already have Smooth Christmas running on the platform, and that rebrands as Smooth Extra from December 27th. They also have Capital XTRA, LBC and Classic FM all on the…
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Radio Academy AGM: Some Thoughts
Yesterday was a very interesting evening at the Radio Academy’s AGM. Ordinarily this is a rather dry affair formally closing the previous year’s accounts. It usually happens just ahead of a London event – if only to ensure that the meeting is quorate (a favourite word of Academy Chairman Ben Cooper, we learnt). But last…
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Serial on the Radio
I’m pleased to see that Radio 4 Extra is going to be broadcasting podcasting sensation Serial. Starting this Sunday (i.e. the day after tomorrow), they’ll be broadcasting the series nightly at 9pm, with the final episode airing the same night as the final podcast is released. I imagine that there will need to be quite…
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How Much Does An Artist Earn From The Radio?
There’s a widely linked article recently published in Wired about a track that has been played 168m times on Pandora earning its writer only $4,000. Now the first thing to note is that this number has been diluted a bit because there were three song writers and a publisher involved. The track overall paid $12,359.…
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Podcast Numbers – Does Serial Tell Us Anything?
In a world where there are so many metrics available, there’s often a curious shortage of figures in some parts of the tech industry where you’d like there to be. Amazon won’t tell you how many Kindles its sold. Netflix won’t say how many episodes of House of Cards it has streamed. And so on.…
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How Effective is the Charity Single in 2014?
In the last full series of More or Less, there was a really interesting episode that looked at charity giving and what is the most effective way to give money. It is not an easy question to answer as the programme clearly addresses. I was thinking about this over the weekend when Bob Geldof was…
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Podcasts – A Rebirth?
Earlier this year, I was sad when The Guardian shut-down a number of podcasts including the Media Talk Podcast (Phoenix style, an entirely independent-of-the-Guardian podcast, The Media Podcast, rose from the ashes through a Kickstarter – I’m a backer). But with a certain amount of irony, the final episode of the Guardian’s iteration included contributions…
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The Future of The Radio Academy
On Friday, The Radio Academy released an unusual press release that detailed how next year’s Radio Academy Awards were being cancelled, as was the Radio Festival. Furthermore, buried at the end, was news that the “Executive Unit” was being closed down. A new, unspecified London-based event, would replace both the Awards and Festival in due…
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Bad Visualisations
There’s a really interesting piece to write about Taylor Swift, Spotify and iTunes revenues, and the music industry in general. But this isn’t it. I’m writing this because TechCrunch has an interesting piece about European Spotify earnings overtaking iTunes earnings. The piece reports that Kobalt, a publishing company that collects music royalties on behalf of…
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Serial
Back in 2005 there was a terrific series on BBC Four called Death on the Staircase (known elsewhere as The Staircase). Here’s what I wrote about it at the time, and what I wrote about the follow-up in 2013. Essentially a French film-maker spent many months following the real-life prosecution of Michael Peterson, a crime…
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Digital Powerhouses
This post is brought to you in association with RALF from DP Software and Services. I’ve used RALF for the past 6 years, and it’s my favourite RAJAR analysis tool. So I’m pleased to be able to bring you this analysis. For more details on RALF, contact Deryck Pritchard via this link or phone 07545…
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Hrafn: Conversations with Odin
What did you do as the sun set on Sunday evening? I found myself lying under a pine tree at the edge of Kielder Forest in Northumberland, near the village of Stonehaugh, listening to a roost of ravens. The sun went down, the wind was up, and a soft rain fell. But about 80 of…
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RAJAR Q3 2014
This post is brought to you in association with RALF from DP Software and Services. I’ve used RALF for the past 6 years, and it’s my favourite RAJAR analysis tool. So I’m delighted to be able to bring you this analysis. For more details on RALF, contact Deryck Pritchard via this link or phone 07545…