Category: Audio
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Radio Update
There are various bits of radio news over the last few days that are worthy of note: Capital has a new advert – Using all those artists who showed up for the Summertime Ball and did bits in front of a green screen. It’s a neat trick that they’ve been doing for a while –…
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Wildlife Sound Recording Course
I spent last weekend near Reepham in Norfolk learning some of the basics of sound recording. Regular readers to this blog will know that I’ve tinkered loosely with audio in the past. I’ve owned a Zoom H2 for a number of years, and in particular I’ve tinkered around with some binaural recordings. But while the…
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The [Insert Your Name Here] Arena
Earlier today I got an email advertising an upcoming gig with Sting and Paul Simon. Tickets are going on sale soon for the event taking place at the Phones 4U Arena. Phones 4U Arena? That’s a new one to me. I realised pretty quickly that it probably wasn’t new, and was just a recent sponsorship…
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House Style
I had to laugh at the weekend when Danny Baker pulled apart a trailer that adopted that most over-used radio production style of having alternate lines with some kind of digital/distanced effect. You know what I mean. And if you listen to this short clip, you’ll know what Baker is getting at. listen to ‘House…
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Kate Bush
Back in March while I was on holiday – the internet suddenly came alive with the news that Kate Bush was going on tour. Kate Bush! I was very tempted. And then I stopped and thought. For one thing, it wasn’t going to be easy getting tickets in the US. I’d have to hope wherever…
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RAJAR Q2 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…
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On DAB and Five Live
It was a really interesting day for radio today with several important announcements. Of most interest to me was the formal announcement of the advertisement for a second national DAB multiplex. You may remember that back in 2007, this multiplex was previously advertised with Channel 4 winning it ahead of NGW the transmission supplier (since…
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RAJAR Q1 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…
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Radio Academy Awards 2014 and a Complete History
Last night at the Grosvenor House in Mayfair, the great, good and a lot of other folk, gathered for the radio industry’s big bash. The awards have changed sponsor – or are in the process of doing so. Like the Perrier Awards and Orange Book Awards, they’re going to take a while to shake off…
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Pop Up Radio
It’s great to learn this morning that Radio 2 is launching a new pop-up radio station (ie. a temporary one). There is going to be a short term Radio 2 Eurovision service in the run-up to the big competition in May. The only previous time they’ve done this was during the Olympics when as well…
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Farewell One Golden Square
Today is my final day at One Golden Square. After more than 17 years of Virgin Radio and Absolute Radio, I’m off to do new things. I’m not going to be able to begin to tell you what a great time I’ve had. In all that time, nearly every single person I’ve worked with has…
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25 Years of the World Wide Web
We all know it’s 25 years since Tim Berners-Lee launched the World Wide Web on us. Although a worryingly large number of people seem to think that it’s 25 years of the internet that we’re celebrating today. As any fool knows, the internet pre-dated the web by many years, and to think otherwise is to…
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A Brief History of Virgin Radio
[Republished from 2008 after first appearing on the One Golden Square blog] So as the lights come down on 15 and a bit years of Virgin Radio, I thought it might be worth giving everyone a whistlestop history of Virgin Radio – how it came about and some of the things that have happened here…