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  • Radio 1 Listening by Age – A Closer Examination

    One of the things that I noted in my Q3 2013 RAJAR summary was that Radio 1’s average age was just not shifting. And despite an overall fall in audience over recent quarters, notably following the departure of Chris Moyles, it just hasn’t fallen. I thought that this was worth exploring some more, because I…

  • RAJAR Q3 2013

    In some ways, this quarter’s RAJAR results are a little disappointing – certainly if you’re comparing results with the previous quarter. But then this is a third quarter result, and RAJAR always dips a little during those periods with listening patterns changing in the summer months. Commercial radio has closed the gap a little with…

  • Some Final Thoughts on Radio Festival 2013

    Well it’s only been a little under twenty-four hours, but having essentially just published notes on what took place during the sessions I saw, I thought it was better to step back and have a more considered view. First of all, there are a few things I missed, but have since caught up with. Charlotte…

  • Radio Festival 2013 – Day 2

    Note: Again, these are uncorrected “notes” that I’m publishing live. Sorry for any typos or mistakes. I’ll try to tidy things up later. Day One’s notes are here. And we’re back with day two of the Radio Festival. Jane Garvey and Fi Glover are still our hosts in the main auditorium. The first session is…

  • Radio Festival 2013 Day 1 – TechCon

    Introductory Note: I’m writing these notes during this year’s Radio Festival. There will probably be typos and other errors. I’ll try to correct them as I go along. And with any luck, some of this might end up on the Radio Academy website! First up – TechCon! After a typically excellent introduction from Orion’s David…

  • LBC at Forty – Memories

    Happy Birthday to LBC which is forty years old, and was the first – legal – commercial radio station in the UK, launching on 8th October 1973 just a few days ahead of Capital Radio and Radio Clyde. I’m not going to write a history about it here, because others will do that, and they’ll…

  • Ministry of Sound v Spotify – What Does This Mean For Radio?

    I find the story of Ministry of Sound taking legal action against Spotify absolutely fascinating, and potentially troubling, as it potentially opens up many cans of worms. As I understand it, it goes something like this. Ministry of Sound has a very profitable business releasing compilation albums. They licence tracks from various labels which they…

  • The Drowned Man

    In recent years there has been something of an explosion in immersive experiences. Although these events always sound to me like something I’d probably like, I’ve been quite slow in actually getting involved. Up until now, the closest I’ve got is probably Secret Cinema. I went to one of their earlier productions – Funny Face…

  • RAJAR Q2 2013

    Yesterday, the DCMS finally got around to publishing something that became neither a white paper, nor a green paper, but instead Connectivity, Content and Consumers: Britain’s Digital Platform for Growth – a policy statement that bundled a lot of things together. Importantly for radio, it reinforced the Government’s commitment to make an in-principle decision on…

  • Absolute Radio to be Acquired by Bauer Media

    Somehow Storify seemed like the appropriate vehicle for this! And it also neatly gets me out of trying to analyse the future of the business that I’ve worked at for nearly 17 years, especially when it mightn’t be appropriate. [View the story “Bauer Media to Acquire Absolute Radio” on Storify] Yes, this will affect me.…

  • Rolling Thunder

    listen to ‘Distant Thunder’ on Audioboo I always have my Zoom H2 handy in case of an electric storm. Sadly, this time they didn’t pass quite as closely to me as I’d have liked. So this is a little distant and is edited down from a 45 minute recording made in the small hours of…

  • Reclaiming Radio

    For months now, there’s been a document kicking around in my Google Drive entitled – as this blog is – “Reclaiming Radio”. It was effectively common knowledge that Apple was working towards some kind of streaming music offering, and earlier this week, having concluded a deal with the third and final major record label, they…

  • Radio Downloads Added to iPlayer

    The BBC has announced that from 2014, listeners will be able to download radio programmes via the various iPlayer mobile and desktop apps to catch up with offline. As with TV, there’ll be a 7 day catch-up window. In some respects, it’s really strange that it has taken this long to get. You’d imagine that…