Category: Audio

Over the weekend, CNN published an interesting US-focused series entitled “The future of music radio” that looked at the current state of play in US music radio. While the US is very different market to the UK, it would be very complacent of the UK radio industry to completely write off what’s happening there. Do…

I’ve updated the previous entry, but I thought it was worth giving London an entry of its own because not only have I added back a Motion Chart of the London marketplace, but there’s significantly more data underlying it than I’ve managed for the national chart. Now you can examine the marketplace in lots of…

It has been a big radio week already with the Sony Radio Academy Awards on Monday. And next week will be big with the final Competition Commission ruling on its attempted takeover of GMG’s radio assets. But let’s look at the latest RAJAR which is released today. At first glance this quarter might look less…

So last night in a hot and sweaty room where the tables were just that bit too close together, this year’s Sony Awards were handed out. Absolute Radio did rather well, and I suspect that there may be a few sore heads around the station today. Most of the press seems to be leading on…

[UPDATE: Many of the charts on this page are now broken. Please see the 2014 updated version of this page with much more detail.] The Sony Radio Academy Awards are upon us in a week or so’s time. But if you want to get a broader view of who has won what over the years…

Today is the 20th anniversary of Virgin Radio. It launched at 12.15pm on Friday 30th April 1993 with Richard Branson joining Russ and Jono at the Virgin Megastore in Manchester. But Richard Skinner was back in the studio and played in the first track – a specially recorded version of Born To Be Wild by…

In 1973, commercial radio launched with LBC, Capital Radio and Radio Clyde all launching within weeks of one another. So this year is commerical radio’s 40th anniversary, and RadioCentre is celebrating with a Roll of Honour featuring forty names, which will be announced at this year’s Arqiva Awards in July. Initial inductions were made last…

I wrote this piece for the Onegoldensquare blog, but I thought I might as well post it here for completeness! This week, the 2013 award nominations were announced, and we’ve already mentioned in passing that we got a few. This year, there are a few new categories, and the disappearance of a few older ones.…

Bank Holidays at radio stations tend to mean the regular talent getting the day off. If it’s Christmas, then they may get a full fortnight away. Listening patterns are different at Bank Holidays. People don’t get up as early since they don’t need to get to work. They’re more likely to be traveling – seeing…

Here’s a copy of the presentation I gave to the Radio Academy’s London Branch earlier today. It was part of an evening called All About RAJARs which saw RAJAR‘s Lyndsey Ferrigan, Hallett Arendt‘s John Shorter and myself talking a bit about RAJAR. Matt Deegan was our host. Rajar radio academy – adam bowie from Adam…

I really enjoyed The Essay this week on Radio 3. Writer Andrew Martin suffers from phonophobia – a condition that makes extraneous noise particularly annoying. Cheekily called The Sound and the Fury (coming just a couple of weeks after BBC Four’s excellent and completely unrelated series on twentieth century music completed), the five essays detailed…