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  • DQF – Some Initial Thoughts

    And so it came to pass. The BBC’s “Delivering Quality First” aka “What We’re Cutting To Save 20%” has been published. It’s worth Since I work in radio, I’ll start there, but I’ll offer my thoughts on other services too. Radio To a greater or lesser extent, radio escapes the brunt of the savings. Radio…

  • London Soundscapes

    Currently in London there are two audio exhibits – of sorts – taking place in London. And they’re only about a five minute walk apart. At the Wellcome Collection on the Euston Road, passers-by are currently being exposed to White Sounds: An urban seascape. Bill Fontana is bringing the sounds of Chesil Beach in Dorset…

  • Facades

    I found this week’s Feedback on Radio 4 very entertaining. A correspondent had written in to complain about the use of a particular piece of incidental music in several different drama and documentary series on Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra across a single evening. That piece of music in Facades by Philip Glass… Now…

  • Disappointing Tone in Discussion on Libya Reporting

    I like Steve Hewlett on Radio 4’s Media Show, but I’ve just been catching up with this week’s edition and was really unhappy with the centrepiece discussion about Sky News v BBC News last weekend as the rebels (if that’s what we’re calling them) entered Green Square. Make no mistake, Sky News undoubtedly scooped BBC…

  • London Riots

    Enough has really been said already about the looting and rioting that took place last week, without me needing to wade in with any more “insight”. That said… I’m very disturbed by all the talk of “shutting down” social media if such events arise in the future. Do we also close down the Royal Mail…

  • Some Good Recent Radio

    I sometimes find This American Life a little irritating. It’s hard to quite put my finger on why I find it this way, but I do. That said, it’s mostly excellent and well worth subscribing to their podcast. A couple of weeks ago they broadcast When Patents Attack – a thorough look at the patent…

  • Internet Listening and RAJAR

    I thought I’d expand a little on one aspect of RAJAR that has been reported on a bit, and has been seen by some as surprising. I touched on the internet listening numbers a little in my summary piece on this quarter’s RAJAR figures. I said: One oddity in the figures is the apparent fall…

  • RAJAR – Q2 2011

    Another quarter flies by, and the new radio listening figures are published. The first thing to say is the overall listening is up. More people than ever before are listening to the radio every week – 91.7% of the population spending 1.076 billion hours tuned into the radio. One number that always attracts attention is…

  • Following Le Tour

    No. Sadly, I don’t mean spending large parts of July in a camper van driving between the Pyrenees and the Alps, joining the multi-national throngs clinging to the mountainsides. I mean following the Tour, on-air and online. Assuming that you’re not “available to view” during the daytime on weekdays, your first decision is whether to…

  • Phone-Hacking Media Talk

    Last night I spent a fascinating hour at a “live” recording of The Guardian’s Media Talk podcast, presented by Matt Wells, in a packed room with somewhere around 100 Guardian readers in attendance. It was devoted completely to the hacking scandal, and featured some of the key players in the case including Nick Davies, the…

  • A Summer Storm

    Summer Storm Montage (mp3) A little recording I made going to the shops yesterday while a storm passed over. This is obviously an edit of a twenty minute walk removing as much wind noise as possible. Recorded with Roland CS-EM10 binaural microphone/earphones on a Zoom H2. Be sure to listen with your headphones to capture…

  • Lies, Damned Lies…

    A YouGov/Sunday Times poll reveals that 6 Music would be the station most people would choose to close down to help the BBC achieve spending cuts. There are one or two problems with this: – In the survey, the station was named “BBC Radio 6” rather than “BBC 6 Music”. A small but important detail,…

  • Myers Report

    Yesterday, Tim Davie presented the Myers Report into Radio 1, 1Xtra, Radio 2 and 6 Music. John Myers, CEO of the Radio Academy and someone who’s for a longtime been involved in commercial radio, had been asked to look at ways for the services to reduce costs while maintaining quality. Responses have largely been as…