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  • Ed Reardon Live

    In the last week or so, two different audio “things” that I’ve really enjoyed have stopped being published. William Gallagher has hung up his microphone on the UK DVD Review podcast and I’m going to miss it immensely. Meanwhile the chaps over at Speechification have also decided that they’re going to need to call it…

  • Radio Festival 2010

    Unlike last year, I wasn’t able to liveblog the Radio Festival since the venue had “challenging” connectivity. So instead, here are my notes from the event to a lesser or greater degree, taken over the last couple of days. This year, for the first time, the festival was held in Salford at the Lowry which…

  • Amiina

    My favourite Icelandic band were in town tonight, and I was in XOYO in London to see them. I last saw Amiina at Latitude in the summer where some members of the group performed a live musical accompaniament to the animated films of Lotte Reiniger. Prior to that, I’d seen them in the Queen Elizabeth…

  • Capital Radio

    In 1990, I was working for the Bath Evening Chronicle, which at the time was a daily paper. Locally we competed for advertising with GWR which had a Bath opt-out, and to a much lesser extent HTV West our local ITV company. Then in 1990, along came a new big station broadcasting across Bristol and…

  • Things That Have Piqued My Interest Recently

    Further proof that BBC Four is the best channel in the UK comes through a series of excellent programmes that have been on-air this week: – Storyville had YouTube Hero: The Winnebego Man starting briefly with the stories on people who made it “big” on YouTube, but highlighting the story of Jack Rebney who shot…

  • Some Media Reading

    There have been a few reports, publications and press releases recently that are worth highlighting. The BBC has published its latest monthly iPlayer Performance Pack detailing results for July 2010. I always find this is worth a read. It’s interesting to note that requests for BBC iPlayer dipped a bit during both June and July.…

  • Pure Flow Songs

    Yesterday I went to the press launch of Pure Digital’s latest offering: Flow Songs Beta. Essentially, it allows listeners to a number of Pure’s internet radios (usually with FM and DAB built in), to identify and buy any track they hear played on their radios. The way it works is that when you’re listening to…

  • RAJAR Q2 2010

    It’s that time of year again when up and down the land, radio stations learn how many listeners they have, and therefore how well they’re doing. I always like to think of them as the equivalent of getting your exam results. There’ll be lots of coverage of RAJAR in the usual places: Media Guardian and…

  • Crystal Ball Gazing at the Radio Academy

    The latest Radio Academy podcast – the last of the series indeed – is about to be published by producer Heather Davies. It features, Trevor Dann talking to Global’s Nick Piggott, the BBC’s Chris Kimber and myself about radio five years hence. I’m sure that, as Nick wisely said at the podcast’s start, a large…

  • TouchPoints 3

    In 2006, the IPA launched a new research survey called TouchPoints. It was a radical new look at measuring media usage across different types of media rather than each industry looking at their own world. The idea was to make it easy for advertisers to plan across different types of media. They also measured the…

  • RAJAR MIDAS Survey

    Note that this is cross posted from the Absolute Radio Onegoldensquare.com blog. I wouldn’t have access to these figures otherwise! And a hat-tip to Matt Deegan for suggesting looking at iPhone only figures in relation to radio apps. Yesterday RAJAR published the topline findings (PDF) from the latest MIDAS research. MIDAS – for the uninitiated…

  • Ed Vaizey on Digital Radio

    As mentioned yesterday, Ed Vaizey, the new Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, has today given a speech at a London conference outlining the new government’s support for digital radio, and launching an action plan. How his speech has been been interpreted depends on where you read about it. At Media Guardian the headline…

  • The Future of Radio

    I’m going to do something here that’s very dangerous. I’m going to conflate two separate stories into one. But follow me through. They are two separate stories, but there are commonalities and themes that run through them. Today’s Daily Mail (listen to Monday’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue for more details on what this…