Category: Audio
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BBC Closing Radio Services?
Friday’s Times is reporting that BBC 6Music and the Asian Network are to be closed under the BBC’s major strategic review. As well as this, there’s likely to be cuts to other expenditure particularly on the web as well as cuts to imported programming, BBC Blast, BBC Switch, and sports expenditure. If this proves to…
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Amy MacDonald
Amy MacDonald played a set in London’s Hard Rock Café for Absolute Radio earlier this evening. The set, promoting a new album, was great and should be going out on-air next Monday. In the meantime, even though I wasn’t right at the front, I’m pretty happy with some of the photos I took. As well…
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What’s The Truth Behind Digital Radio Figures?
The dust has settled a little bit on the last RAJAR figures were released. But there were a number of stories surrounding RAJAR much like this one, highlighting the fact that the overall level of digital listening fell from 21.1% in Q3 2009 to 20.9% in Q4 2009. That 0.2% drop was clearly disappointing, but…
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Transatlantic Sessions
Transatlantic Sessions is one of those TV programmes which you may have seen if you spend any time watching BBC Four, BBC Alba, or (I guess) BBC Scotland. Jerry Douglas hosts a variety of musicians from Scotland, Ireland, the US and elsewhere as they record – well, sessions – which are then broadcast in a…
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RAJAR Day
Most of my thoughts on RAJAR today are published on the One Golden Square blog. So I won’t bother repeating them here. I needed a photo to illustrate RAJAR on the blog, so I took the one above. Although RAJAR’s mostly electronic these days, printing a copy of the summary PDF is still useful. But…
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Breaking Up Your Podcasts
What’s the best length for a podcast? That’s a bit like asking, “How long is a piece of string?” The recent RAJAR MIDAS data showed a wide range of opinions: What this shows is that there’s no consensus. I listen to podcasts that can vary between a couple of minutes and nearly two hours. So…
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The UK Radio Aid Question
The earthquake that the people of Haiti experienced nearly a week ago now was horrific, and it’s wonderful that at time of writing the appeal launched by the Disasters Emergency Committee has reached over £23 million. Following the Asian tsunami on Boxing Day 2004, UK Radio Aid was a telethon of sorts that took place…
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Ross Quits
The big news today is that Jonathan Ross has quit his job at the BBC. Although he’ll be staying on for specials and on presentational duty at things like the BAFTAs and Comic Relief, he’ll be leaving his Friday Night Show, Film 2010 and Saturday morning Radio 2 show. Leaving aside the whys and wherefores…
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Radio This Week
There’s a few interesting things on TV just at the moment, but I’m going to concentrate on radio. All this week, Melvyn Bragg is celebrating the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary with four episodes of In Our Time. The first is already available to listen to as I type (and they’ll stay available, which is fabulous).…
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My Christmas Radio 4
I’ve put together more than a few annotated pages of the Radio Times in the past, and of course I have the new Christmas issue by my side at all times for the next fortnight. So I was pleased to see Steve Bowbrick at Radio 4 collecting together the highlights of some its presenters over…
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How Many Listened?
According to a story in Media Guardian, “an estimated 5 million” people tuned in to hear who would be the Christmas number one yesterday during the various chart shows. There are two main chart shows these days: the Radio 1 version which is considered the official chart, and the Big Top 40 chart which runs…
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The Listener
This is a very nice little video made by Radio 1 using photos of their listeners sent in the other day (via Brainpicker on Twitter)
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Terry Wogan in the Radio Academy Hall of Fame
This afternoon in London, Terry Wogan was inducted into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame. This comes as Wogan gives up his breakfast show at the end of next week. The great and the good (and the rest of us) were out in force to pay their respects, and all in all it was actually…