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  • Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra

    Next year, the Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra is starting something of a residency at the Barbican and other venues in East London. It’ll happen for at least a couple of years in the run-up to the Olympics. All I can say is that on 1 October, when tickets go on sale, you should…

  • New Radio 1 Line Up

    Today’s Radio 1 reshuffle is interesting, and is obviously a clear response to the BBC Trust findings that Radio 1 was getting too old. Off to weekends go Jo Whiley and Edith Bowman, as Fearne Cotton and Greg James fill up the gaps. With a remit that targets 15-29 year olds, having a significant number…

  • Downloading Radio

    All this week Torchwood is being stripped across BBC1 at 9pm, which may or may not be a good thing. And last week, Radio 4 ran three new 45 minute “Afternoon Plays” of Torchwood (following a one-off episode last autumn surrounding Big Bang Day). What’s really interesting is that the BBC has made all three…

  • What Have We Learnt About Mark Damazer?

    There’s a nice interview with Radio 4 controller, Mark Damazer, in today’s Media Guardian. You can read the online version here. The piece has an accompanying photo, but the version on the website is a little small. It’s worth having a look at the newspaper one for a few more interesting titbits! For example, Damazer…

  • Radio Festival – Wednesday

    These are rough notes and I’ll need to tidy them up at a later stage. Jeremy Hunt, shadow DCMS representative, was first up today, and talked about the uniqueness of radio and his radio history. He’s certain that radio has a good future, although he knows how badly commercial radio is faring. He notes that…

  • Radio Festival – Tuesday

    [Note: Thiese are rough notes so apologies for any typos and general bad English. I’ll try to update as I go.] Nicky Campbell kicked off proceedings as host with a few stories about his life in radio before introducing a very nice summary of radio in the last 12 months. The first panel has Tim…

  • Digital Britain: 2015 – First Thoughts on Radio

    It’s finally here – The Digital Britain report. It’s Lord Stephen Carter’s magnum opus, before he ups and offs. The headlines are sure to be the levy charged on fixed lines to fund broadband, encouraging and enabling the wider take-up of broadband, and even the piracy issue. What happens to BBC licence fee money is…

  • Fun Bits Of Audio

    Here are a couple of nice pieces of audio from recent programmes. The first comes courtesy of Axegrinder at Press Gazette, and considers what those scary Yorkshire folk have been up to: Bearing in mind that BBC Radio Five Live is shortly to move to Manchester, not with entirely unanimous support of everyone who works…

  • Some Recent Music

    I’ve seen some great concerts recently which were all very different, but all worth mentioning here. 15 May saw Icelandic “Music Through Unconventional Means” which featured the Southbank’s artist in residence, Shlomo, who’s a beatboxer, performing with one of my favourite groups, Amiina, and another Icelandic performer, Valgeir Sigurdsson. The first half of the concert…

  • Guardian’s Listings Get Worse

    What has The Guardian done to its daily listings this week? They’ve got substantially worse – especially for radio. To give you an idea what I’m talking about, here’s an example of last Thursday’s radio page: And here’s the equivalent page today: The more observant may notice that it’s now only half a page. We’ve…

  • Sony’s…

    …or rather the Sony Radio Academy Awards as they should be known, but aren’t really. The radio “Oscars” were held last night in London. Quite why every award ceremony has to be compared to the awfulness of the Oscars is a good question. And they were held at the Grosvenor House Hotel ballroom, a room…

  • Danny Baker and Christian O’Connell Return to Five Live

    Interesting news from Five Live. Danny Baker’s going to be doing the Saturday morning show, replacing Eamonn Holmes. Meanwhile Absolute Radio’s own Christian O’Connell is returning to Five Live to present an as yet un-named topical news comedy programme. I’m glad that Danny Baker’s 606 has been acknowledged for the triumph that it is, and…

  • RAJAR Q1 2009

    7am this morning saw the first RAJAR release of 2009, and with it came a pleasant surprise: overall radio listening is up. Indeed, since the current methodology was introduced, radio listening is at an all time high reaching 45.8m listeners a week with 251,000 additional listeners this quarter. And even better news is that listening…