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  • Election Viewing

    As America votes, there were a couple of fascinating films on TV recently which had well-timed screenings. On Friday there was a cracking film on BBC Four which isn’t available to watch on the iPlayer, so I can only recommend picking up the DVD instead. CSNY Deja Vu followed Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young on…

  • Poor Journalism This Sunday

    Finding poor journlism in the Sunday papers isn’t really hard, but The Observer had this story in yesterday’s paper. It begins: Media regulator Ofcom warned BBC bosses about lax editorial procedures on Russell Brand’s BBC 6 Music show over a year ago, it emerged last night. In a ruling published 15 months ago, it criticised…

  • DAB/Internet Radio Question

    Perhaps someone out there can answer me this: Is there a DAB/FM/Internet Radio out there that can also record to SD card (or hard disk, I guess)? The closest I can find are Pure’s Evoke Flow and the Roberts Stream 202 neither of which appear to be able to make timed recordings. On the other…

  • Issue Du Jour

    I’m loathe to return to this subject because it has been done to death everywhere now. But I think a few key things have come out. 1. The two presenters were exceptionally juvenile doing what they did and should have known better. 2. Although they were employed to push boundaries, they are well aware of…

  • Overblown Nonsense

    So the Ross/Brand things has blown up out of all proportion. Seriously. The scale of the media frenzy is in no way proportional to what actually happened. When I wrote about this the other day, I did so in a way that discussed something that would be of interest to people who read Media Guardian.…

  • Responsibility In Front Of A Microphone

    In the last couple of days we’ve heard plenty about a “prank” that Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross played on actor Andrew Sachs a couple of weeks ago on Brand’s Radio 2 Saturday evening programme. As part of a pre-recorded show, when Sachs didn’t answer his phone for a pre-arranged interview, Brand (new book –…

  • Julie Fowlis Live at Union Chapel

    A great little gig at the wonderful Union Chapel in Islington with Julie Fowlis singing and playing some superb music in Gaelic. It was real toe-tapping stuff. And the support from Emily Smith was excellent too. I picked up her most recent album at the back of the hall on the way out. More photos…

  • Channel 4 Radio

    So finally, on Friday, came the news that Channel 4 was pulling the plug on its radio operation. Let’s revisit a little history. Commercial Radio has been broadcast nationally in UK on Digital One since 2002. But of late, the platform has struggled to be filled with the ten or so services it needs to…

  • Virgin Radio 1993-2008 Mosaic

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  • Ed Reardon Returns

    Right – lots of good news on the Ed Reardon front. First of all, this coming Monday (6th October) sees the return of Ed Reardon with a new series on Radio 4 at 11.30am. I would imagine that we’ve got another six epsiodes in this new series. Let’s hope so anyway. So set your alarms,…

  • Audio To Text

    Over the last few years, I’ve tried to look at lots of different ways to turn audio into text – ideally cheaply or even freely. Working for a radio station, even one that largely plays out music, being able to search audio to find when a presenter said or mentioned something would be incredibly useful.…

  • Copyright On YouTube

    So David Lloyd is leaving Virgin (soon to be Absolute) Radio today, and in the time honoured fashion, we made a leaving video. The video was edited to a couple of copyright songs – It’s Getting Better by Mama Cass and We’ve Only Just Begun by The Carpenters. I uploaded the video to YouTube. Now…

  • Steve Penk On Managing Listeners’ Expectations

    As Oldham’s Revolution changes format, owner and breakfast show host, Steve Penk tells anyone unhappy with the changes to try Xfm: “What I don’t want to deal with every day is a bunch of wining whingeing moaning morons clogging up my voicemail because we no longer play alternative music.” They’d be your listeners Steve. Good…