Category: Audio
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RAJAR Q3 2018
As ever, this post is brought to you in association with RALF from DP Software and Services. I’ve used RALF for the past 9 years, and it’s my favourite RAJAR analysis tool. So I am delighted that I continue to be able to bring you this RAJAR analysis in association with RALF. For more details…
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Apple Podcasts Charts
It appears that Apple’s podcast charts are somewhat broken. Or specifically, they had been broken for a period of time over the weekend while Apple perhaps tried a new algorithm to rank podcasts. Behind the scenes we know that various bad actors have been attempting to game the system. In the same way that you…
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The One Podcast to Rule Them All
Tom Webster of Edison Research wrote a very good piece on Medium recently to back up a presentation he recently gave at the Podcast Movement conference in the US. The main theme of his piece was about getting to 100 million weekly (i.e. regular) podcast listeners in the US. Currently they are at 48 million weekly…
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Eddie Mair on LBC
So now we know. Eddie Mair will be taking over drivetime from Iain Dale on LBC, broadcasting 4-6pm Monday to Friday. He settles into his new desk next Monday, while previous incumbent, Iain Dale, shuffles into the evening 7-10pm slot. Interestingly, this also means that Mair has the “pleasure” of handing over to Nigel Farage…
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Bauer Buys Jazz FM
Bauer today announced it was buying Jazz FM, which is good news for the continued existence of a musically important station. I imagine that they’ll be squeezing into Golden Square away from their current Margaret Street studios which will save some money. But I suspect that the key thing in this deal is that Bauer’s…
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Overly Mannered Podcast Presentation
I wrote this as a podcast thread last week, but thought it was worth re-visiting a little more here. If there is one thing I hate in many podcasts (or radio programmes), it’s a presentation style that I would describe as overly mannered. What I’m talking about is a podcast that’s likely to be scripted,…
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RAJAR Q2 2018
As ever, this post is brought to you in association with RALF from DP Software and Services. I’ve used RALF for the past 9 years, and it’s my favourite RAJAR analysis tool. So I am delighted that I continue to be able to bring you this RAJAR analysis in association with RALF. For more details…
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Radio is Fastest
If you wanted to know what was happening in Moscow as fast as possible last night, your best bet was the radio. I’ve mentioned before that when a big fixture goes to penalties, I always listen on the radio, because I get the news first. More regularly, if there’s a match that’s both being covered…
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Google Podcasts
Without an enormous amount of fanfare, Google yesterday launched Google Podcasts for Android yesterday, with the possibility of being game changing. I’ve long argued that for the Android/iOS podcasting gap to be closed, Google needed to get involved and create a generic app. Apple Podcasts is a pre-installed app on every iPhone sold, and with…
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Diversity in UK Radio
Ofcom has just published its diversity monitoring report into the radio industry. It replicates the work Ofcom did in television, and the report makes interesting reading. The first note in the report is that the data for this is very poor. They contacted 16 broadcasters to compile the report, and while all 16 reported on…
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Podcasts and Paywalls
There seems to be something of a brouhaha* just now in podcasting land over the idea that some podcasts might live behind a paywall, and I thought it was worth thinking about that a little more. It was reported at the end of last week, that Amy Schumer has signed a $1m deal with Spotify…
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RAJAR Q1 2018
As ever, this post is brought to you in association with RALF from DP Software and Services. I’ve used RALF for the past 9 years, and it’s my favourite RAJAR analysis tool. So I am delighted that I continue to be able to bring you this RAJAR analysis in association with RALF. For more details…
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Shutting Down AM
Today, Ofcom published a short consultation based on a request from Absolute Radio to shut down a number of AM transmitters and reduce the power on some others. In essence the request, which I confidently expect to be quickly agreed to, has three main details: They want to close down completely 12 AM sites, and…