Category: Radio

This is the first part of three part summary of this year’s Radio Festival. Part two can be found here, and part three can be found here. Each year the radio industry gets to meet in Salford at the Lowry in Salford Quays – just metres away from Media City where Five Live is currently…

New RAJAR brings with it some big digital changes this quarter. This chart shows that digital listening has pushed through to 28.2% which is up a decent amount from the previous 26.9%. We usually get the big digital jumps in Q1 each year, when people start turning on their DAB radios after Christmas, but is…

And so it came to pass. The BBC’s “Delivering Quality First” aka “What We’re Cutting To Save 20%” has been published. It’s worth Since I work in radio, I’ll start there, but I’ll offer my thoughts on other services too. Radio To a greater or lesser extent, radio escapes the brunt of the savings. Radio…

I found this week’s Feedback on Radio 4 very entertaining. A correspondent had written in to complain about the use of a particular piece of incidental music in several different drama and documentary series on Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra across a single evening. That piece of music in Facades by Philip Glass… Now…

Enough has really been said already about the looting and rioting that took place last week, without me needing to wade in with any more “insight”. That said… I’m very disturbed by all the talk of “shutting down” social media if such events arise in the future. Do we also close down the Royal Mail…

I sometimes find This American Life a little irritating. It’s hard to quite put my finger on why I find it this way, but I do. That said, it’s mostly excellent and well worth subscribing to their podcast. A couple of weeks ago they broadcast When Patents Attack – a thorough look at the patent…

I thought I’d expand a little on one aspect of RAJAR that has been reported on a bit, and has been seen by some as surprising. I touched on the internet listening numbers a little in my summary piece on this quarter’s RAJAR figures. I said: One oddity in the figures is the apparent fall…

Another quarter flies by, and the new radio listening figures are published. The first thing to say is the overall listening is up. More people than ever before are listening to the radio every week – 91.7% of the population spending 1.076 billion hours tuned into the radio. One number that always attracts attention is…

A YouGov/Sunday Times poll reveals that 6 Music would be the station most people would choose to close down to help the BBC achieve spending cuts. There are one or two problems with this: – In the survey, the station was named “BBC Radio 6” rather than “BBC 6 Music”. A small but important detail,…

Yesterday, Tim Davie presented the Myers Report into Radio 1, 1Xtra, Radio 2 and 6 Music. John Myers, CEO of the Radio Academy and someone who’s for a longtime been involved in commercial radio, had been asked to look at ways for the services to reduce costs while maintaining quality. Responses have largely been as…