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  • RAJAR Adopting Digital

    Over at the Onegoldensquare blog, I’ve written about what RAJAR is doing to upgrade its methodology and include a proportion of respondents completing their RAJAR diaries online. I should point out that I sit on the RAJAR Technical Management Group who implemented this, so I’m generally speaking in favour of its introduction! You can read…

  • Elbow at St Paul’s Cathedral

    Last night Elbow played an exclusive set for Absolute Radio in the crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral – the first time that a rock band has ever performed there. It looked and sounded stunning. Watch an interview here and listen to the set on-air on 5 June. Looking down through the grate in the main…

  • RAJAR Q1 2011 – A Little Thing

    Last year BBC Four broadcast a wonderful one-off programme called The Joy of Stats. It featured Professor Hans Rosling who’s talks at places like TED have made him extremely popular and watchable. In particular he’s been employing a type of motion chart that’s really useful for observing multiple pieces of data over long periods of…

  • Sony Awards Redux

    Listening to this week’s Radio Academy RadioTalk, I heard Talksport programme director Moz Dee and Media UK’s James Cridland talking about potential changes to the Sony Radio Academy Radio Awards (Thanks for the shoutout James!). There’s always a feeling that the ceremony goes on too long. And it is a long awards’ ceremony. Although if…

  • RAJAR – Q1 2011

    It’s early May, and that means it’s another RAJAR – that exciting time when radio stations in the UK learn their new listening figures. As ever, it’s a mixed bag, with ups and downs. In the up box is radio listening overall. It’s once again recorded a record reach, with 91.6% of the population listening…

  • Radio Well Worth Listening To

    A couple of things that I heard over the weekend: Into The Music Library – This documentary from Jonny Trunk is a great introduction into the world of library music. You’ve heard an awful lot of it, but mostly you’re not aware of it. The documentary concentrates on music from the sixties and seventies. It’s…

  • Radioplayer

    Radioplayer is finally here! Indeed, if you listen via the internet, you may have already spotted it, since it has been live for a few hours now. I’ve got to say that this is a really exciting development for the UK radio industry, and I don’t just say that because my employer is one of…

  • Sony Radio Academy Award Nominations 2011

    Well the Sony Radio Academy Award nominations were announced earlier this evening (in a much nicer venue than previously) by Classic FM’s Margherita Taylor and BBC 6 Music’s Huey Morgan. They fairly rattled through the categories, with Morgan in particular entertaining us even if he mispronounced the odd nominee. Once again, Absolute Radio (my employer!)…

  • What Will The Beeb Suggest Shutting Down or Cancelling Next?

    Hmm. Cancel BBC2 daytime programming and rebroadcast the BBC News channel during those hours. Essentially close down BBC Local Radio in England with just local breakfast and drivetime shows. Stop broadcasting Wimbledon and F1. What do they all have in common? They’re surely not ideas that are being “flown” to see what the reaction is?…

  • Why Merging BBC Radio Five Live and BBC Local Radio Would Be A Bad Idea

    If a tweet from BBC Radio Nottingham editor Mike Bettison is to be taken at face value, the BBC is considering some kind of merger between BBC Local Radio and BBC Radio Five Live. This idea mirrors something that James Cridland pondered in a blog posting on his site last year. Except he talked about…

  • Absolute Radio – Apps Stats

    Absolute Radio – my employer – has started publishing app stats. You can read the first set of numbers here. A couple of weeks ago Matt Deegan challenged the radio industry to do more than just publish the number of installs which, up until now, has been the headline figure most stations (including Absolute Radio)…

  • BBC Digital Radio Plans

    A quick note to point people in the direction of a digital radio announcement coming from the BBC today. Radio 4 Extra – the soon-to-be-renamed BBC Radio 7 – will have classic episodes of Desert Island Discs, with an extensive online archive of 500 or so shows plus the music choices of every guest in…

  • Things To Catch On iPlayer Before They Drop Off

    A couple of entertaining programmes to catch up on before the dreaded seven day iPlayer window closes! Paul Jackson* was for a long time an ITV entertainment executive in a variety of roles across a number of companies. And he’s also a dab hand at making radio programmes. A few years ago he made an…