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  • RAJAR – Q4 2010

    It’s that time of year again. The latest RAJAR’s are out. It’s fair to say that there are few interesting things that come out of it. Overall radio listening remains firm, although there’s a 0.9% decline in listening hours, although listening is actually up 5.9% year on year, so this isn’t a significant change. The…

  • BBC Radio Musical Chairs

    A bit of switching and changing today at BBC Radio, with Jo Whiley moving over from Radio 1 to Radio 2, while Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie move on to 6 Music. They’re the big stories, but as the graphic above demonstrates (Disclaimer: as I read it from the press releases), there’s an overall shuffling…

  • The BBC and Marketing Speak

    Yesterday a BBC blog entry from Daniel Danker, the Programme and On Demand General Manager at the BBC, caused something of a stir. It referred to a new “product” and there was much gnashing of teeth and concern as a result. I’ve got to say that I think that this probably isn’t the clearest communication…

  • Ed Reardon’s Week: Series 7

    Photo: BBC Radio 4 Have I mentioned that Ed Reardon’s Week is back for a new series? I have? Oh well, there’s no harm in mentioning it again. Every Monday at 11:30 and then on the iPlayer. In The Current Climate is available until Monday. And a single episode will be available in Radio 4’s…

  • More On Cars (And Mobile Data)

    CES has been taking place recently and one of the themes seems to have been the increased amount of sophistication in the in-car audio market. In particular Pandora is getting a lot of support from major manufacturers like Toyota and Ford. But there are plenty more besides. Last month I wrote a piece about in-car…

  • Data Reductions Hurt Mobile Media

    The news that T-Mobile is dropping its mobile data usage limit to 500MB from 1GB is not great news. This is not just about one operator, but a trend across the industry. While T-Mobile says that “over 90%” of its customers use less than this a month (does this include customers without smartphones?), it’s not…

  • The Ashes on the Radio

    There are probably few who’d argue that Test Match Special is an incredible institution. For many, despite Sky’s exemplary coverage, it’s far preferable (for many more, it’s the only way to get live broadcast coverage of cricket). It’s just quite hard trying to sync up Sky pictures with TMS audio. The only way I can…

  • Ed Reardon Returns

    Photo from BBC Radio 4’s Flickr stream. The good news is that, as previously mentioned, Ed Reardon’s Week returns on January 10 with the seventh series (with a repeat of his Edinburgh special on January 3). To promote this, Ed is writing a series of posts over on the Radio 4 blog. At the time…

  • Radio Times 25 December 2010

    Let’s face it, you’re going to watch TV today: Best viewed large. [Note: In fact, the programme I’m most looking forward to is later on Radio 3 – Jonny Trunk’s BBC sound effects focused Between the Ears at 2225.] Merry Christmas!

  • A New Broadcast Code

    The big news today is that Product Placement on television is finally allowed, as long as some kind of logo is also displayed on-screen to alert viewers to the commercial arrangement. But far more exciting to a radio audience is the new Section Ten of Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code dealing with radio advertising. After a long…

  • In Car Radio Listening, And Other Locations

    One of the things that RAJAR measures is the location that radio is being listened, and oddly enough, it’s a figure that’s rarely reported. This blog is prompted by something James Cridland asked me when he was chasing down some figures recently about in-car listening. Because the numbers aren’t talked about a great deal, they…

  • Ofcom’s Broadcast Code Review

    Sometime towards the end of the year, Ofcom should be reporting back on some changes it’s making to its Broadcast Code – the document that legislates what television and radio broadcasters are allowed to do on air. The big news on the day it comes out will undoubtedly surround Product Placement on television. Will Simon…

  • Classical Music Downloads

    Let’s revisit an issue from a few years ago. In 2005, BBC Radio 3 presented the first in their now regular “Experiences” when they broadcast the Beethoven Experience. They broadcast, non-stop Beethoven for six days including pretty much everything he composed. As part of the Experience, they made available as downloads, a new recording from…