Category: Radio

As mentioned yesterday, Ed Vaizey, the new Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, has today given a speech at a London conference outlining the new government’s support for digital radio, and launching an action plan. How his speech has been been interpreted depends on where you read about it. At Media Guardian the headline…

I’m going to do something here that’s very dangerous. I’m going to conflate two separate stories into one. But follow me through. They are two separate stories, but there are commonalities and themes that run through them. Today’s Daily Mail (listen to Monday’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue for more details on what this…

You’re a news and sport radio station. It’s reached the stage in the World Cup where final group games take place simultaneously and you’ve promised listeners that you’ll cover all the matches. It’s Wimbledon fortnight and Andy Murray has his opening match. There’s an emergency Budget taking place in the Commons. [UPDATE] And an England…

I really like radio drama, although I’ll freely admit that I don’t get to hear enough of it. So the piece in today’s Guardian made for interesting reading. It highlights the fact that Radio 4 is losing the Friday Play, and the strain in general that radio drama finds itself under. What can radio drama…

Good news if you’re a fan on 80s music – Absolute 80s, which only launched in London at the end of 2009 – is going national from 10am this morning on digital radio. If you can hear stations on the D1 multiplex (i.e. Absolute Radio, Talksport, Classic FM etc), then you should be able to…

In an experimental change, RAJAR brought forward the release time of this quarter’s RAJAR to midnight tonight. But I’ve been out, so I’m an hour or so later than Matt’s sterling summary of RAJAR which is pretty comprehensive. There are two big stories that are going to get all the coverage in the papers later…

Chris Morris on the launch of Virgin 1215 from back in 1993. I’m looking forward to see Morris’ new film Four Lions next week.

Richard Bacon hosted an Election Special on 6 Music on Friday discussing how each party might approach the music industry. John Wittingdale was on the programme for the Conservatives, and while I wouldn’t suggest that what he said on the programme would affect my vote, I did enjoy this bit:

I listened to this on the way into work this morning, and it’s a great little documentary about the art of re-mastering. Mohr-Pietsch talks to a number of different people who’ve been through the re-mastering process, and talks about the pros, and perhaps not so much, the cons. This is one of those instances where…