Category: Radio

This week saw the annual refreshing of Apple’s iPod range. As always there was lots of speculation prior to the announcement about exactly what features would be included. There was lots of talk about cameras being fitted to various models, and about the long term future of the iPod Classic – the “original” iPod (this…

So the news that we all sort-of knew was going to happen anyway, has come to pass. Following a “BBC insider” having a chat with the Mail on Sunday over the weekend, El Tel has announced to his listeners that – yes – it is true. He’ll soon be departing his weekday breakfast show, and…

While browsing through my DAB set in London I came across this. What could it be?

This morning saw the release of the latest RAJAR radio audience listening data. Cue lots of press releases from lots of radio stations (You can read about Absolute Radio’s audience here). I suspect that many industry watchers will be looking at the digital listening percentage. That shows that 21.1% of all radio listening is being…

So Ed Vaizey is talking about selling off Radio 1 again is he? Obviously this makes no sense at all – and does nothing to help commercial radio. I’ve said this before when Peter Bazalgette suggested something similar and again when Richard Eyre said the same thing. I won’t run through the same arguments in…

This is a clip from an interview I was videoing this morning… (And at time of writing it’s the most popular video on the BBC News site. Even though I’m not remotely responsible for the content of the video, I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I was rather chuffed to have footage on…

Today’s Radio 1 reshuffle is interesting, and is obviously a clear response to the BBC Trust findings that Radio 1 was getting too old. Off to weekends go Jo Whiley and Edith Bowman, as Fearne Cotton and Greg James fill up the gaps. With a remit that targets 15-29 year olds, having a significant number…

All this week Torchwood is being stripped across BBC1 at 9pm, which may or may not be a good thing. And last week, Radio 4 ran three new 45 minute “Afternoon Plays” of Torchwood (following a one-off episode last autumn surrounding Big Bang Day). What’s really interesting is that the BBC has made all three…

There’s a nice interview with Radio 4 controller, Mark Damazer, in today’s Media Guardian. You can read the online version here. The piece has an accompanying photo, but the version on the website is a little small. It’s worth having a look at the newspaper one for a few more interesting titbits! For example, Damazer…

These are rough notes and I’ll need to tidy them up at a later stage. Jeremy Hunt, shadow DCMS representative, was first up today, and talked about the uniqueness of radio and his radio history. He’s certain that radio has a good future, although he knows how badly commercial radio is faring. He notes that…

[Note: Thiese are rough notes so apologies for any typos and general bad English. I’ll try to update as I go.] Nicky Campbell kicked off proceedings as host with a few stories about his life in radio before introducing a very nice summary of radio in the last 12 months. The first panel has Tim…

Here are a couple of nice pieces of audio from recent programmes. The first comes courtesy of Axegrinder at Press Gazette, and considers what those scary Yorkshire folk have been up to: Bearing in mind that BBC Radio Five Live is shortly to move to Manchester, not with entirely unanimous support of everyone who works…