Category: Radio
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Guardian’s Listings Get Worse
What has The Guardian done to its daily listings this week? They’ve got substantially worse – especially for radio. To give you an idea what I’m talking about, here’s an example of last Thursday’s radio page: And here’s the equivalent page today: The more observant may notice that it’s now only half a page. We’ve…
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Sony’s…
…or rather the Sony Radio Academy Awards as they should be known, but aren’t really. The radio “Oscars” were held last night in London. Quite why every award ceremony has to be compared to the awfulness of the Oscars is a good question. And they were held at the Grosvenor House Hotel ballroom, a room…
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Danny Baker and Christian O’Connell Return to Five Live
Interesting news from Five Live. Danny Baker’s going to be doing the Saturday morning show, replacing Eamonn Holmes. Meanwhile Absolute Radio’s own Christian O’Connell is returning to Five Live to present an as yet un-named topical news comedy programme. I’m glad that Danny Baker’s 606 has been acknowledged for the triumph that it is, and…
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RAJAR Q1 2009
7am this morning saw the first RAJAR release of 2009, and with it came a pleasant surprise: overall radio listening is up. Indeed, since the current methodology was introduced, radio listening is at an all time high reaching 45.8m listeners a week with 251,000 additional listeners this quarter. And even better news is that listening…
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The Oxygen of Publicity
The Home Office has been having a hard time recently – and the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, especially so. Yesterday, they came out all guns a blazing, with a list of people “named and shamed” who are to be excluded from entering Britain. Obviously this is by no means a list of the only people…
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TV Sponsorship
A very strange story is in today’s Times. The presenter of ITV1’s Tonight programme, Jonathan Maitland, writes about product placement and sponsorship on TV. First of all, Maitland seems to confuse product placement and sponsorship. As he says, Andy Burnham seems to have ruled out product placement, although I’m not sure that any shift in…
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What I’ve Been Listening To This Week
More or Less on Radio 4 One of my favourite Radio 4 shows has returned for a new series. Do yourself a favour and subscribe to the podcast. This week we had Marcus du Sautoy talking to Charles Clarke about Perfect Numbers and Mersenne Primes. You really want to listen now don’t you? Archive on…
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Listening to the Radio via a Nokia N82
The other day I talked about the frustration I suffered when I tried to listen to BBC Radio Five Live on my mobile streaming via 3G. I thought that it might be worth exploring that a little more. Most of the news about listening to the radio via your phone is about the iPhone. Of…
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What I’ve Been Listening To (And Watching) This Week
Spoon Jar Jar Spoon on Radio 4 A nice little documentary about Tommy Cooper that delved into the world of magic in London during the sixties and seventies, when there were magic shops all over the place, and clubs where magicians hung out. The late Ali Bongo was also interviewed for this. And if you’re…
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Champions’ League on the Radio
It’s been a big week in the biggest club football competition in the world, with Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal all featuring in the second leg of the quarter-final. Last night I was returning late from the cinema and realised I was without a radio to listen to the Chelsea v Liverpool fixture. Perhaps…
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Russell Brand on iTunes
It’s interesting to see that Russell Brand has a new CD/download out called The Russell Brand Radio Show – The Best Of What’s Legal. It’s available as a set of three CDs (plus bonus DVD!), or as a download from places like iTunes. At first glance the question you might ask is what on earth…
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What I’ve Been Listening To This Week
Feedback on Radio 4 Last week it was lots of complaints about the new Radio 4 website, and somehow I think those complaints will return. But this week it was more about when children’s radio is scheduled on BBC Radio 7. The reality is that children largely don’t listen at scheduled times, yet the BBC…
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Sony Radio Awards Nominations 2009
This evening the nominations were announced for the 2009 Sony Radio Academy Awards. This was held in the same nightclub in the West End that it’s always held in – although each year it curiously changes name. Anyway, it’s always an entertaining event with a partisan audience cheering on their favourites, and being deathly silent…