Category: Radio

A couple of worthwhile pieces in today’s Media Guardian for those interested in the radio industry. Global’s Stephen Miron gives an interview. The subject of licence roll-over is brought up. Classic FM is the first of the three INR licences to be renewed, expiring in September 2011. Global would like an extension rather than the…

In this week’s Broadcast magazine, Emily Bell suggests that it’d be a good idea for there to be a one-stop shop for audio. She’s referring, of course, to Tim Davie’s interview with Media Guardian on Monday suggesting that the BBC works with commercial radio to build a single “radioplayer.” “I’m talking about getting radio fit…

Third Reich & Roll is a cracking three part documentary from Radio 2. Stephen Fry narrates this story about how Nazi technology helped develop tape recording technology, and then the post-war development of multi-track technologies and stereo. Part 2 is available until Monday and details what kind of technologies various classic albums used, from the…

Earlier this evening, the Radio Academy had one of its regular events – this one was a celebration of radio comedy. Jon Holmes hosted the evening, speaking to two excellent proponents of comedy on radio: Barry Cryer and Steve Punt. Barry Cryer picked some his “desert island” comedy classics and we were treated to excerpts.…

As I mentioned the other day, the Radio Sales documentary on Radio 4 on Saturday ended with the infamous “Superscreen” ad. OK. Here it is: In recent days there was another really annoying advert. A certain major soap opera was advertising a major event that took place in last Friday’s episodes. Radio advertising is the…

I was invited to present at the EBU conference Multimedia Meets Radio conference in Prague. More alert readers might realise that the EBU is a union of public service broadcasters and wonder why someone who works for a commercial radio station would present there. But we’re all radio services and there’s always plenty to learn…

Kelner is always worth a read: [Lesley Douglas’s campaign] a central plank of which was the replacement of Gideon Coe with the supposedly more female-friendly George Lamb, ranks in success somewhere between Balaclava and Napoleon’s invasion of Russia.

Perhaps that heading is a little misleading, but that’s what it feels like at the moment. On Friday, Ofcom gave GWR FM (Bristol and Bath) a yellow card for not operating within its format. GWR has a format which states (All stations’ format can be found on the Ofcom website). The format for GWR FM…

This evening’s Archive on 4 documentary was a terrific piece based around radio advertising in the UK through the ages. Presented by, the much missed Brian Hayes, it started with ads way before LBC and Capital Radio became the first legitimate UK commercial radio stations in 1973. Listen to it on the iPlayer, or catch…

Last Monday’s Just A Minute included a round on the subject of digital radio. David Mitchell isn’t a fan… Listen again to the whole show on the BBC iPlayer (by next Monday).

A week or so ago, Media Guardian got very excited about some RAJAR figures. They had the half hour figures for some BBC 6Music programmes. These figures showed that the peak listening for the “controversial” George Lamb was 40,000 while Adam and Joe on a Saturday morning peaked at 69,000 – the highest of the…