Category: Radio
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Local News
This morning, the BBC Trust rejected plans for a local BBC video news service. Concurrently, Ofcom published the results of its Market Impact Assessment and concluded that the plans would have had a significant negative impact on commercial news providers. The BBC proposal would have seen it producing more localised news which would be delivered…
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Asda DAB
A story in Marketing magazine leads me to the Asda site where it has launched a series of own brand electrical items. These include an Asda DAB digital radio that sells, online at least, for the princely sum of £24.47. A DAB radio for under twenty-five quid is fine by me, and thankfully, the set…
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Radio at the Edge: Redux
It might have cost attendees (or their companies) cold hard cash to attend, but the audio from this year’s Radio at the Edge is now available as a series of downloads as well as a summary podcast. Entertainingly, the one session that isn’t available is the Collings and Herrin podcast which they’ve deemed “uncompliant”! Happily,…
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Radio At The Edge
Apologies upfront for the rawness of this text. I’ll tidy it up later. To Radio at the Edge (where there’s some free WiFi), to hear about the latest goings on in the audio world. After introductions from James Cridland, and an opening from Nick Wallis, a familiar face – to me at least – Clive…
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Poor Journalism This Sunday
Finding poor journlism in the Sunday papers isn’t really hard, but The Observer had this story in yesterday’s paper. It begins: Media regulator Ofcom warned BBC bosses about lax editorial procedures on Russell Brand’s BBC 6 Music show over a year ago, it emerged last night. In a ruling published 15 months ago, it criticised…
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DAB/Internet Radio Question
Perhaps someone out there can answer me this: Is there a DAB/FM/Internet Radio out there that can also record to SD card (or hard disk, I guess)? The closest I can find are Pure’s Evoke Flow and the Roberts Stream 202 neither of which appear to be able to make timed recordings. On the other…
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Issue Du Jour
I’m loathe to return to this subject because it has been done to death everywhere now. But I think a few key things have come out. 1. The two presenters were exceptionally juvenile doing what they did and should have known better. 2. Although they were employed to push boundaries, they are well aware of…
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Overblown Nonsense
So the Ross/Brand things has blown up out of all proportion. Seriously. The scale of the media frenzy is in no way proportional to what actually happened. When I wrote about this the other day, I did so in a way that discussed something that would be of interest to people who read Media Guardian.…
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Responsibility In Front Of A Microphone
In the last couple of days we’ve heard plenty about a “prank” that Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross played on actor Andrew Sachs a couple of weeks ago on Brand’s Radio 2 Saturday evening programme. As part of a pre-recorded show, when Sachs didn’t answer his phone for a pre-arranged interview, Brand (new book –…
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Channel 4 Radio
So finally, on Friday, came the news that Channel 4 was pulling the plug on its radio operation. Let’s revisit a little history. Commercial Radio has been broadcast nationally in UK on Digital One since 2002. But of late, the platform has struggled to be filled with the ten or so services it needs to…
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Virgin Radio 1993-2008 Mosaic
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Ed Reardon Returns
Right – lots of good news on the Ed Reardon front. First of all, this coming Monday (6th October) sees the return of Ed Reardon with a new series on Radio 4 at 11.30am. I would imagine that we’ve got another six epsiodes in this new series. Let’s hope so anyway. So set your alarms,…
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Audio To Text
Over the last few years, I’ve tried to look at lots of different ways to turn audio into text – ideally cheaply or even freely. Working for a radio station, even one that largely plays out music, being able to search audio to find when a presenter said or mentioned something would be incredibly useful.…