Category: Radio
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Old Virgin Radio TV Ads
In the run-up to Virgin Radio rebranding as… – well, we’ll have to wait and see what precisely it becomes – I’ve been digging through the vaults to see what old TV ads I could find. Here’s the first second ad which ran sometime after the launch of FM in 1995 featuring Russ and Jono.…
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RAJAR
I wrote a little piece for the One Golden Square blog on RAJAR last week which it’s worth directing you to. I’d also suggest you read Martin Kelner in today’s Guardian.
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Radio Sitcom
I see from today’s Broadcast that ITV2 has commissioned “FM” a 6 x 30 minute sitcom about a “neurotic indie DJ” who works at Skin FM. The sitcom will apparently feature real bands and current tracks which is quite an interesting idea – if you think about it, with the exception of trails, sports montages…
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AM-FM Broadcasting is ‘A Form of Piracy’
Here’s a remarkable story from Wired. It refers to ongoing talks in the US where the record industry is trying to make the radio industry pay royalties to singers and musicians. Unlike the UK, where both songer writers and the performing artists separately get paid by radio stations, in the US only the songwriters get…
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Digital Radio Working Group – Interim Report
If you’re at all interested in the future of radio in this country – then you might want to read this interim report which has just shown up on the DCMS website. In summary there are two sets of key things to take from this: – DAB should become the primary platform for all national,…
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Are You Paying PPL?
Great story about a craftsman who just likes to listen to the radio while he works.
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Cliq
UBC today announced that it was closing down the phone service Cliq while it continues to look towards “connected” radios which will become available later in the year for its future business model. Cliq worked by installing a JAVA app on your mobile that used the data network. The service monitored the output of 28…
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Dave’s Success
As the sale of Virgin Radio nears completion, thoughts turn to the rebranding exercise to be carried out by Albion. One of the most obvious, and spectacularly successful media rebrands of recent years was that of UK TV G2 into Dave which took place back in October 2007. I wrote a piece on Dave’s success…
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Science on TV
Another old favourite. There’s good news that the BBC is going to produce a new popular science show for BBC1 provisionally titled “What? Where? Why?” to replace the late, and sometimes lamented, Tomorrow’s World. Science has been critically missing from our screens for too long now. We certainly get plenty of natural history, but that’s…
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Privatising Radio 1 and Radio 2… Again
I know I keep returning to this having written about it back in February when Peter Bazalgette raised the idea, and again following the Radio 3.0 conference a couple of weeks ago when GCap’s outgoing chairman Richard Eyre also raised the issue in a personal capacity. So it was interesting yesterday that Enders Analysis who…
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More on the Virgin Radio Sale And Other Radio News
A couple of people have asked me why I haven’t blogged more on the sale of Virgin Radio to TIML that was announced on Friday evening. The problem is that you have to tread very carefully when blogging about your employer. So I’m not going to say a great deal more, but as ever, what…
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Virgin Radio Sold
So finally, after months, and years even of sale process, Virgin Radio, my employer, is being sold. The purchaser is TIML Golden Square Ltd, which is a subsidiary of Times of India Media Group. One era ends, and another begins! More from The Times here. Also, the BBC (carefully saying that the sale is “reported”…
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Privatising Radios 1 & 2
At the Radio 3.0 conference today in London, outgoing GCap chairman Richard Eyre called for the BBC to privatise Radios 1 and 2. Eyre, stressing that he was speaking in a personal capacity, said it was no longer appropriate that the BBC should spend nearly £100m a year on the two mainstream national stations –…