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  • Orange LiveRadio

    Orange has announced its LiveRadio – effectively an Orange branded Wi-Fi radio. You pair it up with your wireless router and away you go listening to internet radio from around the globe. So far, so normal. You can buy a cheaper device elsewhere. But the Orange LiveRadio does allow you to purchase music from the…

  • It Tests Well

    “But here, research is still king and the audience is apparently saying it wants lots of familiar oldies, especially from the 1980s, and – at the time of writing – Rockstar by Nickleback more or less on the hour every hour.”

  • What Does Commercial Radio Have To Do?

    I’ll once again preface this piece by saying that these are my personal views and don’t represent those of my employer. I wrote a week or so ago about the poor showing of commercial radio compared to BBC radio in the recent RAJAR results for Q1 2008. What we saw was commercial radio fall to…

  • Madge in Kent – What A Hoo-Haa

    Here’s a complete non-story: Madonna swore twice during her post watershed performance that was broadcast live on BBC Three and Radio 1 as part of the station’s Big Weekend in Maidstone. So there were swear words in programme that featured a warning, and viewers got an apology anyway. Anyway, she’s edging 50, and has to…

  • Some Good Radio

    Taking advantage of the fine weather, I hit the nearby countryside this afternoon (sadly, in a moment of poor planning, sans camera) and found myself following a section of the London Loop. I must say that I think I may attempt the full walk over the course of the next few months – it’s always…

  • Ed Reardon’s Week Finally Coming To CD

    Well here’s a turn-up for the books – the first series of Ed Reardon’s Week looks as though it’s finally coming out on CD. You can put your cash back in your wallet, as it’s not due to hit become available until September if the listings on Amazon or the BBC Shop are anything to…

  • Moyles v Wogan

    Lots of today’s RAJAR press coverage focuses on the “battle” between Radio 1’s Chris Moyles (34) and Radio 2’s Terry Wogan (69). There are charts like the one below, a version of which appeared in today’s Times. It all looks pretty close between the two breakfast DJs. But is that chart completely fair? Chris Moyles…

  • RAJAR Day

    In radio stations up and down the country, radio station bosses have been examining their RAJAR results last night and first thing this morning. Media Guardian has plenty of detail about the overall results. And you can get the raw figures direct from RAJAR. But there’s an interesting blog piece my Media Guardian radio correspondent…

  • RAJAR – And the Digital Age

    I should preface this entry by saying that it could be a little dull if you’re not interested in radio research; that the views expressed here do not necessarily reflect my employer; and that I have no particular insider knowledge, beyond having used RAJAR for a long time. RAJAR is the organisation that publishes radio…

  • A Bit Of Audio To Listen To

    I’ve heard a few really entertaining media related pieces of audio in the last couple of days. The first is a Daily Mayo podcast from last week when Gabby Logan was sitting in for Simon Mayo. She was interviewing ITV Executive Chairman, Michael Grade. Unfortunately, because it was last week, and the BBC only keeps…

  • Today’s Most Entertaining Media Stories

    Two stories have tickled me today from Broadcast magazine (“The Voice of British Broadcasting” – but mostly TV. Radio’s on p14 folks!): Ian Wright has “quit” as a BBC pundit. He’s claiming that the BBC’s coverage of football is too stuffy. And he feels as though he’s the “comedy jester” of the team. In response,…

  • Ed Reardon on New Grub Street

    Thanks to Chris for noting that Open Book on Radio 4 recently covered nineteenth century novelist George Gissing and his novel New Grub Street. The main character is one Edwin Reardon, and there’s also a Jasper Milvain. Familiar names to fans of Ed Reardon’s Week like myself. Listen to the extract here: powered by ODEO…

  • Is 6 Music Too Male?

    Well, the short answer is that I don’t know. But that seems to be what Lesley Douglas has been suggesting recently following a backlash against George Lamb. Now I’ve not heard him, so I’ve no idea how good or bad his show is, or what kind of audience it might be attracting. Douglas is quoted…