Category: Radio
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Privatising Radio 1 and Radio 2
In today’s FT, the former chairman of Endemol UK, Peter Bazalgette argues for the BBC selling off Radio 1 and Radio 2. As part of an argument to solve the BBC’s problem of facing losing a “top-slice” of the licence fee, Bazalgette has noted that the BBC still has a 55% share of radio. His…
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Digital Radio – What Now?
(First off, it’s worth me reiterating that these are my personal views and don’t necessarily reflect those of my employer) The following is a revision of a comment I made to a blog posting by The Guardian’s Matt Wells last week. I think it largely addresses the issues of where radio – and commercial radio…
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Podcasting Forecasts
As a follow-up to RAJAR’s recent research into podcasting, the US based eMarketer.com has just released some forecasts for podcast revenues for the next five years. The full report retails for $695, so you’ll excuse me if I limit my notes to the findings they publish on their blog. They suggest that total audience for…
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BBC Shops
A couple of weeks ago I noted that the BBC Shop in Norwich had shut down, and it was pointed out to me that all the shops had been closed last year, apart from the one in TV Centre itself – but that’s only really open to BBC staff, and those who are visiting (studio…
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Podcasting: The Future
Last night the Radio Academy held an event in London to talk about podcasting. It was interesting to a point, although whether or not we learnt a great deal, I’m not so sure. You can listen to a podcast of the event at the Radio Academy’s website (I’m pretty sure registration isn’t required). Some points…
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Word Magazine Podcast
Word magazine is by far the best music magazine around these days, coming with a fascinating cover CD and always having thoroughly interesting pieces inside. Accompanying the magazine is the podcast which I always find to be worth a listen. This week, the Radio Academy’s Trevor Dann turned up for it, and he some strongly…
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Ordinary Song
A good song, with a very good and very “radio” video… Via Why That’s Delightful
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Some Decent Radio
Aside from Fred and Ginger films on BBC Four and Doctor Who on Christmas Day, I probably spent more time listening to the radio than watching the box over the festive period. Here are one or two radio programmes I enjoyed; they’re all BBC programmes I’m afraid, and very few of them are still available…
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Quality
A recent entry on Boing Boing pointed to an article in Rolling Stone magazine which highlighted the fact that producers mix tracks so that they sound good when they’re ripped to an mp3 player, at the same time, removing the subtleties that a wider dynamic range allows. Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow comments “…it seems to…
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Danny Baker Ends Podcasts
Thanks to commenter Richard Miller for drawing my attention to the notices on Danny Baker’s All Day Breakfast Show and Baker & Kelly websites. Danny has posted a note to say that there will be no more podcasts following an “irreversible and utter breakdown between the on-air team and the company who have, with varying…
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Analogue Switch Off Postponed?
Well, no it hasn’t, because it’s never been timetabled. But that might be the conclusion you’d get if you read this article on Computeractive. The regulator had planned to switch off analogue (FM and AM) radio by 2009 and 2012, to free up radio spectrum which “could be used for other things, for the benefit…
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Local Radio
It’s probably best that I don’t comment too much on this issue just at the minute (In my current position I’m directly involved in this issue. At some point in the future I hope I will be able to blog about it). But I’ll point you towards a Media Guardian Organ Grinder blog entry about…
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Correcting More Misleading Audience Figures
As you may know, it’s the fiftieth anniversary of the Today programme on Radio 4 this week, and there have been one or two pieces about it. A large piece in The Observer and something written by presenter John Humphrys himself in The Mail on Sunday. All very interesting, but the Mail piece has a…