Category: Radio

The Digital Music Awards are now a fixture in the world of radio, and each year they canvas for votes from the public to pick their favourites in various categories, including “Best Radio Station”. The only problem with that is that the most popular seems certain to win. And when I say “popular” I mean,…

Classic FM has launched a download service, and guess what? It’s offering mp3s using eMusic as their partner. This is a smart move, and I might even give the service a bit of a go. But a couple of things: 1) They really should be shouting a bit more about the fact that they’re offering…

Lots of news today all built around DAB radios built into phones. First up is Virgin Mobile who have finally launched their Lobster 700 – well to the press at least. This is the phone that’s a Windows Smartphone with a DAB radio built in that lets you listen to the radio and also, via…

“Gorgeous” George Galloway is presenting a couple of shows for Talksport live from Beirut this weekend in what his station has described (according to Mediaguardian) as “the first live radio phone-in broadcast from a war zone”. They are kidding aren’t they? Will he be hosting his show from southern Beirut? And did I not read…

Channel 4 Radio has launched today. Channel 4 has not made a secret of wanting to get into radio, and with a new national DAB multiplex forthcoming, everyone expects Channel 4 to want to have some part of it. They’ve obviously got a lot of programmes that they can use for radio. That includes spin-offs…

With just 10 months to go until it gets an audiobook release (!!!) those who’ve so far missed out have an opportunity to hear the first series on BBC Radio 7 from next Thursday – at 2.00pm, and again at 6.00am on Friday mornings. Yes I know that’s slightly strange scheduling, but BBC Radio 7…

So, the question is, what’s being broadcast in the Drama on 3 slot next weekend on Radio 3? After this week’s play, the announcer trailed something that made me very happy indeed – an adaptation of Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov. I’m a big Kurkov fan. But all the listings, including the BBC’s…

I went to see a recording for the new series of Genius this week. It was at the Cochrane Theatre and it was raining outside. Very soon, it was raining inside too. I’m reliably informed that producing such an effect on demand would have been very expensive. The Cochrane Theatre’s roof made it very cheap…

Listeners to The Geoff Show may have heard ITV’s Head of Entertainment recently fielding programme suggestions from listeners. He was very good, and a scarily high proportion of ideas had already either been pitched or even produced. Anyway, Jackson is no Johnny come lately to the broadcasting game, and he’s just presented the first pair…

A report from the European Media Forum is reported to suggest that BBC Radios 1 and 2 should be sold off. They’d raise £500m and since this would “re-balance the radio market and level the competitive playing field between commercial broadcasters.” I beg to differ. What’d actually happen is that vast parts of commercial radio…

I’ll freely admit that I’m not exactly up on my Russian fiction, so I came to Dead Souls quite fresh. Narrated by Michael Palin, who “appears” in the story, he accompanies Chichikov as he goes about his way trying to buy dead peasants. Chichikov, played expertly by Mark (Spaced, Green Wing) Heap, has a scheme…

I’ve been meaning to write a little more about some of the radio I’ve been enjoying recently. First up is Nebulous, Graham Duff’s sci-fi comedy starring Mark Gatiss. Series 2 has just passed the half-way mark – it’s broadcast at 11pm on Wednesday. It’s more of the same, and very very silly. I love it.…

I work in the radio industry, and Tuesday night was a very important night. Arsenal completely trounced a tired, lacklustre and aging Juventus team in the first leg of the Champions’ League (I prefer The Fiver’s “Big Cup”) quarter final. But that’s not what this is about. Tuesday night was also nominations night for the…