Category: Radio

I had a bit of a radio plays catchup at the weekend and was hunting around for a good site that regularly reviews radio plays. To be honest I was pretty unsuccessful. I regularly visit Off the Telly which has some excellent TV reviews and features, but I can’t find anything similar for radio. I…

At work we’re always on the look out for the next big thing, and “red button” on the radio is just that. So it’s good to hear that interactivity really can work. Read about the sailor blocking the emergency VHF frequency whilst listening to the Today programme.

Something a bit different now. This comes as a result of a brief correspondence I had following this post. So what follows is a brief look at BBC Radio 3’s audience figures and who listens to what programmes. It’s based on the most recent RAJAR which was released a couple of weeks ago. Download the…

Well yesterday was day one in the High Court battle being made by everyone’s least favourite ex-Sun editor, Kelvin MacKenzie. He’s suing RAJAR for sixty million pounds in lost revenue, because they haven’t adopted the audience measurement technology he likes. RAJAR is the organisation that’s owned jointly by the BBC and commercial radio to supply…

A good short piece by Tim Luckhurst in today’s Times pleaing for the Secretary of State not to kill off analogue radio. I must say that I don’t think it’s going to happen anytime soon. Digital’s great, but it’s completely true that FM can carry on surviving in a digital world. As can AM to…

Many people are upset at the untimely death of John Peel yesterday, at the age of 65. I was never a massive Peel listener, but last night I did listen to Radio 1’s 2 hour tribute which comprised solely of tracks recorded for Peel Sessions over the years. Just listening to the range of songs…

Last week something really big happened in American radio – Howard Stern, the archetypal “Shock Jock” announced that he would be leaving terrestrial radio, and heading to one of the two satellite radio service operators, Sirius Satellite Radio. This is big news for two reasons. One, Sirius is the smaller of the two competing systems…

I’m just beginning to catch up on the recent Radio 4 series – Club Class. The first of the latest series featured the Skulls and Bones – a secret society which invites just 15 new members a year, yet has both George W Bush and John Kerry as members. The really interesting thing about this…

Hitchhikers is back! As many of the original cast as could be rounded up (well you can age far more gracefully on radio), and I love the clever way they handled the change of the Voice of the Book from the now deceased Peter Jones to William Franklyn. Fortunately, if you missed it today, it’s…

The piece of audio that’s being passed around most in the radio industry today…

Another great BBC World Service documentary series is underway. Pils, Profits & Patients is available to listen to online, and examines the influence and behaviour of the pharmaceutical industry. Is what they do good for the world? “The pharmaceutical industry is the most profitable industry in the United States of America.” (Wouldn’t it be great…

Channel 4 are supposedly considering launching a digital radio station, that will be in “direct competition” with Radio 4. Umm, yeah, right. Running a radio station might not be such a bad idea, and the author of the piece is right in thinking that struggling Oneword would be the channel to morph into such a…

Although it was broadcast on Radio 3 last Sunday, I’ve only just listened to How Many Miles to Basra? The play’s about what happens when a small group of British soldiers are out in the desert after hostilities have ceased, accompanied by a career-focused radio journalist. Obviously things happen to them, starting with the accidental…