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RAJAR – Q3 2010
Like clockwork, another RAJAR comes around, and the radio industry all pauses to look at the new figures for the quarter. Here are some of the overall highlights: Overall reach remains at the high point it was last quarter (down just 9,000 people) Digital listening has increased to 24.8% (up from 24.6% last quarter) Commercial…
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The Independent & i
I could start this talking about how I bought the first edition of The Independent in 1986, and how for years I read it pretty religiously – if not exclusively. These days, I’m more of a Guardian man, still buying paper editions of it and its Sunday stablemate every day without fail. I still like…
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YouView
It really has been a busy few days, but one thing I was pleased to see happen was that Project Canvas – now YouView – will not be investigated by Ofcom. This is the IP connected TV service, that Sky and Virgin Media had both been very keen to stop. Their problem was basically that…
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The BBC Licence Fee Settlement
It’s still really hard to quite get my head around how the BBC licence fee settlement plays out. The quickest way to get a handle on what the BBC is being asked to do, is to read the letter to the BBC Trust from the DCMS website. The key elements of the statement are: The…
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Ed Reardon Live
In the last week or so, two different audio “things” that I’ve really enjoyed have stopped being published. William Gallagher has hung up his microphone on the UK DVD Review podcast and I’m going to miss it immensely. Meanwhile the chaps over at Speechification have also decided that they’re going to need to call it…
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Radio Festival 2010
Unlike last year, I wasn’t able to liveblog the Radio Festival since the venue had “challenging” connectivity. So instead, here are my notes from the event to a lesser or greater degree, taken over the last couple of days. This year, for the first time, the festival was held in Salford at the Lowry which…
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The Social Network
The Social Network seems to have caused something of a stir in the digital world – particularly amongst those who are more digital envangelists. They’ve seized on the fact that writer Aaron Sorkin (who’s script is based on Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires) is someone who doesn’t use social media like Facebook or Twitter, and…
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Olympus Trip Photos
I really like my Olympus Trip. How else would I get photos like these? Fujicolor Pro 160S.
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Amiina
My favourite Icelandic band were in town tonight, and I was in XOYO in London to see them. I last saw Amiina at Latitude in the summer where some members of the group performed a live musical accompaniament to the animated films of Lotte Reiniger. Prior to that, I’d seen them in the Queen Elizabeth…
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ITV in Good Drama Shocker
It’s very easy to knock ITV, and I’m always quite prepared to do so. I don’t like reality garbage like X-Factor, so aside from Champions’ League football, it has been off my radar for a while. But to give the channel its dues, it does seem to have turned a corner recently. Last night we…
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Tour of Britain – London Stage
Bradley Wiggins looks impressed with something. On Sunday I was out to watch the Tour of Britain come through London. I say “come through”. I really mean “do laps of Docklands.” Usually the Tour ends with a scenic multi-lap sprint around the centre of the city, but with the Pope in town this year conducting…
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Capital Radio
In 1990, I was working for the Bath Evening Chronicle, which at the time was a daily paper. Locally we competed for advertising with GWR which had a Bath opt-out, and to a much lesser extent HTV West our local ITV company. Then in 1990, along came a new big station broadcasting across Bristol and…
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
Hadrian’s Wall
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