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How Many Listened?
According to a story in Media Guardian, “an estimated 5 million” people tuned in to hear who would be the Christmas number one yesterday during the various chart shows. There are two main chart shows these days: the Radio 1 version which is considered the official chart, and the Big Top 40 chart which runs…
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The Listener
This is a very nice little video made by Radio 1 using photos of their listeners sent in the other day (via Brainpicker on Twitter)
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Hunting In Packs
In today’s Standard (I managed to get a copy at Kings Cross – they’re never available much beyond 5.30pm at Oxford Circus or Piccadilly Circus), David Sexton pontificates over two pages about why “bloggers” are so hostile towards Ian McEwan. This is the piece that Sexton is talking about. Following a series of Guardian Book…
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Photographers Not Terrorists
Last night I was out trying to take photos of the Geminid meteor shower. It was a bit cloudy as you can see from the above photo which shows precisely no meteors. But as I set out on foot to a nearby field a bit away from the city lights, wrapped up warm with a…
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Terry Wogan in the Radio Academy Hall of Fame
This afternoon in London, Terry Wogan was inducted into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame. This comes as Wogan gives up his breakfast show at the end of next week. The great and the good (and the rest of us) were out in force to pay their respects, and all in all it was actually…
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Cinema Piracy with Laptops
Have you got a laptop? Or perhaps a netbook? Does it have a webcam? Seemingly it’s Cineworld policy not to allow customers to bring laptops into their cinemas. This is to curtail piracy. This follows a story from a couple of months ago about someone turned away from a Cineworld. You see that 1.3 megapixel…
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Christmas Repeats
On the way home last night I found a discarded copy the Daily Telegraph that contained this utterly pointless article about the upcoming Christmas television schedule. The early schedules are out now, and that means that some of the tabloids will be rushing out early versions of their Christmas TV guides before we head off…
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Bookshopping
Sadly one of the few remaining book chains in the UK has gone into receivership, and it seems we’ll shortly be seeing the end of Borders. I’m immensely saddened by this. Few things make me as happy as wandering into a bookshop for a bit of a mooch around. I’m lucky. I work in the…
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Inside Out Upside Down
Given that ITV barely does any local or regional news, it seems a bit unfair to target the BBC’s programme – Inside Out – that covers the English regions. And I’m not. But for reasons I can’t really explain, I decided to go channel surfing in the 970s and 980s on Sky to see what…
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In Radio News Today…
The DRDB has announced 10m DAB digital radio sets sold in the UK (and Pure has announced that it has sold a cumulative 3m DAB sets worldwide). This comes at the peak time for selling DAB sets – the run-up to Christmas. David Liddiment, who is leading the BBC Trust review of BBC Radio 2…
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Spotify Making Money?
Yesterday’s Observer had an interesting piece on Spotify that included a little more substance about whether or not Spotify is making money. I tried to find out as much as I could about Spotify ahead of Radio at the Edge a few weeks ago, and put everything I determine into a short video. As I…
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ATP World Tour Finals
I was lucky enough to go to the evening sessions at the O2 of the ATP World Tour Finals in London earlier this week – attending on both Monday and Tuesday. Overall I had a great time – not exactly hindered by the fact that I had superb seats. While the upper level seats were…
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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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