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Changes
You may notice that it all looks a bit different around here. On the otherhand, you may well be reading a feed in which – hopefully – nothing’s changed. The look and feel of this blog has basically been unchanged for nearly six years. So with great trepidation I’ve finally completed an overhaul started nearly…
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Just How Artificial Is Dragon’s Den?
Last night I was sitting at home tinkering with this blog (it will have its five-year overhaul soon), when my brother called me to say that there was someone from Virgin Radio on Dragons’ Den. I flipped on the TV and saw that the person being called “Christian” was Robin Banks, a DJ who used…
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Absolute Radio – the new name for Virgin Radio
More about the changes here. [UPDATE] Have a look at the “brand book” for Absolute Radio here.
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Martin Kelner in Media Guardian
Martin Kelner’s been penning some very honest pieces about radio over the last few months, and today’s is as true as any of them. Talking about Kenny Everett is possibly a little hackneyed – sorry if that sounds heretical. But in essence, what he says is true. It seems to be TV personalities only who…
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Radio News
What a lot of things have been happening in the radio world in the last week or so: The Global takeover of GCap has finally been given the all clear by the OFT, with the full text of their decision being published. Many of the programming savings have already been made, but it’s now the…
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The Wire Sans Commercials
I’ve just been watching an excellent episode of Dexter on the FX channel – at a slight delay via my Sky+. I let the playback run at the end and up popped a couple of things of interest. First, I see that Generation Kill is coming to FX in the UK soon which has got…
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Gustav Coverage
I don’t mean to underplay the potentially serious nature of Hurricane Gustav when it hits the US coastline, probably tomorrow. But Bush and Cheney not going to the Republican convention this week, answers a lot of the questions that Carl Hiaasen raises in his column this week. It’s a good get out. Bush gets criticised…
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Convention Season
In the US it’s convention season. That is to say that the Democrats and Republicans are holding their quadrennial events. In the UK we have party conferences, but really the two cannot be compared. In the UK we have access to all this malarkey on BBC Parliament which nightly shows two hours of live coverage…
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England Match Not On Terrestrial?
Well – as things stand, England’s World Cup qualifying games against Croatia and Andora will not have so much as highlights coverage on either BBC or ITV according to a piece in The Times. It comes down to the fact that while England’s home games were sold to ITV as part of a larger deal…
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White Goods Via The Internet
At work a few weeks ago, we had a nice chap come in to talk to us about the consumer behaviour at the moment, in light of the credit crunch and a falling housing market as people tightened their belts. It was all a little gloomy if you work for a company who depends on…
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Olympic Golds and Looking Forward To 2012
This morning saw three more British golds, particularly a pair in the sprints at the Velodrome with Victoria Pendleton and Chris Hoy winning. But I’m now beginning to get concerned about the logisitics of 2012. No, I’m not thinking about how we can possibly top the Chinese opening ceremony, it’s more to do with the…
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Old Virgin Radio TV Ads 3
Here are a batch more of Virgin Radio ads from the archives – being put up here in advance of the station’s rebrand in the UK. The first one features Beau the dog as he goes about his day. Realistic typing I think you’ll agree. I think this compilation of three ads from 2005 is…
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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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