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I Have Magnetic Legs
Well that can be the only explanation. Unless the system is just flaky of course. Let me explain. I live in London, where the public transport system is divided into circular zones. The further out of the centre you live, the more you pay for your all zone ticket – or travelcard. A couple of…
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Oh the irony
(Yes, I really am on the subscription lists of both these organisations).
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Privatising Radio 1 and Radio 2
In today’s FT, the former chairman of Endemol UK, Peter Bazalgette argues for the BBC selling off Radio 1 and Radio 2. As part of an argument to solve the BBC’s problem of facing losing a “top-slice” of the licence fee, Bazalgette has noted that the BBC still has a 55% share of radio. His…
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Digital Radio – What Now?
(First off, it’s worth me reiterating that these are my personal views and don’t necessarily reflect those of my employer) The following is a revision of a comment I made to a blog posting by The Guardian’s Matt Wells last week. I think it largely addresses the issues of where radio – and commercial radio…
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Radio News
GCap’s announcement on Monday about its plans for the future were big news this week in the radio world (I’ll get around to some of my thoughts in due course), and the media sales trade magazine Media Week gave its cover lead to the story. GCap’s withdrawal from Digital One and the knock on effect…
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BBC Three – Designed For Two Year Olds
We all know that bright and shiny things attract children (and magpies). You only have to look at CBeebies to see examples of that: Teletubbies, The Tweenies, Bob the Builder etc. I can only assume somebody over at BBC Three is aged about two and a half. Otherwise they wouldn’t have decided that a bright…
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And Now On Radio 4
This is one of two books published towards the end of last year to tie in, unofficially, with Radio 4’s 40th anniversary. And Now On Radio 4 takes a fairly brisk look at the history of the channel, with very little background about what radio had been broadcast in the UK prior to the big…
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There Will Be Blood
I’m not quite sure why, but I always treat a Daniel Day Lewis film with some trepidation; he doesn’t exactly produce films at the same rate as Samuel L Jackson. But There Will Be Blood has been talked about with such great praise, that I was really keen to see it. The distributors have gone…
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BAFTAs 2008
9.00pm The BAFTAs begin and we’re told by our host, Jonathan Ross, that this is has been a great year for films. We see a montage of clips from various films. For some reason, Transformers is in there. 9.01pm It’s clear that the sound is completely out of kilter with the left and right channels…
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1 Billion Viewers
Yesterday the news broke that the Premier League is considering giving everyone an extra fixture which will be played in one of five cities internationally. I’ll leave others to debate the pros and cons of such a scheme – or “brand extension”. But plenty of reports claim that “an estimated 1bn people watched the Premier…
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Podcasting Forecasts
As a follow-up to RAJAR’s recent research into podcasting, the US based eMarketer.com has just released some forecasts for podcast revenues for the next five years. The full report retails for $695, so you’ll excuse me if I limit my notes to the findings they publish on their blog. They suggest that total audience for…
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Timewatch – The History of a Mystery (1996)
“Someone” uploaded my favourite ever episode of Timewatch. It’s an episode that examines, seemingly at face value, the claims of such books as The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (you know, the one Dan Brown has evidently written). At the time this documentary was shown, there’d been a rush of similar titles. Indeed, the…
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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…
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