Tag: radio
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Why DAB Radio in the UK Isn’t Broken and Doesn’t Need Fixing
A bold title, I think. But read on for the reason. There’s a Techradar piece – Why DAB in the the UK is broken, and how to fix it – that recently got a certain amount of traction and lots of retweeting amongst radio types. But it really needs some robust countering. I half expected…
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LBC Going National
The news today that LBC is going to be broadcast nationally from next month is really good for lots of reasons. Here are just a few: – It’s good for LBC. The station must be a reasonably expensive service to run since speech is always more expensive to do well than music. And a greater…
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Links Worth Reading
The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating and frankly depressing story about how US radio stations are playing the hits more to battle against the likes of Spotify and iTunes Radio. Because if there’s one thing I can find easily without listening to the radio, it’s the biggest hit songs. The piece ends with this…
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Logo Lolly
“Logo Lolly” is, or was, the practice of paying radio news reporters a bonus if they managed to get their radio microphone muffs (ie. covers) or collars into shot on the TV news. I’ve heard of at least two places where this certainly used to be the case. You’d get more money if you made…
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Radio and TV Favourites
I think my favourite TV programmes over the Christmas and New Year period were a series of films that I didn’t spot at all when I was going through the Radio Times. Endeavour: Everest was a series of three films made by Leo Dickinson shot in and around Mount Everest between 1976 and 1991. They…
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Radio Design – A Moan
I spent Christmas with my family – as many other folk do. But the room I was staying in didn’t have a radio! Now this is a calamitous state of affairs in my book. There wasn’t a spare kicking around. And while I carry a portable, it doesn’t have a speaker. No problem – I…
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A Digital Radio Future
This morning, I was in the BBC Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House along with several hundred colleagues who work for broadcasters, regulators, hardware manufacturers, car manufacturers and assorted others to hear Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, stand up and talk about the future of digital radio in this country. The event…
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RAJAR Q3 2013
In some ways, this quarter’s RAJAR results are a little disappointing – certainly if you’re comparing results with the previous quarter. But then this is a third quarter result, and RAJAR always dips a little during those periods with listening patterns changing in the summer months. Commercial radio has closed the gap a little with…
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Some Final Thoughts on Radio Festival 2013
Well it’s only been a little under twenty-four hours, but having essentially just published notes on what took place during the sessions I saw, I thought it was better to step back and have a more considered view. First of all, there are a few things I missed, but have since caught up with. Charlotte…
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Radio Festival 2013 Day 1 – TechCon
Introductory Note: I’m writing these notes during this year’s Radio Festival. There will probably be typos and other errors. I’ll try to correct them as I go along. And with any luck, some of this might end up on the Radio Academy website! First up – TechCon! After a typically excellent introduction from Orion’s David…
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LBC at Forty – Memories
Happy Birthday to LBC which is forty years old, and was the first – legal – commercial radio station in the UK, launching on 8th October 1973 just a few days ahead of Capital Radio and Radio Clyde. I’m not going to write a history about it here, because others will do that, and they’ll…
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My Christmas Radio 4
I’ve put together more than a few annotated pages of the Radio Times in the past, and of course I have the new Christmas issue by my side at all times for the next fortnight. So I was pleased to see Steve Bowbrick at Radio 4 collecting together the highlights of some its presenters over…
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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…