So, this morning I decamped to Cambridge for three days of Radio Festivaling. It’s the annual jamboree for radio types and a good chance to catch up with friends, colleagues and contacts and hopefully make some new ones too. I’ve just nicked off from TechCon to the Hotel to unpack and get ready for tonight. [...]

It was announced this morning that 4digital had won the new national DAB Digital Radio licence. Well done to Nathalie, Gill and the team there. I think the award is going to raise a huge number of issues for the radio industry, and for that matter, Channel 4 too. DAB Digital Radio First and foremost, [...]

“Radio play does not have the positive impact on record sales normally attributed to it. Instead it appears to have an economically important negative impact, implying that overall radio listening is more of a substitute for the purchase of sound recordings than it is a complement.” Hmm. Who’s saying this? MusicFirst. Basically the entire US [...]

Scoble touches on something that i’ve had a lot in the past couple of weeks. This idea that Facebook is some how only for the kids. Complete rubbish, of course, it’s mainstreaming at quite a pace and getting older all the time. In fact i’ve been working with BBC World Service on some Facebook stuff [...]

Last week a new service, Traffic Radio, went on-air across most of England’s local DAB multiplexes. Traffic Radio is operated by the Highways Agency with Trafficlink providing the content. It’s a very simple idea, a rolling speech-only traffic news service. I was quite dismayed to read on the anoraky radio newsgroups almost a total slagging [...]