Archive for February, 2008
BBC Asian Network Changes
Tagged on the end of this BBC press release about the new Controller of BBC Radio Five Live, it’s been added that the Asian Network has moved over to Andy Parfitt‘s control. Andy is very much the teen tsar with responsibility for Radio 1, 1Xtra, BBC Switch, indeed the announcement says: From audience perspective it [...]
Radio Nova – Doing Things Differently
Reading about radio, i’m always surprised how negative it is. Now whilst that maybe rich bearing in mind some of my posts, I find it odd that people seemingly have such a downer on the medium. It’s always ‘doomed’ or in apparent decline or destined to be replaced by the internet. In addition all you [...]
Pirate Radio Stations Busted
Photo from Interrobang Some more pirate radio shut down news from Ofcom today as they announce three arrests and twenty pirate station transmitters confiscated across four London boroughs. The reasons, they say, they do this are that: Illegal broadcasters can cause serious interference to safety-of-life services such as the fire brigade and air traffic control, [...]
Positioning Statements and Odd Emails
I get quite a lot of ‘member club’ emails from radio stations, as one of the things we do at Folder Media is help stations decide what their stategy is for sending them – so i’m definitely not an impartial observer. However the one I got from Choice FM this morning was really very odd: [...]
GCap’s New Strategy
GCap’s Chief Executive Fru Hazlitt announced today GCap’s new strategy. You can read the full document here. There’s been lots of discussion about it and as with all of these things there’s lots of uncertainty about what’s been actually said. I’m going to run through what I see as the salient points and some things [...]
What Fru Does Next
On Monday morning, GCap Chief Exec Fru Hazlitt is going to announce to the City her strategic plans for the company. She’s somewhat under pressure as she’s got Global Radio knocking on the door looking to take over the company. So, what’s going to happen? I think one of the key things that she’s got [...]
Good News for Radio, Bad News for Weekend Jocks
Ofcom have been consulting on the Future of Radio for what seems like a million years now. Part of the reason it’s been such a long process is that the environment for the radio industry’s been changing quite a lot. Whether that’s new technology, corporate shenanigans or a weakening advertising market, it all affects the [...]
Johnny and Denise – Good Show, Poor Site.
I’ve just been sent an email from Denise Van Outen, oh she’s always emailing me. However, even though it’s from Denise it says her name is ‘Capital VIP’ in the email header. Anyway, otherwise she seems very proficient at emails as she’s got a picture of herself, she’s put the Capital logo on it and [...]
The Radio Industry and DAB
There’s an interesting post from Ashley Highfield, Divisional Director of BBC Future Media and Technology about DAB and it’s relationship with IP delivered radio and services. He brings up an excellent point that there’s a need to drive forward DAB’s product development. And luckily all the things he suggests are relatively easy to do, we [...]
That Phrase
“Please consider the environment before printing this email” I just wish to say that my thoughts on the environment cannot be affected by an automatically generated line on an email. I think that this would still be the case if I had a very complex filing system where I printed every email off to be [...]