Archive for April, 2008
Radio 1 Does Okay on Web Traffic
From Hitwise (and a gloating Sam): Recent research from Hitwise UK shows that one in seven visits to online radio websites last week were to BBC Radio One. Searches for the station’s annual music festival, ‘radio 1 big weekend’ were almost triple the number of searches in 2007, as registrations for tickets opened last week. [...]
Anti-Social Networking
So the news finally broke that GCap is going to network something, somewhere in daytime across their One Network of radio stations. Which, I imagine, isn’t particularly good news if you’re a daytime jock. Indeed I hear the information flow wasn’t exactly as smooth as at Global, where their ‘under threat’ DJs all got a [...]
Radiopaq – Streaming Radio Portal
I saw on Brand Republic that Beam have been hired to ‘excite’ people about new radio streaming startup Radiopaq. I hadn’t heard of Radiopaq so I thought i’d stop by. It’s not a particularly new idea, but the site’s quite nicely done and AJAX-style allows you to navigate through the content without interrupting your listening. [...]
Radio 1 Terms and Conditions
Chris Moyles has brought back his previously long-running quiz show, Car Park Catchphrase, to his Radio 1 Breakfast Show this morning. It’s been off-air whilst the BBC has reviewed its competitions after all that premium rate/pre-recorded show palaver. As part of that review, the BBC are insisting there’s specific terms and conditions for contests. Something [...]
Not Backing Boris
I’m not a big fan of Boris Johnson and would rather he wasn’t Mayor of London. Indeed, I don’t really think he’s good enough to be Mayor of Trumpton. He’s recently jumped on the Twitter bandwagon, following Brian Paddick’s lead no doubt, amusingly he’s only got ten followers. However, even with only ten followers could [...]
Networking Frenzy
There’s been a bit of a networking frenzy this week as group after group have been reducing their local progamming. First up Heart’s networking everything except breakfast, mid-morning and drive and Galaxy’s chopped everything except Breakfast and Drive. Today, the CN Group have announced that they’re networking all of the Touch Radio stations with single [...]
Radio 1 Using Facebook Events
Radio 1 have been using Facebook in lots of interesting ways recently and I wanted to flag up something they did to promote Zane Lowe’s Masterpieces – a show where they play an album in full with interviews and things afterwards. Now, most stations use Facebook to start a group about a show or station [...]
Idiots of Ants do Facebook
XFM News
More from the ever changing strategy at GCap as they announce that they’re not going to be selling XFM Manchester and XFM Scotland after all. Apparently they’ve decided that they’re decent assets to hold after all. I’m sure it’s also nothing to do with the fact that they couldn’t get decent price for those stations. [...]
Radio Station Marketing
I post things like the post below because they’re good ideas that other people can reinvent and use for their own brands. Radio, as an industry, has had a bit of a kick in recently partly due to the “radio recession” (more on that later) and partly because it rarely shouts about the good things [...]