The OFT have just published their full report into the Global and GCap merger. It’s a bit of a slog through 90-odd pages, but there’s some interesting things in there about the nature of radio today. You can also see that the OFT don’t know the difference between the word ‘licence’ and ‘license’. Reasoned analysis [...]

New feature at google.com (though not the UK version yet) where it guesses what you’re searching for. I’m just quite excited that if you type “matt dee” it comes up with matt deegan and matt deegan blog as the options. I think that’s quite cool!

I first noticed on Mashable today the story about the BBC allowing series stacking of their shows. Series Stacking is basically allowing people to watch, on-demand, a whole series of shows rather than just something in the last seven days. The article sort of lambasts the BBC for only just seeing the light and now [...]

Last week thousands of teenagers were celebrating (or commiserating) when they received their GCSE results. The main media story, as always, talked about how the exams were just getting easier, hence the record results. Radio 1 did a great spin on the GCSE results by making a handful of the DJs take a maths exams [...]

Tonight, The Hits TV channel bites the dust and regenerates, Doctor Who style, into the Channel 4 branded 4Music. It’s the culmination of a deal last year where EMAP (now Bauer) sold a half share in its music TV channels (The Box, The Hits, Magic TV, Kiss TV, QTV and Kerrang TV) to Channel 4. [...]

I’m a big fan of micro-blogging service Twitter. It’s one of those hard to explain, great to use services that just need to play with to get going. Basically, think Facebook status but updatable via web, sms, IM and apps and receivable via web, sms, IM and apps. Well, in the US anyway. You see [...]

The One Golden Square blog has just put up some of the old Virgin Radio adverts, all of which are bit, er, fail. It’s hard to find many decent commercials for radio stations, but after an email from Sam this morning about the new Radio 1 line-up I was trying to find the advert for [...]

So, XM and Sirius, the US satellite radio operators have now merged so they can get on with combining their operations and their losses – a mere $83m for the last quarter. Phew. And some people think the UK radio industry’s in a bad way! There’s a really interesting interview with Mel Karmazin – the [...]

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The digital communications team at Downing Street (led by ex-LBC MD Mark Flanagan) have just relaunched the Number 10 website – probably the most public facing of Government websites. It looks like it’s the culmination of a number of online initiatives that the team have been working on over the last few months. Earlier in [...]