Archive for March, 2009
The True Cost of Twitter’s Deal with Vodafone UK
When Twitter first started you could get your updates for free on your mobile phone through SMS. This is great, until you get more than ten friends and it starts to get annoying. What was good was that you could get DMs (direct messages) texted or just choose which followers you wanted to get SMSs [...]
Strength Through Collaboration
Great news from the Absolute Radio guys this morning, with the announcement that Absolute is going to sell Planet Rock’s airtime. This is definitely going to be the first of many similar deals. It’s a great combination. Absolute have a sales team that understands ‘digital’ in its widest form and Planet Rock is a solid [...]
Commercial Radio to Join iPlayer?
News in the MediaGuardian today about the BBC’s olive-branch to commercial radio with the potential creation of Listen Again for all of UK radio (commercial and BBC). At first glance this seems a good thing. Listeners do love the BBC’s Listen Again/iPlayer for Radio services and are keen for commercial radio to provide the same [...]
Being Compliant
I thought i’d have a quick look at what GWR Bristol, sorry, thisisheart in Bristol was playing to see if they’d become compliant after Ofcom’s yellow card. In other words, were two thirds of their songs from the last two years? This was the 10am hour: That’s seven out of eleven songs from the last [...]
Bof! Digital Radio in France
Uncharacteristically (!), France has been somewhat late to the digital radio party, but now that they’re in, they’re really going for it. News today from WorldDMB that the French Government are mandating that all radios must be digital ones: The law sets out a three step programme to integrate digital radio into all radio receivers: [...]
Not Being Contemporary Enough
Earlier today Ofcom issued a yellow card to GWR Bristol for having drifted out of its format musically. In case you haven’t heard, the majority of Global Radio’s local stations are being turned into Heart. This is being carried out in three phases, with the second phase due to kick in a week Monday (and [...]
Engagement
Apologies to Clive and the team, but the One Golden Square blog has become a bit dull recently. I think it had fallen into the trap of becoming just PR written in an authentic voice. You can see from the declining number of comments that there hasn’t really anything for people to get their teeth [...]