Archive for March, 2011
Radioplayer Goes On-Air
The official launch of Radioplayer is tomorrow morning, but the initial round of stations went live earlier this afternoon. Over 150 stations from Global Radio, GMG, Absolute Radio and the BBC have launched new players with common functionality that lets you easily flick between stations and, for the first time, has enabled the UK-wide search [...]
Tweeknotes – 21st to 28th March
Looking through my tweets this week, here’s the stuff that’s interested me and some other half-thoughts. First, some news from Australia about their DAB+ roll-out, which has celebrated 18months on-air. 400k radios have been sold and it’s now accounting for 5.6% of all Australian radio listening. It’s a great result. Here’s the full PDF. Over [...]
BBC Local Radio/Five Live – Delivering Quality First
News leaked a little while ago that the BBC’s DQF (Delivering Quality First) team were thinking about ‘networking’ BBC Local Radio with Five Live – that’s local radio at peak time and Five Live for the rest. All of DQF has been a bit odd, the main aim seemingly floating multiple ideas simultaneously so it [...]
Five Live’s ‘A Day In The Live’ Campaign
Five Live’s running a TV marketing campaign at the moment, but with a very different creative. They’ve been filming what’s been happening during the day in the studio and then turning that around into an ad for broadcast later that evening. It’s a brilliant way to contextualise the station as one that covers what’s happening [...]
Tweeknotes – 14th March to 20th March
Some fun things that have popped up on Twitter this week: A piece about Private Eye’s digital strategy The BBC are doing a trial of RadioVIS for their radio services. We already provide these for our clients – it’s a great way to visualise a radio station and harmonise the pictures delivered to mobile, web [...]
Radiodays Europe: Friday Morning
Radiodays Europe: Thursday Afternoon
Radiodays Europe: Thursday Morning
Tweeknotes – 7th March to 13th March
This week, a date was announced (31st March) for the launch of the UK Radio Player, or Radioplayer as it’s now known. On that date the core partners (BBC, Global, GMG and Absolute) will go live, with the next wave, hopefully, coming a couple of weeks later. We’ve been developing player consoles for our clients [...]
Tweeknotes – 28th February to 6th March
This week’s notes from my twitter… James Cridland’s written about an odd thing that the BBC Trust have said. They remarked when approving more radio series-stacking that: 1. There is a “limited amount of on-demand content offered by commercial radio” Really? Absoloute provide thousands of hours of material and most of the big groups all [...]