Posts by Matt Deegan
Arguing with Phil Riley
I’ve just been having a Twitter argument with Phil Riley – as you do – about digital radio stuff. Don’t worry, it was a pleasant one. One of the things we were talking about was FM reach – he thought it was an important number as regards to switchover. Me, not so much. The problem [...]
Notes from a digital island
Half of the UK’s radio listeners consume radio digitally at some point every week. I’m just going to say that again. Because it’s important. Half of the UK’s radio listeners consume radio digitally at some point every week. Plus 29.1% of all listening in the UK is through digital radio. The digital listening (hours) breaks [...]
Back to BBC Local Radio
In a previous post I talked about Delivering Quality First (the BBC’s plan to re-prioritise what it does based on the recent licence fee settlement). Since then the BBC management was proposing that £15m to be cut off BBC Local Radio’s £147m/year budget. Today, the BBC Trust’s Chairman has said, because of feedback from the [...]
Absolute Radio’s #redefiningradio Event
I went along to Absolute Radio’s event at Parliament yesterday – Redefining Radio. It was a good event that demonstrated to Absolute’s clients (and other guests) the way that radio (and broader media consumption) is changing. There was a good line-up of speakers and Absolute have just put up all the videos from the event. [...]
Why changing the name of BRMB, Beacon, Wyvern and Mercia is the right thing to do
When anything changes, we think how it affects us. Not whether it’s the right thing for them to do. Radio is habitual. We make a decision to consume something and then consume it for a couple of hours. Everyday. Forever. When someone interrupts our habits by making a change to something we’ve enjoyed we get [...]
Capital Breakfast
It’s always very difficult to know why a station’s axed a presenter, it’s normally though, a combination of things. How it performs, how it sounds, what the people are like, is everyone getting on etc. What’s interesting about Capital axing Johnny Vaughan is that they’re doing to a time when he’s (consistently) the number one [...]
Next Radio Videos Go Online
In September, me and James ran a radio conference, Next Radio, which went down really well! It was a radio ideas conference and we had a fantastic selection of speakers talking about loads of different topics. We’ve had lots of requests to put the sessions online, so i’m pleased to say that we’ve just put [...]
RAJAR Q3/2011
Another RAJAR and more numbers to analyse. It’s been quite a good quarter for digital, with listening on digital platforms now accounting for 300m hours a week (that’s more than Radio 1 and Radio 2′s total hours combined). There’s also some quite good news for the digital stations too – Planet Rock has its highest [...]
The Wanted & Global
A funny article just popped up on The Guardian’s website talking about playlisting in general and specifically that Global (owner of pop radio stations) play The Wanted (an artist managed by another company in their group). The article touches on payola (paying cash/providing services to get songs on the playlist). In my experience most stations wouldn’t [...]
The First Next Radio
I mentioned a little while ago that James and I were running a radio conference. It was a week last Thursday and was an amazing day, delivering beyond both of our wildest expectations. It’s the first conference that me and James have both been responsible before. We’ve been on committees for events before, but basically [...]