Posts by Matt Deegan
Exciting Side Project
Today we put live a new side project – The Music Machine. It’s not my idea though. I’ve worked with Sammy Jacob (XFM and NME Radio founder) on a few projects over the last few years and recently he raised the idea of trying out a pay-radio service. Working with Chris Gould (at All in [...]
Tweeknotes 4th – 10th April
Busy week, this week. Lots of Radioplayer stuff, popping Fun Kids and 6 x Traffic Radio’s on there as well as prepping some more stations too. I’ve also been working on a fun side-project that I can talk about tomorrow! Anyway, here’s some good links from the week: A piece from PBS about how a [...]
Bauer’s Local Radio Players
The easiest things to do on blogs are moan. I genuinely try to concentrate on good stuff to talk about here because relentless negativity doesn’t really help anyone. However, occasionally I come across something that I feel if I don’t talk about, I would be underserving you, the dear mattdeegan.com reader. So, Radio Today caught [...]
New 6Music TV Advert
What do we think?
Tweeknotes 28th March – 3rd April
A couple of things that caught my attention this week: The Guardian deciding that if Radiohead was releasing a newspaper, that they would cover Creep. The BBC’s animation explaining the Radioplayer Radioplayer was a busy part of my week. There was a great launch event in London with a real positive feeling in the room. [...]
Keep Thinking Differently
I’ve had a really good response to my blog post about BBC Local Radio. Lots of people have sent me their own submissions to DQF and many of them positively engaged with trying to re-think the work that they do. Some of the responses I got to the post were questioning why BBC Local Radio [...]
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 [...]