Posts filed under “dab digital radio”
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 [...]
Digital Radio UK: Ten Top Tips
Digital radio is at an odd cross-roads. It has sold bucket loads of digital radios, a third of the country are listening, people who’ve got it like it, manufacturers are making good money from the market and even radio stations are starting to write revenue on their digital stations. I have no doubt that it [...]
Pictures on the Radio
A new radio was announced by the lovely people at Pure today – the Pure Sensia. It’s a rugby ball of a radio with some great features. It can handle DAB, FM and Streaming (through The Lounge). It will also play music across your home wi-fi. The interesting thing about it is it’s designed to [...]
Next Step for our Little Radio Project
I’ve just got back from the studio recording some links for Fun Kids, including the one that will ‘open’ the station at Midnight tonight as it moves, for a short time, to be broadcast nationwide on DAB Digital Radio through Digital One. We bought Fun Kids off of Global Radio late last year, with an [...]
Amazing Radio Launches
Earlier today, just after Midnight, without much of a fanfare, a new digital radio station appeared on Digital One’s national commercial DAB multiplex – Amazing Radio. Amazing Radio is the sister service to the website Amazingtunes. Amazingtunes lets new bands upload music to the site so visitors can listen and buy the tracks. The revenue [...]
DAB Digital Radio Christmas Sales
Image from: salimfadhley Even before such things as WiFi and DAB appeared, Christmas has always been the time of the year that the largest numbers of radios are sold. I have no real idea why. Whilst i’m sure some are bought for Christmas, they can’t all be, can they? Maybe it’s the present people like [...]
Why DAB Stations Closing Down is Good News
It’s been an odd few months in digital radio land as a number of stations have (or are about to) disappear off the infinite dial. Traditionally in the UK there has been very little change in the radio market. Why? Well, analogue spectrum is constrained and there’s always been a greater demand than supply can [...]
Freeview HD
It’s interesting times for digital platforms at the moment. Both DAB Digital Radio and DTT (Freeview) have enjoyed much success with lots of boxes out there and lots of happy viewers and listeners. However, both systems don’t have a lot of expansion left in them. They’re filling up. This means its difficult to introduce new [...]