Posts tagged “radio”
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 [...]
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: [...]
Radio Job-o-tron
Some people have asked me for leads on radio jobs recently. I’ve created a daily Radio-Job-o-tron that combines jobs from Media UK, BBC, Guardian and some other places too. If you want to sign up, put your email address in here.
New Heart Network – Day 1
Today, the first wave of the Heartification process kicked in, with Radio Broadland, SGR Ipswich, SGR Colchester, Hereward, Chiltern Bedford, Chiltern Dunstable and Northants 96 (update: oh, and Q103) moving from the One Network to the Heart Network. Whilst the change is significant, the stations have been runnning the Heart music log for some time [...]
Give It Some Heart
As has been discussed elsewhere, Global Radio is about to begin the Heartification process to convert Radio Broadland, SGR Ipswich, SGR Colchester, Hereward, Chiltern Bedford, Chiltern Dunstable and Northants 96 to Heart (insert frequency). It’s an interesting challenge. Dumping 20 years of heritage is brave, but the hope is that a unified brand will help [...]
One Radio Industry
Here’s a statement in response to the publication of the Digital Radio Working Group’s report by the DRDB. My emphasis in bold. The DRDB (Digital Radio Development Bureau), the BBC, RadioCentre (the industry body for commercial radio), and manufacturers’ trade body Intellect, have welcomed today’s report from the Digital Radio Working Group (DRWG) on the [...]
Journalism Fail
Newspapers are mental. After two years (yes, it’s been that long) of media-related ‘scandals’ about vote rigging or Manuel-gate, I think we’ve reached a new low. No, not of broadcast media’s decline in standards but in the barrel-scraping of our print friends. In the last 24 hours, The Telegraph, The Metro, The Mail, The Sun, [...]
Conference Fun
I’ve had a busy few weeks so have been somewhat neglecting my blogging. Apologies reader. At the moment i’m just on the train back from Bradford where i’ve been speaking at the National Media Museum’s MediaFest08 event. I’m a very occasional speaker at things like this, but it’s actually the 2nd such appointment in a [...]
So Long C4 Radio, We Never Knew You…
So, Channel 4 to pull out of radio. It’s a shame. Their entry into radio, and digital radio specifically would have been a good thing. New content from a new operator would have been good news for consumers and some promotional firepower for DAB on C4 properties would have been good too. However, it’s not [...]