Month: November 2009

  • Inside Out Upside Down

    Given that ITV barely does any local or regional news, it seems a bit unfair to target the BBC’s programme – Inside Out – that covers the English regions. And I’m not. But for reasons I can’t really explain, I decided to go channel surfing in the 970s and 980s on Sky to see what…

  • In Radio News Today…

    The DRDB has announced 10m DAB digital radio sets sold in the UK (and Pure has announced that it has sold a cumulative 3m DAB sets worldwide). This comes at the peak time for selling DAB sets – the run-up to Christmas. David Liddiment, who is leading the BBC Trust review of BBC Radio 2…

  • Spotify Making Money?

    Yesterday’s Observer had an interesting piece on Spotify that included a little more substance about whether or not Spotify is making money. I tried to find out as much as I could about Spotify ahead of Radio at the Edge a few weeks ago, and put everything I determine into a short video. As I…

  • ATP World Tour Finals

    I was lucky enough to go to the evening sessions at the O2 of the ATP World Tour Finals in London earlier this week – attending on both Monday and Tuesday. Overall I had a great time – not exactly hindered by the fact that I had superb seats. While the upper level seats were…

  • Sky Mobile

    For a good year or so I’ve been using Sky’s mobile service on my phones – in particular their Remote Record function that allows me to browse the Sky EPG and set my Sky+ at home to record the programme I want. But it’s not been the easiest thing to use. Not because the service…

  • The Great Monkey Trial of Tennessee

    The Saturday Play on Radio 4 this week was The Great Monkey Trial of Tennessee (available until this coming Saturday on the iPlayer), which tells the story of the Scopes Trial. It’s a good listen and well worth catching. What I can’t quite work out is the play’s all-star provenance. The credit is BBC Wales,…

  • Radio Times 24 November 2009

    As of ten minutes ago, I’m not staying in tonight, but off to the O2 to see Murray v Federer this evening in the ATP World Tour Finals . But before I knew that, I was busy deciding what to watch on TV this evening – apart from the aforementioned tennis, or Arsenal v Standard…

  • Some Random Things

    It’s Up For Grabs Now is a very good new podcast about Arsenal presented by Alan Davies and some of his mates. There are four episodes so far, and they’re all excellent including yesterday’s which deals with Thierry Henry and Ireland, the Sunderland game at the weekend, and even Spurs. The podcast comes from a…

  • You See – This Is Why I Hate The Word “Content”

    What is this supposed to mean? Everything’s “Content“…

  • Five Live

    On Monday there was a Radio Academy event in London with Matt Wells asking the questions of BBC Radio Five Live’s controller, Adrian van Klaveren. The obvious area for questioning surrounded Five Live’s forthcoming move to a new facility in Salford. As someone who listens to an awful lot of Five Live, I’m still unconvinced,…

  • A Quick Recommendation

    Before I forget, and before it expires on the BBC iPlayer, you must listen to last Saturday’s Archive on 4 – Radio Hollywood. Between the mid-thirties and early-fifties, the Lux Radio Theater broadcast one hour radio adaptations of popular films of the day, employing either the original stars, or other movies stars. We heard lots…

  • Digital Listening – Revealed!

    Here’s an interesting point. With each quarter’s RAJAR releases comes a report that details how stations’ listening is broken down by platforms. It’s this report that tells us that 21.1% of all listening on All Radio is digital, and that for all BBC Radio it’s 21.6% while for all Commercial Radio it’s 20.2%. And, because…