Month: January 2015

  • Is Golf Becoming as Invisible as Cricket?

    According to a report in the Telegraph, the Royal & Ancient is considering whether or not they extend their 50 year broadcasting agreement with the BBC for future coverage of golf, or whether some or all rights go to Sky. In reality, I suspect that this is a negotiating tactic to try to squeeze a…

  • Radio Radio

    A couple of interesting stories today with news that finally there’s a signed agreement to rollout local DAB coverage to 91.2% of FM equivalence. This has been a little while coming – to say the least – but now it’s here and the first of 182 new transmitters should be built in March. Why 91.2%…

  • York

    In my ongoing project to purge my computer of photos I took in 2014, but did very little with, here are some from a trip to York nearly a year ago. Plenty more on Flickr.

  • Scheduling Films

    A regular moan, but it bears repeating. Do we have to have “awards season” films? What is the idiocy behind releasing every film Hollywood (and others) think is awards worthy over a 2-3 month period when there are so many barren times of the year? Yes – I understand that winning an Oscar/BAFTA has a…

  • Why is Discovery So Poor in Amazon and Netflix?

    Over on The Medium is Not Enough, Rob Buckley notes that Amazon has quietly launched a number of new US series onto the service with hardly any publicity. And I find it particularly interesting because I really hadn’t noticed despite spending quite a few hours on Amazon over the weekend. While a lot of this…

  • London in Colour

    Some photos of London with some heavily treated colour. More on Flickr.

  • Mozart in the Jungle

    A mini-review of this new Amazon series, because I think it deserves it! First things first: there’s no doubt that this is a terrible title for a TV series. It’s supposed to shout something like “classical music in New York City” but I’m really not sure it does. I complain when titles are boring, but…

  • Mono

    With great fanfare, EMI released The Beatles in Mono on CD back in 2009, and on vinyl last year. This, we were told, was the way that The Beatles should heard. These albums had been mixed and released in mono because that was the prevailing technology of the day. In due course, stereo mixes were…

  • Ghost Posts

    In an age of CRM’s and programs like WordPress, it’s incredibly easy to publish something to the internet before perhaps thinking things through. And while you can just as quickly “un-publish” said pieces, it’s never quite as simple as that. Many other parts of the internet ingest whatever it is that you’ve published pretty much…

  • Predictions 2015

    This week’s Media Podcast is full of their contributors’ predictions for 2015. Lots of websites have lots of predictions, but for whatever reason, I’ve never bothered doing something like in the past. But why would I let that stop me? So I’ve put together a list of some things that I think might happen in…

  • What I Watched, Listened To and Read Over Christmas

    You may or may not have enjoyed my Radio Times suggestions. I didn’t always follow them myself. But in the spirit of honesty, this is what I did watch over Christmas: The final two episodes of Cabin Pressure were recorded back in February, but only reached the airwaves over Christmas with the story being essentially…