Month: September 2008
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Setanta v Terrestrial – The Battle Continues
So if you don’t have Setanta, and can’t make it to a pub that’s showing Setanta, the only coverage you’re going to have of England’s World Cup qualifiers against Andorra on Saturday, and Croatia next week is going to be goal clips on the news. There is, of course, radio coverage too. Media Guardian reports…
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How NOT To Rebrand Your Radio Station
There’s an entertaining blog on Media Guardian that compares the route that my employers have taken in rebranding Virgin Radio as Absolute Radio compared with the route taken by Revolution in Oldham: For years the station bucked the trend of better music mixes and instead served up alternative indie and rock, making presenters out of…
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Changes
You may notice that it all looks a bit different around here. On the otherhand, you may well be reading a feed in which – hopefully – nothing’s changed. The look and feel of this blog has basically been unchanged for nearly six years. So with great trepidation I’ve finally completed an overhaul started nearly…
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Just How Artificial Is Dragon’s Den?
Last night I was sitting at home tinkering with this blog (it will have its five-year overhaul soon), when my brother called me to say that there was someone from Virgin Radio on Dragons’ Den. I flipped on the TV and saw that the person being called “Christian” was Robin Banks, a DJ who used…
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Absolute Radio – the new name for Virgin Radio
More about the changes here. [UPDATE] Have a look at the “brand book” for Absolute Radio here.
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Martin Kelner in Media Guardian
Martin Kelner’s been penning some very honest pieces about radio over the last few months, and today’s is as true as any of them. Talking about Kenny Everett is possibly a little hackneyed – sorry if that sounds heretical. But in essence, what he says is true. It seems to be TV personalities only who…
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Radio News
What a lot of things have been happening in the radio world in the last week or so: The Global takeover of GCap has finally been given the all clear by the OFT, with the full text of their decision being published. Many of the programming savings have already been made, but it’s now the…