Month: August 2009
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Cambridge to Shepreth
I went for a nice walk in Cambridgeshire yesterday, and here’s a map of where I went. View Cambridge to Shepreth Walk in a larger map There are a couple of sections towards the end that are a bit too much on the road to be honest. But it starts and finishes on a trainline…
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DAB in London
While browsing through my DAB set in London I came across this. What could it be?
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RAJAR Q2 2009
This morning saw the release of the latest RAJAR radio audience listening data. Cue lots of press releases from lots of radio stations (You can read about Absolute Radio’s audience here). I suspect that many industry watchers will be looking at the digital listening percentage. That shows that 21.1% of all radio listening is being…
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Good Customer Service
Back in the late nineties I had an Olympus 35mm point and shoot camera which I’d taken with me on holiday to Morocco. Sadly, it broke down during that trip, although I was at least able to pick up a disposable camera to meet the rest of my holiday needs. On returning to London I…
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The Observer
News emerged at the weekend that Guardian Media Group is said to be discussing the future of The Observer – one of the oldest newspapers in the world. One idea seems to be to turn it into a weekly news magazine – I assume in the style of Time, Newsweek or The Economist. That’d be…
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Selling Off Radio 1
So Ed Vaizey is talking about selling off Radio 1 again is he? Obviously this makes no sense at all – and does nothing to help commercial radio. I’ve said this before when Peter Bazalgette suggested something similar and again when Richard Eyre said the same thing. I won’t run through the same arguments in…
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Be Seeing You
I don’t know about you, but I’m quite excited by this. The Prisoner was an exceptional TV series and while remakes and reimaginings always concern me, this looks to be worthwhile. Of course this is an ITV co-production, but obviously this video isn’t to be found on itv.com (or if it is, neither I nor…