Month: October 2010

  • Digital Radio – Is It All Doom and Gloom?

    I’ve already been through the latest RAJAR results, and in my summary I said: The digital listening figure for all radio went up a fraction as noted above. I think it’s fair to say that it’s a bit disappointing even if the year on year growth is quite reasonable – up from 21.1% to 24.8%…

  • RAJAR – Q3 2010

    Like clockwork, another RAJAR comes around, and the radio industry all pauses to look at the new figures for the quarter. Here are some of the overall highlights: Overall reach remains at the high point it was last quarter (down just 9,000 people) Digital listening has increased to 24.8% (up from 24.6% last quarter) Commercial…

  • The Independent & i

    I could start this talking about how I bought the first edition of The Independent in 1986, and how for years I read it pretty religiously – if not exclusively. These days, I’m more of a Guardian man, still buying paper editions of it and its Sunday stablemate every day without fail. I still like…

  • YouView

    It really has been a busy few days, but one thing I was pleased to see happen was that Project Canvas – now YouView – will not be investigated by Ofcom. This is the IP connected TV service, that Sky and Virgin Media had both been very keen to stop. Their problem was basically that…

  • The BBC Licence Fee Settlement

    It’s still really hard to quite get my head around how the BBC licence fee settlement plays out. The quickest way to get a handle on what the BBC is being asked to do, is to read the letter to the BBC Trust from the DCMS website. The key elements of the statement are: The…

  • Ed Reardon Live

    In the last week or so, two different audio “things” that I’ve really enjoyed have stopped being published. William Gallagher has hung up his microphone on the UK DVD Review podcast and I’m going to miss it immensely. Meanwhile the chaps over at Speechification have also decided that they’re going to need to call it…

  • Radio Festival 2010

    Unlike last year, I wasn’t able to liveblog the Radio Festival since the venue had “challenging” connectivity. So instead, here are my notes from the event to a lesser or greater degree, taken over the last couple of days. This year, for the first time, the festival was held in Salford at the Lowry which…

  • The Social Network

    The Social Network seems to have caused something of a stir in the digital world – particularly amongst those who are more digital envangelists. They’ve seized on the fact that writer Aaron Sorkin (who’s script is based on Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires) is someone who doesn’t use social media like Facebook or Twitter, and…