Month: December 2010

  • Black Swan

    I saw Black Swan a while ago. But I was asked to sign a piece of paper that said a lot of things – mostly in dense legalese. As such, I wasn’t sure that I Was allowed to say anything too much about the film until now. As it happens I loved it, and wanted…

  • Click and Reserve

    How does the High Street compete with the Internet? Recently there’s been a lot of talk about how unfair it is that the high street retailers have to compete with the £18 VAT avoidance that online retailers can work around if they sell their products from the Channel Islands. That’s been especially useful for CD…

  • Monochrome

  • Ed Reardon Returns

    Photo from BBC Radio 4’s Flickr stream. The good news is that, as previously mentioned, Ed Reardon’s Week returns on January 10 with the seventh series (with a repeat of his Edinburgh special on January 3). To promote this, Ed is writing a series of posts over on the Radio 4 blog. At the time…

  • Radio Times 26 December 2010

    And finally, for the time being, here are you choices for Boixing Day: You’ll need to click on the large version to read it.

  • Christmas So Far

     

  • Radio Times 25 December 2010

    Let’s face it, you’re going to watch TV today: Best viewed large. [Note: In fact, the programme I’m most looking forward to is later on Radio 3 – Jonny Trunk’s BBC sound effects focused Between the Ears at 2225.] Merry Christmas!

  • Radio Times 24 December 2010

    It’s been a while… Here are my picks for Christmas Eve from the Radio Times: As ever, best viewed large.

  • Snow Chaos

    Read any paper, or turn on any television at the moment, and you’ll see nothing but stories of chaos caused by the snow. Heathrow is still a mess, several days after the last snow. It’s all the fault of the Spanish owned BAA (I’m not quite sure why the fact that it’s Spanish owned is…

  • The Daily Show

    I have two programmes permamently set in my Sky+ organiser. Everything else comes and goes as I choose. One of those is Sky at Night which normally airs at ungodly hour on BBC1 on a monthly basis. The other programme is The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. We get new episodes Tuesday to Friday at…

  • A New Broadcast Code

    The big news today is that Product Placement on television is finally allowed, as long as some kind of logo is also displayed on-screen to alert viewers to the commercial arrangement. But far more exciting to a radio audience is the new Section Ten of Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code dealing with radio advertising. After a long…

  • In Car Radio Listening, And Other Locations

    One of the things that RAJAR measures is the location that radio is being listened, and oddly enough, it’s a figure that’s rarely reported. This blog is prompted by something James Cridland asked me when he was chasing down some figures recently about in-car listening. Because the numbers aren’t talked about a great deal, they…