Month: March 2011
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St. Pancras Station
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Radio Times – 19 March 2011
There’s actually only one programme to watch this evening – The Killing on BBC Four. But just in case, I’ve been through the listings so that you don’t have to. As ever, best viewed large.
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Serendipity Redux
No, not a very poor film in John Cusack’s ouevre. noun the occurance and development of events by chance in a happy and beneficial way I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. This is something that sadly the internet is not able to deal with effectively in certain areas. I’m going to talk…
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Sky’s Ratings
Since it’s buried away a little on Sky’s website, it’s worth pointing those interested in TV ratings towards a piece that Sky One’s Stuart Murphy has written about ratings for his shows. He illustrates the breakdown of viewership of an episode of the recent Mad Dogs (“Brilliantly disgraceful” wouldn’t be my description. “Perfectly entertaining, if…
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What Will The Beeb Suggest Shutting Down or Cancelling Next?
Hmm. Cancel BBC2 daytime programming and rebroadcast the BBC News channel during those hours. Essentially close down BBC Local Radio in England with just local breakfast and drivetime shows. Stop broadcasting Wimbledon and F1. What do they all have in common? They’re surely not ideas that are being “flown” to see what the reaction is?…
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Why Merging BBC Radio Five Live and BBC Local Radio Would Be A Bad Idea
If a tweet from BBC Radio Nottingham editor Mike Bettison is to be taken at face value, the BBC is considering some kind of merger between BBC Local Radio and BBC Radio Five Live. This idea mirrors something that James Cridland pondered in a blog posting on his site last year. Except he talked about…
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Radio Silence
Warning – football rant coming… How petulant exactly is Sir Alex Ferguson? He’s like a spoilt child in his refusal to talk to anybody in the media before or after his matches, ever since he got in trouble following comments he made to both Sky and his in-house channel MUTV. It’s the utter lack of…
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Guardian Eyewitness
At Christmas, one of the nicest presents I got was a copy of a new Guardian book – Eyewitness Decade. The book featured photographs taken from The Guardian’s daily doublepage photospread – Eyewitness. Except that the Eyewitness feature only began in 2005 when The Guardian changed from a broadsheet size to a Berliner format. This…
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Absolute Radio – Apps Stats
Absolute Radio – my employer – has started publishing app stats. You can read the first set of numbers here. A couple of weeks ago Matt Deegan challenged the radio industry to do more than just publish the number of installs which, up until now, has been the headline figure most stations (including Absolute Radio)…
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BBC Digital Radio Plans
A quick note to point people in the direction of a digital radio announcement coming from the BBC today. Radio 4 Extra – the soon-to-be-renamed BBC Radio 7 – will have classic episodes of Desert Island Discs, with an extensive online archive of 500 or so shows plus the music choices of every guest in…