Month: May 2013
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Radio Downloads Added to iPlayer
The BBC has announced that from 2014, listeners will be able to download radio programmes via the various iPlayer mobile and desktop apps to catch up with offline. As with TV, there’ll be a 7 day catch-up window. In some respects, it’s really strange that it has taken this long to get. You’d imagine that…
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A Sunset Walk
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Following Up This Week’s Media Talk Podcast
An otherwise random photo to illustrate this blog I quite enjoyed this week’s Guardian Media Talk podcast, but there were a couple of things that needed highlighting or explaining a little more. The BBC has renewed its complaints with Sky about the £5m a year it pays to get on the Sky platform. There was…
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Comments Fixed… Perhaps
Just a note to say sorry to anyone who spent time commenting here and then saw their words disappear into a black hole claiming I’d be moderating. Something broke, and to be honest it’s all sticking plasters and Sellotape behind the scenes. Anyway, I think it’s working again. And I’ve put live what comments I’ve…
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Some First Thoughts on the New Flickr
A new look Flickr has been unveiled today (or last night). It seems to be part of Marissa Meyer’s attempt to make Yahoo more relevant. And of course Yahoo has also just paid an awful lot of money for Tumblr. Yahoo is a company without the letter “e”. What follows is based on some very…
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Solargraphy
When I was up in Derby earlier in the year for the Format festival, I ran across Leicester Lo-Fi Photography . They were helping people build their own pinhole cameras. So I made one using an old Coke can. I put this camera, gaffer-taped to the wall by the window where I sit, and left…
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CNN Pieces
Over the weekend, CNN published an interesting US-focused series entitled “The future of music radio” that looked at the current state of play in US music radio. While the US is very different market to the UK, it would be very complacent of the UK radio industry to completely write off what’s happening there. Do…
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RAJAR Q1 2013 – London
I’ve updated the previous entry, but I thought it was worth giving London an entry of its own because not only have I added back a Motion Chart of the London marketplace, but there’s significantly more data underlying it than I’ve managed for the national chart. Now you can examine the marketplace in lots of…
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RAJAR Q1 2013
It has been a big radio week already with the Sony Radio Academy Awards on Monday. And next week will be big with the final Competition Commission ruling on its attempted takeover of GMG’s radio assets. But let’s look at the latest RAJAR which is released today. At first glance this quarter might look less…
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Woods
Woods from Adam Bowie on Vimeo. Shot as an excuse to try that tracking feature you can do in After Effects. Music chosen because I saw Philip Glass play later that evening. The tracking was done with a Mobislyder, and the video on a Sony RX100. If there’s one thing I’m coming to realise about…
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Sony Radio Academy Award Winners 2013
So last night in a hot and sweaty room where the tables were just that bit too close together, this year’s Sony Awards were handed out. Absolute Radio did rather well, and I suspect that there may be a few sore heads around the station today. Most of the press seems to be leading on…
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Viewing Options
Here’s a curious thing. The new Ben Wheatley film, A Field in England, is getting a truly multi-media launch on 5th July, by getting a simultaneous release in cinemas, on DVD, on video-on-demand and on the free-to-air Film4 channel! Having enjoyed both Kill List and Sightseers immensely, I’m really looking forward to Wheatley’s paranoid fantasy…