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Listening to the New Year’s Day Concert from Vienna is my preferred way of dealing with any hangover. There’s something about The Blue Danube and The Radetzky March that’s intrinsically linked with the day. If you missed it, tune in tonight on BBC Four…

More about the changes here. [UPDATE] Have a look at the “brand book” for Absolute Radio here.

Here are a batch more of Virgin Radio ads from the archives – being put up here in advance of the station’s rebrand in the UK. The first one features Beau the dog as he goes about his day. Realistic typing I think you’ll agree. I think this compilation of three ads from 2005 is…

2008 really is proving to be the year that we finally lose DRM – in music at least! Earlier this week Sky announced that it had done a deal with Universal to be part of its forthcoming music subscription service. Seemingly, for a monthly fee, subscribers will be able to stream what they like and…

The recent news was that the BBC has bought “lifetime rights” to Heroes. This essentially means that Sky or another broadcaster won’t be able to come in and outbid the Beeb. I expect that also means that the BBC is also compelled to buy future series whether they’d like to or not. It was a…

Must go out and get the new Flight of the Conchords album.

This is incredible. It’s staggering. Adidas has somehow won a ruling at the European Court of Justice that says it owns stripes. “Adidas can prevent other companies using two stripes on the shoulders of their shirts, even though Adidas branding has three stripes.” I really can’t believe this. Seemingly Adidas owns the rights to stripes.…

Channel 4 outbid the BBC for Heston Blumenthal. He’s said to have been offered £1m – twice what he’s been getting from the BBC. Channel 4’s really short of cash. Can you see something wrong here?

So China’s been busily blocking the BBC, YouTube, Yahoo, The Guardian and other sites following the unrest in Tibet. This all bodes well for the Olympics doesn’t it?

Note: I wrote this a couple of days ago, but managed to forget to hit the publish button. If you look around on Google News today, you’ll see a few stories about Hugh Laurie: Laurie ‘snubbed’ after US success BBC News, UK – 1 hour ago Actor Hugh Laurie has said Britain has turned its…

Condé Nast is looking to launch a UK edition of Wired magazine according to Media Week (free registration required). Wired, of course, did once before launch a UK edition that sadly closed a couple of years later. But that pre-dates Condé Nast’s ownership and now they’re again readying a UK version. Great! But then I…