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Edison Research Top 25 UK Podcasts – Q4 2025
Edison Research has just published their Top 25 Podcasts in the UK for Q4 2025. As ever, this chart is based on recall from 2,000 online interviews with weekly podcast listeners in the UK. As ever, I’m going to take the long view on this and show how the chart has changed over time. This…
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Radio Radio
This week’s Mediaguardian has two articles that are worth commenting on regarding radio. The first is a piece on the future of DAB. It focuses on the recent decision, since reversed, to lower the Radio 3 DAB bandwidth from 192kbps to 160kbps. A further drop in bit-rate occurs when either Radio 4 or Radio Five…
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Horizon
OK – perhaps it’s still early days in the new series, but am I alone in being very slightly worried about Horizon? Last week it was The Survivors Guide to Plane Crashes, and this week it was Danny Wallace asking if Chimps are People Too. Now I like Danny Wallace, but this programme felt like…
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Transatlantic News Values
Listening to this week’s On the Media on the way home today, it was suddenly very jarring to realise the real difference between US media and its British equivalent. In a piece about in-fighting between the English language Miami Herald and its sister newspaper El Nuevo Herald, one of the main differences between the papers…
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Death of a President
The assassination of George W Bush as part of a new drama airing on More4 tonight. Some bright spark decided to buy a four-page wraparound ad for this programme – an ad-type that only a free newspaper would sell. Of course, someone might be mislead into believing that Bush really had been assassinated on first…
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Out Stealing Horses
This novel won The Independent’s Foreign Fiction Prize earlier this year. Per Petterson is Norweigian (well – it’s a while since my last Scanidnavian title), and is very well regarded in his homeland. Out Stealing Horses is a wonderful novel telling the story of Trond, both as a child in 1948, just after the war…
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The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
If you’re really quick, you can get this book from Penguin in 10 weekly paperback chunks for £25. They’re serlialising it in a Dickens manner, before publishing it in hardback in January (for less than £25). Obviously, if I’ve read the book, I’ve done none of these things – it was published in the States…
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Digital TV Secrets
Torin Douglas writes an article in this week’s Marketing Week which pretty clearly explains the whole situation at the moment regarding digital TV. First of all he points out that one of the things most people don’t tell you is that many flat screen TVs aren’t as good as old cathode ray tubes. I still…
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Catching Up
Media Guardian catches up with something that I wrote about two months ago.
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Google Gadgets
Just testing the embedding of Google gadgets into webpages.
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New York Times Reporter in Mid-air Collision
A terrifying account.
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Times Online TV
There’s been a bit of media coverage of a deal that The Times has done with its sister company Sky News, leading to Sky’s news being available on “Times Online TV” a streaming video service available on The Times’ website. Aside from the fact that this is surely not really news – two sister companies…
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Cinema Shuts For Two Weeks
Love this story. “The movies are so bad, and I don’t need the money. … I just didn’t think I should use my high-quality facilities to show people vomiting on-screen.”
Hadrian’s Wall
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