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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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Digital Coming Soon
Ofcom yesterday began their digital consultation, in particular, examining how replacement licences will be awarded in the light of the digital age. This quickly spawned news stories about a 2007 launch in some areas of digital. Today we learn that the first test area is likely to be the Borders TV region. Right. That’ll be…
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British Films on the BBC
I see that PACT have been getting a bit of press about their complaint that the BBC is not investing enough in British films. They spent £10 on British films in the last year, but I’m not at all sure that they should be investing much more than this in UK films. If we’re just…
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Cinema Sousterrain
I know that everyone and their mum had blogged this, but I love this pair of stories about the mysterious underground cinema recently found in Paris. What a shame that London doesn’t have the same kind of catacombs and tunnels. If anyone fancies starting a similar cinema in London, preferably not directly in a sewer,…
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Five Live Clip
The piece of audio that’s being passed around most in the radio industry today…
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Comment Spam
I’ve got a bit of a problem with comment spam at the moment. MT Blacklist works fine, but the problem is that when I get a comment, an email is fired off to me with the details of the comment, along with an automatic link to excise anything I don’t want. That means that on…
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Black Ice
The other week I noticed that Palm had updated their eBook software with eReader, their new improved version. The way they make you set it up is that you get the full “Pro” version for 15 days before it defaults to the normal version. And you also get to look at some ebooks for that…
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Gun Law in the US
A great piece by Carl Hiaasen in the Miami Herald about the failure to extend the ban on assault weapons in the US. It’s not like they could be used by terrorists or anything is it?
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Over Ordering Hotels
It seems to me that the hotel trade is awfully careless – they keep over-ordering their linen and duvet supplies. Twice in the past month, an email has gone around our building at work offering cheap duvets, pillows and sheets. The reason given is always over-ordering, but given the frequency of it, anyone would think…
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Automation
I’m very pleased with myself. I’ve managed to set up an automatic process to record The World Today from the BBC World Service between 5.30am and 6.00am BST, move the file from one computer to another, convert it from mp2 to mp3, and then dump the said mp3 file onto my Palm, which is also…
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DRM Issues
Two things worrying about this story. 1) That DRM could be stymied before it’s got off the ground (and with the Chinese government backing it, cheap radios are going to be much more plentfiul far quicker than DAB radios have been) 2) That it could stop Shortwave radio transmissions completely. That would be terribly sad.…
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MusicAlly PR & P2P Debate
Last night there was a music industry debate about PR and the whole music downloading thing. For some reason, I decided to go along (well Virgin has just launched a download chart, cunningly timed to extract maximum PR). It was less about the right or wrongs of downloading, but more about how the music industry…
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Entourage Ends
But I’m looking forward to Johnny Drama in CSI:Minneapolis (spoilers ahoy)! So how long’s it going to take for a UK station to pick this up? Only 8 episodes so it might not suit Sky One; Channel 4 would probably end up showing it at 11.05pm; and I’m not sure it’s Five material. So maybe…
Hadrian’s Wall
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