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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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Ice Cold In Alex
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DABs Dirty Little Secret…
I love DAB. In many respects it’s great. But there are things wrong with it…
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Hard Disk Recorders
Their time has yet to come. There’s Sky+, but it’s quite expensive and tied to a Sky subscription. Freeview does now have a 7 day EPG which is an essential part of the mix, but the boxes are unsubsided so still pricey. So they need to come down in price (you can buy a VCR…
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No London News
Very strange. The 10.30 ITV News ended and we were due to go into the local London news. Instead we got “Welcome to Meridian News, and also to viewers in London.” This was followed by a full local Meridian bulletin. I should explain that I’m in north London and shouldn’t ever get the news from…
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Various links
I see Carl Hiaasen has a new book out… Alex Cox may have stopped his diary, but he wrote a piece in The Guardian about the depths of US cinema… The Avengers is getting another release on DVD in the UK (well I care!)… SUVs are trucks and are banned from many streets in California!
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The Winter Queen
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Pils, Patients & Profits
Another great BBC World Service documentary series is underway. Pils, Profits & Patients is available to listen to online, and examines the influence and behaviour of the pharmaceutical industry. Is what they do good for the world? “The pharmaceutical industry is the most profitable industry in the United States of America.” (Wouldn’t it be great…
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Olympics: TV Viewers
The IOC are already starting my favourite game at major sporting contests – the unfeasibly large audiences. Of course events like the Olympics attract astronomical audiences with global appeal. But much of the world still doesn’t have electricity regularly available and they won’t be tuning in for the Men’s 100m Final at Athens. They’re saying…
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The Light of Day
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The Digital Divide
Whilst compiling a reasonably detailed forthcoming entry on international TV audiences I came across this amazing map (PDF) entitled A World Divided by a Common Internet. It shows the haves and have nots of the world – visually demonstrating the “digital divide”.
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Olympics Blogs
A couple of Olympic blogs that are making fascinating reading: Stuart Hughes and Scott Goldblatt.
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Site Down
My ISP went down for most of yesterday, and I must admit that it gave me something of a fright. I did consider that maybe all the stuff I’ve put on this website might have been lost. For all I knew, the company had gone bust or something! Fortunately that’s not the case and it…
Hadrian’s Wall
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