Recommended Reading week ending 11th September 2016
Here’s a collection of interesting links that I have shared over the past week. Radio Ga Ga https://t.co/5g9S7PA6hv — Phil…
Recommended Reading week ending 4th September 2016
Here’s this week collection of interesting content that caught my eye last week. Why do we keep using these sounds?…
Freefone your home may be at risk
There has been various discussions talking place here in the UK over disclaimers and terms and conditions in radio advertising….
Recommended Reading week ending 28th August 2016
Here’s a selection of interesting items that caught my eye from around the net last week. My followers on Twitter…
Recommended Reading week ending 21st August 2016
Here’s a selection of interesting items that caught my eye from around the net last week. My followers on Twitter…
Service is restored
So it’s half way through 2016 already and things have been rather quiet on publishing anything on this site front….
A Radio Today headline pass me by earlier today “presenter drunk on air.” Was the inspiration this bit from the 1970s?
And while I’m recycling posts, a little ago you’ll probably saw Sandi Thom’s rant on not being playlisted. Maybe she’s just the 2015 equivalent of Status Quo? Bet she won’t take it to the High Court though.
An “A Team Android” rather than a “B Team Disc Jockey”
Recently the local radio service in Slough, Maidenhead & Windsor ‘Time 106.6’ was closed by the current owners. Previously this…
Digital Radio – Clearing the way for radio’s future (Part 2 the multimedia)
In my previous blog post, Digital Radio – Clearing the way for radio’s future, we took a trip down memory…
Recommended reading : Connecting your call
The Steve Penk hype machine went into overdrive this week with the latest twist in the Royal Prank call story:…
Community Radio’s impact on the viability of small Commercial Radio licence holders
This weeks DCMS announced relaxation of rules on UK Community Radio income from advertising. I analyse if community radio sales is a threat to commercial radio licence holders.
Radio by numbers
I got asked “Can they get that Capital One?” on that new digital device. In the wake of Bauer Radio’s new ‘brand extensions’ this prompted me to ask “What’s in a radio station name?”
Am I the only person who hasn’t listened to Serial yet? It has prompted some interesting articles from others: Jacobs…
Internet is permanently closed
Possibly the most pointless picture I could post on line as #BlackFriday has resulted in #InternetClosure
An interesting looking #radfest2104 session features Aussie DJ Mel Greig. So it’s time to highlight (a.k.a. recycle) my Hanging on…
Meanwhile on the other MFM
There is a lot debate and discussion over radio networking, especially topical at the moment with the recent expansion of…
Heart is going … Capital is coming … oh no Heart is coming
There has been a lot of discussion about the migration of “Real Radio” to “Heart” on places such as the…
No, YouTube Radio isn’t Radio
That there radio futurologist James Cridland was recently sprooking his wares over on the Fred Jackobs site on the back…
DAB my radio? Did I spill something on it?
Turn the clock back to 1995 if you where listening to BBC Radio 4, then your choices to tune into would be FM or AM. Until those clever engineering types at the BBC turned on some new fangled box of tricks called ‘DAB Transmitters’.
Absolutely blooming marvelous
If you are one of the lucky (or perhaps unlucky) people in my contacts lists you may have seen something…
This is the End…..Links and bits March 2013
As Corporal Jack Jones was known to say “Don’t Panic” at the title of this blog post, it’s not me…
Links and bits January and February 2013
Well I’ve failed miserably on the doing these every couple of week haven’t I as we go head first into…
Flip and Vote – letting the listener decide their favourite radio format
Recently I read over on Radio Today a story entitled Star to flip format 10 times in 10 days reporting…
Adobe Audition 3 (plus CS2) for free – too good to be true?
Adobe say “OH NO WE’RE NOT”, I say “OH YES YOU ARE”…to a limited extent.
Hanging on the telephone
Let’s start with the health warning, this piece has the potential to offend, I will be making light of prank…