Posts tagged radio

Links for 2008-07-16

• Our YouTube privacy: a triumph for common sense [Guardian PDA]
• The latest on our audio improvements [BBC Radio Labs]
• Alpha: when beta is not good enough [Mashable]
• Is the iPhone killing terrestrial radio? [ReadWriteWeb]
• The sun sets on free speech [Jeff Jarvis]

Commercial radio cuts and the future

Commercial radio companies Global Radio and GCap have announced staff cuts impacting on radio stations across the country.

If approved by regulators, Global Radio will take over GCap to form the UK’s largest commercial radio group.

The level of cuts in the group does not augur well for the future.

The Guardian’s Organ Grinder pretty much reflects my view on the subject.

A twenty word summary by Digitagit, in a comment to the Guardian piece, gets right to the point.

Do they not understand that music radio is now much more about what’s in between the music?

If stations just play music, the audience will go elsewhere, either to other stations that invest in production, or to their own playlists using a myriad of digital devices.

Links for 2008-07-01

• Under the iPlayer hood for radio [BBC Radio Labs]
• On a different wavelength [Guardian]
• How much can a website cost? [Puffbox]
• In praise of the hyperlink [Jeremy Keith]
• Condé Nast to launch Wired in the UK [Guardian]
• Fire in the sky: Tunguska at 100 [BBC]

Links for 2008-06-25

• Nokia in full buy-out of Symbian [BBC]
• @Future of Journalism: Jeff Jarvis on 10 questions we should be asking now [Guardian]
• Fresh thinking! [One Golden Square]
• HTML5: Linking up [Eric Meyer]

Links for 2008-06-24

• BBC plans £68m network of local video news websites [Guardian]
• The perils of choice on the radio [James Cridland]
• The power of postcodes [Puffbox]
• Open source hardware [The Economist]

Links for 2008-06-20

• A new day [Jason Santa Maria]
• Internet audio [Guardian]
• DataPortability.org: Not just irrelevant, but bureaucratic and over-engineered [Tom Morris]
• Trevor Horn - Record producer video feature [RecordProduction.com]

Olinda spec

Specification for a modern, modular, portable DAB receiver:

• Open standardised hardware API
• Integrate expectations of website and interactive product users into the design
• Add-on modules which should work with any radio implementing the hardware API
• Optional social module which includes wifi networking

Blimey!

BBC Audio & Music Interactive have already done it.

Reborn report

Entertaining write up by James Cridland on The Guardian Radio Reborn 2008 Conference.

This is how a conference report should be written!

James alludes to Jenny Abramsky rejecting calls to privatise Radio 1 and Radio 2 by Peter Bazalgette.

This is not the first time such a call has been made.

Why? The BBC must serve as many Licence payers as possible, and losing two networks would weaken the Corporation in serving its audience.

Selling off BBC Worldwide is even more bonkers - the money generated goes back into programme making.

I, for one, reject such calls.