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How To Incentivise Your Audience to Skip Podcast Ads
If you publish a podcast, your podcast may well take advertising. And if it does take advertising, you probably want people to actually listen to the ads. Your audience listening to podcast ads increases the likelihood of products being sold, and therefore the advertiser coming back to buy more advertising. If your podcast doesn’t increase…
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A Binaural Test
Binaural Test Traffic by adambowie00 This isn’t the most exciting entry ever. If you fancy listening to some light traffic, then I suggest you plug some headphones into whatever device you’re viewing this on, and take a listen. The headphones bit is mandatory, as this is a binaural recording made via some newly purchased Roland…
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Sony Awards Redux
Listening to this week’s Radio Academy RadioTalk, I heard Talksport programme director Moz Dee and Media UK’s James Cridland talking about potential changes to the Sony Radio Academy Radio Awards (Thanks for the shoutout James!). There’s always a feeling that the ceremony goes on too long. And it is a long awards’ ceremony. Although if…
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All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
I am very excited about this: It starts on Monday 23rd May at 9pm on BBC2.
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New BBC News Blogs – A Retrograde Update
BBC News is seemingly completing its movement of correspondents’ blogs across to the a new system. And frankly, they’ve made some significantly retrograde steps. I’d happily acknowledge that previously the blogs were somewhat hidden, and lots of website readers were probably missing out. And I know that this has meant a shift in the backend…
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RAJAR – Q1 2011
It’s early May, and that means it’s another RAJAR – that exciting time when radio stations in the UK learn their new listening figures. As ever, it’s a mixed bag, with ups and downs. In the up box is radio listening overall. It’s once again recorded a record reach, with 91.6% of the population listening…
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What Do I Do With My Music?
I’m facing a dilemma. I’m wondering whether I should ditch Apple for my music needs… Here’s where I am, as Duncan Bannatyne might say: I use iTunes to manage my music and audio. I have over 160GB of music/audio. Partly because I have a “reasonable” amount of music; partly because I rip that music at…
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Things a TV Channel Controller Should Never Say
If you’re a TV executive you should be very careful when you axe something or say that you’ll never do something again. Recently Jay Hunt, Channel 4’s new chief creative officer said that the channel would no longer be making list programmes. That’s fine. They’re lazy, relatively cheap, and have run their course. But what’s…
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ISS
The International Space Station (ISS) is very visible at the moment, appearing as an often very bright, yet very fast-moving star. Taking advantage of a location that has much less light pollution than home, I took the above long exposure photo this evening showing the transit of the ISS across the sky, passing through Leo.…
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My BBC DQF Proposal
Another day, another proposal under the BBC’s Delivering Quality First (DQF) – aka, what significant cuts can we make as painlessly as possible? We’ve had plenty of them to date including the gutting of BBC Local radio, stopping late night or daytime broadcasts. Just today, the BBC News channel (or BBC News 24 as it’s…
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Radio Well Worth Listening To
A couple of things that I heard over the weekend: Into The Music Library – This documentary from Jonny Trunk is a great introduction into the world of library music. You’ve heard an awful lot of it, but mostly you’re not aware of it. The documentary concentrates on music from the sixties and seventies. It’s…
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The Dangers of the Cloud
Putting all your worldly goods into the “cloud” is brilliant isn’t it? You simply upload, documents, music, files, pictures, movies, whatever… onto one of the many cloud based hosting sites. After all, it’s fiddly, time-consuming, and often expensive to sort out your own hosting solutions. And putting your documents in the cloud brings with it…
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Seagull 4B-1 TLR
A couple of weeks ago, I dipped into the medium format world of a twin lens reflex camera. Namely a Chinese Seagull 4B-1. It’s very much an entry level camera. I’ve now run about three rolls of film through it, and you can see some of the results below: The first set includes a little…
Hadrian’s Wall
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