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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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1-0 Up
England finished off a great victory this morning (well technically, this afternoon) at Lords. And you’ll just have to watch it on Five this evening – or on news bulletins. Great coverage from Sky: and they even opened up their Sky Player to all Sky Sports subscribers for a couple of months – something I…
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New Radio 1 Line Up
Today’s Radio 1 reshuffle is interesting, and is obviously a clear response to the BBC Trust findings that Radio 1 was getting too old. Off to weekends go Jo Whiley and Edith Bowman, as Fearne Cotton and Greg James fill up the gaps. With a remit that targets 15-29 year olds, having a significant number…
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The Ashes
On Sunday I was at my parents – who are retired – as the conclusion of the first test was reached in the unlikeliest of manners. England hung on to claim a draw. A friend even texted me to make sure that I was watching. It was nail-biting stuff, but I wasn’t watching on Sky…
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Free
A lot has already been said and written about Wired editor, Chris Anderson’s new book, Free. In particular Malcolm Gladwell reviewed it for The New Yorker in a not completely complementary fashion. This in turn has been refuted elsewhere. Books like Free aren’t the most demanding of fare. Essentially it’s 250 pages devoted to a…
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The MediaGuardian 100 – 2009
The annual nonsense that is the MediaGuardian 100 has once again been published. And as ever, there are lots and lots of telly folk on the list. And plenty of representation from the dead tree media. But once again, nearly nobody from radio! Aside from a handful of presenters, you’ve got Tim Davie, Mark Damazer…
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Some Recent Films
I’ve been most remiss about noting recent films that I’ve seen on this blog – if only to serve as a contemporaneous record for myself as to what I thought of various films. But before I begin, can I just say that it really can’t be healthy that I’ve had to tell people off twice…
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Downloading Radio
All this week Torchwood is being stripped across BBC1 at 9pm, which may or may not be a good thing. And last week, Radio 4 ran three new 45 minute “Afternoon Plays” of Torchwood (following a one-off episode last autumn surrounding Big Bang Day). What’s really interesting is that the BBC has made all three…
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What Have We Learnt About Mark Damazer?
There’s a nice interview with Radio 4 controller, Mark Damazer, in today’s Media Guardian. You can read the online version here. The piece has an accompanying photo, but the version on the website is a little small. It’s worth having a look at the newspaper one for a few more interesting titbits! For example, Damazer…
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Radio Festival – Wednesday
These are rough notes and I’ll need to tidy them up at a later stage. Jeremy Hunt, shadow DCMS representative, was first up today, and talked about the uniqueness of radio and his radio history. He’s certain that radio has a good future, although he knows how badly commercial radio is faring. He notes that…
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Radio Festival – Tuesday
[Note: Thiese are rough notes so apologies for any typos and general bad English. I’ll try to update as I go.] Nicky Campbell kicked off proceedings as host with a few stories about his life in radio before introducing a very nice summary of radio in the last 12 months. The first panel has Tim…
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Setanta
So Setanta’s finally died – or at least gone into administration. It’s as good as dead. It won’t be missed by many. It did itself no good by having a reputation for truly awful customer service. In particular, cancelling it proved near impossible with, at times, people being asked to write a letter (no phone…
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Radio Times – 22 June 2009
Tonight’s TV selection is a tribute to those MPs’ expenses! Programmes of an unsuitable nature have been redacted on grounds of taste. I’m selling the original to the Telegraph. See the large version.
Hadrian’s Wall
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