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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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What I’ve Been Listening To This Week
More or Less on Radio 4 One of my favourite Radio 4 shows has returned for a new series. Do yourself a favour and subscribe to the podcast. This week we had Marcus du Sautoy talking to Charles Clarke about Perfect Numbers and Mersenne Primes. You really want to listen now don’t you? Archive on…
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Listening to the Radio via a Nokia N82
The other day I talked about the frustration I suffered when I tried to listen to BBC Radio Five Live on my mobile streaming via 3G. I thought that it might be worth exploring that a little more. Most of the news about listening to the radio via your phone is about the iPhone. Of…
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What I’ve Been Listening To (And Watching) This Week
Spoon Jar Jar Spoon on Radio 4 A nice little documentary about Tommy Cooper that delved into the world of magic in London during the sixties and seventies, when there were magic shops all over the place, and clubs where magicians hung out. The late Ali Bongo was also interviewed for this. And if you’re…
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Champions’ League on the Radio
It’s been a big week in the biggest club football competition in the world, with Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal all featuring in the second leg of the quarter-final. Last night I was returning late from the cinema and realised I was without a radio to listen to the Chelsea v Liverpool fixture. Perhaps…
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Russell Brand on iTunes
It’s interesting to see that Russell Brand has a new CD/download out called The Russell Brand Radio Show – The Best Of What’s Legal. It’s available as a set of three CDs (plus bonus DVD!), or as a download from places like iTunes. At first glance the question you might ask is what on earth…
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Cricket This Summer
Interesting piece in today’s Guardian about how the ECB is going to use social networks to popularise cricket this summer: Facebook and Twitter are both bandied around. All very noble and forward thinking, but to use a massively over-used expression, they’re ignoring the elephant in the room. “This is the biggest summer of cricket ever…
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Guardian and Sky Question
There I was earlier today, reading the sports section of The Guardian – the printed version. As well as lots of coverage about tonight’s game between Chelsea and Liverpool (and what a thriller that turned out to be!), there were a couple of pieces about tomorrow night’s quarter-final second legs. The piece about Manchester United…
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What I’ve Been Listening To This Week
Feedback on Radio 4 Last week it was lots of complaints about the new Radio 4 website, and somehow I think those complaints will return. But this week it was more about when children’s radio is scheduled on BBC Radio 7. The reality is that children largely don’t listen at scheduled times, yet the BBC…
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Sony Radio Awards Nominations 2009
This evening the nominations were announced for the 2009 Sony Radio Academy Awards. This was held in the same nightclub in the West End that it’s always held in – although each year it curiously changes name. Anyway, it’s always an entertaining event with a partisan audience cheering on their favourites, and being deathly silent…
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Down The Tube
So what do we make of the news that BBC2 is going to make a TV version of the excellent Radio 4 comedy Down The Line? Well obviously there’s a top-notch list of castmembers attached led by Paul Whitehouse. And it’s following hot on the heels of other Radio 4 comedies transferring to TV –…
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The Prisoner – Coming Not So Soon?
Broadcast Magazine has a new picture of Sir Ian as Number 2 in the ITV/AMC remake of The Prisoner. Slightly worryingly, the piece says that AMC is planning on airing it later this year, while ITV is showing it in 2010. Might I suggest that this is a bad idea if ITV wants to avoid…
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Radio Radio
A couple of worthwhile pieces in today’s Media Guardian for those interested in the radio industry. Global’s Stephen Miron gives an interview. The subject of licence roll-over is brought up. Classic FM is the first of the three INR licences to be renewed, expiring in September 2011. Global would like an extension rather than the…
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