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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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More Digital Britain Leaks
If you want to know what’s going on with the Digital Britain report, forthcoming from Lord Carter as metioned yesterday, it seems that you need to keep reading the Financial Times. There is talk in today’s piece about a broader broadcaster that would encompass Channel 4 as well as supplying alternative news programmes to the…
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Have You Got Any Christmas Presents You Don’t Want?
There’s a shop in Berwick Street that can help…
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Too Demanding For Watch
There’s a wonderful story in this week’s Broadcast magazine. In a piece that explains how UKTV chanel “Watch” is having a bit of a rethink, it explains that challenging fare like Cranford, Mistresses and Love Soup is too “demanding” for its viewers. Instead they’re going to show more Dancing with the Stars and Wipeout (aka…
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Digital Britain
One of the most interesting documents likely to be published in the UK in the next few months is Lord Stephen Carter’s Digital Britain report. The draft report is due to be published by the end of this month, and it’s likely to cover things like public service, broadband and digital radio. The recent DRWG…
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Follow The Inauguration on CNN?
A news report announces the fact that CNN launches on Freeview this week – effectively replacing Nuts TV. That’s got to be good news for Freeview viewers, giving them an additional news service alongside the BBC News channel (never News 24!) and Sky News (will it remain on Freeview?). But The Guardian’s report (perhaps based…
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Visual Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is running a week long trial of a beta visualisation version of the radio player for a couple of programmes this week. I only caught a few minutes of Moyles this morning, but it seemed to work very well, and was a very interesting experiment in what can and can’t be done.…
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Yawn
Lots of areas of the media are getting excited about the annual Golden Globes handed out by an organisation called the “Hollywood Foreign Press Association”. I’ve written about this self-appointed, self-elected organisation before – and the fact that it has very little if anything to do with, well, the foreign press. Now everyone loves a…
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Celebrities Inappropriate Advertising
Last Friday was the last in Clive James’ current run of A Point of View (Harold Evans takes over this Friday). You have about 24 hours to download the podcast, otherwise you’ll just have to read his words. James got on to the habit of Hollywood actors promoting products that once they’d never have been…
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Crash
It’s always wise to pull over before you use the phone – especially when you call a radio station. Unhappily for her, Fiona didn’t half an hour ago when calling the Geoff Hometime Show…
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The Prisoner – Free In Places
Good news – in the lead up to the ITV/AMC remake of The Prisoner appearing on our screens later this year, AMC is making the original series available to stream, free of charge, on their website. Bad news – it’s only available in the US. ITV doesn’t seem to have done the same deal (Although…
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The Diary of Anne Frank
BBC1 is stripping The Diary of Anne Frank at 7pm this week in place of The One Show, and I must say that after yesterday’s lambasting of poor TV, this is a refreshing change. It’s fabulous. Ellie Kendrick plays Anne herself, and is wonderfully naturalistic in her performance. After a few exterior scenes to convey…
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Some Recent TV
If there’s one thing clear in recent times, it’s that ITV really needs to up its drama quotient. So I watched Demons at the weekend – effectively ITV’s sister programme to Primeval, and competing with the BBC’s Doctor Who, Merlin and Robin Hood. I don’t know when that latter programme is due to return, but…
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