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HBO Max and Paramount+: What It Might Mean For Sports
Today the deal was done, and Paramount took over Warner Bros. Discovery in a massive deal that has much of Hollywood quaking. There were some last minute wrinkles with a deal being struck a couple of weeks ago with a group of US Attorneys General, with the general view being that they folded and didn’t…
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Radio Academy AGM: Some Thoughts
Yesterday was a very interesting evening at the Radio Academy’s AGM. Ordinarily this is a rather dry affair formally closing the previous year’s accounts. It usually happens just ahead of a London event – if only to ensure that the meeting is quorate (a favourite word of Academy Chairman Ben Cooper, we learnt). But last…
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Cyclo Cross World Cup – Part 2 – Men’s Race
As well as photos of the women’s race I also took photos of the men’s race, the weekend before last in Milton Keynes. Cyclo cross seems to have had something of a resurgence in the UK over the last few years. But then again, so has cycling in general. I’ve been going to the Rapha…
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Do We Need an Olympic TV Channel?
It’s a bit of a moot question, because the IOC has just voted to launch one at the 127th IOC session taking place today and tomorrow in Monaco. Recommendation 19 Launch of an Olympic Channel is unanimously approved #olympic #agenda2020 #127iocsession — IOC MEDIA (@iocmedia) December 8, 2014 The full description of the recommendation was…
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My Nexus 5 Battery Woes
I couldn’t put a precise tome on it, but at some point in the late summer or early autumn, the battery performance of my Nexus 5 fell off a cliff. I’m not an unreasonable phone user. My phone tends to get a bit of action on the commute to work, as I listen to some…
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Serial on the Radio
I’m pleased to see that Radio 4 Extra is going to be broadcasting podcasting sensation Serial. Starting this Sunday (i.e. the day after tomorrow), they’ll be broadcasting the series nightly at 9pm, with the final episode airing the same night as the final podcast is released. I imagine that there will need to be quite…
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How Much Does An Artist Earn From The Radio?
There’s a widely linked article recently published in Wired about a track that has been played 168m times on Pandora earning its writer only $4,000. Now the first thing to note is that this number has been diluted a bit because there were three song writers and a publisher involved. The track overall paid $12,359.…
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Films Sometimes Take A While
Last year at the London Film Festival, I went to the surprise film. It was Wong Kar Wai’s long awaited new film – The Grandmaster. Well I say, “new”, but actually I was watching it in October, when the film had actually come out in China in January 2013. The film had experienced a somewhat…
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The Imitation Game
I’ve long been fascinated by the story of Alan Turning. I first read Andrew Hodges’ book, on which The Imitation Game is based, sometime back in the late 80s or early 90s, although it was first published in 1983. Subsequently, I saw the TV version of Hugh Whitemore’s play, Breaking the Code, starring Derek Jacobi…
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Cyclo Cross World Cup – Milton Keynes 2014 – Part 1
Over the weekend, it was the Milton Keynes round of the UCI’s Cyclo Cross World Cup. It’s the first time a round of this event has taken place outside mainland Europe. So definitely worth a 30 minute train ride up to see it! The event took place on a specially built course in Campbell Park,…
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Twitter is Searchable: My Early Timeline
Twitter has finally built a full search engine for its archived Tweets. That’s important because it has been incredibly hard in the past to find specific Tweets. I’m on Twitter of course, and have been since sometime in December 2006. But this search engine fills in a few blanks. My first Tweet was not the…
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Podcast Numbers – Does Serial Tell Us Anything?
In a world where there are so many metrics available, there’s often a curious shortage of figures in some parts of the tech industry where you’d like there to be. Amazon won’t tell you how many Kindles its sold. Netflix won’t say how many episodes of House of Cards it has streamed. And so on.…
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Breaking News: Most People Still Watch Linear Television Most of the Time
If you’re reading this, you’re probably not normal. And neither am I. You and I probably have a bit of an unhealthy interest in all things media – radio in particular. You probably don’t watch an enormous amount of television – less than the 3 hours and 52 minutes a day that was the average…
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