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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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Some First Thoughts on the New Flickr
A new look Flickr has been unveiled today (or last night). It seems to be part of Marissa Meyer’s attempt to make Yahoo more relevant. And of course Yahoo has also just paid an awful lot of money for Tumblr. Yahoo is a company without the letter “e”. What follows is based on some very…
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Solargraphy
When I was up in Derby earlier in the year for the Format festival, I ran across Leicester Lo-Fi Photography . They were helping people build their own pinhole cameras. So I made one using an old Coke can. I put this camera, gaffer-taped to the wall by the window where I sit, and left…
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CNN Pieces
Over the weekend, CNN published an interesting US-focused series entitled “The future of music radio” that looked at the current state of play in US music radio. While the US is very different market to the UK, it would be very complacent of the UK radio industry to completely write off what’s happening there. Do…
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RAJAR Q1 2013 – London
I’ve updated the previous entry, but I thought it was worth giving London an entry of its own because not only have I added back a Motion Chart of the London marketplace, but there’s significantly more data underlying it than I’ve managed for the national chart. Now you can examine the marketplace in lots of…
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RAJAR Q1 2013
It has been a big radio week already with the Sony Radio Academy Awards on Monday. And next week will be big with the final Competition Commission ruling on its attempted takeover of GMG’s radio assets. But let’s look at the latest RAJAR which is released today. At first glance this quarter might look less…
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Woods
Woods from Adam Bowie on Vimeo. Shot as an excuse to try that tracking feature you can do in After Effects. Music chosen because I saw Philip Glass play later that evening. The tracking was done with a Mobislyder, and the video on a Sony RX100. If there’s one thing I’m coming to realise about…
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Sony Radio Academy Award Winners 2013
So last night in a hot and sweaty room where the tables were just that bit too close together, this year’s Sony Awards were handed out. Absolute Radio did rather well, and I suspect that there may be a few sore heads around the station today. Most of the press seems to be leading on…
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Viewing Options
Here’s a curious thing. The new Ben Wheatley film, A Field in England, is getting a truly multi-media launch on 5th July, by getting a simultaneous release in cinemas, on DVD, on video-on-demand and on the free-to-air Film4 channel! Having enjoyed both Kill List and Sightseers immensely, I’m really looking forward to Wheatley’s paranoid fantasy…
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News Picture Quality
Is the quality of the video we’re being served on the news decreasing over time? I rather suspect it is. What am I talking about? Well go back to last Wednesday morning, and watch BBC Breakfast. This is a programme with a significant viewership and sizeable resource. But one of the items on the programme…
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Is Summer Arriving?
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Sony Radio Academy Awards – A Look Back
[UPDATE: Many of the charts on this page are now broken. Please see the 2014 updated version of this page with much more detail.] The Sony Radio Academy Awards are upon us in a week or so’s time. But if you want to get a broader view of who has won what over the years…
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20 Years of Russ
Today is the 20th anniversary of Virgin Radio. It launched at 12.15pm on Friday 30th April 1993 with Richard Branson joining Russ and Jono at the Virgin Megastore in Manchester. But Richard Skinner was back in the studio and played in the first track – a specially recorded version of Born To Be Wild by…
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