A friend of mine is on attachment for a year to France, and promptly popped up on a student station in Clermont-Ferrand, doing translation chores for a bilingual live interview with an interesting Kiwi Jazzer called Aronas. The interview was good, but I was tickled and very impressed by the broadcast style. It reminded [...]
Categories: Interviewing, Production, Strategy
Billy Sabatini posted a great piece a few weeks back about the power of association between songs, and how you can exploit this with multiple music streams on Satellite radio. I’m dead jealous. We get something like this once in a while on the better specialist shows in the UK, but in a very [...]
Categories: Audience, Music, Programming, Satellite Radio, Strategy
The quarterly Rajar figures came out this week. Yet more records beaten at the BBC; yet more muted success at best (and disasters at worst) at the Independents. I don’t know of anywhere else where the state sector trashes the private sector quite so emphatically, do you?
But…. it really doesn’t have to be this way. [...]
Categories: Commercial, Localism, Management, Podcasting, Strategy
I’m in New York this week, but listening to a stream off a hybrid radio/social networking site out of Chicago. Vocalo is in repeats right now, recycling a 6 hour Friday chunk for the second time over the weekend. It’s got a real FM frequency too. But here’s the twist: it’s different. I’ve not heard [...]
Categories: Community, Development, Digital, Documentary, Education, Localism, Podcasting, Production
Tagged: Chicago, Community Radio, Public Radio
I go to the gym. There, I hear digital radio. Some stations suck, some are brilliant, and most of them play ‘Valerie’ by Amy Winehouse, a lot. Last week, Dusty Springfield’s ‘Son of a Preacher Man’ was playing on a gold station. It sounded different: I’d never heard the bass on that song in 39 [...]
Categories: Archiving, Digital, Music, Production, Satellite Radio
Tagged: compression, Gold, libraries