Here’s a summarised recent email exchange. Comments and suggestions welcome!
David emails with a question: “I need help with budgeting for a show, single person narrative, 4 episodes of 15 minutes, all pre-scripted. How much would it cost?”
My digested response follows…
Categories: Documentary, Drama, Production
Tagged: Equipment, Learning, Starting up
There’s been quite a ruckus this week about changes at the Canadian Classical Music and Arts channel, CBC Radio 2. While I don’t have inside info, it looks like a battle between the need to survive and programmers’ visions of creative radio. Here’s a page from the Toronto Star; Wikipedia has a useful summary as [...]
Categories: Commercial, Digital, Music, Strategy
Tagged: Arts, Canada, Classical, Costs, State Radio, Tecnology
For non-Brits, you may have missed the news that, last week, Global finally bought GCap. It makes them the largest group in Europe. We’re not talking US-style size, but pretty damn big. Some pithy commentary from Paul Robinson in Monday’s Guardian. Today… programming cuts are announced.
Categories: Localism, Ownership, Programming
Following on from Billy Sabbatini’s excellent post on the death or otherwise of Radio, I thought I’d post on something that’s been bothering me for a while.
What, exactly, do we mean by ‘Radio’?
Categories: Audience, Development, Digital, Internet, Podcasting, Programming
For a no-holds barred, joyfully venomous and VERY accurate portrayal of life at UK Commercial Radio, take a look at the Man In The Morning blog. I’m pretty sure the guy (or guys) who cook this up is (or are) based in the Midlands region of the UK. I tend to skip the narrative these [...]
Categories: Commercial, Programming