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
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 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
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I love radio … it is important. Part of the way we do things. “Socially central” in many ways.
So, I like to think about what happens when we reconfigure the radio spectrum as a tradable commodity in a free market, rather than a social, cultural, economic and political asset that belongs to the [...]
Categories: Commercial, Deregulation, Ownership
Tagged: Deregulation, ecologies, mollgaard, Ownership, radioscapes