Blog posts by year and monthJanuary 2011
Posts (10)
Who's listening? The Rajars are coming
The Rajars? Obscure industry obsession or the beating heart of radio? The RAJAR figures for the fourth quarter of 2010 are published next Thursday morning, 3 February. Watch this space for coverage of the numbers that give radio people sleepless nights, starting on Tuesday with an exclusive prim...
Painful day for BBC World Service
Editor's note: Peter Horrocks is director of BBC World Service. This blog post, published on the BBC Editors Blog, explains the cuts to the service announced today - SB It's been a painful day for the BBC World Service and the 180 million audiences around the world. This morning I announced a f...
Delivering Quality First: plans for online radio
Editor's note: Daniel Danker is the BBC Future Media & Technology manager responsible for building the new 'radio and music product'. In this post from the BBC Internet blog, he makes it clear that everything you can currently hear on the radio station web sites and on iPlayer will still be avai...
Big changes at BBC Online
Some big changes have been announced today by management at BBC Online. A cut amounting to 25% will affect the whole of the Corporation's online division (Future Media & Technology). 360 posts will close all together, including between 35 and 39 at BBC Audio & Music Interactive. Around 200 indiv...
Surround sound for streaming radio - the challenges
Simon Tuff, a senior engineer at the BBC, takes up the technological challenges being met in producing surround sound for online audio. Alan Ogilvie (in the first surround sound blog post) talked about some of the challenges we face when delivering surround sound online as well as some of the c...
Whatever happened to surround sound for streaming Radio?
Editor's note: surround sound has history - it was first used in 1940 by Walt Disney - and in this two-part post, Alan Ogilvie reminds us that the BBC's first try at surround sound for streaming audio was back in 2002. He also hints at some plans for the future - SB. In the first part of this b...
How to get your unsigned band on the Radio 1 daytime playlist
BBC Introducing is an initiative set up by the BBC to support unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar artists, and from Monday January 10th the Radio 1 playlist will feature a new track from a BBC Introducing artist every week. Guaranteed exposure on daytime Radio 1 is a significant opportun...
The shipping forecast vs The Ashes on Radio 4 LW
We had a long discussion yesterday, considering various tactics for avoiding a possible clash between the late night Shipping Forecast and the end of the last Test Match. Could we only carry it on FM and DAB? That wouldn't work for mariners far from land as they rely on the carrying power of Lon...
The Radio Manchester takeover took place
Editor's note: John Ryan wrote two blog posts about the build-up to to the Radio Manchester takeover. Read them here - SB. A married couple of comedians, a beauty queen and the receptionist at Manchester Piccadilly Station made their radio debut this week as part of BBC Radio Manchester's New Y...
Immerse yourself in The Archers
Unless you have kept well clear of the media this week, you will have seen or heard that we have been marking the 60th anniversary of the world's longest running continuous drama. The Archers has been a central part of listener's lives since 1951 and, if nothing else, the past few days have prov...
