Monthly Archives: March 2009

Who’s Calling Christian – Day 5

13Mar

So that’s the first week over! 34 celebrities have called in to chat with Christian so far. There’s still plenty of time to go. We don’t close the door to the show until Wednesday 25th March. Here’s who called Christian this morning… Davina McCall (Big Brother host) She’s presenting part of Comic Relief tonight with [...]

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Posted by richie on March 13, 2009

Frank Skinner Starts Tomorrow by Paul Raffaelli

13Mar

Two platinum-selling number one singles, Perrier Award winner, best-selling author, English lecturer, a masters in English Literature, award-winning chat show host, singer, songwriter, banjo player, broadsheet columnist, TV presenter, critically acclaimed TV and theatre actor, Sony Radio Award nominated podcaster and full time West Bromwich Albion fan it’s near impossible not to be more than [...]

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Posted by adam on March 13, 2009

Who’s Calling Christian Day 4

12Mar

We’re now four days into Who’s Calling Christian and 30 celebrities have found the time to give Christian a call. Here’s who called today… Adam Duritz (Counting Crows lead singer) Called to win the money for the Counting Crows own charity, The Greybird Foundation Jennie Falconer (Lottery TV Presenter) Left a chaotic answerphone message from [...]

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Posted by richie on March 12, 2009

‘Broken Strings’ – Real Music or Not? By James Curran

12Mar

There is a current ongoing Twitter debate as to why a radio station like Absolute Radio would play James Morrison’s ‘Broken Strings’? Is it real music ? Now I totally understand why some people might not like these sort of tracks – ‘too poppy’, ‘too mellow’,’ not cool enough for me’, ‘too wimpy’,’ everyone else [...]

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Posted by adam on March 12, 2009

Measuring Breakfast Listening

11Mar

If you’re not too interested in radio audience measurement, you might want to skip over this entry, but if you are, then this link is worth a read. UK measurement body RAJAR spent a lot of time and money testing meters (PPMs) that would automatically measure what services you listened to before ultimately rejecting them [...]

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Posted by adam on March 11, 2009