Category Archives: Media

Sony Radio Academy Awards Nominations by Adam Bowie

07Apr

Last night saw nominations announced for the 2009 Sony Radio Academy Awards which are the equivalent of the BAFTAs for Radio, and Absolute Radio had a great night securing a record haul of nominations – seven in total – more than the station has ever had before, and more than any other commercial radio station [...]

Categories: Media absolute 6

Posted by adam on April 7, 2009

When An Advert Annoys You by Adam Bowie

18Mar

At the weekend, BBC Radio 4 aired a documentary entitled Radio Sales. It covered advertising in the UK for the last 80 years from advertisers who used stations like Radio Luxembourg, through pirate radio (soon to be featured in the new Richard Curtis film The Boat That Rocked), to the launch of legal commercial radio [...]

Categories: Media 6

Posted by adam on March 18, 2009

Twitter by Tony Moorey

17Mar

If you see me, feel free wish me happy birthday. It’s not my real birthday, that I would like you to remember is 26th September, but this Saturday is my second Twitter birthday. It was then, during 2007’s SXSW that use of the service first exploded, as attendees of the Interactive festival used it to [...]

Categories: Media People Technology 3

Posted by adam on March 17, 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 as [...]

Categories: Media Technology 0

Posted by adam on March 11, 2009

A Couple of Links

20Feb

James Cridland notes that despite the media world having changed so much even since the millennium:
“The total number of people listening to radio every week (45.5m) is the second highest figure since 2000″
and
“The total number of people listening to radio every week is the second highest figure since 2000.”
Meanwhile a new report covered in Media [...]

Categories: Media Music 1

Posted by adam on February 20, 2009