As a young journalist with next to no interest in sport of any kind; my Monday morning chore was to call about 10 schools and colleges to get the weekend’s sporting results. From soccer, to hockey, and athletics, I’d have to get the names of the teams, any star players (and their ages), location of […]
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Any limitations broadcasters had are long gone. During the past 20 years online radio has gone mainstream; but what lessons can we learn from the commercial FM stations? One thing I keep coming back to is that FM stations – due to their restricted broadcast range – have a defined area in which to market
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A new film documenting the life of the late tenor saxophonist Ronnie Scott and his famous London jazz club is due for release on 12 February. shorefire.comÂ
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The Rodecaster Pro seems a fine mixer for podcasters. We haven’t used it; but have watched the video reviews and been in contact with Rode about its specs. The fact that the Rodecaster will cut audio to monitor speakers means it is just a hair away from being a fine mixing desk for budget broadcasters.
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As many of you may know, I am a person of a certain age. And way back when if I wanted a jingle I had to pay a firm lots and lots of money and then – after a few weeks/months – they would send me a jingle on a reel of tape. Thankfully those
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There’s little doubt that starting an online broadcast service has a low bar to entry. In rough figures all you need is money for music licenses, pocket change for a streaming service account, and using something such as Centova you can automate the layout of music, jingles and pre-recorded shows. You can manage it from
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What did we lose when the development of electric cars was abandoned 100 years ago? Possibly a century of research, development and innovation that would have likely led to every household having more electricity than they could use today. A world where electricity powered everything using technology we can’t imagine, and fossil fuel technology would
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A survey by Jacobs Media reveals some interesting trends that broadcasters and podcasters should note. The survey, carried out between January and February this year (2019), shows that more people are listening to radio broadcasts (and podcasts) via smartphones, smart speakers and computers than with a radio receiver. The figure is up from 14% in
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A few weeks back I wrote that having entertaining DJs has got to be the point of difference that makes a station great. So it’s interesting to read the Jacobs Media survey results that show why people listen to FM/AM radio. Top of the list is because it’s easy to listen to radio in the
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What seemed the perfect running order when you started your radio show suddenly doesn’t feel right, and you don’t Know why. This is the universe tapping in and our intuition starts to override logic.
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There are still plenty of people who haven’t managed to sit through all 17 episodes the 60s British cult TV series The Prisoner. On one hand I can understand their frustration as the show doesn’t follow the ‘normal’ hero-beats-the-baddy formula with everything neatly tied up with a bow at the end of the show.
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If you listened to Alan Freeman’s Pick of the Pops on Britain’s Radio One you would have heard the Australian DJ present a tightly formatted radio show featuring the week’s top 30. It was compelling listening for anyone wanting to know the week’s number one, and Freeman certainly put a lot of energy into his
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I read FilmFreak’s review of the 90’s movie The Truman Show this week, and it got me thinking back – way back. When word seeped out in 1997 that a movie was being made about a man trapped in a village many of us movie nuts assumed, wrongly as it turned out, that a big screen version