February 13, 2010 / Posted by: / Category:
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Is national-broadcast UK DAB radio a defunct medium? Even the niche stations can’t seem to get traction…
“£12.1m per annum on the Asian Network when its peak audience nationally is only 31,000 adults”
In speech radio, the presentation format is the problem. BBC Radio 7, for instance, strings content out into highly missable episodes (e.g.: “part 12 of 18″), presumably to try to prevent piracy and maintain sales of the BBC audio books. And the science-fiction there currently seems to polarise between depressingly worthy “issues” SF (Handmaiden’s Tale) and teen comedy (Red Dwarf, Paradise Lost in Space). If you want classic / hard SF you have to go to audio-books, where you also get exact control over where to stop for a break. BBC Radio 7 also has almost no documentaries worthy of the name. The BBC must have literally millions of high-quality radio documentaries sitting in its archives? Yet it doesn’t give them a dedicated repeats station? Why? The same goes for all those substantial hour-long and 90 minute radio plays. I can only guess that the repeat-fees demanded by the trades unions are what’s keeping such content off the air? Or is that the producers believe that no-one can sit still and listen for more than 15 minutes these days?
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Smothered in bubbling mud, out-competed by audio books and Spotify
February 08, 2010 / Posted by: / Category:
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It’s invitation only, by the looks of it. 18th February 2010, 9.30am to 4pm. NTI Birmingham, 15 Bartholomew Row, Birmingham…
“The Future of Digital Content [...] bringing together some of the brightest minds to explore how the future can be created. What new business models, what policies, what industry partnerships need to be created to deliver world class digital content to people in the most compelling manner? Using the outputs of a previous phase of workshops, TheAlloy have created a range of scenarios exploring the digital content needs of a wide variety of people across a range of contexts, 3-7 years from now. [...] We are looking for people who not only have the imagination to build on these scenarios, but who know how they could be delivered. We are looking for people who can help shape the future of digital content consumption in the UK. Please if you are interested in attending this workshop email: events@citin.org”
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Future of digital content
February 05, 2010 / Posted by: / Category:
Adult
All the BBC Radio 4 archives for In Our Time have just been switched over to using the BBC iPlayer. Which I think might be annoying for listeners outside of the UK, since I understand iPlayer access is only available to those in the UK. So, for those outside of the UK, I now feel free to link to a 5Gb Pirate Bay torrent of the complete archive from 2002-2009.
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In Our Time archive
January 22, 2010 / Posted by: / Category:
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