It’s not just the programmes that I love. Radios themselves can be so beautiful, much more so than TVs or other electronics.
I subscribe to an RSS feed on flickr dedicated to pictures of radios and one of my favourite things is to browse through these photos looking for lovely radios. Here’s one that caught my eye today.
Imagine my surprise the other day when I turned on my TV to see an old radio acquaintance of mine. Back in my student radio days (many years ago now) I had the pleasure of working with Eugene Sully. It’s strange seeing him again, especially in such the strange environment that is Big Brother. He was always a sweet honest guy who would go out of his way to help anyone and I hope that BB don’t take advantage of his good nature.
I’ll try and dig out some clips of his radio how if I can find them. He had this obsession for throwing electronic equipment from tall buildings and then playing the highlights out to listeners. Not the most engaging of radio but certainly innovative I grant you.
On the other hand you might want to stick around and read some stuff about radio.
BBC Radio 5 Live is supporting the Radio Amnesty campaign where you can get 10% of a digital radio if you trade in an old analogue model.
The dontated radios will then be shipped to Somalia and Sudan
Just finished reading “Travels with my Radio” by Fi Glover, the Radio 5 and 4 Presenter.
It’s a easy read and Fi never stops telling the reader how important radio is and how radio has touched many peoples lives.
I’ll try and write review and post it up over the next couple of weeks.
BBC Radio’s listen on demand service really is fantastic and it seems it’s going from strength-to-strength.
The new BBC Radio Player – re-launched at the end of January – exceeded all expectations in February as on-demand radio listening raced to a record nine million requests
Hello to Paul & Lizzie Hawkins, who’s currently mending the clothes horse, wants this song as in bed with the ‘flu
Have you ever wondered who those people are who ask for shout-outs on the radio? Well it seems that they may not be people at all.
Devaweb have a shout-out generator that spits out a request from a set of predefined terms. Give it a go yourself and see if you can get something that makes sense:
This little gem of site links to free mp3 downloads of songs the late John Peel played on his hugely-missed Radio 1 show.
Have a lsiten to the People Like Us – Dolly Parton track it’s ace.
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Whilst wandering round the BBC’s radio pages I came across this nifty little widget.
It alerts you about up-and-coming radio shows on the BBC about twice a day. Problem is I can’t seem to figure out how to get it to alert me about the stuff I’m interested in not the stuff they seem to want to push my way.
Wired Magazine last month hailed the death of radio in States. Listener figures are at a 27 year low and the growing popularity of podcasting and other technologies means FM radio is on it’s last legs.
American radio stations have suffered from the huge corporate consolidation as a result of a legal policy change back in 1996. Syndication of radio programmes across networks means to the listener everything sounds the same. And as a result of the big-business radio owners wanting to make a quick buck the amount of advertising has increased hugely. That along with the computer generated play lists, according to Wired of sometimes of only 300 songs means people have turned off in their millions.
What does that mean for the rest of us?
There has been a real consolidation in the UK commercial sector, even more so with the Captial/GWR merger so things are moving the way of America.
But we have a saviour – Thank heaven above for the BBC. With a brief to offer programmes to audiences not served by the commercial sector means we have a diverse choice of stations. Supported by the licence fee the BBC will continue to keep radio alive in this country at least until end of the current BBC charter in 2014. After that who knows what we’ll be listening to.
Read more about Radio at Technocrati.
I’m sure I’m not alone in being a bit peeved with BBC Radio 7 for changing their evening schedules.
I listen to Radio 4′s excellent comedy every evening at 6.30pm when I get back from work – after which I usually switch over to BBC 7 to hear a repeat of ‘I’m sorry I haven’t a clue’ or ‘Just a minute’. But to my utter dismay BBC 7 have started playing older comedy – which although funny is not nearly as good as more recent stuff.
So if anybody from BBC 7 is reading this – switch things back to the way they were!
Radio is really big part of my life, I must listen to about 4 hours a day.
It wakes me up in the morning, chat’s to me at lunchtime, makes me laugh at teatime and helps me sleep at night. The purpose of this blog is for me to share my thoughts and opinions on UK radio that have previously been shouted at the brown box sat in my kitchen.