The UK Radio Player is up and running.
It’s a single online source for all radio in the UK. It’s very easy to use and you can search for radio by station, presenter or programme name and more. It will show results for live radio and podcasts/on-demand audio.
There are two things in particular that impress the hell out of me with this project;
1 – It’s ease of use. Simple use is a core quality of radio and we have to maintain this into the future. The various standards/players you …
Jazz FM have just gone truly national on the Digital One UK DAB network.
This is an exciting move for a station which started off as an online accompaniment to the London FM station of the same name. When the FM station flipped format to “Smooth FM” the web service jumped into the digital broadcast arena by taking up DAB slots in a number of regions. With a niche but very dedicated audience the station has grown with a weekly reach of 448,000 in the last RAJAR’s.
By moving from regional …
Car manufacturer Ford have just announced that DAB radios will be fitted as standard in all Ford models from next year.
Part of the roadmap for switchover to DAB in the UK is to have DAB as standard in all new cars by 2013. So Ford have beaten that deadline by a year.
Read the full story at What Car magazine.
Why go digital is the most frequent question we get asked by broadcasters. FM works. Why fix something that isn’t broken?
Well, asides from massive cost savings, brand expansion and new revenue possible with DAB, there is something much Much MUCH bigger at stake. Losing your audience.
Watch this 2 minute video. It will change your world.
Significant political weight to the adoption of digital radio across Europe has come from Vice-President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes. (pic)
In her opening address to this weeks Association of European Radio Conference (AER) she has come out in support of establishing a digital standard to protect the medium of radio in the future. Her comments echo sentiments made by BAI Chairman Bob Collins last year. Her full speech is here;
Ladies and gentlemen,
In the North African revolutions we are currently witnessing, many commentators have stressed the role played by ICT …