Leith FM Running 24/7 - And I’ll Be On Air Shortly

So Leith FM (98.8FM to Leith, North and Central Edinburgh, and anywhere else depending on atmospheric conditions) is now running as a fully manned radio station 7am to 7pm each day. It’s slowly building up to both full strength in terms of air time, needle time, and capabilities, and it’s a delight to watch it […]

Radio Killing the Internet Radio

I talked previously about the effect that internet music distribution sites was having on the large music conglomerates. Today has also seen the issue of ‘Internet Radio’ reach a potentially devasting fork in the USA with an almost tripling of the copyright fees that each station has to pay, and the removal of the ‘percentage […]

Google Advertising on Traditional Radio

It’s not really a surprise, but Google is nicely expanding it’s core product away from search engine to advertising, and it’s recent purchase of DoubleClick, along with today’s announced deal with the radio conglomerate Clear Channel, it should be obvious to everyone.

…the partnership with Clear Channel represents a step forward for Google. The deal will […]

Dear Don Imus, We’ll Hire You!

Don Imus was paid $8 million dollars a year. his show brough in $40 million dollars a year. He’s been fired from his US talk radio show (which was also “webcast” on morning TV). In no way was this because he upset the Media Barons who owned the transmission mechanism (or that he’s good at […]

Radio 5 Pods and Blogs Appearance

Update: A big welcomet o the egualr Pods and Blogs listeners coming to here from the show notes. Yo ucan here more of my podcasting work at The Podcast Network, where I chair The Tech Conference Show, The PSP Show, and the thrice weekly TPN Rock Music Show. Feel free to email me at ewanspence@gmail.com.
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Brian Has Returned To Radio 2

YAAY!!
Saturday mornings are complete again, as Brian Matthew’s returns to ‘his’ show, “Sounds of the 60s” which runs 8am to 10am on BBC Radio 2 every Saturday. I know Jonnie Walker has been standing in, but there’s something comforting about the host of ‘Thank Your Lucky Stars’ (ask your Mum) playing the music he has […]

BBC World Service - Second Life Discussion

A quick heads up for those watching the feed, I’ll be on the BBC World Service’s World Have Your Say at 1800 GMT this evening. I’ll be discussing Second Life (along with, I believe, Nicole Simon), and I understand you can phone in to the program to join the discussion.
Postscript: Well that was interesting - […]

Leith FM Warming Up The Transmitters for Five Year Broadcast

Yes, you read that right. No more four week long restricted service licence from Ofcom, the local community radio station here in North Edinburgh recieved the new five year licence from the regulators. Everything is almsot in place, and we’ll be on air by teh end of March.
I say we as I am involved in […]

Sounds of the Sixties

One of the radio shows that I always make a point of listening to either, either live on Saturday morning or on the BBC Radio listen again feature is Brian Matthew’s Sounds of the Sixties. The last few shows have seen Brian take time away from the microphone to recover from illness. I wish him […]

More Talk 107 This Weekend, Fringe and Terrorism

It’s rapidly becoming a weekly fixture, but this week I’ll be sitting alongside Alex Hastie on Talk 107 (Edinburgh’s talk radio station) to talk about the issues of the week in Edinburgh.
And really there are two main issues to talk about this week. The first is the Fringe (and of course you’re all keeping up […]

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