The new range of iPod nano digital music players from Apple will include a built-in FM radio, and the facility to pause and rewind live radio programmes.In America, certain radio stations will also offer iTunes tagging, meaning any song being played on the radio can be tagged for purchase later in t...
A new book on managing radio stations has been published free-of-charge on the web, after a deal with a publisher fell through. Managing Radio is a comprehensive practical guide to all the essential elements of managing radio stations. It covers the management of commercial, public service and c...
Fearne Cotton is to present Radio 1’s 10am-12.45pm, Monday to Friday show in a major shake-up of the station’s schedule. Cotton was co-presenting with Reggie Yates at weekends for the network. Elsewhere on the station, Early Breakfast presenter Greg James is heading to afternoons (1.00-4.00pm...
1. 50% of our wardrobes really do consist of free t-shirts: t-shirts from Radio stations we’ve worked for, t-shirts given to us for participating in charity events and t-shirts from movie and record promotions. If you are ever at a garage sale and you see more than 2 t-shirts with Radio station lo...
So I'm going to have to throw out all my radio sets in 2015? Just one typical reaction from a typical listener after Tuesday's Digital Britain report. Other industry reaction comes in many shapes and sizes, including from the minds of our industries regular bloggers. Digital Radio is the topic...
The final phase of the Heart roll-out has arrived, with nine more radio stations changing their names to Heart. It's goodbye to Invicta FM, Southern FM, Ocean FM, 2CR, Essex FM, Marcher Sound, Coast 96.3, Buzz 97.1 and Champion 103. The nine stations, spreading from Kent to Colwyn Bay, join 21...
With all the modern marvels that have been introduced in the last decade for our studios it may seem strange that the microphone has changed the least. A quick peek to the high end shows that some microphone designs used today were formulated in the late 60's, that's forty years ago! Since then co...
The new 3.0 operating system for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch devices will include support for audio and video streaming through the gadgets’ Safari web browser. Ars Technica’s Chris Foresman reports that the new OS adds HTML 5 support to the iPhone’s web browser, which then enables web str...
A large amount of webhosts and streaming hosts have been shut down today after data for as many as 100,000 websites was destroyed by attackers who targeted a zero-day vulnerability in a widely-used virtualization application. Technicians at UK-based Vaserv.com were still scrambling to recover dat...
Background Working as part of the team at LoudCity for the past year or so, I've learned that there are generally two main reasons that stations don't make it. Lack of listeners, which I tried to address in another sticky at the top of this forum, and lack of funds. I'll state up front that it'...
