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Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Drivetime is on the road
Well, as first shows go, yesterday's Drivetime was pretty fantastic. Everything went remarkably smoothly - which probably means we've set the bar ridiculously high for today.
You can listen to our debut here for the next 7 days. And don't forget to tune in from 4-7pm today!
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Monday, June 08, 2009
Who's gonna drive you home tonight?
It's a big day - as we're launching a new Drivetime show on BBC Wiltshire this afternoon. It's presented by Lee Stone, and produced by me (who'll also be the new voice of sport on the show). We've got big plans for it, so can't wait to get on air.
Hope you can join us between 4 and 7 every weekday. If you're not in the area, you can listen online at bbc.co.uk/wiltshire.
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Friday, February 08, 2008
The Blog Is Back
 It's been a while since I've updated the blog, but there's a good reason - honest. Not long after my last post, I became one of the producers of BBC Radio Wiltshire's new Breakfast Show, presented by Graham Seaman. We launched at the start of October - and our first four months on air have been a lot of work, but it's all going pretty well. (I'm the day producer, so I don't even have to get up early...) I hope you'll check the show out - you can listen live between 6 and 9 am GMT, or on demand whenever you like. Here's the link to our bit of the BBC iPlayer. As always, I'd love to hear what you think. We've been trying to do a few things differently, so it'd be great to get your thoughts. Labels: Breakfast Show, Radio
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Thursday, August 16, 2007
A whole different level
This time every year the A Level exam results are out... and this time every year, the breakfast shows wheel out a couple of cherry-picked students to open their results live on air. And every year they get straight A-grades. Not suprising really, given that the whole thing relies on their colleges making their results available early.
Well, not on my watch. I made the decision several months ago not to do that on the BBC Radio Swindon breakfast show this year. Not only is it predictable, but it isn't real (and I speak as someone who flunked my A-Level History and only got into my first choice University thanks to a generous admissions tutor). So, instead, we found ourselves a 19 year-old who was retaking her exams after a disappointing set of grades last year- and for whom this was really a last stab at going to University. Our radiocar reporter spent the show at her house - capturing all the tension of the most important morning of her life. No slick choreography - and not a results envelope in sight. Just a slice of real life. And the story that unfolded after the show - when she eventually got her results - is utterly compelling. She missed the grades again - and had to make some big decisions very quickly. So we've got a great story for tomorrow now, too. Labels: Exams, Journalism, Radio
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Monday, June 25, 2007
Radio silence
My wonderful Wi-Fi Radio will be slightly less wonderful tomorrow, as many internet radio stations in the US are staging a day of silence. It's the latest salvo in the long-running Save Net Radio campaign - protesting against new legislation in the States that would see an increase in royalty rates that the internet broadcasters pay for playing music.
The legislation's due to come into effect on July 15th. The broadcasters say it'll put them out of business. The music industry's argument is that the current system means the big netcasters like Yahoo aren't paying their way. Regardless of who's right, my view is that internet radio has a big part to play in the future of the media. Let's hope a deal can be done - to keep things moving forwards, not backwards.
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Monday, May 14, 2007
Who needs a Hi-Fi? I've got Wi-Fi!
 I have a new favourite toy - a gadget that, in all honesty, is changing the way I listen to radio. It's a Wi-Fi Internet Radio. It looks like any other radio, with a speaker and volume knob. But this is a radio that lets me listen to pretty much any radio station on the planet - sorted by continent and then country, just to make things even easier for me. What's all the more impressive is that it also lets me listen to on-demand shows like the ones from the BBC - and actually lets me rewind and fast forward through them better than the actual BBC radio player does. And it's hooked up to a database run by Reciva, so I can register it on the site and add my own streams, which then get downloaded to my radio. Of course, it has its frustrating moments. Sometimes streams aren't available - or keep rebuffering. And at the moment it defaults to a lower quality stream of some stations which my PC plays in 128k. But what else can sit on my kitchen window ledge and let me flick between French pop and American talk as easily as if they were both on the FM dial? It's an impressive piece of kit, and I'll be very interested to see how the market for this kind of thing develops.
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