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Wednesday 13 February 2019, AM

Bauer buys Lincs, Celador and Wireless Local

Hello, I'm Stuart Clarkson coming up on this week's podcast from Radio today. Lots of chat about Bower following their purchase this week of wireless groups local stations celador radio and the Lincs FM group with vasculitis on scala radio coming up as well interesting at James cridland will consi…

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Monday 11 February 2019, AM

RAJAR Q4 2018 – adambowie.com

Hours were down 4.0 on the quarter and down 22.6 on the year to 7.6m. By contrast, Heart London's reach is up 7.3 on the quarter and down 2.3 on the year to 1.52m. Hours are up 20.9 on the quarter and up 4.2 on the year to 9.4m. This quarter saw Kiss take a bit of a hit in London, reach down 16.7 on the quarter and down 19.4 on the year to 1.63m. Hours were similarly down 15.7 on the quarter and 30.4 on the year to 7.4m. That's part of a slightly worrying trend for the station in London which has seen its hours fall each quarter for the last four consecutive quarters. Hours are down 24.2 on the quarter and down 2.2 on the year to 4.9m. Magic in London made some gains in reach, up 2.9 on the quarter and up 2.7 on the year to 1.6m, while hours fell 12.0 on the quarter and down 5.7 on the year to 8.1m. Radio X had a decent quarter in London, up 34.1 on the quarter to a reach of 480,000. - www.adambowie.com

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Tom Watson: Tories to blame for loss of free TV licences for over-75s

Age UK's new research shows that over 40 of over-75s will have to cut back on either food or heating in order to keep their TV if they lose their free licence. Officially, responsibility for the free TV licence and the consultation which ends tomorrow belongs to the BBC after the Government handed the dirty work of austerity over to our national broadcaster. - www.mirror.co.uk

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Friday 08 February 2019, PM

Spotify means business: how buying Gimlet changes podcasting

Hello and welcome to the media podcast I'm Olly Murs on today's show Spotify enjoy a 230 million dollar gimlet digital journalism faces its own publishing crisis Instagram scrabbles to act on sensitive content + y Sky News turn the cameras on their own team and where they will young could take dow…

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Spotify means business: how buying Gimlet changes podcasting

Love This podcast support this show through the a car support a feature. It's up to you. How much you give and there's no regular commitment just hit the link in the description to support now. Hello and welcome to the media podcast I'm on today show Spotify enjoy it 230 million gimlet digital jour…

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Thursday 07 February 2019, AM

UKTV CEO quits as BBC prepares to take full control of broadcaster

The corporation's board is meeting next week and is expected to approve a deal to take control of the bulk of UKTV, which broadcasts 10 free-to-air and pay-TV channels, including a one-off payment of as much as 250m. UKTV is currently jointly owned by BBC Studios, the corporation's commercial arm, and the Eurosport owner, Discovery. The BBC has been approached in the past about selling its stake in UKTV, worth at least 500m, but instead has decided to spend big to take control of the hugely profitable business. - www.theguardian.com

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Smithsonian Channel to Launch in U.K.

With 19 million homes, the U.K. move is the single-biggest launch ever for the joint venture of CBS Corp.'s Showtime Networks and the Smithsonian Institution. CBS Corp.'s Smithsonian Channel, a joint venture between Showtime Networks and the Smithsonian Institution, is launching its first European service in the U.K. on Feb. 12, continuing its push into international markets. - www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Media Masters - Stephanie Mehta

Media matters with Paul Blanchard welcome to media Masters a series of one-to-one interviews with people at the top of the media game today in New York and jump by Stephanie better editor-in-chief of fast Company career began in the early 90s as a staff reporter of the Wall Street Journal in 2013.…

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Wednesday 06 February 2019, PM

Spotify's big move on radio

BBC sounds music Radio podcasts and this is the media show from BBC Radio 4 last year we spent an enormous amount of time on this show reporting on what the US tech companies are up to now, then this year rather pleasing I feel that we should the fair amount of time talking about the Resurgence in…

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Wednesday 06 February 2019, AM

ITV turns its back on comedy

Britain's largest commercial channel now has NO sitcoms in its schedules, after ITV scrapped Birds of a Feather and Jack Dee's sitcom Bad Move. The opening attracted almost eight million viewers, giving ITV its highest-rated comedy launch in more than a decade. - www.chortle.co.uk

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News UK-funded report on 5 live and Roundtable #23

Coming up this week Trevor down house on monthly roundtable discussion for February 2019 with topics including Bowers purchase this week of Lincs FM group and celador radio and much more as well James cridland. Look at whether engineering at nighty should be one of the same thing in radio and Davi…

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Tuesday 05 February 2019, PM

The broadband industry loves bullshit names

The average median download speed for US broadband customers was just 72 Mbps near the end of 2017, or 0.72 percent of the promised 10Gpbs goal, according to the Federal Communications Commission's latest broadband report. 10G may have been born out of fear of 5G, but even members of the wireless industry fear being beaten to 5G by their competitors, leading to fake 5G programs with equally fake names. - www.theverge.com

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Monday 04 February 2019, AM

Broadcast Tech Talks: AI and ML

Broadcast Tech Talks AI and ML. 25-minute roundtable discussion about the current and future applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the TV, media and entertainment industries. Brian Leonard, head of engineering, IMGAlison Davis, industry lead for telco, entertainment and media, IBMGeorge Wright, head of internet research, BBC RD. It is chaired by Jake Bickerton, technology editor, Broadcast magazine. - www.youtube.com

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Saturday 02 February 2019, PM

Media Business Podcast #1: The Oscars' Business

Hello and welcome to this new bonus series called the media business podcast by Media business insight publishers of broadcast magazine and screen international. I'm at Miele editor screen international in every month will be taking over the media podcast please. Sorry I like to bring you an extra…

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Media Business Podcast #1: The Oscars' Business

Love This podcast support this show through the a car support a feature. It's up to you. How much you give and there's no regular commitment just hit the link in the description to support now. Hello and welcome to this new bonus series called the media business podcast broadcast magazine and scree…

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Friday 01 February 2019, AM

How 5G will change your TV for good

Will 5G networks be able to support broadcast linear TV services and their requirements Is a progressive convergence to IP-based TV services in synergy with mobile operators, a sustainable model for the future of TV And if yes, will it happen now The European Broadcasting Union and several broadcasters played an important role in those developments, ensuring that EU digital TV broadcast requirements, including public service regulatory constraints such as Free-to-air channels availability, were met.5G TVA number of research projects are studying, prototyping and evaluating enTV in the context of LTE and upcoming 5G deployments examples are 5G-Xcast, a H2020/5G-PPP project partially-funded by the EU 5G Today, a project currently ongoing in Bavaria, Germany, and the 5GTN project in Finland. - medium.com

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Thursday 31 January 2019, PM

Where to find the new BBC Scotland TV channel

The BBC has announced full details of how audiences can find the new BBC Scotland television channel when it launches on 24 February. Viewers in Scotland will receive the network version of BBC Two and content that would traditionally have been broadcast on BBC Two Scotland will become part of the content mix on the BBC Scotland channel. - www.bbc.co.uk

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Thursday 31 January 2019, AM

Media Masters - Matt Murray

Media matters with Paul Blanchard welcome to media Masters a series of one-to-one interviews with people at the top of the media game Theory New York by Matt Murray editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal a graduate of northwestern University he first started as a reporter at the jungle in 1994…

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UK broadcasters face advertising tipping point, new study finds

Broadcasters are facing a tipping point in the next five years where a faster decline in traditional viewing will make TV campaigns too expensive to be cost-effective for advertisers. This in turn will make it more costly to hit the same audience numbers, meaning advertisers are facing effective ad price rises of 90, 50 and 20 for the three demographics respectively over the period. - www.theguardian.com

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Wednesday 30 January 2019, PM

The great TV piracy scandal

BBC sounds music Radio podcasts and this is the media show from BBC Radio 4 it's the biggest priority scam in the world and possibly in history a complex and frankly bonkers tale of geopolitical rivalry between the Saudis and Qatar as expressed through the media or satellite TV all will be explain…

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Assessing the Delivery of BBC Radio 5 Live’s Public Service Commitments

X Later, as the BBC concentrated greater resources around its television news channel, BBC News 24, and its website, senior BBC journalists briefed media correspondents that 5 Live's commitment to hard news was being diluted. The circularity of this definition, and the fact that the Corporation and its competitors routinely deploy 'news' and 'current affairs' as if they are common-sense terms and universally understood raises obvious difficulties for those who wish to measure news provision against commitments how can we assess whether the BBC is delivering the supply of news it has promised to deliver if we cannot distinguish news from other types of factual or speech-based programming Fortunately, the language the BBC uses to describe its dedication to news offers additional guidance. - centreforjournalism.co.uk

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Wednesday 30 January 2019, AM

BBC Local Radio Gillard Awards in Derby

Coming up on the radio today podcast this week where in Derby for the BBC local radio wards that gillards + James cridland and what radio can learn from some On Demand television and more classic audio from David Lloyd radio moments archive our usual look through the other big stories of the week …

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Tuesday 29 January 2019, PM

Children and parents: Media use and attitudes report 2018

Drawing largely on our quantitative Children and Parents' Media Literacy Tracker, the report provides detailed evidence on media use, attitudes and understanding among children and young people aged 5-15, as well as detailed information about media access and use by young children aged 3-4. Attitudes towards social media, among 12-15s with a social media account 9 TV and social media are important sources of news, but many have concerns about the accuracy and trustworthiness of news on social media This year we commissioned an online News Consumption Survey among teenagers aged 12-15 to better understand their habits and attitudes in relation to news. - www.ofcom.org.uk

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Saturday 26 January 2019, PM

When does it launch? How can I watch? What programmes will it show?

Existing BBC Scotland TV programmes will be showcased on the channel including Scottish drama River City which will feature each Monday night at 10pm and will continue to keep its 8pm Tuesday evening slot on BBC1 Scotland. How will programmes on BBC Scotland be distinctively Scottish - www.radiotimes.com

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Friday 25 January 2019, PM

#108 - Social media stars under the influence; DJs on shuffle as Ball, Cox, Mayo, Evans and Whiley launch new shows; Buz

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Thursday 24 January 2019, PM

The SVOD Report: Charting the growth in SVOD services across the UK | BARB

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Thursday 24 January 2019, AM

Media Masters - James Ball

Media matters with Paul Blanchard welcome to media Masters series of one-to-one interviews with people at the top of the media game Samsung by James Ball investigative journalist and author parts best numbers involvement in WikiLeaks is reported for a wealth of broadcast and print outlets includin…

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Wednesday 23 January 2019, PM

BONUS Dame Pippa Harris on Call The Midwife and the TV industry

BBC sounds music Radio podcasts from BBC Radio 4 on the podcast I'm here with Dame Pippa Harris it we talked on the live show without call the midwife. You are the brains behind it in your own words. What was made it successful, but the person actually I think it's a genius behind it is Heidi Thom…

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BONUS Do we need another classical music radio station?

BBC sounds music Radio podcasts and this is the media show from BBC Radio 4 right now from Steve Parkinson the managing data about National radio stations in the UK this week that its launching a new classical music station called Scarlet their big star sign is Simon Mayo Simon Simon forgive me St…

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BONUS Facebook's Steve Hatch apologises for distressing content about suicide on Instagram

BBC sounds music radio podcast the media show from BBC Radio 4 many of you will have seen a horrifying story leading news bulletins and front pages over the past 24 hours is the story of Molly Russell a 14-year-old who took her own life after extensive exposure to images and videos of self-harm on…

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How Call The Midwife became a global hit

BBC sounds music Radio podcasts, this is the media show from BBC Radio 4 know that one of my New Year's resolutions is to ensure that any reference we make on the show to Netflix is tempered by a reminder that watching live on good old Terrestrial TV is still more popular than streaming in this co…

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Wednesday 23 January 2019, AM

Virgin Radio bosses on Evans breakfast show

The radio Today programme with broadcast bionics innovative solutions for creative radio people Stuart Clarkson coming up shortly by Marty will be here to look at the big stories of the week including news of Barras new classical music station to Scala radio with Simon Mayo and we'll hear later fr…

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Monday 21 January 2019, AM

#28 - BBC3 move postponed, Adblock Plus - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

Welcome to the media podcast I'm only man on today's show BBC3 won't move online until next year. It's controller says but with the trust not reporting back until the autumn are they jumping the gun a course in Germany rules against newspapers in a case on ad blocking software yes, it's part 76 of…

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#27 - Seiken’s legacy, Periscope up... Snapchat down - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

Welcome to the media podcast I'm Olly Murs on today's show Jason Secombe exits the Telegraph Victoria derbyshire's new shows starting this week. I catch up with the launch editor Louisa Compton on moving from live Radio 2 Live telecast election coverage update talk of YouTube's new monthly subscri…

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#26 - What is Top Gear’s future? - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

Welcome to the media podcast I'm falling on today. So it's the end of the Affair as Jeremy Clarkson leaves the BBC where will it go as the UK general election campaign gets underway Paxman this is the broadcasters have been terrible negotiators. Is he right plus. There's a new editor of The Guardi…

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#25B - Radio Days Europe 2015 - The Media Podcast with Paul Robinson

Hello and welcome to a special edition of the media podcast coming to you from radiodays Europe in Milan Italy I'm Paul Robinson the annual Festival for the radio industry is now in its sixth year and post delegates from across 32 European nations and about another 30 or 2 countries worldwide with…

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#25 - Clarkson’s third strike, British Press Awards - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

Welcome to the media podcast I'm Ollie man on today's show Clarkson Clarkson Clarkson also on the show is the chair of the BBC Trust pulling the plug on the BBC Trust at the British press Awards we discuss the winners and losers Snapchat how did genital sharing app get to be worth 15 billion dolla…

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#24B - John Waite on presenting - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

Hello and welcome to another bonus edition of the media podcast this week marks the end of the long-running Radio 4 Series face the fact that consumer investigations show which has been on the air since the mid eighties and was presented by John Wade and he just happened to be talking about his cr…

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#24 - Oborne vs The Telegraph, Radio Academy changes and Guardian hustings - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

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#23B - BBC World Service's Owain Rich on Drones - Media Podcast with Olly Mann

Hello and welcome to another bonus edition of the media podcast we're back with a proper show next week, but in the meantime take a listen to this Owen reach Innovations producer with the BBC World Service he spoke to the media podcast about his particular area of expertise drones those little min…

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#23 - Premier League rights, ITV ratings, radio listening figures - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

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#22B - Do We Get The Press We Deserve? Matt Kelly - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

Hello and welcome to this bonus edition of the media podcast who we're back with a proper show next week, but in the meantime we wanted to play you something we found really interesting it's an event called do we get the press we deserve the night was hosted by Miranda Sawyer. Is it was in the lat…

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#22 - The Future of News, Radio Academy woes, Page 3 - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

Welcome to the media podcast I'm only man on today's show the future of news as the BBC ones of bleak times ahead for the world service without more funding whilst Emily Bell thinks that journalists and editors should be working more closely with their social media teams the Radio Academy faces a …

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#21 - Charlie Hebdo coverage, TV Debates, UTV sales - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

Bonjour je suis Charlie and welcome to the media podcast on today's show 5 million copies printed and counting Charlie episodes grief stricken start producing issue their colleagues would be proud of we talk about the media coverage of this complicated story plus tv, leadership debate. Will they h…

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#20 - Predictions 2015 - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

Happy New Year folks and welcome to this new year edition of the media podcast I'm only man on today's programme. It's our 2015 predictions special we talk to those in the know about their expectations for the year ahead in media and yes will hold others to account for what they said would happen …

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#19 - Sony’s PR Disaster, Serial breaks records - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

Welcome to the media podcast I'm only man on today's show Sony cancelled their North Korea comedy after being hacked and then those terror threat will ask our resident PR Guru what they can do to get back on the front foot will react to the end of serial the podcast that broke download records Cha…

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#18 EXTRA - Women in Film and Television Awards 2014 - The Media Podcast with Helen Zaltzman

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#18 - Kids TV tax breaks, Times profit shocker - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

Welcome to the media podcast I'm Holly on today's show a welcome tax break for live-action shows on kids TV Vodafone looking to Splash the cash but can it keep BT advert cost of time terms of profit for the first year since 2001 and as the Guardian prepares his annual top 100 we speculate on some …

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#17 - Dapper Laughs, Fake Sheik, Julia Davis at Breakfast - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann

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