I'm not giving up radio anytime soon...
Kent Newsome pointed me this morning in the direction of a New York Times article on the demise of radio. Kent summarises that there are two underlying causes of the trend away from radio - alternative delivery models (online services, portable music players, mobile phones) and advertising. In passing I wonder if it's too late for a radio version of TiVo.
One thing that we have in the UK that makes for a different equation to the USA is the BBC. On the drive to work in the morning I tend not to like to listen to music and inane DJ's who sound like they've had a few too many happy injections just don't do it for me. Fortunately there is BBC Radio 4 and "The Today Programme", an intelligent news and current affairs programme for grown ups that examines the state of the nation (and the rest of the world) on a daily basis. As with all BBC programming, it's advertising free.
The Today Programme website now publishes an audio archive of the last seven days of transmissions and you can even get podcasts of key interviews.
Tags: Kent Newsome, radio, BBC, The Today Programme
One thing that we have in the UK that makes for a different equation to the USA is the BBC. On the drive to work in the morning I tend not to like to listen to music and inane DJ's who sound like they've had a few too many happy injections just don't do it for me. Fortunately there is BBC Radio 4 and "The Today Programme", an intelligent news and current affairs programme for grown ups that examines the state of the nation (and the rest of the world) on a daily basis. As with all BBC programming, it's advertising free.
The Today Programme website now publishes an audio archive of the last seven days of transmissions and you can even get podcasts of key interviews.
Tags: Kent Newsome, radio, BBC, The Today Programme
posted by Steve Newson at 9:15 AM
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