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Channel 4 turns off, drops out
Posted in Media, Branwell Johnson, Latest reporters' blogs October 10th, 2008 by Branwell Johnson
The commercial radio dream is over for Channel 4. The broadcaster has abandoned plans of becoming a major player and its decision to abandon the market also knocks the feet from under those championing of the struggling digital radio format.
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Tags Radio, Channel 4, 4Digital group, Nathalie Schwartz, GCap, DAB, Radiocentre
Radio groups need to clear fog over DAB
Posted in Media, Marketing, Digital, Latest reporters' blogs, Russell Parsons October 1st, 2008 by Russell Parsons
You could never say that DAB, or to give its less snappy full title Digital Audio Broadcasting, has been given a full chorus of unequivocal support from the commercial radio industry this year.
Will Goliath triumph over David?
Posted in Advertising, Media, Marketing, Latest reporters' blogs, Russell Parsons March 3rd, 2008 by Russell Parsons
So the dance continues, or is it a fight to the death? Global Radio’s latest knockback from GCap Media is the latest chapter in this modern day David and Goliath.
Tags GCap Media, Fru Hazlitt, Global Radio, DAB
The end of DAB is nowhere near nigh?
Posted in Media, Digital, Latest reporters' blogs, Russell Parsons February 12th, 2008 by Russell Parsons
For years it was an often expressed mantra that the future of radio was digital audio broadcasting (DAB). It is easy to believe, with DAB radio sales on the up and radio groups; commercial and publicly funded alike, throwing money at the format like it was a nailed-on success story.
Can Flemyng really help shoot up DAB sales?
Posted in Advertising, Digital, Oliver Milman, Latest reporters' blogs July 3rd, 2007 by Oliver Milman
Jason Flemyng, the actor rarely seen since the start and end of Guy Ritchie’s career in Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, is an interesting choice to front an advertising campaign urging us to buy DAB radios.
Tags DAB, Digital, Radio, Advertising
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