FrequencyCast – UK Tech Radio Show
The online radio show covering UK digital TV and technology
As we know, times are tough and money is tight. Due to falls in advertising revenue, many radio stations in the UK are suffering, and looking for novel ways of raising funds. Today, we’ve discovered a rather unusual approach being tried by community radio station Chorley FM, in Lancashire… The radio station launched in 2006,…
The UK RadioPlayer has today gone live. The service is intended to be a one-stop for listening to radio stations in the UK, and combines BBC and commercial radio stations on one platform. The RadioPlayer is free, and is a joint venture between the BBC, Global Radio, Absolute Radio, Guardian Media and the RadioCentre. An initial 150…
Our website of the day… The tech team at Absolute Radio has released a nifty site that allows the world to peek into the playlists of UK radio stations. Their site robot monitors the “Now Playing” information transmitted by radio stations, and uses this to work out the number of songs on a station’s playlist,…
As an experiment for December, we’re aiming to release a weekly show. Here’s the first – three news stories and a couple of letters. Pete and Carl have some unofficial fun in this 10 minute audio update.
Planet Rock, originally set to close a few months ago, has been saved, and is set to continue broadcasting on DAB digital radio. Entrepreneur Malcolm Bluemel has bought the station, with the backing of rock names Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath), Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), Gary Moore and Fish.
On the 31st January, the TV-over-DAB service, provided by BT Movio, was finally discontinued. Users of Virgin Mobile’s Lobster 700TV handset, the only UK handset to offer TV-over-DAB, are now greeted by the message “this channel is not currently broadcasting” when they try to tune to a telly station. The phone still works perfectly well…
Digital speech-based radio station OneWord is to shut down on 12th January 2008. The station started back in 2000. Owners UBC Media laid off staff back in December, and the station will fall silent in a couple of days. Another national station is also about to vanish – Music station Core, owned by GCap, is also set to…
If you’re a fan of the extra radio channels you can get on digital radio, note that there’s now a cheap way to get DAB in your car. Pure has brought out the Pure Highway. Requiring no special installation, it’s powered by the cigar lighter and sticks onto your windscreen like a satnav device and…
UK radio firm Revo has launched the world’s first ever combined DAB, FM receiver and Internet radio, that’s also ready for the new DAB+ standard. Called the Blik RadioStation, this can also stream your music from a PC or Mac using Wi-fi. The brick-shaped Blik is available now, offering offers well over 9,000 stations. The…