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Grant Goddard : radio blog: DAB in cars: the straw that will break digital radio switchover's back
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Grant Goddard : radio blog. Tuesday, 5 July 2011. DAB in cars: the straw that will break digital radio switchover's back. Speaking today at the Intellect conference in London, broadcasting Minister Ed Vaizey tried to assure. Us that digital radio switchover was still. 8220;on course”. To happen in the year twenty something or other:. Within hours, this news was misinterpreted by one online news source as Vaizey having said. No wonder the article went on to assert. 8220;the key driver to the take-up of th...
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Grant Goddard : radio blog: Government expenditure cutbacks clobber UK commercial radio
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Grant Goddard : radio blog. Thursday, 19 May 2011. Government expenditure cutbacks clobber UK commercial radio. As soon as the coalition government came to power in May 2010, it implemented Conservative Party policy to make substantial cutbacks to the amount of public money spent on government marketing campaigns. Commercial radio was hit the hardest because, more than any other medium, it had become increasingly dependent upon government expenditure on advertising airtime. Interviewed by BBC Radio Four,...
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Grant Goddard : radio blog: SPAIN: DAB enters the last chance saloon
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Grant Goddard : radio blog. Monday, 15 November 2010. SPAIN: DAB enters the last chance saloon. DAB radio in Spain has been a disaster, not least for those commercial broadcasters who invested in new technology and distribution contracts, but who have generated no additional listeners or revenues. 8220;Zero,”. Agustin Ruiz de Aguirre, technical director of Cadena SER. 8220;The audience is zero.”. He explained that a non-existent audience generates no revenues or profits because. 8220;I do not think analo...
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Grant Goddard : radio blog: SPAIN: DAB digital radio switched off in most of country
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Grant Goddard : radio blog. Friday, 15 July 2011. SPAIN: DAB digital radio switched off in most of country. A new law in Spain has reduced the coverage requirement of the country’s DAB radio transmissions from 50% to 20% of the population. From 10 June 2011, a new Royal Decree. Required that DAB broadcasts. 8220;must ensure a minimum coverage of 20% of the population,”. Replacing the 50% requirement that had been stipulated in legislation since 1999. As reported here in 2010 [see blog. This new legislati...
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Grant Goddard : radio blog: UK listening growth demonstrates radio's strengths in a multi-tasking world
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Grant Goddard : radio blog. Thursday, 4 August 2011. UK listening growth demonstrates radio's strengths in a multi-tasking world. The latest RAJAR ratings data for Q2 2011 demonstrate the continuing strength of the radio medium in recession Britain. Maybe if your TV or mobile subscriptions are having to be pruned, you turn to radio instead. In times of austerity, one of radio’s greatest attributes is that it appears to consumers to be available ‘free’ at the point-of-use. 8226; all podcasts. 8226; listen...
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Grant Goddard : radio blog: UK commercial radio sector revenues Q1 2011: local advertising hits 10-year low
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Grant Goddard : radio blog. Thursday, 28 July 2011. UK commercial radio sector revenues Q1 2011: local advertising hits 10-year low. Data published last week for 2011’s first quarter demonstrate that revenues of the UK commercial radio sector are still struggling to rebound from the previous two years’ ‘credit crunch.’. As has been suggested here previously [see blog. The strategy of the largest commercial radio owner, Global Radio, to transform its local stations into ‘national’ brands would...8226; the...
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Grant Goddard : radio blog: David vs Goliath: commercial radio spends £27 per hour on programmes, BBC Radio 2 spends £4,578
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Grant Goddard : radio blog. Saturday, 16 October 2010. David vs Goliath: commercial radio spends £27 per hour on programmes, BBC Radio 2 spends £4,578. There has been an abundance of fighting talk from the commercial radio sector in the press in recent weeks. Commercial radio seems determined to pick another fight with BBC Radios 1 and 2, two of the three most listened to radio stations in the UK. Guardian Media Group Radio. Chief executive Stuart Taylor. The press headlines affirmed:. Then, Global Radio...
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Grant Goddard : radio blog: UK commercial radio revenues Q3 2010: still no sign of "renewed growth"
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Grant Goddard : radio blog. Wednesday, 12 January 2011. UK commercial radio revenues Q3 2010: still no sign of "renewed growth". 2008 had been a bad year for commercial radio revenues, down 6% year-on-year. 2009 was a worse year, when revenues fell a further 10% year-on-year. So how is 2010 shaping up? Because commercial radio’s falling revenues are largely the result of structural decline, something that the ‘credit crunch’ of 2008/9 merely exacerbated. Adjusted for the impact of i...8220;the [commercia...
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Grant Goddard : radio blog: PORTUGAL: DAB digital radio switched off
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Grant Goddard : radio blog. Tuesday, 12 July 2011. PORTUGAL: DAB digital radio switched off. On 1 June 2011, Rádio e Televisão de Portugal [RTP], the state broadcaster in Portugal, instructed. Anacom, the national transmission provider, to switch off all DAB radio transmitters. RTP explained in a press statement that its decision was the outcome of budgetary constraints and the fact that no commercial broadcasters had agreed to broadcast on DAB. Additionally, it said that. To one Portuguese newspaper:.
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Grant Goddard : radio blog: When is a consultation not a consultation? When Ofcom consults about radio
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Grant Goddard : radio blog. Monday, 18 July 2011. When is a consultation not a consultation? When Ofcom consults about radio. Each of us has dozens of ‘consultations’ every day. You know the sort of thing. 'I’m going to the corner shop – anything you want? OK' However, if I came back with a cat rather than a chocolate bar, you would understandably be unhappy. That had not really been a consultation at all. In June 2011, an Ofcom consultation. 8220;Q6. Do you consider that there any other grounds on w...
