Matt Deegan
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Netflix UK weekly reach: 36%
Channel 4 weekly reach: 60%
Netflix debt: £11.8bn
C4 debt: £0
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This deer's been working hard on the drum bit from Phil Collins' In The Air Tonight. Well done son.
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Trump trying to get Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on the phone was crying out for the Veep treatment.
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How crazy are your SEO and revenue targets to mean your team have to write 44 articles about Meghan and Harry in 24hrs
@lizhazelton
?
This is what industrial-scale hatemongering looks like.
All the stories below attacking Meghan (mainly) and Harry (quite a bit) appeared on the Express website within the last 24H.
44 bile-filled rants in just one day. That's a pace of 16,000 attacks a year.
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These are the radio things I love. Here's Olivia Colman volunteering as a listener to prank Paul Rudd on
@gregjames
' excellent breakfast show.
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As it's the last
@bbuk
tonight, some of my own best bits! This is the montage from Season 3, an amazing series and characters including Jade Goody,
@katelawler
,
@adeleroberts
and
@AlisonHammond2
#bbuk
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Duelling concerts.
@Harry_Styles
(at 7.47am) confirmed for
@capitalofficial
's Summertime Ball on June 12th and (at 7.55am) confirmed for
@bbcr1
's Big Weekend on May 29th.
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I dread to think how much work had to be done to 'let' Radio 1 go off-air without various backups kicking in.
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@CaseyNewton
Hasn't he closed the office till Monday? Can anyone get upstairs? Maybe it's a new test.
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Zoe's 1st breakfast show, Boris on LBC, Steve Coogan as a Capital guest, Radio X stunt rebrand to Radio Grohl, Simon Mayo hints at being on a new station launch, Rag & Bone Man on Kiss, Mark Goodier starts his Greatest Hits Radio show... it's good to work in radio at the moment!
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If tomorrow you're writing a "how much BBC talent are paid" story, pop your salary in too, so we can judge whether you're worth it as well.
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New blog post: Colon cancer really is a pain in the arse:
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@gregjames
@RobGibbons_
@neilgibbons
I think what I like the most is the taking off of the glasses and the lean back. THAT'S the most Partridge bit.
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I've always found linking to podcasts a bit of a faff. Which link should you put etc? So, me and
@pintofbeer
have built . It creates magic links that send iOS people to Apple Pods, Android folk to Google Pods and desktop to your website.
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Simon Mayo leaving R2 (but staying at 5Live), Jo Whiley back to 7pm to 9pm, so they'll be a new Drivetime host. Odds that Sara Cox (post-Breakfast decision) had been promised the next daytime shift that comes up? I'd say pretty high!
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Honoured to receive a fellowship from the
@radioacademy
yesterday at their Festival. It's lovely to be recognised by your peers - and also odd to hear a living eulogy about yourself too! Great to be recognised alongside three other great radio folk:
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The number of people who listen to these radio breakfast shows just AT HOME, on a Monday morning:
R4 - 4.3m
R2 - 3.4m
R1 - 986k
5 Live - 897k
Heart - 955k
Smooth - 785k
and taken together, UK local commercial radio: 4.9m
BREAKFAST TV RATINGS UPDATE:
Mon, Feb 29, 2016 (day
@mrdanwalker
joined
@BBCBreakfast
):
BBC: 1.6m viewers, 40% share.
GMB: 578k, 15% share.
Mon, Dec 3, 2018:
BBC: 1.4m 39% share.
GMB: 736k, 21.8% share.
Thanks Dan!!
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I was depressed enough listening to
@BBCr4today
until I heard a promo for a doc on mantlepieces. All those unsuccessful doc pitches I've made they should have just said "it's fine, but it's just not mantlepieces".
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We measure Fun Kids just in London (because RAJAR doesn't include our core audience, under 10s). For 10+ though, great to see our highest ever reach - 105k (bigger than Hits Radio, Kerrang, talkSPORT2, The Arrow, Scala, Virgin's spin-off's etc in the capital). Well done team!
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Pre-mobiles, Kofi (whilst UN SG) rang the payphone in my halls of residence to speak to a friend (her Dad worked with him) to wish her a Happy Birthday. Phone answered by a randomer, he said it was 'Uncle Kofi', so he trotted off to get my mate, assuming a relatives on the phone.
Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary-general who won the Nobel Peace Prize for humanitarian work, dies aged 80
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A new C4 owner will need to make money. This will come from... Reduced content budget, a smaller team, producing its own programmes, owning the IP of its commissions, make more populist shows and less specialist ones. Not sure how any of that will benefit us, the current owner.
Breaking.
Channel 4 internal email from Alex Mahon says Government will announce proposal to privatise the broadcaster.
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More media mastery by
@achrisevans
. He uses a One Show appearance to announce his Virgin Radio start date (21st Jan) and that the new show won't have spot ads - just a commercial partnership with Sky. Already generating impacts, on the Beeb no less, for his new sponsor! VT below.
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It's nice with all the new things happening in radio, that some things don't change. Like the over excited face and pointing at a microphone launch pic.
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My Dad Wrote A Porno shows the value in going big to 'launch' a new season. It's a good way of reminding old listeners but also attracting new ones. The Apple Podcast Top 200 episode chart currently has over 60 (of their 80) episodes listed.
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Just listening to a podcast where there's a chat about whether guests/hosts need to wear headphones. IF YOU WORE THEN MAYBE YOU WOULDN'T SOUND SO OFF MIC.
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We've had a busy morning launching eight new Fun Kids radio stations, including Fun Kids Classical with help from
@lang_lang
!
RadioToday article:
Times article:
...and have a listen at
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Very sad that the Government has ended it's financial support of the Audio Content Fund (and the Young Audiences Content Fund). Both massively delivered on their aims, and another snub to public service broadcasting.
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GB News say they are "the UK's number one news radio station in prime time": .
Obviously, it is not. Picking 'average audience' is an odd one (that does get closest to making their point). But it's still inaccurate.
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Pleased that we've managed to add the
@funkids
Stuck at Home podcast to
@bbcsounds
. I think it's the first time an active commercial radio podcast has appeared on the platform. Thanks to
@wallj10
and the BBC team.
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Phew. A festival based British Podcast Awards. Done. Amazing work by so many people. Proper thank-yous to follow. But for now, well done to all the winners!
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Just hopped on a busy tube and a man chose not to get on and wait for the next. He was reading a paper. The doors closed. He didn't notice that one end was caught in the door. As the train pulled away, his paper got taken from his hands. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen.
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A quick departure suggests a new competitive gig. With rumours last year that Roman's off from Capital, could we see Jordan's appearance in Leicester Square? It would be a good choice!
BBC Radio 1 Drive co-host Jordan North is leaving the station and will be replaced by Jamie Laing...
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Listening to podcasts in the car a lot over Christmas, loads of pro shows with variable levels and Zoom echos (why does a producer let a host record in the, mentioned, kitchen?). More noticeable in the car than headphones, and so easy to fix in the edit. So frustrating.
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My Facebook friends rule is "would we drive each other to the airport?" Too harsh?
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I made an over the top "do you want my headphones" for an over loud laptop video watcher on the train. He said YES. I had to give up my headphones and then make a point by rejecting him giving me them back saying "keep them so as not to disturb others". It was a hollow victory.
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A year since this brilliant day. It hasn't been the year we expected, but over the moon I got to spend it with
@AnnabelCNN
.
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The tech-op was on the ball though.
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Anybody interested if I do a RAJAR livestream tomorrow to talk about the ups and downs?
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Congratulations to all at
@funkids
, what a great success for such a small passionate about team.
🏆And the award for UK Station or Network of the Year…
GOLD -
@bbcasiannetwork
SILVER -
@talkSPORT
BRONZE -
@funkids
#UKARIAS
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This is refreshing to watch, current affairs, with all the format and sheen chopped off.
What is s***posting?
@BBCLauraK
explains to
#Brexitcast
and
@AmolRajan
on why it matters...
Listen 🎧
Watch 📺
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New podcast rule: Anyone that tweets excitement over an Apple Podcasts position should also be made to tweet that week's actual download numbers too.
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That's a little microphone.
.
@ClassicFM
’s two exclusive programmes with HRH The Prince of Wales – A Royal Appointment - will be broadcast this
#BankHolidayMonday
& Tuesday, from 8-10pm. For full details, please head to |
@ClarenceHouse
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I generally find that the RAJAR blogs are improved by rocking in from the pub with an hour to go to write it.
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Here are all the naughty words Ofcom tested in their offensive language research...
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An offer of some words for the Wireless Group's RAJAR press release: "Just like concrete, talkRADIO's listeners have been growing".
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There's always a tweet...
@Mick_Bailey
Hi Mick, although there are exemptions for work purposes, you must not have a work Christmas lunch or party, where that is a primarily social activity and is not otherwise permitted by the rules in your tier. You can find more information here: Thanks
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With schools shutting, we're launching a new daily podcast for primary school kids - Stuck At Home - as our presenters, too, are Stuck at Home!
Subscribe:
Listen:
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New newsletter post: Your Radio Station Bores Me (puts on hard hat):
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Having heard some of
@KemCetinay
's stories - I think this is going to be lots of fun.
8 celebrities think they can run from me for 14 days. Fools. I'm about to prove them all wrong.
#CelebrityHunted
for
@StandUp2C
starts Tuesday 16th October on
@Channel4
.
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New Parks and Rec season's taken a different direction.
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Congratulations to my talented girlfriend
@AnnabelCNN
for her three Emmy news nominations for Amanpour, the CNN show she's the Editor of. Having listened to how hard she works in lockdown, from the kitchen (!), it's great to see that rewarded!
#NewsEmmys
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The new Scala Radio has updated their name on DAB to have a space before Scala, putting them at the top of an A to Z list. The start of the great DAB space wars or a fat finger at Arqiva's radiodesk?
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We're launching a children's podcast network - the Fun Kids Podcast Network - today. Read all about it:
Podnews:
Broadcast:
The Times:
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I'll tell you what, hearing about the government falling apart on a Caribbean beach with a cocktail is pretty good.
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Find out about Ken hitting 3 million listeners, and Radio 2 losing 1 million in my RAJAR Q2/23 blog post:
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Finished! It was a monster. As were lots of people at the Post Office!
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Well, one thing I'll say about the new Honey G song, it's only 2m43sec.
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In niche radio news, Asda FM now only plays non-copyright music (to save on PPL/PRS costs). The staff are not happy:
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Congrats to talkSPORT on bagging Jeff Stelling. It does mean though it's now the only station where you need a spreadsheet to work out who's presenting breakfast!
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Happy RAJAR day! Here's a round-up of what I've noticed and what I think it means!
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I find a lot of radio studio video is so static that it all looks quite clinical. This though, is tightly cropped, has movement when Ricky moves, good lighting, nice depth of field. All can be seen as minor stuff, but together it does make it more watchable.
"Did you warm your balls up on the radiator?"
@rickygervais
joined us tonight to preview
#AfterLife3
which arrives tomorrow morning on
@NetflixUK
.
@RichieFirth
naturally asked all the big questions...
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Coming up a small pause, where Chris Whitty will do the National Lottery numbers.
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Last night's
@britpodawards
were a huge success thanks to the work of so many people. Thanks to
@Createsoho
for event production,
@CarverPR
for PR and looking after our guests,
@joshdivney
for so much video work and
@imjamesbarr
,
@Kobestarr
and
@ppm
for amazing social media.
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12 years ago
@jamescridland
and I did the first Next Radio conference. We did it to remove the things that annoyed us about other radio events. It may now not be going, but it's easy to see the influence it had on other events - a worthwhile, and fun, side project.
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Some people think that young listeners will 'grow into' radio. They're wrong. The average hours you listen to radio at 15, is pretty much what you listen to later in life. The green boxes trace listeners as they get older - the average hours stay remarkably resilient! Zoom in!
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The Kate news is pretty similar to my own cancer story. Finding something and seeing it isn't definitely on the move, but useful to have preventative chemo. Chemo not fun, affecting but not full-on debilitating (no hair issues for most now too). But a not very fun 3 or 6 months!
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Busy day!
🏆 Just announced the
@britpodawards
for 2021
🎧 Launched a new conference
@podcastday24
🥂 ...and more importantly, just exchanged on the new house!
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I guess all of their loo roll requests finally came in from head office.
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