http://www.bengamblin.com Blog of Ben Gamblin http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/353/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2010-07-07/mis-information-over-the-digital-future-of-radio/ Today seems to be a day of negative digital radio news - and not necessarily entirely accurate news at that. Be warned, I'm going to ramble on for a bit. If you can't be bothered to read it all, I sum up my point at the end. An Open Letter to Rt. Hon. ... Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:49:35 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/352/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2010-07-05/long-live-6-music/ Following last weeks reports that BBC 6 Music had been given a stay of execution whilst further reviews are carried out; the BBC Trust announced its findings following the strategic review today. The news is good: "The Trust does not think a convin... Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:50:42 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/351/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2010-06-30/6-music-reprieve/ It looks as though the BBC Trust are granting 6 Music a 'stay of execution' whilst further reviews of the service are undertaken. This is good news. It means that the Trust are not simply going to rubber-stamp Thompson's proposal to close the station wh... Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:00:57 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/350/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2010-06-11/end-of-the-road-for-nme-radio/ Media Guardian reports today that digital radio station NME Radio will close in it's existing form on all platforms; Sky, Virgin Media, Freesat and DAB. The brand will continue solely as an online music stream. This is bad news for UK radio and DAB in p... Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:13:15 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/340/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2010-03-10/thompson-comments-on-6-music-closure/ Caroline Thompson, Chief Operating Officer at the BBC, has made comments about the closure of BBC 6 Music and changes to BBC 7. The Guardian report which details these comments is linked below, but I'm drawn to a few quotes from the article: "The a... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:36:09 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/337/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2010-03-02/the-end-for-6music/ The BBC has today announced cutbacks to it's services intended to save £600m which will be re-invested into programming and original content. The victims of these cutbacks are the radio stations 6 Music and the Asian Network along with a signific... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:55:59 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/321/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2009-06-21/further-deterioration-of-local-radio-the-end-of-essex-fm/ Tomorrow morning at 6am marks the official start of Heart Essex - the new name for the station formerly known as Essex FM, and Essex Radio before it. It's not just Essex FM that is disappearing. Local stations up and down the country are receiving the r... Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:10:59 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/320/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2009-06-17/death-knell-sounded-for-analogue-radio/ With the publication of Lord Carter's Digital Britain report comes the plan to switch off analogue radio by 2015. The plan is for FM stations to move to DAB vacating the VHF spectrum for ultra-local broadcast services. The MW spectrum would be vacated b... Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:44:43 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/55/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2004-10-31/chris-moyles-john-peel/ The clocks went back an hour today. It's when that happens you know Christmas really isn't that far off! It's 5:20 now and pretty much dark outside - this is what it's going to be like when I get home from work (Ok it's cloudy tonight so it might not be... Sun, 31 Oct 2004 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/52/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2004-10-16/galaxy-107-fitness/ Not much has been happening lately. Today I did my first show on Galaxy 107 - another station in Northern Ireland, but this one plays something a bit more modern than Magic 105. Today's show was voice tracked as probably most will be. Only problem reall... Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:00:00 +0000