To affiliate the agricultural community with Fourth Industrial Revolution (4th IR) challenges, taking immediate right steps for the imminent modifications within the manufacturing, control and ruling sectors and to welcome 4th IR, Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) prep…
Read moreCommunity Media: Digital Peoples’ Colloquium Shaping the Future of Media, Information and Entertainment inside the Era of Fourth Industrial Revolution
Strengthening the Community Radio Zone For Adapting Challenges Inside The Era Of The Fourth Industrial Revolution
We have entered in a new generation of technologies namely the fourth Industrial revolution (4thIR). This new technology of latest technologies advancements is merging our physical, digital and biological worlds unlike any time before. This is a large transformation for the arena consisting of …
Read moreBBC Local Radio - A personal view
I was eight. Shy. Nice short trousers and a braided jacket with badge. The poem was ‘the Great Fire of London’; and when BBC Radio Nottingham’s ‘Magic Microphone Club' visited our local infants school, I was called to the front to recite it into a huge microphone with a red foam pop shie…
Read moreWhat will the radio presenter in 2022 be doing?
Phil Riley at Orion Media does not believe in fortune telling, astrology and the like. Surprising really. Given he is a Gemini. But. If I put on my chiffon scarf and gaze into the crystal ball and look forward ten years; What do I see? I see a very different sort of radio presenter. Few would do…
Read moreHas Video Killed the Radio Star?
Forty years ago today, the Buggles released Video Killed the Radio Star . Since that unseasonably warm day in 1979, we’ve had to tolerate that miserable headline being wantonly applied by journalists to every minor bump in the road for our great medium. What’s really happened since 1979…
Read moreThe New Age of Audio
In my box of radio treasures lies a yellowing radio research diary from the ‘70s for Glasgow. Listeners were invited to note down their listening to Radios 1, 2, 3, 4 (Scotland), Clyde and Luxembourg. That’s as complicated as life got. No podcasting. And streaming was confined to dialling Dial-a-Di…
Read moreFarewell to Luxy's Bob Stewart
A generation knew his powerful voice instantly. It would vibrate the speakers on your hi-fi system as the Radio Luxembourg AM signal phased in and out. Despite the accent, ‘Baby’ Bob Stewart was born in Liverpool. After national service, he became a DJ at the suggestion of Pete Best, the original B…
Read moreHow Does the BBC Think It's Doing?
The BBC has published its third Annual Plan for the current Charter period, updating its strategy and setting out the work plan for the year. Below is a thumb-nail sketch of some of the contents as they apply to radio and audio. News There is much mention of the BBC’s responsibility with news at…
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