Richard Berry – Page 4 – Radio & Podcast Academic

16th November 2014

Is Serial a defining moment?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock without access to the internet, you will have already heard about the podcast Serial. A much-hyped spin off of the already successful This American Life, Serial has generated interest like no other podcast I think of since the early days of Ricky Gervais almost 10 years ago. Here’s a quick precis if you...

Podcasts

29th May 2014

Future radio’s will not care

The topic of what radio is, and what it will be in the future has popped up a few times in my Twitter feed recently. It seems that there’s mixed views on what that future is. At a recent conference in Asia Commercial Radio Australia CEO Joan Warner told an audience that radio’s future was as hybrid. This echoes many opinion formers...

Media/Radio

17th December 2013

The path to digital is not straight

Yesterday the Culture Secretary, Ed Vaisey, made his long-awaited statement on the proposed Digital Switchover date (or switch-off) for Radio… the upshot of which was, there isn’t one. This is what most us expected him to say. The idea that turning off analogue radio any time soon is absurd and has been a worry for many for a long time....

Media

15th July 2013

It’s all about the service

My better half and myself decided we wanted to have a meal out yesterday. We had been talking about going to a specific chain (which I won’t mention, but it’s red) and so wandered in. The place was empty, I mean like totally empty. No customers. No staff. We stood there for a while, took that as a sign and...

General

7th July 2013

The final edits

I’ve just been making the final edits to a conference paper on visualising radio. I think it’s one of those cases where the 15 minutes allocated is not enough. At one point I had over 20 minutes worth of material, that I’ve cut, re-cut and re-edited down. There are so many things to talk about. The key things I’ve picked...

Media