Radio 3.0
A seven o鈥檆lock flight from Glasgow this morning got me to London in time for the start of the Conference, organised by Broadcast magazine. One of the first speakers was Bob Shennan, former Controller of 主播大秀 Radio Five Live and who is now in charge of Channel 4 Radio. Everyone wanted to know more about , but he was giving little away other than that he believed there should be more to public service radio than just the 主播大秀.
In the tea-break he came over for a quick word and told me that the one thing he had taken with him from the 主播大秀 is the need to ensure that his new station reflected the whole of the U.K. including Scotland. That should be good news for the independent producers working here.
The rest of the conference was interesting but there was very little that was new.
A panel discussion on the future of DAB radio tended to rehearse the familiar arguments for and against. Trevor Dann, from the radio academy, was keen to stay neutral on the subject and argued that content was more important than technology. He got one of the biggest laughs of the day when he described the media habits of London girls and how they wanted information about Hollywood celebrities as well as the location of local drug dealers.
In another session we heard about the new generation of digital radios which will combine DAB with FM and also WiFi internet. Sounds ideal.
I had sympathy for one of the speakers who got himself into a fankle when talking about glasses that were either half-empty of half-full. He couldn鈥檛 make up his mind which one he meant and at one point said 鈥渓et鈥檚 be optimistic and look at the glass as half-empty.鈥
I not sure we heard much of what he said next as we tried to solve this riddle.
