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The DJ who sings 'Revolution' to the counter-insurgents
From Media Guardian. Posted May 31 2008, 11.03pm
Beatles fan Mohammed Ahmed is a voice of peace amid war. David Smith met him in Baghdad (more)

Radio Prague considers the role of the radio in the modern age
From Media Network Weblog. Posted May 7 2008, 2.37pm
This year, Czech Radio is celebrating its 85th anniversary. A number of special commemorative events and broadcasts are being planned for the coming months. As an institution, Czech Radio has played its part in, and survived, two revolutions, as many major uprisings, and a world war. But could one of its biggest tests be, quite [...] (more)

Upward and onward for the Independent's revolutionary
From Media Guardian. Posted April 12 2008, 11.07pm
Stephen Brook finds Simon Kelner bullish as he prepares to vacate the editor's chair and become managing director of the hard-scrapping paper (more)

Why we need more than music
From Radio Today. Posted March 19 2008, 9.56pm
We all know that music alone is not enough to keep your listeners tuned in, and listening longer. International radio consultant Phil Dowse has explained more about what the four M's in Blue Revolution's latest radio industry ezine. (more)

Murdoch's revolutionary £350m presses
From Media Guardian. Posted March 17 2008, 11.55am
News International leave its Wapping presses at the end of April when its Broxbourne plant - the largest printing plant in the world and the jewel in the crown of its £650m print investment - comes fully online. By Stephen Brook (more)

SWR and TTP ?to revolutionise digital radio in Germany?
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 5 2008, 12.37pm
Geman public broadcaster Südwestrundfunk (SWR) has selected The Technology Partnership (TTP) to join the ‘Future Radio’ project which will trial innovative new visual interactive radio services in Germany. The ‘Future Radio’ project will start its first trial in Stuttgart this summer. SWR and TTP will present the aims of the ‘Future Radio’ project to broadcasters [...] (more)

Colombia: Air force destroys rebel radio network
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 22 2008, 10.43am
Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) Bogota, 21 February (Xinhua): A cocaine lab, a radio network and a base allegedly belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were destroyed in central Colombia, officials said Thursday. The Colombian Air Force (FAC) said it had bombed an area [...] (more)

The end for digital radio - or the start of a listening revolution?
From Media Guardian. Posted February 12 2008, 12.04am
Britain's biggest commercial group axes stations but rivals predict bright future (more)

Five's cultural revolution
From Media Guardian. Posted February 7 2008, 1.32pm
Channel Five's decision to drop its pioneering Tim Marlow art show highlights the change under way at the channel. By Maggie Brown (more)

Radio Message to U.S. Ships Might Have Been a "Prank"
From radio.about.com. Posted January 15 2008, 12.00am
In regard to that recent confrontation between a U.S. Navy convoy and Iranian Revolutionary Guard fast boats in the Strait of Hormuz, it appears a portion of the incident... (more)

French consider effects of Sarkozy TV revolution
From Financial Times. Posted January 9 2008, 11.03pm
France's media industry is digesting the impact of a proposed overhaul of public television that might bring unexpected benefits to French television, radio and publishing (more)

Blue Revolution Offer Free Christmas Shows
From Merry Media. Posted December 11 2007, 2.56pm
Blue Revolution are offering free holiday programming to radio stations for the festive period. The award-winning production and syndication company will offer two of it's flagship programmes without charge. . (more)

Free Xmas programmes on offer
From Radio Today. Posted December 10 2007, 9.22am
Blue Revolution is offering two, 2 hour-long programmes to fill gaps in your schedules this Christmas. Total 80s Christmas with Gary King and The Wolfman Jack Christmas Special are both available free of charge to all stations. (more)

Inside Track: Investigators’ web-first revolution
From Press Gazette. Posted November 6 2007, 12.00am
Computer Weekly executive editor Tony Collins, who last week won the digital journalist of the year title at Press Gazette’s Magazine Journalism Awards, believes web-first publishing is changing the work of investigative journalists. (more)

Murdoch defends Sky revolution and urges more competition
From Media Guardian. Posted November 2 2007, 11.43pm
· Comments follow rows with cable TV rival· Virgin Satellite broadcaster wins 83,000 new customers (more)

A revolution needed in Oldham
From Radio Today. Posted October 25 2007, 8.56pm
Whilst the groups are concentrating on how well their brands are doing in the latest audience figures, we thought we'd take time out to look around the local radio stations around the UK. Starting with a sorry story in Greater Manchester at The Revolution. (more)

The final countdown: Cumbrian town gets set to lead TV revolution
From Media Guardian. Posted October 16 2007, 1.00am
In the early hours tomorrow, the BBC2 analogue signal will disappear in Whitehaven. By Martin Wainwright and Owen Gibson. (more)

New law to meet TV revolution
From Financial Times. Posted September 14 2007, 2.28am
A series of inquiries into the future of digital TV and internet broadcasts will lead to a new communications act before Britain ditches its analogue signal in 2012 (more)

JK Rowling decision avoids media 'revolution'
From Hold the Front Page. Posted September 12 2007, 12.00am
Our legal expert looks at "test case" which could have seen a radical shift in British media culture (more)

Grade revolution lures back ITV audience
From The Scotsman. Posted August 4 2007, 11.43pm
ITV boss Michael Grade appears to be succeeding in his bid to rejuvenate the company, with media analysts predicting that this week's interim results will show further improvement both in audience figures and advertising revenue. (more)

Blue Revolution Launch New e-Zine
From Merry Media. Posted August 1 2007, 1.38am
Blue Revolution has announced the launch of a monthly e-Zine (electronic newsletter), which will be available free-of-charge to subscribers via their website bluerevolution.com.. (more)

Blue Revolution launches radio newsletter
From thenoise.co.uk. Posted July 31 2007, 7.46pm
Blue Revolution - the independent production company behind Gary King’s Totally 80s and Pat Sharp’s Weekend Vibe - has launched a new monthly e-newsletter for the radio industry. The magazine, which will be delivered as a PDF to subscribers, will feature articles tailored for radio programmers, consultants and sales execs. The first issue includes a piece from [...] (more)

The Revolution gets all clear
From Radio Today. Posted July 31 2007, 12.30pm
Oldham-based 96.2 The Revolution has been given the all-clear after a recent Content Sampling Report by Ofcom. The station was monitored for three days in June, and is operating within its recently changed Format, the regulator said today. (more)

Monthly radio e-zine launched
From Radio Today. Posted July 31 2007, 12.21pm
Production company Blue Revolution has launched an e-zine for the radio industry. The monthly publication will feature articles from industry consultants, experts and strategists, with content specifically targeted for radio programmers, producers and sales execs. (more)

Thompson warns of BBC revolution
From Media Guardian. Posted July 10 2007, 1.00am
5pm: BBC director general Mark Thompson has said the corporation must go through a 'revolution' to cut costs. By Leigh Holmwood. (more)

New York Award for Totally 80s
From Merry Media. Posted June 30 2007, 12.36pm
Blue Revolution programme 'Totally 80s With Gary King' has picked up an award at the 25th Annual New York Festival Of International Radio Programming & Promotion.. (more)

Totally 80s Nominated for Top Award
From Merry Media. Posted June 3 2007, 2.57pm
Blue Revolution have announced that 'Totally 80s With Gary King' has received an award-nomination at the annual New York Festival Of International Radio Programming for the second year running.. (more)

Nepal?s Radio Paschimanchal now owned by Maoist Party
From Media Network Weblog. Posted May 25 2007, 12.27pm
Aruna Rayamajhi likes to be known as a “revolutionary journalist” During the conflict in Nepal she was a radio reporter for the Maoists’ clandestine Radio Ganatantra. “My comrades carried guns, I carried a broadcast antenna in my hand and a transmitter in my backpack and went to scenes of battle to cover the news,” recalls [...] (more)

Bobbie Johnson on the BBC's attempt to lead the new media revolution
From Media Guardian. Posted May 14 2007, 1.00am
The BBC's attempt to lead the new media revolution has been fraught with controversy, delays and huge costs. By Bobbie Johnson. (more)

Europe?s digital revolution speeds up, finds new EU survey
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 27 2007, 2.01pm
Nearly 20% of European households buy bundled telecom packages, according to an EU-wide survey of 27,000 representative households published today. Almost 30% are now connected to the Internet via high-speed ‘broadband’ links and households increasingly use mobile phones as fixed lines become less popular. 17% of Europeans having a home Internet connection use it for [...] (more)

Zimbabwe?s News24 to launch by 18 April - minister
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 6 2007, 2.47pm
Zimbabwe’s Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu has said that the country’s new international shortwave radio station, News24, will start broadcasting before independence celebrations on 18 April. The new radio station will be based in Gweru, and should be available to audiences both in and outside Zimbabwe. “There will be a revolutionary development in the media. We should [...] (more)

Online revolution to transform news group's internet presence
From Hold the Front Page. Posted April 5 2007, 12.00am
New sites to launch on back of three tried and tested best-practice templates (more)

Al Gore brings DIY television 'revolution' to Britain
From Media Guardian. Posted March 13 2007, 12.00am
The former US vice-president has unveiled the UK version of his Current TV network. By Owen Gibson. (more)

Ethiopia: Voice of the Tigray Revolution on Web, shortwave
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 27 2007, 9.00am
BBC Monitoring observed radio Voice of the Tigray Revolution commencing their broadcast day at 0355 gmt on 26 February 2007, on their recently-adopted shortwave frequencies of 5980 and 9650 kHz. The transmission started with their call signal - five minutes of a repetitive melody played on a washint (Ethiopian flute) - followed by an identification announcement [...] (more)

Domino's sees e-revolution boost profits
From The Scotsman. Posted February 20 2007, 2.56pm
PIZZA delivery firm Domino's said growth in home broadband and digital TV had boosted profits. (more)

Internet to revolutionise TV in 5 years - Gates
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 29 2007, 2.52pm
The Internet is set to revolutionise television within five years, due to an explosion of online video content and the merging of PCs and TV sets, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Saturday. ”I’m stunned how people aren’t seeing that with TV, in five years from now, people will laugh at what we’ve had,” he told [...] (more)

IPTV and broadband video to be showcased at IBC2007
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 29 2007, 1.53pm
Recent improvements in compression technologies and bandwidth availability are set to revolutionise the way in which we consume broadcast content. Gartner has predicted that IPTV will reach 3.3 million homes in Western Europe this year and that this number will rise to 16.7 million in 2010, creating a £3 billion marketplace. In parallel, the public’s appetite [...] (more)

NDS And Dogan TV partner to ?revolutionize television? in Turkey
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 29 2007, 10.37am
Dogan TV, a subsidiary of Dogan Yayin Holding, and NDS, a majority owned subsidiary of News Corporation, have signed a wide-ranging technology agreement that they say will ”revolutionize television” in Turkey. It will enable Turkish consumers to access free-to-air and premium content without a monthly subscription. NDS will provide Dogan TV with its VideoGuard® conditional access (CA), MediaHighway™ middleware and [...] (more)

Showbiz Central Artist Drops On-Line Delivery
From Merry Media. Posted January 22 2007, 2.12pm
Blue Revolution’s range of ‘Showbiz Central Artist Drops’ are now available to purchase and download immediately at www.bluerevolution.com.. (more)

Rod Stewart launches Rock Radio
From Radio Today. Posted January 8 2007, 6.04pm
The newest brand for GMG Radio has been launched by pop and rock legend Rod Stewart. 96.3 Rock Radio is the new name for Q96 and serves nearly one million adults in Paisley and Renfrewshire. The first song played was Revolution by The Beatles. (more)

Comedy duo join The Revolution
From Radio Today. Posted December 20 2006, 6.05pm
Manchester funnymen Steve Coogan and John Thompson are reuniting for a one-off Christmas special on Oldham radio station The Revolution. The pair met at drama school and have been mates ever since, although they've not worked together, until now, for 10 years. (more)

'Mid West Mafia' and the Readers' Revolution
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted December 5 2006, 6.03pm
Journalism.co.uk hosted its first speaking event on Monday night - get a flavour of the debate here (more)

Channel 4 to put all programmes on internet in viewing revolution
From The Times. Posted November 16 2006, 12.00am
CHANNEL 4 unveiled plans to start selling its entire programme output over the internet from next month, creating a service that is expected to revolutionise viewing habits.... (more)

Journalism.co.uk to host Readers� Revolution talk
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted October 24 2006, 12.00pm
Panel discussion on the practical ways of involving and engaging your audience @ Imperial College, 18.30 hrs. Monday, 4 December - want to come along? (more)

Journalism.co.uk to host Readers' Revolution talk
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted October 24 2006, 11.04am
Panel discussion on the practical ways of involving and engaging your audience at Imperial College, 18.30 hrs. Monday, 4 December - want to come along? (more)

DAB gets a poor reception
From Media Guardian. Posted October 9 2006, 1.00am
Millions have been spent on the digital radio revolution but listeners still complain that the quality is poor. So what's wrong with the technology, asks Bobbie Johnson. (more)

'iPod oldies' join download revolution
From Media Guardian. Posted September 28 2006, 1.00am
11am: One in five classical music buyers pays to download music, including many consumers over 50, according to research. By Chris Tryhorn. (more)

Totally 80s With Gary King Award Nomination
From Merry Media. Posted September 21 2006, 12.56am
Totally 80s With Gary King, the weekly 2 hour show produced and syndicated by Blue Revolution, has been recognised by the committee at the New York Festivals Radio Programming and Production Awards.. (more)

Telegraph pm launches group’s digital revolution
From Press Gazette. Posted September 13 2006, 6.51pm
Telegraph Group this week launched stage one of its integrated journalism "revolution" by launching a daily "multimedia newspaper" downloadable for free each day from 4pm. (more)

The newsroom revolution (133 casualties - 54 of them journalists)
From The Independent. Posted September 10 2006, 12.00am
The finest publishing minds in the land, the world indeed, are wrestling with dilemmas, as indeed they should. (more)

Jobs to go as Telegraph reveals "digital revolution"
From Press Gazette. Posted September 4 2006, 2.10pm
The Telegraph Group has announced plans for further job cuts and a multi-million pound investment programme in technology and staff training. (more)

London battle could launch UK newspaper revolution
From Media Guardian. Posted August 31 2006, 1.00am
The launch of London Lite, a new free evening paper for the capital, threatens to have repercussions across the country. By Owen Gibson. (more)

Underground Radio™ revolutionizes subterranean emergency rescue capabilities
From Media Network Weblog. Posted August 7 2006, 3.41pm
Vital Alert Technologies Inc has signed two exclusive licence agreements with the Los Alamos National Laboratory for Underground Radio™, a technology that will provide Through-The-Earth Communication™ , (two-way voice and text) for first responders, rescue and security teams, underground miners and the public in critical emergency situations around the world. Underground Radio, originally developed by Los [...] (more)

New Pure DAB model launched
From Radio Today. Posted August 7 2006, 9.15am
Pure Digital has revealed details of the �lan RV40, an advanced portable DAB digital radio which brings a major evolution in features and performance to one of the best selling DAB radio designs ever. Part of PURE�s �lan range, the stylish graphite finish of �lan RV40 oozes class and comes with a host of functions designed to make our life easier, including PURE�s revolutionary ReVu� technology which enables listeners to pause and rewind live radio so they need never miss a track title or news update again. �lan RV40 owners can pause and rewind live radio for up to 30 minutes using the easy controls. (more)

New technology for BBC Locals
From Radio Today. Posted July 27 2006, 4.30pm
A pocket computer phone is set to revolutionise newsrooms and newsgathering across BBC Local Radio. Earlier this year BBC Radio Lincolnshire linked up with the Maastricht-based Technica del Arte to transform a pocket PC phone, the XDA, into a professional recording device capable of sending high quality sound down a mobile phone line or from a wi-fi spot. (more)

Broadcasting revolution or TV hell? Google launches its small screen vision of the future
From Media Guardian. Posted July 13 2006, 8.14am
Google launches its small screen vision of the future but critics fear a torrent of porn and violence. By Owen Gibson. (more)

BBC boss urges revolution in magazine reader insight
From Press Gazette. Posted July 13 2006, 12.00am
A revolution is needed in the UK magazine industry if titles are to retain readers, according to the managing director of BBC Magazines. (more)

Patient Podcasts from Kendal
From Radio Today. Posted July 7 2006, 12.15am
Not wanting to miss the boat, Kendal Hospital Radio in Cumbria have joined the podcast revolution and decided to put audio of interviews onto their website. Ex-patients and general visitors will now be able to visit the website download and listen to the podcasts. To launch the service, interviews recorded at the Holker Garden Festival 2006 will appear, with many more features to come during the year. Kendal Hospital Radio has the most advanced radio studios in Cumbria many of the visitors that visit our site are surprised how far advanced hospital radio has become over the last 5 years. (more)

Revolutionary Radio in Venezuela
From Media Network Weblog. Posted June 28 2006, 1.55pm
Merida is a city of 250,000 people in a beautiful Andean valley at the foot of Venezuela’s highest mountain, Pico Bolivar. It is the capital and commercial center of the mountainous state of Merida, population about 750,000. In March 2002 the mass media was utilised to create huge demonstrations in Caracas to demand that President Hugo Chavez [...] (more)

Revolution for Jono Coleman
From Radio Today. Posted May 16 2006, 10.45am
Production company Blue Revolution has entered in to an agreement with Australia's mcm entertainment to provide London-based studio facilities for mcm's weekly syndicated show 'My Generation'. The show is hosted by Jono Colemanand is broadcast on over 100 radio stations across Australia and highlights the music and events of a particular year, together with archive interviews from the mcm library. (more)

ITV1 missed the revolution, admits boss as he drops popular shows
From Media Guardian. Posted May 12 2006, 8.08am
ITV director of TV Simon Shaps last night admitted the broadcaster had neglected its main channel, arguing it needed to axe a string of popular but stale programmes to reinvigorate the schedule. By Owen Gibson. (more)

Sir John Tusa on Broadcasting
From The Independent. Posted May 8 2006, 12.00am
Mark Thompson, the BBC's director-general, doesn't sit around twiddling his fingers. A fortnight ago, he was the visionary and revolutionary, redefining the BBC's entire approach to the transmission of its programmes - sorry, that should read "to the delivery of its content". As he did so, he challenged - or even appeared to write off - old-style radio and television networks as mere "linear programming", the ones where you listen to one thing after another at a time when a controller decides you should. In its place, Thompson lauded the vision - or the necessity - of replacing linear programming with "on-demand distribution through a variety of platforms". Audiences increasingly listen to what they want, when they want, on whichever technological medium makes the programming available. (more)

Cartwright: Green revolution is needed to secure magazine future
From Press Gazette. Posted May 4 2006, 12.00am
A tax on covermounts is inevitable if magazine publishers ignore greater Government and consumer pressure to recycle, according to Hello! publishing director Sally Cartwright. (more)

Scottie set to Podcast
From Radio Today. Posted April 12 2006, 5.45pm
Scottie McClue is the most recent broadcaster to add his name to the podcasting revolution in addition to presenters such as Terry Wogan who also announced a Podcast this week. His legendary late night talk shows, which have for many years provided compulsive listening to audiences throughout the UK are now being broadcast on Scotland's Q96 and on the world wide web at q96.net Sunday to Thursday from 10pm. (more)

Scottie set to Pocast
From Radio Today. Posted April 12 2006, 4.30pm
Scottie McClue is the most recent broadcaster to add his name to the podcasting revolution in addition to presenters such as Terry Wogan who also announced a Podcast this week. His legendary late night talk shows, which have for many years provided compulsive listening to audiences throughout the UK are now being broadcast on Scotland's Q96 and on the world wide web at q96.net Sunday to Thursday from 10pm. (more)

Community challenge to commercial radio
From Media Guardian. Posted April 11 2006, 8.10am
In makeshift radio studios the length of the country, a quiet revolution is under way. By Laura Smith. (more)

BBC iMP service could "revolutionise broadcasting"
From Digital Spy. Posted April 6 2006, 8.57am
The BBC claims that its TV download service could "revolutionise" the broadcasting industry. (more)

Meet the Mail's online revolutionary
From The Independent. Posted March 27 2006, 12.00am
The day is not far off when the bust of Lord Northcliffe will look down across the vast atrium of the Associated Newspapers headquarters as staff traipse into work in trainers, jeans, sloppy T-shirts and even on skateboards. (more)

C4 bags first-look deal with Winterbottom's Revolution
From The Stage. Posted February 14 2006, 11.00am
Channel 4 has secured an exclusive, first-look agreement with the new television division of award-winning film director Michael Winterbottom and long term co-producer Andrew Eaton's production company Revolution Films. (more)

Xfm announce Manchester launch
From Radio Today. Posted January 30 2006, 11.15am
The date has been set for the launch of the Manchester's newest radio station. 97.7 Xfm will launch on March 15th 2006 and will feature an impressive line-up including Andy Rourke and Tony Wilson at weekends. The daytime line up includes Comedian Paul Tonkinson on breakfast and former-Rock FM jock Mark Kaye on afternoon drive. Clint Boon, who has been presenting the mid-morning show on The Revolution in Oldham will host the weekday evening show called Music:Response whilst former Galaxy 102 Breakfast jock Adam Cole will also form part of the line-up. (more)

No revolution yet, says ITV as it unveils new look
From Media Guardian. Posted January 10 2006, 7.28am
ITV cautioned against predicting the rapid demise of conventional broadcasting as it unveiled a new look for its four channels. By Dan Milmo. (more)

The church: Ads that keep the faith
From The Independent. Posted December 5 2005, 12.00am
Part adman, part aspiring rock star Chas Bayfield is a busy man. Fresh from collaborating with Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins on his forthcoming solo album, he has co-created a poster in which baby Jesus resembles a pint-sized revolutionary. It's the centrepiece for this year's Christmas campaign from the Churches Advertising Network which with interactive radio ads, SMS texting and a hellojesus.co.uk website is set to cause a stir. (more)

Radio enters a new golden age as digital use takes off
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
The digital revolution and the expansion of new ways of accessing information through the internet has given a huge boost to one of the older and more traditional forms of electronic media - the radio. (more)

Fortune favours the brave and the compact revolutionaries
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
Once a month, on ABC Day, the prophets of doom, iPods in hand, gather in a wireless hotspot to receive and listen to a podcast of the requiem for the newspaper. Their hymn sheets are the dense pages of the Audit Bureau of Circulation's monthly reportand, having studied them, they wail and bow down before the web, whence cometh their help, they believe. (more)

Clint Boon: My Life In Media
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
Clint Boon, 47, is a presenter on Xfm Manchester and a member of Madchester band Inspiral Carpets. He began his radio career on the Liverpool station Crash FM in 1995. He has since stood in for Terry Christian on Century FM in Manchester and spent a year at Revolution in his hometown Oldham. Since Xfm Manchester started in March 2006, he has hosted Music: Response from Monday to Thursday as well as Saturday evening show Boon Army. He is nominated for two Sony Awards: Music Broadcaster of the Year and The Specialist Music Programme Award. (more)