Matt Wade | Blog: Archive

Jun 26th

Jun 4th

Radio Presenters: Tools for reading stuff from the...

So with the ability to surf the web whilst on air in most studios I thought I would share some web-tools you can use which may make reading text from website easier to do whilst on air. Now of course plenty of people will say “well you should edit the text and make it more radio friendly” but sometimes you either can’t be bothered or you run out of time. So the first tool is...

Apr 2nd

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An audio report from the forthcoming BBC Superpower series about mobile internet phones in Nigeria. They decide who will be the ‘keeper of the phone’.

Feb 24th

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Audioboo.fm - useful tool for your radio station...

Ever since the ‘Radio At The Edge’ conference held by the Radio Academy I have been keeping an eye on Audioboo. Audioboo has been described as ‘blogging without typing’ and it enables you to upload a maximum of 5 minutes of audio and include a title, tag it and add a photo if you want. They announced at the conference some of their future plans and it seems things are...

Feb 15th

Using Wordpress to produce iPhone optimised...

I volunteer at Hospital Radio Chelmsford as I have since 1991 and recently they have released a new website and Facebook Fan Page to improve their online presence. This lead me onto helping them to create an iPhone oprtimised website to run in conjunction with the main site. I knew that the facility existed in wordpress to automatically format the page into a readable experience on the iPhone so...

Feb 5th

Jan 12th

Jan 10th

Happy New Year

So welcome to 2010. The BBC pronounciation unit says it should be called “twenty ten” so that is what I will stick to. I am in Cornwall as I write this with my wife and having a good new year. Unfortunately Abbey was ill yesterday and so we missed the main celebrations but is better today so have been for a walk around Newquay and just devoured a cream tea with the sunsetting on...

Jan 1st

Dec 24th

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Fantastic Video from Radio 1 about their listener’s day.

Dec 22nd

Myriad Tutorials online

The project I have been working on over the last few months with my friends at Psquared is now online. These are tutorial ‘how-to’ videos on their application. You can find them here and they will also be uploaded in time to my webpage here. From the start of 2010 I hope to begin tutorials on Autotrack, their music scheduling system. Hope you find them useful for your station.

Dec 19th

Psquared Learning Centre →

Dec 19th

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A video made at Radio 2 to moarn the passing of the Wogan Breakfast Show.

Dec 15th

Nov 27th

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The proposed UK Radio Player for BBC and Commercial Radio

Nov 19th

Radio at the Edge Write-up

This is the writeup I did for the Beeb on the Event I attended. I attended this event for the second year in a row and it is now in it’s third year. The idea is ‘What’s Next Now’ and it looks at the future of Radio. There were sessions covering Mobile Phone applications for listening to radio and participating in it, whether if starting up a digital only station you should...

Nov 17th

Radio at the Edge Conference

Tomorrow I am off to the Radio at the Edge conference in London which is being put on by the Radio Academy. I went last year and was impressed with the setup and discussions which took place and so am intrigued as to how this years will go. I shall report back. www.radioacademy.org

Nov 8th

Welcome to the Blog

Trying out Tumblr as a host for my website blog. I will be blogging and posting anything I have of interest to talk about. Enjoy - M

Nov 8th