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Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards Nominees Announced… on Audioboo!
The nominations for the 2013 Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards were unveiled today by Denise Van Outen and Neil Fox from Magic – in a recording posted on Audioboo! The awards, now in their 18th year, are organised by RadioCentre, the industry body for commercial radio, and this year will also celebrate commercial radio’s 40th anniversary. [...]
Announcing the British Public Radio Awards
Our friends British Public Radio yesterday announced the BPR Awards – to celebrate great radio content produced outside of the BBC and commercial radio – so if you’re a student radio broadcaster – or maybe a community station, or maybe even a podcaster, submit your show now to be in with a chance of winning [...]
Welcoming Hear Hear to Audioboo!
Today marks the launch of a brand new political programme right here on Audioboo. Hear Hear is hosted by lobby correspondent Sean Dilley – and each week he’ll be looking at the week’s political news and gossip with a special guest. In the first edition, Sean is joined by Sky News’ Niall Paterson to talk about [...]
Sony Award Nominations
The 2013 nominees for the Sony Radio Academy Awards have now been announced, and we’re delighted that so many users of our platform have been recognised by the judges. Some of the categories are particularly fruitful for Audioboo users: For Breakfast Show Of The Year, in the 10 million plus listeners category Christian O’Connell from Absolute [...]
The BBC Listening Project Starts Today!
Today marks the start of the ambitious BBC Listening Project, which is being run in partnership with the British Library. The BBC are asking people up and down the country to share an intimate conversation with a close friend or relative, to help to build a unique picture of our lives today. Some of these [...]
The Great British Innovation Vote
This week Audioboo has helped launched an exciting news project – The Great British Innovation Vote: a quest to find the greatest British innovation of the last 100 years. Professor Stephen Hawking, who is shortlisted for two innovations himself, explained his support for the vote in a Boo, “I am passionate about British innovations. They’ve [...]
The RadioToday podcast joins Audioboo!
We’ve a new podcast joining Audioboo this week – Radio Today! Hosted by Trevor Dann, the programme will focus on all of the latest news from the radio industry. Trevor, former head of BBC Music Entertainment, now runs his own independent production company. He founded and hosted the Radio Academy’s RadioTalk podcast as part of [...]
Febooary Questions for the rest of the month
As you may know, February on Audioboo is FeBOOary! We’re encouraging our users to Boo every day on different topics Freedom Day USA Starting from Day 8 8: Nirvana Day. How do you find Inner Peace? 9: 1969 saw the first test flight of the Boeing 747. Do you travel further than your parents did? 10: Chinese [...]
RAJAR Figures – January 2013
A note on the RAJAR figures, from our Head of Content, Amanda Brown. We love listening at Audioboo and, being a touch techy, we like analytics as much as the next geek. So, we were excited to discover that some of our content partners at the BBC have done particularly well in this quarters RAJARS: [...]
Welcoming our new VI Channels to Audioboo
Guest Post from our Education Researcher Delores William Well finally all the planning, arranging and crying has at last come to fruition. My dream to see channels on Audioboo where VI users and sighted users can get together to have long term conversations and discussion are up and running- Hooray! First up we have Vip [...]