All We Need Is Radio Rajar
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Adam gets out his hoofer-doofer (everyone else calls it a remote control) and starts flicking through the media landscape in search of answers for why no-one is watching or listening to the stuff they were just a few years ago.
Legendary disc jockeys Tony Blackburn and Shaun Keaveny give their take on the latest Rajar ratings which show a steep decline in listening to traditional networks like Radio 2 and Radio 4.
And Danny Cohen, former boss of BBC television, and Helen Daly from the Radio Times talk through a new Ofcom report on what we’re now watching (clue: not so much terrestrial television, especially soaps).
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Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Tom Smithard with Miranda Slade and Chloe Desave. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, come and sit down with me on the virtual sofa |
| 0:08.9 | in my pretend newscast living room, |
| 0:11.8 | because today's entire episode is about how we consume media |
| 0:16.4 | and how our consumption habits are changing |
| 0:19.7 | because there's lots of data out today |
| 0:21.7 | that reveal all these little patterns |
| 0:24.0 | and some of the patterns are actually quite big. |
| 0:25.8 | And so we're gonna basically have an entire episode |
| 0:28.7 | of kind of channel hopping, |
| 0:29.9 | except nobody channel hops anymore. |
| 0:32.1 | You surf between different mediums, |
| 0:33.6 | whether it's your phone, your smart TV, your laptop, |
| 0:36.6 | your tablet, whatever. |
| 0:38.3 | So the first thing I'm gonna do though, |
| 0:39.8 | is grab the remote control, |
| 0:42.6 | which we used to call the Hooper Duffer |
| 0:44.3 | in the Fleming Household in the 80s. |
| 0:46.5 | And I'm going to turn on Netflix. |
| 0:49.2 | Yeah, Thursday saw the release of Heartstopper series two. |
| 1:00.4 | Now, if you didn't see series one, |
| 1:02.0 | this is a very, very cute romance set in a school |
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