I read recently that Bauer Radio have applied to Ofcom to network their three existing Kiss FM licences, creating a national service (www.mediaweek.co.uk). It would mean local content on the Greater London, East Anglia and Severn Estuary stations would disappear and the service would become available on more DAB multiplexes across the country potentially giving access to 4 million people across the UK.

Digital Radio UK continues to insist that everything in the digital radio switchover arena is ticking along nicely, whilst oblivious to the fact that the majority of radio listeners simply could not care less about DAB. The headlines for all radio listening via platforms in Q3 2010 were:

· Analogue radio’s share of listening up from 67.0% to 67.6% quarter-on quarter
· Digital radio’s share of listening up from 24.6% to 24.8% quarter-on-quarter
· DAB radio’s share of listening down from 15.8% to 15.3% quarter-on-quarter.

It is clear to see that the quarter on quarter decrease of 0.5% percentage points perfectly illustrates radio listeners are not as engaged as we once thought in DAB. Consequently I fail to see the benefit of removing locally produced programming for nationally produced content. After all, this makes it harder for advertisers to have the “truthful dialogue” with an audience in a language they understand, spoken by local name they know and trust to have local interests at heart.

It will be interesting to see what Ofcom decide.

I am not ashamed to admit, I am “telly Addict”. I recently read that Big Brother (BB) bosses have announced that a live internet feed is to return for fans from the 9th of June, but at a cost. Last year channel 4 dropped the usual 24-hour streaming so devotees were only able to monitor the show on TV. For those early adopters who have embraced the sky+ revolution, this meant thousands of us up and down the country were able to fit in spying on our beloved big brother house mates in our own time. Never missing out key moments such as when In the first series of Big Brother. The scandalous moment in the shows history when ‘Nasty’ Nick Bateman was kicked out because he had influenced nominations. TV history …. needless to say, I was one of these Big brother obsessives watching religously! However in recent years I have felt that the show has began to lose its spark!

Channel4 decision to “milk” as much as possible out of the last series is understandable but may lead to the BB brand becoing commoditised. Making it no different than, Im a celebrity get me out of here. If fans forked out for daily, weekly or whole-series passes.Channel 4 said charges would go towards covering the increased costs of providing the service. Streaming will cost 49p by the day, £1.99 for a week or £14.99 for the entire 13-week series at the official site www.channel4.com/bigbrother. This will be a real financial test of our obsession with around the clock surveillance? Given this will be the last ever series on channel4, who can actually blame them.