New #RAJAR data is out today! Lots of stories including: - Good quarter for the BBC as Commercial Radio dips - BBC starts to measure brands - Great quarter for 6 Music & LBC - Disappointing for Global and Bauer - Record digital listening Read about it on my blog: www.adambowie.com/blog/2026/05...

One of the things about bringing photo-ID to a polling station is that you might accidentally leave it there. I found a passport in the booth in my polling station. Handed it in to the staff and hopefully it will get back to the owner. As they said, "We literally have his name and address..."

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I feel that I would get halfway decent at wrapping bar tape on my handlebars if I didn't just do it once every six months or so.

Lee Dixon wondering on ITV how commentators are going to fill three minute drinks breaks. He's on ITV. Has he not been watching the 6 Nations? They'll show ads.

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

It's 2026. The #BAFTAS will *still* not be live on TV, meaning social media will have the results before TV viewers.

There's new RAJAR today, and over on my blog I dig into a bit including: - Radio listening down but still > 1b hours - Hours up for sports stations: 5 Live and talkSport - Greatest Hits down - LBC doing well - 28% of the population listen to podcasts More over at www.adambowie.com/blog/2026/02...

Wasn't this always going to happen? Music rights owners Universal is part of NBC Universal, who are also the broadcast rights holders to the Olympics in the US. Also, Minions 3 is out this summer, so this all becomes free publicity. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...

I love #shrinking, but I wish they would lay off the f1.0 lens. There's "shallow depth of field," and then there's "everything else in the scene is a complete blur"

Netflix launches a reality singing contest show with live voting as an element. Just maybe don't expect many Europeans to participate...

Sometimes you just have to let @lopatto.bsky.social say it out loud www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

Global really is leaning into podcasts heavily. Following their acquisition of The Fellas Studios last year, and the launch of Global Studios, they've followed this up with a majority stake in The Overlap: global.com/global-acqui...

It's Christmas Eve, and as usual, I've put together my picks of the festive fare from the double issue of The Radio Times. www.adambowie.com/blog/2025/12...

Astonishing story of a DAB radio service having its IP transmission stream hijacked by its own streaming vendor to broadcast obscenities instead of the radio output for *30* mins! Seemingly, because of a contract dispute between the vendor & another mux provider! www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...

Very sad to hear that Brian Hayes has died. I grew up listening to him on LBC. RIP. radiotoday.co.uk/2025/11/form...

Play-offs??? It's early December, not April.

Genuinely don't understand Netflix's interface choices. I open it up today, and the show they're giving top billing on my account is an 10 year old BBC crime show that got cancelled after one series called Cuffs. I'm pretty sure that's not the biggest show they have on right now...

When is too much? By my count Deadline has published at least *18* stories about Stranger Things in the past week, with 10 of them in the last 24 hours.

Ironically, I couldn't even check Down Detector to see if Cloudflare was down, because it uses Cloudflare! (I think it is)

Mutes *ALL* notifications from a major sports app because I couldn't care less about UFC and can see no other way to stop the deluge of spam notifications.

New #RAJAR is out, and I've been number crunching: - 50m/86% of UK listen to the radio weekly - Gap widens between Commercial Radio and the BBC - Overall falls for speech radio - Global extends lead over Bauer - 28.3% of the population listen to podcasts each week www.adambowie.com/blog/2025/10...

An email subject header from Netflix: "Adam, we've just added a documentary series you might like" Ooh. A science doc perhaps? Or natural history? Maybe a hard hitting doc on the misuse of technology or the dangers of social media? <Opens email> "Victoria Beckham" Hard pass.

This Galatasaray crowd is quite something to listen to in Dolby Atmos when Liverpool is on the ball!

The episode of 3-2-1 that @itvx.com has put up as part of its 70th birthday celebrations is the very first episode, featuring the late radio presenter, Janice Long.

How thoroughly delightful that @boomradio.co.uk had Pete Murray on-air this morning to present the Boom Top 5 this morning on the occasion of his 100th birthday! It's available to listen again here: www.boomradiouk.com/player/on-de...

Someone incredibly famous dies, and the live blog kicks into play at lots of media outlets. They need to fill it quickly with tributes. But it takes a while before those the person worked closely with or was peers with put out a statement or a quote. 1/3

Seeing that massive TDK and behind the runners in the #Worldathleticschampionships 100m heats does make me want to rush out and buy a D90...

A massive US Army Chinook just passed overhead. I assume it's part of an advance party for next week's State visit.

Always fun to read a press release with a single quote attributed to three separate people. (I mean, we all *know* a PR person wrote all the lines for everyone, but still...)

If Piers Morgan's YouTube show "Uncensored" is going to channel 5 here in the UK, where it will have to adhere to Ofcom guidelines, does that in fact mean that it will be "Censored"? deadline.com/2025/09/pier...

You just know that Netflix is working on this right now. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis...

I've got around to examining the latest @edisonresearch.bsky.social podcast rankings for the UK, and in particular, tracking them over time. Over on my blog there's a handy interactive chart showing how the Top 25 titles have performed over time. www.adambowie.com/blog/2025/09...

At this point betting adverts are going completely over my head. I literally have no idea what they're talking about and I have no intention of Googling to find out.

Cracking review of The Terminal List: Dark Wolf. "There’s a general mismatch in “Dark Wolf” between the deft subtlety of a good spy yarn and the brawny machismo of the might-makes-right war pornography this show wants to be... ...Le Carré this isn’t." variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

Apple is distributing its streaming radio stations like Apple Music 1 on TuneIn! Zane Lowe mentioned in a recent Insta post that he'd just moved into their new studios, which did remind me that Apple's radio offering is incredibly hidden. This should unhide it a bit: www.wsj.com/business/med...

I am overly fascinated by the state of sports TV rights in general, and specifically in the UK. At the start of the football season, I've taken a quick look at which channels have what sports, and the streamers in particular. It's mostly from a UK perspective: www.adambowie.com/blog/2025/08...

Why shooting the statistical messenger doesn't add up... on.ft.com/3HerQaC

Who is buying these things? Is this what the publishing industry has come to? (And yes, that *is* a Taylor Swift "activity book" just behind, alongside the BTS bookazine)

Great moments in podcast advertising #1: The UK ad I heard dropped into a US podcast that sounded like it had been mastered as a 32k MP3. Serious phone-call quality audio vibes. It was clearly recorded properly but something went wrong in the chain and nobody cared enough to spot the issue.

£68 pa to listen to the radio in your car!

There's new data from @edisonresearch.bsky.social with the Top 25 UK podcasts for Q1 2025. As ever, I've been digging into it a bit: www.adambowie.com/blog/2025/05... Look for more UK podcast research released in the coming days #PodcastShow2025

Advertising "brand safety" is an interesting concept. For example, going directly from an ultra violent gangster show straight into an ad for an FMCG brand without any kind of interstitial. Technically it's also a mess: music cues cut off like the most inept editing of a film on commercial TV.

New RAJAR is out today. Here's my summary including: * Strong results for speech radio including Radio 4 and 5 Live * Great results for Heart, talkSPORT and Times Radio * Kiss recovery * Greatest Hits Radio dips For all this and more, head over to my blog: www.adambowie.com/blog/2025/05...

You've got a new podcast coming out. A press release is published and gets picked up. A YouTube trailer goes live. The first episode is due in a couple of weeks. But have you published a trailer? Can I "subscribe" or "follow" anywhere? Kind of useless if I can't...

I love this story. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Good to know that a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, party speakers were very much the thing. Lots of bass, flashing lights and no Bluetooth cutting out. They also fly! @reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz #andor #vergecast

Very irritating to listen to a top 20 podcast title where the dynamic ad placement spot has not been accurately positioned. It suggests lack of care and attention to the podcast.

Now someone tell the New York Times that it's the "National Theatre" and *not* the "National Theater" I could rest easy...

A remake of Threads? (Just a note to the Deadline reporter that the original was a TV film, so this story has already had "the small screen treatment") deadline.com/2025/04/thre...