Announcement Category

Want a better way of getting Internet on the move? How about carrying your own wi-fi hotspot in your pocket? 3 has just launched MiFi, their mobile wi-fi modem service. Get a Mi-Fi modem for a one-off £70, and use it as a portable wi-fi 802.11 access point. The modem is a combined 3G data [...]

The FrequencyCast News Blog (wot you’re reading now!), is now iPhone, iPod Touch and Google Android compatible. Here’s a before-and-after on how our Blog behaves on an iPhone: FrequencyCast on an iPhone – Before FrequencyCast on an iPhone – After Our blog now detects if you’re connecting on an iPhone, Touch or Android device, and [...]

Something of a milestone for us here at FrequencyCast, so we had to shout about it. Today, for the first time, we entered the Top Five in the iTunes chart for Tech News Podcasts. If you filter out the video podcasts, we’re number three! Link: iTunes Tech News Chart

Envirofone, Fonebank, Mazuma Mobile? They’ll all offer you cash if you return a dusty old mobile phone that you no longer need – but how can you get the best price? Now, there’s a handy dandy online price comparison checker for mobile phone recycling. Enter your make and model, and the service checks who’ll pay [...]

News just in on the Setanta saga. Setanta has today failed to make the required £30 million payment to the English Premier League, and accordingly, the Premier League has terminated the agreement This means that Setanta’s 1.2million UK customer won’t be able to watch the 46 Premier League matches planned for the upcoming 2009/2010 football [...]

The US digital TV switchover is now complete, and the transition seemed to be a smooth one. The switch was delayed from the original February 2009 date, but finally went ahead on Friday the 12th of June, and 900 TV stations turned off analogue. There are still a few rural services running on analogue. According [...]

There’s been lots of breaking news since the last full-length show at the start of June, so we’ve just released a short audio update. In the update, Carl and Pete cover the following: Setanta close to collapse, changes to DAB, the new iPhone 3GS, iPhone OS 3.0, Sky on the X-Box, and rise of the [...]

FrequencyCast Update - 10th June 2009 [ 14:28 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In 2008, a number of national DAB radio stations vanished, due to cost cutting measures. To fill the void left by speech station Oneword, a 20 minute loop of birdsong took to the air, delighting many and being a welcome and relaxing breath of fresh air. Yesterday, the 1st of June – Radio Birdsong was [...]

A quick shout out to all of today’s towel carriers. Today is Towel Day, celebrated the world over. FrequencyCast extends the towel of friendship to all men, women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. Share and Enjoy, froods…

Just to let you know, our site’s had a little bit of a makeover. Nothing too radical, but by popular demand, we’ve re-ordered a few things and hopefully made navigatation a little easier… Share and Enjoy!

The second round of local radio station re-brands have taken place. From 23rd March 2009, another group of Global Radio owned radio stations will lose their local name, and become part of their “Heart” brand. The first round of Heart re-brands was in January this year, and now we’re seeing the following stations vanish in [...]

This week sees the start of a new comedy series with local radio as it’s theme. “FM” stars Chris O’Dowd from The IT Crowd. He plays on-air presenter Lindsay Carol, star of Skin FM, a London Indie station. Other characters include rival presenters, the station’s producer, plus the token dizzy receptionist and techy Station Engineer. [...]

We’ve been releasing FrequencyCast, the UK TV and Tech podcast, since 2006, and we’ve been hoping to make it into the list of Top Ten shows since we started. For the top ten, we rely on iTunes, which is the leading podcast distribution method. We’re listed in the ‘Tech News’ category, and we see our [...]

Proposed Video-on-Demand service, codenamed Project Kangaroo, has been blocked from launching in the UK by the Competition Commission. Kangaroo was a joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 to launch a huge back-catalogue of their shows on demand, meaning that users could get content in one place, without the need for separate applications [...]

This month marks the 20th anniversary of satellite broadcasting the UK. Rupert Murdoch’s Sky television service started on 5 February 1989. At launch, just 4 channels were available, with that number now over 500. Sky merged with rival BSB (remember the squarial?) in 1990, and now has over 9 million customers in the UK Over [...]

Lots of changes to the Freeview lineup: Supercasino – Gaming (available now) CNN – 9pm to 1am only, starts January 15th Dave+1 Timeshift – on Freeview from January 22nd Coming soon to Freeview we can expect Quest (from the Discovery Channel), Rocks & Co Jewellery, and the Russia Today news channel.

If you’ve not already voted in the European podcast awards, you only have a few days left to cast your vote. If you want to vote for FrequencyCast, click on the link below… Thanks everyone… Carl & Pete

October 2008 sees Blue Peter hit its 50 year anniversary, and everyone has a special memory of TV’s longest-running kid’s programme. To celebrate this anniversary, there’s a new book just out looking at the series’ history and classic moments. We’ll be reviewing this in Show 32 of our podcast, so take a listen. The book [...]

We’re trying out a new listener survey – Please tell us what you think of our shows at http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/limesurvey/admin/admin.php?sid=41369

The Sony Reader’s now been reviewed by the FrequencyCast boys. Find out what our tech team thinks of this new innovation in bookreading by listening to our 19 minute review. See pics, and download our Unofficial Guide to the Sony Reader at http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/ebookreaders.html

Sony Reader Audio Review [ 19:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download