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Hello everyone. The start of a new month means a brand new shiny episode of FrequencyCast, your TV and Tech podcast. As ever, you set the agenda for the show – what you’d like us to cover, and what questions you want us to answer. Here’s a summary of what’s covered in the latest installment [...]

FrequencyCast Show 69: iPhone 4S, Siri and Printing [ 30:50 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We’ve just released FrequencyCast Show 65 – a bumper show covering lots of recent TV and Tech topics. There’s a lot covered in this show, and we hope you enjoy what we have to say. Here’s a summary of what Carl and Pete have to say: News Updates: Scotland Switch complete, mobile roaming fees reduced, [...]

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As we know, times are tough and money is tight. Due to falls in advertising revenue, many radio stations in the UK are suffering, and looking for novel ways of raising funds. Today, we’ve discovered a rather unusual approach being tried by community radio station Chorley FM, in Lancashire… The radio station launched in 2006, [...]

It’s the first of June, and being the first of the month, it’s time for a new show. FrequencyCast Show 64, has just been unleashed, and you’re free to download the show and have a listen. In this show, we have a lot to cover. Here’s a summary: News Updates: BBC Goes Full HD, Apple [...]

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It’s the first of the month, and time for a new show – FrequencyCast Show 62, for April 2011, is now available. Here’s a look at what we cover in this show: News Updates: Digital Switchover update, BBC local radio and Powerline adapter news Focus: The Internet is changing – A look at how IPv6 [...]

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The UK RadioPlayer has today gone live. The service is intended to be a one-stop for listening to radio stations in the UK, and combines BBC and commercial radio stations on one platform. The RadioPlayer is free, and is a joint venture between the BBC, Global Radio, Absolute Radio, Guardian Media and the RadioCentre. An initial 150 [...]

Fans of OAP, Old Alan Partridge, should note that the new series of webisodes (sponsored by Fosters), is back after a short break. Episode 7 is out now at www.fostersfunny.co.uk - and as well as being required viewing for Partridge fans, is also a must-watch for anyone who’s spent time working in local radio, like our Carl [...]

A new month.. a new show. FrequencyCast Show 57, for the 1st of November 2010, is out now. In our latest TV and Tech show, we cover the following: News Updates: BBC One HD, BT Vision Powerline Recall Focus: Seconds Generation Apple TV Hands-on: TomTom Go 1000 Sat Nav Your comments and questions on tablets, [...]

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Hot off the presses, an unexpected 10 minutes of Carl and Pete. We’ve just released a quick 10 minute update covering a few news snippets – the changes at Global Radio, a new TomTom sat nav, good news for T-Mobile and Orange users, plus new toys from Apple The 10 minute FrequencyCast Update is attached [...]

FrequencyCast Update 15 Sep 2010 [ 10:35 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

It looks like radio station BBC 6 Music is set to survive. Plans to close the music station were announced by BBC bosses in March, but today, the BBC Trust has announced that plans to shut the station are to be shelved, and the station will carry on. Not so lucky is BBC Asian Network, which [...]

Back in 2008, we reported that Global Radio were scrapping many of their local radio station brands to form a network of 33 statations all branded as Heart? Well,  that number is set to shrink to 15. Following recent rule-changes announced by regulators OfCom, Heart stations will be merged into what’s being called “Super Stations”, [...]

Today marks ninety years since the first ‘real’ radio broadcast in the UK. On the 15th of June 1920, one of the world’s most popular voices took to the microphone in Chelmsford, Essex and sang to the world using the Marconi system we now know as radio. Pete from FrequencyCast was at the celebrations to [...]

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Hot off the audio press, a brand new FrequencyCast – lots of hot news, a busy Focus, plus loads of your feedback. Here’s what we cover in FrequencyCast Show 52: News Updates: BBC1 HD, Freeview HD, DAB Amnesty and new iPhone. Focus: Getting more from your digital photos Hands-on: A tech-tech keep-fit bug Your comments [...]

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A reminder that today is “Towel Day“. We hope our listeners all have their towels or modified face flannels stowed in their satchels today. No idea what we’re talking about? Shame on you! A towel is probably the most handy thing you can own. “A man who can hitch the length and breadth of the [...]

Do you own an Internet radio set, such as one of the Pure, Revo or Roberts radios? You may be able to tune in to FrequencyCast. We now have a ShoutCast stream on FrequencyCast, which includes our current show, as well as a selection of recent Focus features. Internet radio receivers make use of a [...]

The first of the month means a new episode of your favourite TV and Tech Podcast. FrequencyCast Show 51 is a bumper edition, looking at the following topics: News Updates: New iPhone details leaked, 3D TV is here, HD news and HomePlug hassle. Focus: How the rushed-through Digital Economy Act affects you, TV, radio and the [...]

FrequencyCast Show 51 - The Digital Future [ 30:57 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

It seems that the writing is on the wall for the BBC’s alternative music station 6 Music, as well as the BBC Asian Network, and the services may vanish next year. Director General Mark Thompson announced the proposed closure as part of a strategy review released today. There will also be a cull of a [...]

As has been widely reported in the media in the last 24 hours, rumours are that the Beeb is considering axing digital music station 6 Music as well as the BBC Asian Network. According to the last audience survey, 6 Music pulls in 695,000 listeners a week (0.4% of all UK radio listening). Amongst those [...]

Our website of the day… The tech team at Absolute Radio has released a nifty site that allows the world to peek into the playlists of UK radio stations. Their site robot monitors the “Now Playing” information transmitted by radio stations, and uses this to work out the number of songs on a station’s playlist, [...]

American comedy TV series WKRP in Cincinnati is finally available in the UK. If you’re not familiar with the series, it was first shown in the late 1970s, and it’s a US sitcom based at a commercial AM radio station. The largely dysfunctional staff show how not to run a station – the first episode [...]