Freeview’s HD service launched in December 2009, but it’s only now that the required set-top boxes are trickling onto the market. The first of the bunch of Freeview HD boxes to appear, as was reported recently by our podcast boys, is the Humax Fox-T2 Freeview HD box, pictured below. On the face of it, a [...]

Channel 4 has announced that it’s relationship with the US series Friends will come to an end next year. 4′s digital channel E4 has been showing two eps each night for the last six years, and it still draws a steady audience despite the show’s end in 2004. Channel 4′s Gill Hay said: “After 15 [...]

Spend any time watching rolling news services such as BBC News or Sky News? This little video clip from Charlie Brooker explains how it’s all put together. You’ll never look at another news item in the same way again! Be warned, the clip contains a couple of rude words… YouTube Clip : How to report [...]

A FrequencyCast gold star for the best use of ‘Plane Engrrish’ goes to Barnetts Solicitors, in Southport. One of our team moved house recently, and was persuaded to make use of this nationwide solicitors service, as opposed to using a trusty local firm of solicitors – all to save a few bucks. Apparently, you’re assigned [...]

Going back to my youth! Back in the 80′s, while my contemporaries were blowing up asteroids or shooting invaders from space, my game of choice was a Pac-Man clone called Ladybug. Ladybug was a maze-based game where the mission was to dash around eating crosses, hearts and letters (spell Extra for an extra life). The [...]

Friday the 3rd of April 2009 – a sad day for two London radio stations, Time 106.8 (serving South-East London and Greenwich) and South London Radio 107.3 (for Lewisham and Bromley), as they vanished from the airwaves. It’s a tough time for the UK commercial radio industry at the moment, and we’re sure that these [...]

OK, so I know it’s childish, but every day I look at this, I smirk. Viewing the Media Guardian RSS news feed on an iPhone results in a slightly embarrasing shortening, as pictured in this screenshot. I just had to share…

The clock is ticking for the UK commercial radio industry. Ad revenue is falling, the big players are struggling to make money, listening is down, digital’s not taken off, and big names have scaled back their plans for future radio services. That’s the bleak picture being painted by many, and at the recent Changing Media [...]

Did 2008 seem like a long year to you? Well, technically it was – one second longer in fact. Today, we use atomic clocks to provide an accurate measurement of time, but the clocks are so accurate that they’re more reliable than the rotation of the earth – the traditional measurement we use for hours, [...]

Every now and then, you see something to put a smile on your face. Our podcast producer has a small child in the family, so their home’s Sky+ box is full of a mixture of kid’s and grown-ups content. Imagine, as they say, our surprise, when the on-screen guide for Five’s “Make Way for Noddy” [...]