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"
Image showing that the start time of Star Search is 0200 GMT
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...
I find it interesting that in the sports media sector, nobody seems to have deep enough pockets to get talent exclusively. The Overlap has a lot of Sky personalities, The Rest Is Football was built on then BBC personalities. Meanwhile Sky Sports/BBC Sport now has a massive crossover of presenters.
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.
So would I! That said, I've not watched Stranger Things since I bailed on it in the second season. So perhaps that's why they're not really bothering me with that?
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...
Lime's biggest problem is that so many are unfit to be on the road. And you can't properly report them as damaged. Santander does at least allow that. But completely agree on payment for that. Painful even with a UK card in the app. It feels like C London is completely overrun by Lime right now.
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.
Yes - mine is somewhere between here and China!
Murray did so much across British radio and sometimes television. From Radio Luxembourg, Top of the Pops, Juke Box Jury, one of the original Radio 1 presenters, then Radio 2, right through to LBC where I used to listen to him as a kid in the 80s.
Happy birthday!
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...
I understand why.
The news rolls on. Martin Scorsese & Dustin Hoffman will take their own time to respond. But finding random comic actors on X is just meaningless.
You may as well ask someone waiting at the bus stop who quite liked Butch and Sundance what they think. It's just as relevant.
3/3
So, the media outlet becomes slightly less discerning. A reality star who was unconnected with the famous person says something nice and it's reported. A newspaper columnist who also has no connection puts out something because they're extremely online. It's hoovered up and republished.
Why?
2/3
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...
