Tag: broadcast

Planning A New Kind Of UK General Election Results Show – Can You Help?

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Tuesday’s announcement of a General Election in the UK for June 8th caught me a little by surprise and set off a riot of emotions. I tend not to talk about politics too much online, so many of the thoughts I had yesterday are mine, or for friends and family. But I’ll happily tell you my very first thought, because it’s one you can all help with. “I need to get behind a microphone to do the results show from 10pm on June 8th.” I’ve anchored a number of overnight election shows on community radio here in Edinburgh since 2010. These

The one lesson I learned that The Nightly Show needs to understand

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After the first year of hosting my daily chat show at the Edinburgh Fringe (which is still running thirteen years later), Brian Luff gave me one of the best pieces of advice I have had in my broadcast career. It went something like this: “I listened to the Fringe podcasts, but now I’ve met you I have to ask… why is the ‘you’ that I see in front of me not in the podcast? I want to spend time with that person.” You can have the latest names, the greatest guests, and the biggest world-changing ideas, but these will only get people

Does it Matter if a Million People all Listen at Once…

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Spotted all those “million” posts in the last week? Seems to be the season for shouting about mythical milestones. Relax though, because you don’t need to care about it. In case you missed the news, someone on Twitter reached a total of one million people following them. How relevant Is the question “how many is he following back?” For Ashton Kutcher (Mr Million) is his Twitter use a social network or a broadcast channel? Does it matter? Looking at my Twitter account I follow around 500 people – generally I’ll add people that respond to me, have been @’ed by