Category Archives: media

BASYS nostalgia fest

Posted on November 15, 2021 by blogmywiki

BASYS was a newsroom computer system used very widely in the 1980s and 90s by many radio and TV broadcasters: the BBC and ITN in the UK, CNN and NBC in the USA, the ABC in Australia and probably many … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC, computers, media, nostalgia, radio, TV | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

The Tower of Babel

Posted on July 24, 2021 by blogmywiki

Back in the 1990s, the BBC World Service had a newsroom computer system called EDiT. This was the World Service version of a system called BASYS which had a bit of an interesting past. It was widely used in TV … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC, gaming, nostalgia, radio | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Radio clock

Posted on April 14, 2020 by blogmywiki

BFH (Broadcasting From Home) is quite the thing these days, so I thought I’d make a web version of the clocks used in radio studios. These spell out the time in easy-to-read words, and remove the brain-gymnastics required to turn … Continue reading →

Posted in radio | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Podcasts: skip intro

Posted on September 22, 2019 by blogmywiki

Something occurred to me as I binge-listened to the excellent BBC World Service podcast 13 Minutes to the Moon. Podcast makers might want to consider changing the grammar, the format, after a podcast has been initially released – or change … Continue reading →

Posted in media, podcasts, radio | Tagged | Leave a comment

Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald

Posted on July 30, 2018 by blogmywiki

Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald (1980). 4th Estate Books, £8.99 It’s hard not think that I was destined to read, and indeed love, this book. Andy Miller recommended it to me saying he thought it would be right up my … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC, fiction, literature, radio | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment