Many people who work in radio have degrees especially those working in radio journalism and management. University study in subjects such as communications, business and even media studies can offer a great academic grounding if you want to go all the way to the top in the radio industry. The best student radio stations…
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Mike Russell is a radio presenter, radio producer and the founder and director of Music Radio Creative. In addition to audio production Mike has a keen interest in internet marketing, social media and SEO. You can find Mike Russell on Google+.
Web | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedInSongs and sound effects can be heard but how do you enter them as text into a search engine or sound effects website? How to search for sounds…
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Mike Russell is a radio presenter, radio producer and the founder and director of Music Radio Creative. In addition to audio production Mike has a keen interest in internet marketing, social media and SEO. You can find Mike Russell on Google+.
Web | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedInThere’s a fine line between funny radio ads and annoying radio commercials. As radio is ‘theatre of the mind’ something that is funny to one person may not be so funny to the next. Here are five radio commercials that dance around the funny/annoying border. The more you hear an advert on the radio the more annoying it can become. Listen to funny radio adverts…
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Mike Russell is a radio presenter, radio producer and the founder and director of Music Radio Creative. In addition to audio production Mike has a keen interest in internet marketing, social media and SEO. You can find Mike Russell on Google+.
Web | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedInGeoff has been a long standing client of Music Radio Creative and is also in the running a record due to the amount of radio stations that syndicate his radio shows. Read more about Geoff Dorsett…
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Mike Russell is a radio presenter, radio producer and the founder and director of Music Radio Creative. In addition to audio production Mike has a keen interest in internet marketing, social media and SEO. You can find Mike Russell on Google+.
Web | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedInRadio automation software was slow to take off as most early systems operated using lossy audio compression codecs that had a bad effect on broadcast music and jingles. Then came the MP3 and everything changed as automated playout systems became a real reality. High quality audio and low memory usage is the ultimate audio dream for radio stations. The jingle cart machines disappeared, record decks went on the rubbish tip, CD players moved out of on air studios and hard discs came in to replace the old method of playing audio on the air. Radio automation software to download…
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Mike Russell is a radio presenter, radio producer and the founder and director of Music Radio Creative. In addition to audio production Mike has a keen interest in internet marketing, social media and SEO. You can find Mike Russell on Google+.
Web | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedInRadio stations use tag lines such as “more music variety” and a better “variety of music” but how can we be sure that their playlist really contains “music variety”? Now there’s a website that crunches the radio playlists of various big UK broadcasters and throws out a music variety percentage for each. Find out about the music variety on UK radio…
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Mike Russell is a radio presenter, radio producer and the founder and director of Music Radio Creative. In addition to audio production Mike has a keen interest in internet marketing, social media and SEO. You can find Mike Russell on Google+.
Web | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedInThere’s been snowfall on both sides of the Atlantic during the last couple of months and with more snow forecast where do people turn? Yes, that’s right, the radio! Snow jingles…
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Mike Russell is a radio presenter, radio producer and the founder and director of Music Radio Creative. In addition to audio production Mike has a keen interest in internet marketing, social media and SEO. You can find Mike Russell on Google+.
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Pirate radio station jingles
Pirate Radio Jingles
Pirate radio started up in the early 60s and by 1968 there were 21 pirate radio stations broadcasting in the UK. All of these stations were memorable for their catchy radio jingles. You could sing along to them and they’d put a smile on your face. Like the memorable Radio Caroline jingles along with the famous Caroline bell. Big L had a great themed jingle about London “that’s my home town”. Download pirate radio jingles…
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Mike Russell is a radio presenter, radio producer and the founder and director of Music Radio Creative. In addition to audio production Mike has a keen interest in internet marketing, social media and SEO. You can find Mike Russell on Google+.
Web | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedInHalloween Radio Stations
You may think Halloween is celebrated just once a year but that’s not so in the world of streaming internet radio. Take a listen to a selection of scary sounds of Halloween on radio stations and podcasts from around the net.
Scary Sounds on the radio
Listen to Mike Yunis with the VR2 Show. I’ve worked with Mike recently to produce some rock remembered style radio sweepers and IDs for the show. Today I was able to catch Mike’s Halloween special which starts with the theme to The Exorcist and a ghostly introduction to the show with a touch of reverb. There are some real Halloween classics in this show and fantastic entertainment between the tunes!
Also worth checking out, Halloweenradio.net claims to make you scream 365 days a year. I had a listen to their web stream yesterday and there was a good selection of creepy tunes of all different genres with a slight bias towards rock when I tuned in. Bobby “Boris” Pickett made an appearance with one of his tracks and not the one you’d imagine. It’s a refreshing change listening to Halloweenradio.net as you won’t hear the same old Halloween songs over and over again as you tend to on mainstream radio stations. There’s a request form on the website so you can get your favourite Halloween music on. It would be just perfect as the soundtrack to a spooky Halloween party at home.
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Mike Russell is a radio presenter, radio producer and the founder and director of Music Radio Creative. In addition to audio production Mike has a keen interest in internet marketing, social media and SEO. You can find Mike Russell on Google+.
Web | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedInBeat matching (also known as beat mixing) is the art of increasing or decreasing the BPM of one track to match another using pitch control or beat matching software. You can change the speed of any music track using a pitch control slider, found on many professional DJ beat matching CD decks, or using advanced audio editing software. How to beat match…
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Mike Russell is a radio presenter, radio producer and the founder and director of Music Radio Creative. In addition to audio production Mike has a keen interest in internet marketing, social media and SEO. You can find Mike Russell on Google+.
Web | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedInBBC Radio 1′s Essential Mix has this week reached the 500th DJ to be featured on the show. The 500th Essential Mix…
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Mike Russell is a radio presenter, radio producer and the founder and director of Music Radio Creative. In addition to audio production Mike has a keen interest in internet marketing, social media and SEO. You can find Mike Russell on Google+.
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Do you love music variety?
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Mike Russell is a radio presenter, radio producer and the founder and director of Music Radio Creative. In addition to audio production Mike has a keen interest in internet marketing, social media and SEO. You can find Mike Russell on Google+.
Web | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedInWhat will you send your loved one for Valentine’s Day?
Perhaps twelve red roses, a box of chocolates and a cuddly teddy bear? Valentine’s gift ideas…
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Mike Russell is a radio presenter, radio producer and the founder and director of Music Radio Creative. In addition to audio production Mike has a keen interest in internet marketing, social media and SEO. You can find Mike Russell on Google+.
Web | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedInI often get asked by customers “who is the voice over from the Britain’s Got Talent and X Factor reality TV shows?” and “can you do a voice over in the style of the X Factor voice over?” Who is that voice over man?…
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Mike Russell is a radio presenter, radio producer and the founder and director of Music Radio Creative. In addition to audio production Mike has a keen interest in internet marketing, social media and SEO. You can find Mike Russell on Google+.
Web | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedInThere are so many radio apps available to download for free and paid for. Out of all the many iPhone radio apps TuneIn Radio sits at the top of the iPhone radio app pile. More about TuneIn Radio…
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Mike Russell is a radio presenter, radio producer and the founder and director of Music Radio Creative. In addition to audio production Mike has a keen interest in internet marketing, social media and SEO. You can find Mike Russell on Google+.
Web | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedInMusic Radio Creative recently created a radio jingle for the Streaming Internet Radio Toolbar. Get an internet radio toolbar…
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Mike Russell is a radio presenter, radio producer and the founder and director of Music Radio Creative. In addition to audio production Mike has a keen interest in internet marketing, social media and SEO. You can find Mike Russell on Google+.
Web | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedInHave you ever found a website that is so good you’ve wanted to keep it all to yourself? This website falls under that category – an absolute must for all music radio presenters – it’s amazing! Looping music on the web…
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Mike Russell is a radio presenter, radio producer and the founder and director of Music Radio Creative. In addition to audio production Mike has a keen interest in internet marketing, social media and SEO. You can find Mike Russell on Google+.
Web | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedInPodcasting has been on the radar for around 7 years which has given the medium plenty of time to establish itself and produce some front running and award winning podcasts. Here’s my pick of the best podcasts right now that I recommend you subscribe to. They are full of great content, free to download and (most of all in my opinion) they have great podcast production qualities.
Podcasts with great production values
1. Internet Business Mastery with Sterling and Jay
I started listening to these guys last year and am now addicted to their content and have started listening to their archives between each new episode. Each podcast starts with a movie trailer voice over introduing a podcast that will help you to “take control, earn more money and start an internet business today”. Each segment is punctuated with radio sweeper style stabs introducing their “feature segment” and also the “quick tip” which comes towards the end. This podcast is full of tips on how to start and run your own internet business and I love the fact that the hosts are so genuine and honest in their delivery covering success along with failures. This podcast could easily be a weekly show on national talk radio and both Sterling and Jay clearly care about sound quality even though they are based in different parts of the United States they are able to link up each week and create audio that is a joy to listen to.
2. Answer Me This with Helen and Olly
If you live in the UK and haven’t seen this podcast trending at the top of the iTunes chart you may very well have been living under a rock. Helen and Olly have hosted this podcast for 5 years now (they recently celebrated with a set of special bicentennial bonanza shows) and each episode is packed full of jingles that the pair script and sing themselves. The podcast covers a wide variety of topics from tasteless t-shirts to female Beefeaters and is created around listeners calling in and leaving questions for Helen and Olly to answer. It’s an entertaining listen and full of great production values (like the producer that has a touch of reverb on his voice). Last year the podcast won a prestigious Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Internet Programme.
OK, so this one is a podcast of a traditional radio show broadcast on national UK radio station BBC Radio 1 but it is worthy of a mention as the presenter is only on air once a week between the hours of 9pm-10pm each Wednesday. I hadn’t heard much of Matt Edmondson until I attended the Next Radio conference in London in 2011 and now I can safely say that I can’t miss a single episode of this podcast. It’s a great way to catch up with the show as all the tunes are cut and just the juicy content is left in. Matt always records a special section for podcast listeners only in the middle and at the end which, as a podcast listener, makes me feel really special. Matt is a talented, funny and entertaining broadcaster and I recommend you hit subscribe to get his parodies, recycled celebrity interviews and clever sketches delivered to your ear buds each week. He’s a future Radio 1 breakfast show talent in the making in my opinion.
Subscribe to these three podcasts and I guarantee you’ll have a more inspired, informed and entertained year.
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Mike Russell is a radio presenter, radio producer and the founder and director of Music Radio Creative. In addition to audio production Mike has a keen interest in internet marketing, social media and SEO. You can find Mike Russell on Google+.
Web | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedInIt’s nearly Christmas and wherever you are in the world I’d like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We’ve had the opportunity to have worked on some exciting projects in 2011 and with brilliant creative minds too. I’m looking forward to what 2012 will bring.
2012 at Music Radio Creative
There are a few projects in the pipeline that you’ll hear more about in early 2012. Here are some of the goals that I’d like the team and I at Music Radio Creative to achieve in the New Year.
1. A regular podcast with helpful tips for radio hosts, DJs, podcasters and anyone who loves produced audio.
2. You’ve asked for more choice of voice on the website. In the last week we’ve launched a brand new female voice over on the Music Radio Creative website. We will be recruiting new voice over talent between now and early 2012 to appear on the website.
3. Do you run a blog or website about radio, DJing, podcasting, jingles or audio? We’ll be looking for more quality affiliates to work with in 2012 and can offer some great incentives for any person or business who’d like to team up.
4. Want to learn the secrets of radio imaging? Audio production has always been a closed trade with no formal qualifications specifically related to the production of voice overs and radio jingles. Starting in 2012 we’ll invite you to join us and learn the tricks of the trade.
5. Ever wondered if you could make money with your voice? We’ll soon offer a unique way to try your voice out in front of a massive marketplace and the best thing? You won’t have to part with a penny to try. All you’ll need is a good quality microphone and access to a high speed internet connection.
Let me know if there’s anything you’d really like to see from Music Radio Creative in 2012.
We’re Open This Christmas
I’d like to take this chance to thank you for your custom in 2011 and I look forward to working together in 2012 (perhaps on a fresh new sound?) In the meantime we’re open all over Christmas and New Year so place an order for new audio now and relax in the knowledge that we’ll be here to help you during this busy time in radio, DJing and broadcasting!
Happy Christmas!
Mike Russell and the team at Music Radio Creative
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Mike Russell is a radio presenter, radio producer and the founder and director of Music Radio Creative. In addition to audio production Mike has a keen interest in internet marketing, social media and SEO. You can find Mike Russell on Google+.
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