Better with pictures ?

I blogged about the online "visualisation" of the Radio 1 Chart Show this last weekend, but sadly, wasn't able to watch. And I can't "catch-up" with it - which seems odd, but is presumably a BBC decision taken with a view to the sensitivities of commercial competitors on tv and radio.

Here are the views of two people who managed to get online. Lecturer and music radio whiz Andrew Dubber, who's positive. For all the talk of ‘visualising radio’ that’s been going on in the academic world of Radio Studies for the past decade, this is the first project that draws on elements of television production, but uses the web on its own terms, and makes what is unarguably ‘radio’ out of it.

And Chiino Stoppard, of Musicovered, who's pretty withering.  Radio 1 put on a show which every Internet user could have made themselves. We tried it afterwards too – four Google Chrome tabs open: one streaming the radio; another with YouTube open (ready to search for the song in question); one with Wikipedia running (ready to find facts on the artists); and a final one with a picture of Reggie in it. We enjoyed ours more, to be honest.


Meanwhile a correspondent reminds me that the first UK attempt at "radiovision" was actually conducted by BBC Scotland in 1980, when tv cameras were put into the Good Morning Scotland studios, and the output was simulcast on BBC1 Scotland transmitters.  The verdict, apparently: “deadly”.