Media Network Series Two

More interested in the iPhone Plus than the Apple Watch. Yes, they have solved some interface challenges by making a digital "winder...

Getting addicted to some of the great timelapse movies.

30 million of the 40 million registered users of the Spotify streaming music service never pay a cent. You could argue that they pay with...

This team took Go-Pros and a Canon camera to a place where few dare to tread. Pity the film just fades to black. A Making of would be i...

Great to hear the voices of John Brannigan, a Scottish radio propagation specialist, who was the perfect interviewee. He really knew his ...

One of a series of Media Network programmes that originated from the 1985 Expo in Tsuba, just North of Tokyo. I used the visit to the expo...

Radio Netherlands won't be getting access to 747 kHz. Things are going to plan for PA6FLD ham radio station operating from the new Fle...

Peter Horrocks, Director of the BBC World Service Group, today announced that he will be leaving the BBC in the new year. Peter Horr...

Radio imaging, especially on music stations, has become an art unto itself. Practiced by a lot of people, but only really understood by a f...

In 1985, we didn't know much about a new station that had gone on the air in Costa Rica, but was clearly targeting listeners in neigh...

I remember going on a coach trip to the BASF chemical factory in Ludwigshafen, Germany. We went to see why Chrome Dioxide cassette tape wa...

We delve into the Media Network archives to look back at the early days of commercial shortwave broadcasting from the United States. On O...

This was my first visit to Copenhagen when the radio and television production were in two separate houses in the downtown area of the ci...

The current tensions between Russia and Ukraine reminded me about the vast abandoned over-the-horizon radar system built near Chernobyl. It...

This film was made in 1960 and was republished by the Alexandra Palace Television Society who have preserved many old films about the BBC...

I feel that some of the documentaries from Vice News and Al Jazeera are well ahead of other international broadcasters in their coverage of...

In November 1999, we devoted an edition of the Media Network programme to recollections from listeners about the impact radio had on their ...

BBC Media Centre reminds us that on 26th August 2014, the BBC Monitoring Service will be 75 years old. Created in 1939 on the outset ...

I think CDAC , a cross disciplinary group that helps international disaster communications needs to examine a recent report put out b...