That Peter Crouch Podcast etc
Huth was mentioned in the first episode of BBC's "That People Crouch Podcast". I have now listened to a few of them and while there is definitely an element of the obnoxious they are surprisingly amusing and informative in places. They are also warm in a way because of his openness as a character. This has been my first venture into the podcast phenomenon, much against my better nature. My second was LBC's "The Nick Abbot Habit" which - and I don't know if I am surprised - I didn't especially enjoy.
Looking at BBC Sounds in the round, what I am seeing is something of a grey area between podcasts and radio programmes/programme features. At times, podcasts are simply another way of catching up on what was on the radio. I'm not sure if this means the BBC is buying into it all on the cheap. Mostly it is football. Overwhelmingly it is football. And sometimes it is just absent. I couldn't even find the podcast extension of Jo Good's regular hour about dogs on BBC Radio London entitled "The Barking Hour".
Susanna Dinnage - and the FA
The mouthpiece that is Simon Jordan who went to school just up the road from me before becoming a multi millionaire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Jordan - was given the best part of half an hour on Talksport this morning to give his thoughts on Susanna Dinnage deciding not to becoming Chief Executive of the FA after all. This is something of a public relations embarrassment for the FA - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46718143 - at least until they have found someone suitable.
A few weird pronunciations - in-NOV-ative etc - and some oblique structure of business references aside, this turned out to be well informed and educational. One point is that the person who does accept the role will have among many issues to tackle the objective of ending the era of football being merely an SME. Yes, you did hear that right. There is apparently nowhere near enough money in the game. An example is Man Utd's £800m which pales into insignificance compared with say IMEX/films.
Premier League Television etc
Premier League Television to be promoted across and throughout the globe would be along Netflix lines and such would be the number of subscription fees that the salaries of players will substantially increase in an almost limitless way. Personally, I find that frightening. The line is once it has been achieved - and the road to that is not necessarily easy - the cost of tickets into grounds could be lower for domestic supporters. But the plain fact is that they will be like gold dust in terms of any availability.
Huth was mentioned in the first episode of BBC's "That People Crouch Podcast". I have now listened to a few of them and while there is definitely an element of the obnoxious they are surprisingly amusing and informative in places. They are also warm in a way because of his openness as a character. This has been my first venture into the podcast phenomenon, much against my better nature. My second was LBC's "The Nick Abbot Habit" which - and I don't know if I am surprised - I didn't especially enjoy.
Looking at BBC Sounds in the round, what I am seeing is something of a grey area between podcasts and radio programmes/programme features. At times, podcasts are simply another way of catching up on what was on the radio. I'm not sure if this means the BBC is buying into it all on the cheap. Mostly it is football. Overwhelmingly it is football. And sometimes it is just absent. I couldn't even find the podcast extension of Jo Good's regular hour about dogs on BBC Radio London entitled "The Barking Hour".
Susanna Dinnage - and the FA
The mouthpiece that is Simon Jordan who went to school just up the road from me before becoming a multi millionaire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Jordan - was given the best part of half an hour on Talksport this morning to give his thoughts on Susanna Dinnage deciding not to becoming Chief Executive of the FA after all. This is something of a public relations embarrassment for the FA - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46718143 - at least until they have found someone suitable.
A few weird pronunciations - in-NOV-ative etc - and some oblique structure of business references aside, this turned out to be well informed and educational. One point is that the person who does accept the role will have among many issues to tackle the objective of ending the era of football being merely an SME. Yes, you did hear that right. There is apparently nowhere near enough money in the game. An example is Man Utd's £800m which pales into insignificance compared with say IMEX/films.
Premier League Television etc
Premier League Television to be promoted across and throughout the globe would be along Netflix lines and such would be the number of subscription fees that the salaries of players will substantially increase in an almost limitless way. Personally, I find that frightening. The line is once it has been achieved - and the road to that is not necessarily easy - the cost of tickets into grounds could be lower for domestic supporters. But the plain fact is that they will be like gold dust in terms of any availability.
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