Radio judges have it good: official

Some bleary eyed guys on the cyber jury came up to me at lunch. They've been working long hours for three days straight. Press and Outdoor have been pointing bar code scanners at ads in their thousands for 10 hours or more. On the other hand we've had about 4 or 5 hours a day of relaxed listening. And been done by around 3.30 both days. Tomorrow's the shortlist, which will likely be about 120 spots. And the great thing is everyone thinks we've got it tough.

Terry Savage, Cannes Chairman, reckons we've 'it's only a matter of time' before the radio competition takes off in a big way. So I guess our timing on this jury is pretty good. The work itself hasn't been too bad with some definite highlights along the way. Only heard three other entries from The Philippines so the rest must be in the other half of the jury. Fingers crossed a few of them make it through to tomorrow.

Big categories in the world's greatest medium: Fast food, travel and, um, sex shops. Favourite opening gambit: a phone rings to set off a dialog. Please don't do any jokes on automated answering machines either. Also big remaking famous songs in another musical genre. Actually this can work quite well. But leave the jaws soundtrack alone already.