Radioland, with James Cridland - radio futurologist
A regular audio column with the most interesting news about radio's future. James is a radio futurologist - a writer, speaker and consultant concentrating on the effect that new platforms and technology are having on the radio business across the world. He has a website at https://james.cridland.net where you can subscribe to Radioland, his newsletter.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 5 minutes
- Episodes
- 206
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Better user interfaces in cars change radio listening
All the links and more here: https://james.crid.land/update/user-interface-car-radio
This was first published Oct 24
Careful what the numbers tell you
Link rot, RAJAR and the BBC's global numbers
Farewell All Access; congrats Kyle and Jackie O
What the world's first podcaster would do with radio
AI and radio
An audio version of my newsletter, at https://james.crid.land/update/ai-and-radio
Behind the scenes for radio visualisation at BBC Radio 5 Live
An audio version of my newsletter, at https://james.crid.land/update/5-live-nicky-visual
AM given reprieve; Long Wave to go away; radio on TV
An excerpt of a trip report
India tells phone manufacturers to get FM; and BBC local radio
AM radio's US defenders
All the links, and lots more, at https://james.crid.land/update/am-radio-us-defenders
Ken Bruce hits the air and Bauer hits its stride
Can your presenters publish to your website?
AM radio to disappear from more cars
Robot radio comes closer, with RadioGPT - but is it any good?
Links and more details over here: https://james.crid.land/update/radiogpt
CBC to turn off transmitters (but not yet)
Links! Text! Fun! At https://james.crid.land/update/cbc-radio-transmitters
BBC pulls its stations from Radioplayer, and the RAJAR figures
Links and more to read and listen to over here...
Ken Bruce leaving BBC Radio 2
Goodness me!
Links and more to read and listen to over here...
The big AM switchoff gathers pace
The UK continues its effective switch-off of the AM waveband. The station I knew as “Virgin 1215”, more latterly “Absolute Radio”, comes off AM this month in the UK. After working for Virgin for a nu…
Radio marketing, and the BBC, and other things
All the links and things are over here: https://james.crid.land/update/radio-marketing
This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:
OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy