Radioland, with James Cridland - radio futurologist

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I once sat at the end of a telephone line, helping people tune into their favourite radio station. This was a real eye-opener. Many don’t even know the difference between AM and FM; and some sets are…

I'm at https://james.crid.land

It's 40 years since Trevor Horn wrote this song

Something called BBC Notes was posted on the BBC’s Research and Development blog the other week. It’s a web app “that shows text, images, and links, to enhance the listening experience during live ev…

As Google knows, I’m in Kuala Lumpur today, in Malaysia. Google knows exactly where I am. It knows where I was yesterday; what airline I used to travel here; what news stories I read this morning; wh…

Recently, I was at Podcast Movement in Orlando. It’s the largest podcast event in the world, I’d think, with a variety of tracks covering almost everything you needed to know about podcasting.

The eve…

Cockroaches, eh? Radio is a bit like them. Kind of.

Radio is consumed differently on headphones than speakers. Here's new data.

Music logs can help presenters if done right

4KQ - an AM station - is doing well in Brisbane

Hearing the voice of your listener

Johannesburg, South Africa, is a place like no other to hold a radio conference, and I was privileged to be at Radio Days Africa recently on their tenth anniversary…

Radio TOK FM is one of the most listened-to radio stations in Warsaw, Poland, owned by Agora Radio Group. A news and talk station with over 40 journalists, the station is doing something unusual: cha…

At the recent Podcast Day in London, I was asked to share three of my favourite podcasts, and as always I decided to slightly subvert the brief to really be three podcasts that we can learn from.

Rea…

Apple are making some changes.

You’ve probably heard about iTunes going away. In truth, this means little - iTunes “went away” on iPhones a long time ago, and this latest change is just replacing iTu…

In Canada recently, I heard a little bit of history - or, so it seemed to me. Radio executives were openly banging the drum for FM chips in phones: an argument I thought was long since dead.

You can…

Something fun is happening in my home town of Brisbane, Australia - some of our radio stations are on the move.

Top 40 station Hit 105 and rock station Triple M lived in buildings in North Quay next …

There’s trouble for vTuner, the heritage company used by many manufacturers as an internet radio directory.

On May 1, vTuner’s service apparently fell over for eleven hours, and Frontier Silicon, who…

Typically, when I speak at conferences, I start by pointing out how popular radio is. 9 out of 10 of us listen to the radio in any given week - whether you live in Boston Massachusetts, Boston Englan…

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