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
The NAB Show 2019 - and the move to home studios
NAB Show highlights a trend away from studio complexes
I recently went to the NAB Show in Las Vegas - the first time I’d been there for three years or so. I used to stay at The Riviera, a gloriously …
The dangers of assumption
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Would an all-podcast radio station work?
I take a listen to one
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What podcasting can teach radio
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Commercial Radio Australia tries to remove links to radio stations
In a submission to government, Commercial Radio Australia, the Australian equivalent of the UK s Radiocentre, asks for, among other things, a legal requirement that people shoyld remove links to live…
Radio: the gekko's cheating on you!
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Radio - full of transferable skills
Watch the video in full at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qENEQ1qClUw
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Should 'engineering' and 'IT' merge?
I'd think they should, in any radio company...
Music by Ignite Jingles. Clips from an AT&T video from the 1960s.
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Does a little Australian TV channel give us clues for radio’s future?
Television, as we know, is changing rapidly - significantly more so than radio. Viewers to live TV are declining, as audiences get more used to on-demand services like Netflix, Hulu, Stan, or iPlayer…
A commercial radio breakfast show, without the commercials
Last year, Chris Evans was the presenter of the most listened-to breakfast show in Europe - The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2.
The BBC earns most of its money from a television licence fe…
The BBC’s unfortunate bullying of Fortunately listeners
Try to listen to the new season of Fortunately, a podcast from the BBC, and you’ll be told you can’t.
It’s a show that BBC produces which never makes it on the radio. Instead, it follows the same gen…
Standards are boring - but they are there for a reason
Tune in to many FM stations with RDS signals in France, Italy or the USA, and you’ll notice that some stations try putting some now-playing in…
Check your speakers really are smart
I’m swearing at my smart speakers a little this week.
I’ve a few Google speakers in the house, including a Google Home Hub - the one with a little screen on it. It’s great as a radio from my poin…
Radio in the car - a better experience
Radio in the car - a better experience
About 50% of all radio listening happens in the car (the figure’s lower in countries like the UK, but higher in places like the US).
In many ways, radio’s…
New technology: bad for radio?
Automation Killed The Radio Star, says the latest blog from Dick Taylor, a US radio writer.
Two things about this.
The first is the use of a lazy Buggles headline…
Podcast measurement: more standardised than you’d think
It was interesting seeing one of the pieces of news coming out of Radio Alive, the radio conference in Australia, recently: the Australian radio industry are putting together a Podcast Working Group …
Do you really need a radio building at all?
I still remember my first look round a radio station. In spite of writing to Signal Radio in Stoke-on-Trent and being ignored (shame on you, Signal), Radio Aire in Leeds held an open day, and I got t…
New tech offers radio listeners more choice
New technology enables us to delight our listeners even more - particularly, radio operators are now offering more choice than ever before.
In Australia, Southern Cross Austereo have been doing a c…
Why are you in radio anyway?
I had a conversation a while ago about FM RDS, that thing which tells you what radio station you’re listening to on a big screen in your car, so you don’t forget. For s…
A recap of Next Radio 2018
Some clips of some of the best speakers at the radio ideas conference.
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