Radioland, with James Cridland - radio futurologist

I’m writing this in London, where the doors are (as I type) just about to open for Next Radio, the radio conference that I …

So, Chris Evans, the current presenter of adult-contemporary BBC Radio 2’s breakfast show - the largest breakfast show in Europe, by cume - has announced that he’s leavi…

“If you could own a radio station, what would you call it?”, posted a man called Nick in a radio discussion board on Facebook the other day.

Now, this…

Last week, a small fluffy bundle arrived in our house. We now have a small puppy - she’s lovely, thank you - and the effect to my radio listening has be…

“Object-based media” sounds very techie. But as I stumbled across a BBC Research & Development web page last week highlighting where they've got with it, I am r…

iHeartRadio has done something clever this week.

In the US, the iHeartRadio app contains a bunch of features - not just live radio streams, but podcasts, algorit…

I’m six foot four, something that I’m acutely aware of in two situations: first, whenever I’m on an economy airline flight, and second, whenever I’m on a subway train in Asia.

Those useful straps f…

I spent last week at Podcast Movement in Philadelphia - a conference with 2,300 delegates, it dwarfs any radio conference I've been to.

This was a well-run conference: running to time throughout, with…

Two stories last week made me think.

First, this off-the-cuff tweet from a radio station in Scotland, having a day of “going retro” by… playing CDs.

I shared this in a F…

James Purnell, the ultimate boss of BBC Radio, blogged late last week that ‘we need an industry chart for UK podcasts’.

He’s understood that …

I was in the sunny German city of Nuremberg last week, as the guest of the lokalrundfunktage. The state media regulator for Bavaria helps run a big, impressive conference with a surprising amount of …

Last week, US broadcaster Entercom decided to pull its streams off TuneIn, the radio aggregator. From now on, the stations will only be available on Entercom’s own radio streaming website, radio.com;…

The radio industry has been slowly incorporating podcasting into its mix: both as a useful way of promoting some of our key talent, and increasingly as a wa…

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Jamie Dupree is a radio reporter with Cox Media Group in the US, for WSB: and two years ago he lost his voice.

As a story on the BBC will tell you… he’s got it back. Kind of. A compan…

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NPR’s audience is up.

“The average weekly broadcast audiences of the top 20 NPR member stations continue to grow — from 8.7 million in 2015 to 11.2 …

Article is here: https://medium.com/@JamesCridland/are-we-moving-to-an-all-ip-media-future-377802e03dd5

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I talk a lot about making the most of your radio station’s content.

The tyranny of the tran…

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