Radiodays Asia, and could TV's switchoff put radio at risk?
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. I’ll be on RRI in Indonesia a little later this week: the station was founded on...
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James Cridland - radio futurologist
A weekly audio column with the most interesting news about radio's future. James Cridland is a radio futurologist - a writer, speaker and consultant concentrating on the effect that new plat...
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20 of 253 episodesStreaming music overtakes AM/FM radio in the US
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. “Radio is still where people go to discover music”, we keep hearing. New data fro...
Kyle's first online show 'a disaster'
Kyle Sandilands went on-air this morning with his paid-for show. It looked to be a bit of a technical mess ; his most chummy media partner c...
The MFWs, a new BBC station, and more from Canada
Hell has no fury like an MFW - Duncan Campbell, former content director of ARN, writes about the pressure group Mad Fudging Witches. “Make n...
Radio listening data from Europe and the US
The EBU released its Radio Trends Report 2026 . Weekly reach across Europe is 81.3%, down 2.7% from five years ago. As above - time spent li...
AI gets a number 1 song
Links and much more to read at https://radioland.email
Linear audio vs ondemand audio
Data from Edison Research makes me question what radio is marketing for.
BBC Radio 4 long-wave closes down
More at https://james.cridland.net/blog/2026/radio-4-longwave-closes/
What Kyle does next; and doing shows away from your studio
More at https://radioland.email
No more Kyle and Jackie O: the effect on radio overall
All the links are here: https://james.cridland.net/blog/2026/no-kyle-jackie-no-switchoff/
ARN's thoughts about the ACMA licence conditions
More over at https://radioland.email
Should the ABC merge with the SBS?
https://james.cridland.net/blog/2026/abc-sbs/ is where to go to find links for all these stories
A 'clear-channel' AM station sells its transmitters for housing
Yikes! The economy! Plus, more news about radio's future
DAB+, DRM, Radio 4 LW and the death of radio news
I buy a new radio! I dig into the ownership of the BBC's longwave transmitters! More at radioland.email
Fakt Tapt video, the ACMA FoI, and how local is US radio really?
All the links at https://james.cridland.net/blog/2026/acma-foi-tapt/
SiriusXM and iHeart to merge?
And a new radio streaming app for iOS. More at https://radioland.email
Longwave closures and job cuts from the BBC
See the baker's van at https://radioland.email
The AI top 40, and the BBC News channel in Australia
https://radioland.email to subscribe and get this in your inbox!
Should you pull your radio station off TuneIn?
Well, should you? More at https://radioland.email
What the radio figures actually say about multiplatform radio
There's a nice graph here: https://james.cridland.net/blog/2026/multiplatform-radio-figures/