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iHeartRadio is developing new Amazon Alexa skills for listeners to communicate with on-air radio studios — requests, dedications, and Q&A chats with DJs. Testing is in progress. There’s a video explainer. Continue Reading
James Cridland returns with a richly informative newsletter about radio around the world. In this edition: Radiodays Africa, DAB+ in Belgium, dutch-language music, BBC podcasting, and much more. Continue Reading
James Cridland returns with a richly informative newsletter about radio around the world. In this edition he joins UK mourning for Jonathan “Jono” Coleman, who died two days ago. ALSO: the BBC annual report, news from Australia’s SCA, new ad delivery technology from AdsWizz, and more. Continue Reading
James Cridland returns with a richly informative newsletter about radio around the world. In this edition he identifies a chronic and damaging failure of audio production, complete with an illustrative DAW waveform. Plus much more. Continue Reading
James Cridland returns with a richly informative newsletter about radio around the world — and a new email format. In addition to what the title promises, James describes an interesting Spotify/radio, or radio/Spotify, playlist. Continue Reading
American Public Media (APM) announces this morning a sales and content development agreement with Cadence13, an Audacy company, wherein Cadence13 will exclusively represent ad sales for APM podcasts, and the two organizations will collaboratively develop new shows. Continue Reading
WFAS-AM has moved from the analog band to HD radio while rebranding to AM1230Digital. Cumulus Media subsidiary Westwood One programs the station with News/Talk on weekdays and Sports on weekends. Continue Reading
James Cridland returns with a richly informative newsletter about radio around the world. An Australian radio station doesn’t give time checks — for a clever reason. BBC’s random traditions. Much more in this roundup of observations and insights. Continue Reading
As Edison Research releases its 2021 Infinite Dial Australia (sponsored by Commercial Radio Australia, Southern Cross Austereo, LiSTNR, and Triton Digital), there are notable comparisons to be made with the U.S. version of this benchmark annual report. Click for details and graphs. Continue Reading
Paul Chantler, Director of UK’s Podcast Radio, tells us that the TED Radio Collective has joined the all-podcast digital radio station in a content partnership arrangement. Twelve shows from the Collective will be featured in coming weeks. Continue Reading
Veritone sent around a notice that Audacy (formerly Entercom) has extended its agreement to use Veritone’s artificial intelligence. The news focuses on Veritone Discovery, an AI-powered content search and analysis application. Click for details. Continue Reading
Podcast Radio, the UK all-podcast, 24/7 radio station on the DAB platform, has informed us that Birmingham has been added to the station reach. It is Britain’s second largest city. The expansion builds on the station’s existing footprint covering London, Surry, Manchester, and Glasgow. Continue Reading