James Cridland is Managing Director of media.info, and an Australia-based radio futurologist. He is a consultant, writer and public speaker who concentrates on the effect that new platforms and technology are having on the radio business. Find out more or subscribe at http://james.cridland.net
James Cridland’s articles
- A small feature on adaptive radio – object-based broadcasting. 16’40” into this programme on the BBC World Service. Includes a quote from me if you listen hard enough.
- My talk/sides from #OzPod2016 – including the audio from the event, thanks to ABC Extra
- Radio – the audio source we listen to most. Share of audio research from the US, UK and now Australia. #CRAConf
- Is radio “very f–ked”? My piece about MarkRitson’s great keynote at #CRAConf for RadioInfo.
- Aussie Radio comes together with RadioApp – as announced at the #CRAconf
United States
- It’s all about the user experience. An Austrian tries HD Radio and their secondary channels. I blogged about this in 2009, so this UX problem still exists, seven years later…
- Factum Radioscape’s Field Monitor Shows Software-Defined Radio’s Benefit – my article for the Radio Magazine’s Digital Radio Update
- Frank Absher (a US radio historian) looks back at CBS Radio’s innovation.
- Fascinating “smart radio”, which reads your expression to choose music for you.
- Some nice stats about podcasting from Steven Goldstein
UK
- Clever idea – a voice agency specifically for North East accents. Of course, I would say that – run by a former boss of mine – but specialisation and ‘real’ accents are an important part of radio’s relevance.
- 13 Mistakes Conference and Event Organizers Just Keep on Making – a nice piece. Particularly, the importance of music.
- Capital adds skippable tracks to its radio app. Same presenters, just a more mobile-friendly experience. #future
- Eurgh, the Daily Mail are horrible people – bad enough to lose a job without them stirring.
- A small feature on adaptive radio – object-based broadcasting. 16’40” into this programme on the BBC World Service. Includes a quote from me if you listen hard enough.
- Job going at the BBC – Director of Radio, anyone? – a lot has been said of the job role requiring “Proven experience in attracting, nurturing and developing top talent (both on and off screen)” – you’d have thought that this posting would have, at least, demanded slightly less careless copy/pasting. Closes today. Your boss is someone who didn’t get an interview, an ex-government wonk, and has no experience at all in either radio or programme-making, so good luck with that.
- Happy birthday LBC – launched this week in 1973.
- Astonishing. The Guardian buys ads on The Guardian. Only gets 30% of the revenue. No wonder I’m earning less and less from Google AdSense.
- Interesting – we can blame global stagnation on Spotify, apparently. /via Jonathan Marks
Australia
- How media works: find one comment on a Facebook page denigrating a competitor for the local ad money; make story based on that one comment. No, genuinely.
- When clever bespoke advertising goes wrong… ouch, this has got to have left many people red-faced
- Highlights from OzPod 2016
- My talk/sides from #OzPod2016 – including the audio from the event, thanks to ABC Extra
- Why Aussie radio stations are (at least right now) called such strange callsigns – good history piece here…
- Radio – the audio source we listen to most. Share of audio research from the US, UK and now Australia. Kurt Hanson gives some interesting analysis – don’t agree with half of it, but agree with the other half. (The question is… which half?!)
- Is radio “very f–ked”? My piece about Mark Ritson’s great keynote at #CRAConf for RadioInfo.
- Aussie Radio comes together with RadioApp – as announced at the #CRAconf
- Just gone live… News Radio UK
- Aussie networks shoot themselves in the foot – this is about telly, but a great article arguing benefits of working together
- Interesting nugget of information at the CRA Conference – LG’s top-selling mobile phone in Australia? The LG Stylus DAB+. That’s nice to hear. People buy mobile phones with radio inside.
Elsewhere
- Turkey closes at least 20 TV, radio stations (remember, they want to be part of Europe)
- Rice for Radio Karim Benard Dende has a new business model for us all