James Cridland, the radio futurologist, is a conference speaker, writer and consultant. He runs the media information website media.info and helps organise the yearly Next Radio conference. He also publishes podnews.net, a daily briefing on podcasting and on-demand, and writes a weekly international radio trends newsletter, at james.crid.land.
- Standards are boring, but they’re there for a reason, I say in my latest column
- UK: How radio stalwart Global is adopting podcasting – they’ve put 15,000 podcasts into their radio app, including some from the BBC which is interesting. Their goal? To keep people in their app. Nice way of doing it.
- Australia: Enjoyable and positive feature from Christian O’Connell on Melbourne’s Gold. Makes a lovely change, this, from crappy stunts.
- Germany: one of the presenters on this radio station looks like a bit of a cock. Ah, ha.
- UK: Wow, this is something that has never happened in the UK before – flipping a station to only play Christmas music. Good luck, Magic.
- UK: December Will Be Magic Again – actual data about christmas songs, and how the UK differs from the US in terms of what they listen to
- Greg James, Radio 1 interview: ‘I want listeners to engage, rather than merely eavesdrop’ – this is radio in a nutshell, this. The entire show is centered around making the listener into the star – something that only radio can do. Good for them.
- Iain Dale writes a long piece about one of his radio producers, who left his station last week. Probably important, I think, to highlight the close relationship that talent have with their producers. This looks like a healthy relationship.
- New BBC Sounds app allowing users to listen to the radio is slammed – a Daily Mail special, this, grabbing a couple of Twitter quotes and making an entire story about it.
- CBC North, radio no one: When a radio host has to talk to himself – a fun piece from Canada, and a radio presenter who had a routing issue and simply didn’t make it to air for a while.