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.
James Cridland’s articles
- Live radio is lazy radio – I can’t help but feel that my column this week might annoy some people. (Let’s hope they read it first!). It’s kicked up some interesting comment on the various sites that I write for; some people arguing against everything being voice-tracked (not what I’m asking for), and others understanding what I’m saying a little more. It’s even got me into a Spanish podcast. This video shows nice segues using RCS Zetta, and rather underlines the point – to just mash songs and sweepers together while live simply can’t produce the same effect. And, of course, some bits of radio should be live – don’t, for example, pre-record travel news days in advance…!
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- An actually amusing April Fool’s stunt from Heart Sussex, worth a watch…
- Great research from DAX about digital audio advertising. Really good to see Global doing this kind of thing.
- Interesting new regulation from the EU – a German subscription to Netflix, for example, has to work everywhere in Europe. This might have ramifications for the geoblocking that happens in many parts of Europe, including – for example – radio match commentaries for football.
- The BBC started live broadcasting of Parliament in 1978. Here are some clippings from the time from Andy Walmsley.
- Interesting to see a podcast using binaural sound. Seems obvious, really, but somehow this seems a new thing.
- The Guardian snootily disregards the Radio X top 100 – interestingly, I’m told Radio X has 40% female listeners, so not quite as laddish as you might think, and the chart is compiled by, genuinely, what listeners asked for. How very dare they.
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