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 sends us his weekly links from his new home in Brisbane, Australia.
James Cridland’s Articles
- Radio trends – tagging – where I do a rundown of the different types of tagging on offer from broadcasters and others
United Kingdom
- Ofcom rejects complaints over Iain Lee – which makes his departure from BBC Three Counties Radio, which seemingly coincided with this interview, even more sad. There’s clearly more to this story than meets the eye.
- BBC reprimanded over ‘serious’ lapses in show mocking climate science – though, awfully strangely, nobody was fired.
- Great overview of 40 years of radio from Gillian Reynolds – who came to Next Radio and is as lovely as you’d expect.
- Some great recommendations for people to listen to from Paul Simpson.
- The most popular clips of radio from David Lloyd’s blog…
- TV ads increase app installs by 74%, report says (and I’d bet that radio does just as well)
- Why you should scrap your radio programme debrief – good thoughts from Tim Johns
United States
- Cute story about a proper local AM radio station in a little US town
- Folks behind the NextRadio app lose patience with broadcasters not making stations look good: and offer to do it themselves.
- How long is too long to wait for music on the radio? – interesting article on US ad breaks
- An interesting but rather techie story showing that ad-blockers don’t just block ads…
- Our (Bare) Shelves, Our Selves – nice piece about collecting in an era of streaming
- New York Daily News provokes then mocks – astonishing
- Clever WNYC have hacked Facebook video to use it for podcasts. Nice trial mechanism – but not a replacement platform.
Australia
- Ed Sheeran caught in the act at a peep show – amazingly good stunt from Hamish and Andy (who else)
- Another Christmas station, after I wrote about them in AllAccess.com a few weeks back. This one’s a brand extension in Sydney.
- Happy birthday, Brisbane’s 4ZZZ – 40 years of broadcasting on 8 Dec. (They could celebrate by adding some RDS).
- Here’s what to think about… Donald Trump (nice piece of ondemand content, and a clear call to action at the end)
- I thought you’d like to see the DAB+ radio in a Toyota Prius 2015. It’s, um, an experience.