James Cridland’s Future of Radio is a column by the Australia-based radio futurologist. THIS WEEK: Important tech questions about HTTPS websites. Following the iHeartMedia bankruptcy saga. Much more from the audio industry worldwide. Continue Reading
In this guest post, Alan Cross delves into a history of radio technology. He shares some personal reflections over his more than three decades in the business, going back to his first radio station gigs with an ITC cart machine. Plus has has some forecasts of future tech. Continue Reading
Guest columnist Dominick Milano charts a brief history of personalized media, and podcasting. What about the two M’s: Measurement and Monetization? Click through to read on. Continue Reading
Looking at what a regular, non-techy person must do to listen to Beats 1, the flagship product of Apple Music, it seems as if Apple is making discovery as difficult as possible. Continue Reading
The Pono Music crowdfunding campaign has been successful (to put it mildly) in the fundraising stage, but most of those contributors are still waiting to see what their pledges have created. Eamonn Forde of The Guardian was able to get hands-on time with one of the Pono Player prototypes and shared his experience. He said the improvements in sound quality that Pono delivered were impressive on both expensive headphones and cheap earbuds. Since that was the top promise made by Neil Young and his colleagues, that’s a relief to hear. Continue Reading