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I've been writing this sort of thing since way before 2017 - a quick and pithy look at international radio trends across the world.

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Apr 20, 2024: Networking but sounding local; and could the BBC go commercial?
Apr 15, 2024: Super Hi-Fi’s radio in a box; Norway and Australia radio stats
Apr 4, 2024: Closures and bereavements
Mar 5, 2024: Steve Wright, physical buttons in cars, and threads that bind
Feb 12, 2024: The curious case of the vanishing AM transmitter
Feb 5, 2024: Spinoff stations grow overall reach
Jan 23, 2024: Analysing morning news shows
Jan 8, 2024: How successful have HD Radio’s additional channels been?
Dec 3, 2023: A look round Radio Fórmula
Nov 23, 2023: Happy 100, Aussie Radio
Oct 23, 2023: Better user interfaces in cars change radio listening
Oct 10, 2023: Careful what the numbers tell you
Aug 28, 2023: On-demand overtakes live
Aug 6, 2023: Link rot, RAJAR and the BBC's global numbers
Jul 27, 2023: Farewell All Access; congrats Kyle and Jackie O
Jul 11, 2023: What the world's first podcaster would do with radio
Jun 23, 2023: AI and radio
Jun 16, 2023: Behind the scenes at 5 Live
Jun 7, 2023: Radio 360 launches in Australia: new research
Jun 4, 2023: AM given reprieve; Long Wave to go away; radio on TV
May 17, 2023: India tells mobile phone manufacturers to put FM tuners in; and the 'live item tag'
May 2, 2023: AM Radio's US defenders
Apr 12, 2023: AI starts making radio ads
Apr 3, 2023: Ken Bruce hits the air and Bauer hits its stride
Mar 20, 2023: Can your presenters publish to your website?
Mar 12, 2023: AM radio to disappear from more cars
Feb 28, 2023: Robot radio comes closer, with RadioGPT - but is it any good?
Feb 18, 2023: CBC to turn off transmitters (but not yet); and Google stops working
Feb 9, 2023: BBC pulls its stations from Radioplayer, and the RAJAR figures
Jan 22, 2023: Ken Bruce, and live radio goes LIT
Jan 16, 2023: The big AM switchoff gathers pace
Nov 4, 2022: RAJAR, MIDAS, Local BBC Radio, and privacy
Oct 24, 2022: BBC Sounds sees no growth; but ABC sees 22% increase
Sep 30, 2022: The BBC dismantles Steve Wright, the World Service, and the Prime Minister
Sep 21, 2022: Nonsense numbers, and the funeral
Sep 11, 2022: Radio's multiplatform radio figures from Australasia
Sep 3, 2022: BBC Sounds, Kenny Everett carts, and breakfast radio vs podcasts
Jul 24, 2022: Getting more value from the archive
Jul 17, 2022: BBC Sounds in the BBC Annual Report: the numbers
Jul 10, 2022: Why is Aussie radio booming?
Jun 13, 2022: Canadian radio, and the rise of smart speakers
May 29, 2022: BBC cuts; TechSurvey, RAJAR
May 6, 2022: The end of music radio on AM? TuneIn cuts stations off; and DRM's relationship with the BBC
Apr 26, 2022: Radio on the telly
Apr 4, 2022: A radio receiver for people with dementia
Mar 7, 2022: Shortwave radio: who owns the receivers?
Feb 28, 2022: Emergency broadcasting, radio's market share, and the launch of Alfred
Feb 14, 2022: The curious case of the radio station that broke peoples' cars
Feb 4, 2022: The end of open, as audio goes exclusive
Jan 28, 2022: Is no news good news? And: funding the BBC
Jan 21, 2022: The BBC's fight against stupid
Jan 6, 2022: Radio vs Spotify - some data
Dec 6, 2021: Infinite Dial UK results, and 'Local BBC Radio'
Nov 28, 2021: An Infinite Dial for the UK, at last
Nov 21, 2021: More talk, less music
Nov 14, 2021: Radio is a hit for car drivers
Nov 7, 2021: The UK's new radio figures
Oct 25, 2021: FM switchoff in the UK; and a nerdy look at AM transmission characteristics
Oct 18, 2021: 4BC switches frequency; and a landmark for UK commercial radio
Oct 9, 2021: The BBC World Service sees more listeners, and Ceefax lives!
Oct 4, 2021: Stories of goodbyes, radio in Afghanistan, and that's a good question
Sep 26, 2021: Live radio and on-demand radio are two different things
Sep 22, 2021: Podcast-first radio
Sep 13, 2021: The CRA's good week
Sep 5, 2021: Behind the Chris Evans Radio 1 breakfast show
Aug 30, 2021: The people who don't listen to radio on a radio
Aug 23, 2021: Global makes a global hiring; female voices and the radio
Aug 14, 2021: Why the words we use matter
Aug 8, 2021: Who owns Inside Radio? And a syndicated show with a difference
Aug 1, 2021: Switzerland to turn off FM - the campaign to save it
Jul 25, 2021: Podcasts on your radio; radio in your Deezer; listeners on the air
Jul 18, 2021: The future of radio in Africa; and more stations in Belgium
Jul 11, 2021: Vale Jono Coleman, and the birth of talKRADIO, er, TV
Jul 5, 2021: Who cares? Plus, Audacy's 350 new stations
Jun 26, 2021: Radio by the numbers; and Ed Sheeran
Jun 19, 2021: Conferences, trust, and radio in the car
May 10, 2021: The 24-hour radio station with three hours of programming
Mar 31, 2021: How's that spelt?
Feb 19, 2021: Radio's unique point of difference
Dec 11, 2020: Spotify's music radio, new stations and lazy Buggles
Oct 13, 2020: An rare English opportunity in Switzerland
Sep 29, 2020: Radio in pandemic: what happens?
Sep 4, 2020: Greatest Hits Radio, the Hit Network, and worldwide radio data
Aug 19, 2020: Apple gets serious about online radio? And join me in a webinar
Jul 24, 2020: Bauer's strategy towards Hits, SCA moves away from Hit, the changing world of radio ratings, and US VCs
Jun 25, 2020: iHeartRadio's radio advertising works; and Iain Lee
Jun 6, 2020: Tim Davie, Alan Jones, Herr Bauer, and US radio figures
May 11, 2020: Giraffes, lockdown, and Times Radio
Apr 27, 2020: Radio - holding up well?
Apr 6, 2020: The effect on radio consumption
Mar 27, 2020: Radio hunkers down
Mar 17, 2020: Nice shared video, and Tesla start taking AM/FM radio out of their cars
Feb 24, 2020: Terms and Conditions, Times Radio, and always order two
Feb 10, 2020: When should you ignore the data? And the UK's new RAJARs
Feb 3, 2020: iHeart redundancies, BBC Sounds growth
Jan 13, 2020: Bushfire radio, a new Content Officer at KCRW, and the reality behind the hype
Dec 30, 2019: Calling a listener to check they're okay
Dec 16, 2019: LBC's election coverage; and Alfred shows us the future
Dec 10, 2019: Spot-checking radio's customer service
Dec 2, 2019: Tin hats, conspiracies and censorship
Nov 25, 2019: Personalisation comes ever closer
Nov 18, 2019: Ransomware, Asia, and a radio station just broadcasting podcasts
Nov 11, 2019: RAJAR breakdown; TuneIn; and Slovenian music quotas
Nov 4, 2019: TuneIn court case; and buses
Oct 28, 2019: The launch of LBC News; RAIN Summit Europe; DAB listening in Australia
Oct 21, 2019: Data, data everywhere
Oct 14, 2019: BBC Radio 1 invites... you; WBAI; and driveless cars
Oct 7, 2019: Channel switchers and TuneIn
Sep 30, 2019: Hire people with opinions
Sep 23, 2019: The Future of Radio in the Netherlands - and is 5G the future?
Sep 16, 2019: NPR - podcasting will be bigger than radio next year
Sep 9, 2019: Switzerland to switch off FM; and Lazy Buggles
Sep 3, 2019: Google Assistant - even more like a DJ
Jul 30, 2019: The future of radio in 1972
Jul 18, 2019: Radio - more than just AM/FM
Jul 1, 2019: Upgrading DAB receivers for DAB+, and a panel from New Zealand
Jun 24, 2019: New Heart Breakfast; the Global Player; and Rova
Jun 3, 2019: The FM chip delusion
May 27, 2019: Where should a radio station be? And RAJAR Q1 2019
May 13, 2019: FM is king, but digital is queen
May 6, 2019: What's the future for AM radio?
Apr 29, 2019: Video in radio studios, and the DAB pirates are here
Apr 15, 2019: At the NAB Show, and Capital's new breakfast show
Apr 8, 2019: From Radiodays Europe - control and irrelevance
Apr 1, 2019: Radiodays Europe starts, and user interfaces for radio
Mar 25, 2019: BBC blocks Google from its podcasts
Mar 18, 2019: Smart speakers and Bauer purchases
Mar 4, 2019: Australia: don't link to our stuff; UK says bye to local breakfast
Feb 25, 2019: Radio - the gecko's cheating on you
Feb 18, 2019: Online listening up (a bit); smart speakers aren't all good though
Feb 11, 2019: Bauer's spending spree
Feb 4, 2019: Does a TV channel show radio's future? And, radio revenues up - mostly
Jan 28, 2019: Chris Evans on Virgin, Scala Radio to launch - another great week for UK radio
Jan 21, 2019: Fortunately goes exclusive to the BBC Sounds app; and adblocking comes to the radio
Jan 14, 2019: Self-awareness vs self-indulgence
Dec 17, 2018: Predictions for radio in 2019, and Vista Radio's charity success
Dec 10, 2018: Radiodays Asia - a new radio conference, coming next year
Dec 4, 2018: Global adds (other peoples') podcasts into their app
Nov 26, 2018: Smart speakers that aren't, and Radio Live to close
Nov 19, 2018: Radio in the car needs to get better - and here's how
Nov 12, 2018: Is new technology a bad thing for radio?
Nov 5, 2018: Good news in South Africa; Ofcom's localness changes
Oct 29, 2018: Podcast measurement - more fractured than radio?
Oct 22, 2018: Do you need a radio station building at all? And free RAIN Summit Europe tickets
Oct 15, 2018: New tech means more choice, and the Apple Podcasts Chart is screwed, so what comes next?
Oct 8, 2018: Why are you in radio anyway? And a beautiful transmitter in Germany
Oct 1, 2018: Personalisation of linear radio; and Pandora bought by SiriusXM
Sep 24, 2018: The secret to achieving a growing radio industry?
Sep 16, 2018: Twitter launches a 'live podcasting' service - or, as we know it, radio
Sep 10, 2018: Chris Evans's gamble
Sep 3, 2018: Smart speakers and public radio fans
Aug 27, 2018: Object-based media, and a radio station for cats
Aug 20, 2018: Amazon Alexa to come to cars
Aug 13, 2018: Got any funny radio bloopers? Plus, iHeart automates segues
Aug 6, 2018: Media consumption from New Zealand; iHeart adds music discovery playlist
Jul 30, 2018: A park bench, how to use your street teams, and talk radio
Jul 25, 2018: Alexa increases online listening by seven times
Jul 16, 2018: German multi-platform radio, and linking to podcasts with least friction
Jul 9, 2018: DAB in Germany; Radio up in New Zealand; Entercom's 'shiny new toy' issue
Jul 2, 2018: BBC Sounds gets launched, longer ads apparently preferred, and Bobby Bones
Jun 25, 2018: Google launch Android podcast support; and is voice synthesis part of the future?
Jun 18, 2018: Next Radio speakers announced; and learning radio's future from NPR
Jun 11, 2018: Are we moving to an all-IP future? And NPR increases audience again
Jun 4, 2018: What is a radio, anyway?
May 27, 2018: Measuring radio's best customers
May 21, 2018: A top 10 place on the Apple Podcasts Charts for sale
May 14, 2018: The MIDAS touch - RAJAR tells us how people listen to the radio
May 7, 2018: Digital radio brings tight targeting opportunities
Apr 30, 2018: A prize goes on the first day of a promotion; and is podcasting going to eat radio?
Apr 23, 2018: Bauer's new strategy, and lots of podcast data
Apr 16, 2018: Spotify's car music player, and weekends now last three days in London
Apr 9, 2018: Live radio is... lazy radio?
Apr 2, 2018: Is radio dead? A futurist thinks so...
Mar 26, 2018: BBC's switchover plans that aren't; and the right way to deal with iHeart's bankruptcy
Mar 19, 2018: Death of AM, and modern radio's honesty
Mar 12, 2018: Digital-first radio stations, and the Infinite Dial 2018
Mar 5, 2018: HTTPS websites and iHeartMedia possibly bankrupt?
Feb 26, 2018: A new kids station in Australia, and a new online station in the UK
Feb 19, 2018: Kyle Sandilands in a new podcast
Feb 12, 2018: Why people enter radio competitions, and the UK's RAJAR figures
Feb 5, 2018: Young people and the radio, Spotify to get more expensive, and personalised ads
Jan 29, 2018: Scripps: radio out, podcasting in; and triplej's Hottest 100 shows radio still big for the young
Jan 22, 2018: Slate magazine - a quarter of their revenues come from audio
Jan 15, 2018: Smart speakers: radio's friend, but less so for podcasts
Jan 8, 2018: Small-scale DAB in the UK - how should it work? And good radio station branding
Jan 1, 2018: Dick Orkin dies; BBC switches off more AM transmitters, smart speakers a hit
Dec 25, 2017: Australia's christmas sabotage, and UK radio to get deregulated
Dec 18, 2017: BBC and Cumulus both launch smart speaker skills, and a confusing LUFS story
Dec 11, 2017: Radio that makes you feel better, first on Twitter, Global is medium of the year

James Cridland

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