My international radio trends newsletter
I've been writing this sort of thing since about 2004 - a quick and pithy look at international radio trends across the world.
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- Mar 23, 2025: The end of local radio in the UK (almost)
- Mar 16, 2025: The Voice of America gets cut
- Mar 9, 2025: Emergency radio broadcasting - ABC Radio Brisbane excels in Cyclone Alfred
- Mar 2, 2025: RAJAR’s MIDAS study, and a look ahead to Radiodays
- Feb 23, 2025: A tale of two sets of radio closures
- Feb 12, 2025: BBC audio for international users
- Feb 7, 2025: Radio in the car: and bad software
- Jan 29, 2025: Triple J's Hottest 100; and Apple's stations
- Jan 12, 2025: Two big changes in radio in the UK - and what it means for everyone
- Jan 5, 2025: A shared experience - the future of radio in 2025
- Dec 23, 2024: TuneIn in bad shape; and nice ads for podcasts
- Dec 12, 2024: Australia's final 2024 radio survey, and less AM in the UK
- Nov 27, 2024: BBC Sounds - is it going away internationally?
- Nov 17, 2024: Bluesky and your radio station
- Nov 10, 2024: AI radio stations, and Sydney's radio goodbyes
- Oct 30, 2024: RAJAR Q3/24, goodbyes and media laws
- Oct 20, 2024: Norway; and watch some Radiodays Asia
- Oct 15, 2024: Exclusivity, multi-standards, and multi-platform
- Oct 6, 2024: Radio advertising - what are your winners and duds?
- Sep 22, 2024: New radio, new talent, and AM
- Sep 15, 2024: Carl Kingston and BBC Sounds
- Sep 9, 2024: DAB means even more new stations
- Aug 27, 2024: The #1 radio trends newsletter
- Aug 17, 2024: Multi-platform changes to radio, and respecting the audience
- Aug 11, 2024: Kyle and Jackie O - a damp squib? Or just poor-quality smut?
- Aug 4, 2024: A tale of two statistics
- Jul 29, 2024: A Lego radio that isn't; and multiplatform's Olympics headache
- Jul 21, 2024: The blue screen of death
- Jul 14, 2024: Radio’s place in breaking news
- Jul 7, 2024: UK election tech, and closures in NZ and Canada
- Jul 1, 2024: Weird broadcast laws in the UK
- Jun 23, 2024: Another pop-up station, and a drone light show
- Jun 16, 2024: Faking it - competition winners caught out
- Jun 9, 2024: Capital - Taylor's Version
- Jun 1, 2024: Momentum 24, and the BBC’s ads
- May 25, 2024: What the General Election means to UK radio
- May 19, 2024: Online radio overtakes AM/FM radio in the UK
- May 12, 2024: Video killed the radio deal?
- May 5, 2024: The first week of Kyle & Jackie O, and new jingles in Sweden
- Apr 28, 2024: Is “live and local” all you need?
- 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