Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland
Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland
Earlier this year, in late April, I braved the crowds in Las Vegas and saw something really quite special.
Dan McQuillin from Broadcast Bionics was showing two nice things, which Kirk Harnack from Telos persuaded them to show off in a YouTube video. If ever you should ever stop reading an article and go and watch a video, now’s the time. Go...
Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland
Before we begin - the links in this article lead to words you may find offensive.
Over twenty years ago, I remember listening to the Dutch radio station Sky Radio, and hearing an incomprehensible dutch jingle followed by Prince’s new hit - “Sexy MF”. Except Sky Radio didn’t play the radio-safe version. We got the proper, full,...
Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland
The biggest commercial radio group in Australia, Southern Cross Austereo, is doing something courageous in December - changing the names of 59 radio stations.
Australian station names are, to this Brit, a strange mix of heritage callsigns. There’s been a “2GZ” in New South Wales since 1935. “3BO” has broadcast in Victoria since 1931. But, from mid-December, they’ll be called “TripleM”, as will 29...
Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland
Smartphones contain a lot of technology: and developers have access to most of it.
If you’re a mobile phone app developer, you can check the GPS chip for details of where your user is, for example - so Google Maps can tell you where you are, or your news app can give you local information.
There are temperature sensors, altimeters and all kinds of things inside your mobile phone. If you...
Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland
I read a blog post recently saying that radio needs to be live or else it isn’t, really, radio. It reminded me of others who’ve said the same thing - that live is the essence of great radio.
They’re wrong. And here’s why.
Firstly, radio isn't live. Yes, this is slightly pedantic, but actually, radio has a delay on every single platform you listen to - from FM's near-instantaneous transmission to DAB or...
Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland
It turns out that Pandora has a "data journalist". She's called Liv, and she writes in AdWeek this month about the data stories she's seen on the platform.
It's interesting noticing the differences. Pandora thrives on the long-tail: music that is "ignored on...
Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland
One item of debate in the US radio industry is a fake regular caller - Dwayne from Swedesboro, who used to call into a radio station almost every day. Dwayne didn’t exist. He was a character dreamt up and played by a producer of the show, though the presenter...
Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland
In July, I posted a piece about how much we don’t know about podcast stats. Today I wanted to write about the iTunes podcast chart: because it isn’t a chart, and not nearly enough people know that. But before I do, a few points from the last time I wrote about this.
As a result of my earlier piece,...
Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland
In the Coachella Valley in California, two AM radio stations have just shut down: KPSI and KWXY. The closure came with a two-hour special program, looking back at the history of the station.
These...
Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland
In a piece in The Guardian over the weekend, former radio presenter turned podcaster Scroobius Pip says, of a meeting with US podcaster Joe Regan:
At the time, I had a radio show on Xfm, which went on to win two Sony awards. Joe asked: “Why do you work for someone else?” I...
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