Austrian CHR station KroneHit gained a seven fold increase in online listening when Alexa was introduced to the Austrian market, according to Programmer Rudiger Landgraf. He tells Steve Ahern what he has learnt about smart speakers. By default,...

During a format workshop at the Radio Asia conference in Kazakhstan, Paul Amos and Ronnie Stanton shared tips for tuning your format to best serve your audience.   Comparing music radio formats with music streaming services, Paul Amos from Xtra...

The former broadcaster has developed new tech for reporting from the field.  Former radio broadcaster Andy Grace has developed a new system for recording, editing and filing audio and video news stories from the field.   Last week he was...

Speech from Deputy Minister Pinky Kekana Radio Days. 

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Last week, US broadcaster Entercom decided to pull its streams off TuneIn, the radio aggregator. From now on, the stations will only be available on Entercom’s own radio streaming website, radio.com; and the radio....

Nova Entertainment CEO Cathy O’Connor discussed the company’s successful business strategy at the Broadcast Asia conference this week.  radioinfo was there.   She presented the case study of her company’s journey of transformation....

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland The radio industry has been slowly incorporating podcasting into its mix: both as a useful way of promoting some of our key talent, and increasingly as a way to get closer to clients by producing branded...

BroadcastAsia2018 takes place this week in Singapore, with a significant lineup of Australian speakers. Our advertisers RCS and Wedel will have a major presence at this year's Broadcast Asia exhibition, at the SunTech conference centre. Associated...

This year's Mumbrella360 conference (June 12-14 Hilton Hotel Sydney) has once again brought together sectors of Australia's media and marketing industry, featuring panels and presentations from senior executives at Buzzfeed, Microsoft, Google, PxC,...

Advertiser content by Mike Powell, SVP International Operations & Chief Compliance Officer RCS     Incredibly, next year will mark the 40th anniversary of RCS opening its doors with the very first version of the legendary Selector...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland “We believe that the days when all media will be distributed over the internet are not too far away.” Those are the words of the BBC’s Chief Technology and Product Officer, the very nice Matthew Postgate, who made...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Whenever I speak to companies or students about how we consume linear radio, it comes as a big surprise to them that internet radio listening is so small. Three pieces of research came out last week...

Equipment Reiview with James Cridland DAB+ Digital Radio offers a load of additional choice, and with extra sports stations from RadioTAB and the new Macquarie Sports station, there’s even more on the dial for people who are out and about. All we...

Opinion from Steve Ahern   I was at a conference last week where several speakers presented charts purporting to show that ‘radio listening’ was declining.   Then they went on to draw conclusions based on those wrong and misleading...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Every quarter, RAJAR - the UK’s audio measurement company - releases a little piece of research called MIDAS. It probably stands for something, I don’t know; but it’s a robust piece of research that...

Fairfax Media CEO Greg Hywood will today deliver a presentation at the Macquarie Australia Conference in Sydney.  Fairfax has a 54.5% share in ASX-listed radio broadcaster Macquarie Media following the March 2015 merger of Fairfax Radio...

Open day at the Port Lincoln studios. Port Lincoln's Magic 899 and 765 5CC recently opened their doors to the public and conducted tours of the station, as part of the annual SALT Festival, a 10-day showcase of art, music, innovation and...

A broadcasting conference in Moscow has heard examples of successful media business strategies and discussed issues facing broadcasters in Russia.

The National Regional Rural and Sub Metro Broadcasters Conference this Friday. From this Friday 20th April, the SCMA  National Regional Rural and Sub Metro Broadcasters Conference will be showcasing a range of workshops, plenaries and...

This June, the biggest podcast event in the Asia Pacific, Audiocraft Podcast Festival will explore all things podcasting as part of Vivid Sydney, the world's largest festival of light, music and ideas.     Off the back of...

He'd like to apologise to Steve Smith. On this morning’s KIIS106.5’s Kyle and Jackie O Breakfast Show, the pair along with Peter Deppeler aka Intern Pete discussed the now infamous incident at the Steve Smith press conference on Friday which earned...

Comment from Peter Saxon In an ironic twist Pete Deppeler’s tone deaf stunt at the Steve Smith media conference has backfired to the extent that he’s now getting a small taste of what Steve Smith is going through. Deppeler, a producer on the Kyle...

ARN responds to criticism For anyone watching the Steve Smith media conference held at Sydney airport just an hour after his plane had touched down, it was clear that the young man was distraught, genuinely remorseful for his own...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland   Ben Hammersley is a very clever man. He’s a “futurist”, and sports a very fine Victorian bushy moustache and some fancy arm tattoos. He writes for Wired magazine and The Guardian. The word “hipster” might...