Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland iHeartRadio has launched what it claims is a first - a radio station that just plays podcasts.  The nattily entitled iHeartRadio Podcast Channel AM 1470, in Allentown-Bethlehem PA, USA, will...

At this year’s SCMA conference the association’s seven board members discussed the roles of community radio boards and the importance of community radio.   “Boards need a wide experience of people and skills. Stations need active boards for...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland I’m often asked what the difference is between podcasting and radio, since I’m increasingly straddling both industries. The answer? Podcasters like each other.   I was at Podfest, a podcasting...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland New figures have come out this week from Triton Digital, who produce a ranker for (in this case) streaming radio online. They show that radio listening on smart speakers has doubled. In fact, it’s...

The government has named Ita Buttrose as the new ABC Chair. Federal Cabinet met in Sydney yesterday, and approved the appointment for the next five years, then the decision went through an approval process, consulting the opposition and taking it...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland If you’ve not yet discovered it, Magellan is an interesting company. It monitors the top 2,000 podcasts in the US Apple Podcasts trending chart, and produces ad reports. Here’s the ad report for January...

The theme for this World Radio Day (WRD), this Wednesday February 13, is ‘Dialogue, Tolerance and Peace’. Now in its eighth year, WRD is an annual celebration of radio as a medium which raises awareness about the importance of radio and...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland In 2007, I started working for the BBC in London, in something then known as Future Media and Technology, and almost as soon as I started, I was told of a split within the organisation’s technology...

Becoming as famous for its conferences as it is for its publication, Mumbrella's latest show and tell fest is called Audioland According to the organisers: Mumbrella Audioland is the first Mumbrella conference that will take a complete look at...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Last year, Chris Evans was the presenter of the most listened-to breakfast show in Europe - The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2.   The BBC earns most of its money from a television...

According to the latest McNair community radio survey, FBi's average monthly listenership was 504,000 people on FBi FM and DAB+ in Sydney. FBi Radio plays at least 50% Australian music, with 61% of most-played tracks from 2018...

The Australian Press Council has welcomed radioinfo as a new member, along with five other new members accepted at the end of 2018. This publication now joins the approximately 900 print and online media outlets that have formally committed to the...

Leslie McMurtry, University of Salford As early as 1934, experts were predicting the demise of radio due to its ephemeral nature – unlike print, cinematic film, or scored music, once broadcast into the ether, it was gone forever. But the key to...

Radiodays Asia is a new international radio and audio conference that’s coming to Asia in 2019.   The two-day conference, which will take place in Malaysia on August 27-28 next year, was launched today at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur....

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland   Tune in to many FM stations with RDS signals in France, Italy or the USA, and you’ll notice that some stations try putting some now-playing information over the 8-character radio station name....

After 8 years on the CBAA board, Natalie Pozdeev stepped aside from her role this year and looked back on how Community radio has changed in the past decade and on the bigger role women are now taking in the sector.   Natalie began her...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland   About 50% of all radio listening happens in the car (the figure’s lower in countries like the UK, but higher in places like the US).   In many ways, radio’s best in the car. Radio - the...

The 2018 CBAA Community Radio Awards were presented last night on the Gold Coast at the conclusion of the community broadcasting sector's annual conference. This year, the CBAA introduced a number of new awards to its annual event, and presented 34...

Director at Media Diversity Australia, Antoinette Lattouf, addressed the CBAA conference on the importance of Media Diversity, especially within news and current affairs programs.   She says the general population isn’t properly reflected...

When the IAB Australia's Audio Council went looking for a cross-platform audio-advertising campaign to demonstrate what best practice sounds like, they couldn’t find one. So the Audio Council, and the team at Eardrum, an Audio Council member, went...

Copyright collecting societies may be on their way out, as a new era of digital rights management looms. Paying music rights for new audio delivery formats such as podcasts and online DJ mix shows has so far been too difficult, so music is generally...

First Nations Media Australia is holding its national gathering of First Nations media organisations, CONVERGE Sydney on 21-23 November at TAFE NSW, Ultimo. The gathering will bring together broadcasters, content-makers, station personnel,...

A record 4.9 million listeners per week 1.2 million listeners added in the past 3 years No 1 UK commercial radio breakfast show More awards than any other UK Commercial radio station.   At today’s International Radio Festival conference in...

Steve Ahern reports from the International Radio Festival in Malta.   Malta is a mixture of languages and cultures, a perfect place to celebrate radio.   For the last 5000 years, the little Mediterranean island, situated just south of...