Mumbrella360 is just 3 weeks away and Nova’s Kate Ritchie, WSFM’s Amanda Keller, 2GB’s Erin Molan and 2Day FM’s Ash London will take to the stage at the conference to discuss women in media, their personal experiences and their take on the industry...

Google Search is getting an upgrade with better news coverage and now, podcast indexing. At the company’s developer conference, Google I/O, this morning, CEO Sundar Pichai kicked things off with an announcement that Google News’ “Full Coverage”...

Peter Saxon's postcard from Audioland Last week, Mumbrella held its inaugural Audioland conference. Judging by the feedback, it won’t be the last.    They were hoping for around 250 attendees. Instead, the conference was a sell-out at...

At Facebook’s F8 developer conference in San Jose, California, the company took pains to present itself as a privacy-friendly company that prioritizes its users’ safety following a scandal-ridden year. Yet while it touted encryption, secure data...

Steve Ahern examines the issues around disaggregating radio news content for delivery over smart speakers.   How we connect to news and information is changing. Smart speakers are not game changers in themselves, but when combined with the...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland I recently went to the NAB Show in Las Vegas - the first time I’d been there for three years or so. I used to stay at The Riviera, a gloriously run down hotel and casino, which had two good things - first, it was...

Now in its fourth year, Audiocraft Podcast Festival will be held in Sydney from May 31 - June 2. Programmed as part of Vivid Ideas, 400+ podcasters will converge on Sydney for three days of provocative talks, live events and invaluable networking...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland I’ve just been to Radiodays Europe in Lausanne, Switzerland. It’s the highlight of my radio conference year: over 2,500 people highlighting the very best of radio across Europe and beyond. This year, I detected a...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Never "assume," we’re told in internal training days. To ass-u-me, we’re told, makes an “ass” out of “u” and “me”. And so we laughed. And had another biscuit. And willed the rest of the day to finish. In radio, we...

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....