Radioland, with James Cridland - radio futurologist
By James Cridland
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A regular audio column with the most interesting news about radio's future. James is a radio futurologist - a writer, speaker and consultant concentrating on the effect that new platforms and technology are having on the radio business across the world. He has a website at https://james.cridland.net where you can subscribe to Radioland, his newsletter.
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Does a trademark application tell us anything about Global's plans?
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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WSQK - showing how radio innovates unlike no other
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Hey, Google - when will you fix radio? Plus, ARN's compliance team
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Tim Davie, Heart, AI traffic - and ACMA again
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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News bulletins on radio, and AI
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Emergencies - and weekends
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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New Tesla? It might not have a radio in it
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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A visualised podcast - in the flesh
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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ACMA: You Should Kick Kyle off FM Radio
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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A review of a Deepelec DP-666 radio receiver
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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No more awards in Australia; no more Radio in the UK Academy
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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The BBC adds new stations to DAB
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Pennine Radio's reunion
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Radiodays Asia in Jakarta
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Apple's radio stations now everywhere
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Calls for legislation to protect radio in Australia, and BBC adds catch-up
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Multiplatform Christian O'Connell: coming soon across Australia
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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So long, James Whale
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Time to Kiis goodbye in Brisbane?
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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ABC Radio Brisbane celebrates 100 years on-air
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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The biggest radio stations in the US
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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The end of local radio in the UK (almost)
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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The Voice of America gets cut
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Emergency radio broadcasting - ABC Radio Brisbane excels in Cyclone Alfred
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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RAJAR’s MIDAS study, and a look ahead to Radiodays
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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A tale of two sets of radio closures
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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BBC audio for international users
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Radio in the car: and bad software
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Triple J's Hottest 100; and Apple's stations
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Two big changes in radio in the UK - and what it means for everyone
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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BBC Sounds - is it going away internationally?
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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New radio, new talent, and AM
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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Happy 100, Aussie Radio
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Better user interfaces in cars change radio listening
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Careful what the numbers tell you
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Link rot, RAJAR and the BBC's global numbers
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Farewell All Access; congrats Kyle and Jackie O
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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What the world's first podcaster would do with radio
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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AI and radio
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Behind the scenes for radio visualisation at BBC Radio 5 Live
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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AM given reprieve; Long Wave to go away; radio on TV
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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An excerpt of a trip report
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May 30, 2023 |
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India tells phone manufacturers to get FM; and BBC local radio
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May 19, 2023 |
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AM radio's US defenders
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May 02, 2023 |
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Ken Bruce hits the air and Bauer hits its stride
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Can your presenters publish to your website?
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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AM radio to disappear from more cars
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Robot radio comes closer, with RadioGPT - but is it any good?
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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CBC to turn off transmitters (but not yet)
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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BBC pulls its stations from Radioplayer, and the RAJAR figures
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Ken Bruce leaving BBC Radio 2
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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The big AM switchoff gathers pace
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Radio marketing, and the BBC, and other things
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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RAJAR, MIDAS, Local BBC Radio, and privacy
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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BBC Sounds sees no growth; but ABC sees 22% increase
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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The BBC dismantles Steve Wright, the World Service, and the Prime Minister
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Radio's multiplatform radio figures from Australasia
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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BBC Sounds, Kenny Everett carts, and breakfast radio vs podcasts
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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Getting more value from the archive
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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BBC Sounds by the numbers
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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Why is Australian radio booming?
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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Canadian radio, and the rise of smart speakers
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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BBC cuts; TechSurvey, RAJAR
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May 29, 2022 |
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The end of music radio on AM? TuneIn cuts stations off; and DRM's relationship with the BBC
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May 06, 2022 |
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A radio receiver for people with dementia
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Shortwave radio: who owns the receivers?
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Emergency broadcasting, radio's market share, and the launch of Alfred
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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The curious case of the radio station that broke peoples' cars
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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The end of open, as audio goes exclusive
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Is no news good news? And: funding the BBC
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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The BBC's fight against stupid
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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Radio vs Spotify - some data
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Infinite Dial UK results, and 'Local BBC Radio'
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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An Infinite Dial for the UK at last
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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More talk! Less music!
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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Radio is a hit for car drivers
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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The UK's new radio figures
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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The CRA's good week
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Behind the Chris Evans Radio 1 breakfast show
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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The people who don't listen to radio on a radio
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Global makes a global hiring; female voices and the radio
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Why the words we use matter
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Who owns Inside Radio? And a syndicated show with a difference
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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Switzerland to turn off FM radio - the campaign to save it
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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Podcasts on your radio; radio in your Deezer; listeners on the air
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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The future of radio in Africa; and more stations in Belgium
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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Jono Coleman, and talkRADIO becomes a TV channel
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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Who cares? Plus, Audacy's 350 new stations
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Numbers from Nielsen; Ed Sheeran; terms and conditions
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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Conferences, trust, and radio in the car
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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Goodbye, and keep listening
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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At Radio Alive, things are changing
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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Confessions of a radio ad writer
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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The misguided quest for control
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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Reminding listeners how to tune in, in a multiplatform world
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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5G - the future of radio?
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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40 years of lazy Buggles headlines
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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Visually augmented audio - is it our future?
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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Google and Facebook and the power of radio
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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Podcast Movement 2019
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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Cockroaches
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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Live radio doesn't work on headphones
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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Music logs can be better
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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The AM radio station that's number two
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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Hearing the voice of your listener
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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The radio station making money from podcasts
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Jun 23, 2019 |
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Three podcasts we can learn from
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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Apple’s changing podcasting: but is it theirs to change?
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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Let’s stop deluding ourselves about the FM chip in phones
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May 27, 2019 |
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Where should a radio station be?
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May 21, 2019 |
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For internet radio, there may be trouble ahead
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May 14, 2019 |
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Radio’s biggest strength and worst enemy: habit
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May 05, 2019 |
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Is AM Radio's future all-digital?
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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The NAB Show 2019 - and the move to home studios
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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The dangers of assumption
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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Would an all-podcast radio station work?
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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What podcasting can teach radio
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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Commercial Radio Australia tries to remove links to radio stations
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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Radio: the gekko's cheating on you!
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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Radio - full of transferable skills
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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Should 'engineering' and 'IT' merge?
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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Does a little Australian TV channel give us clues for radio’s future?
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Jan 27, 2019 |
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A commercial radio breakfast show, without the commercials
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Jan 21, 2019 |
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The BBC’s unfortunate bullying of Fortunately listeners
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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Standards are boring - but they are there for a reason
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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Check your speakers really are smart
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Nov 19, 2018 |
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Radio in the car - a better experience
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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New technology: bad for radio?
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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Podcast measurement: more standardised than you’d think
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Oct 22, 2018 |
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Do you really need a radio building at all?
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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New tech offers radio listeners more choice
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Why are you in radio anyway?
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Oct 01, 2018 |
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A recap of Next Radio 2018
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Sep 24, 2018 |
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The secret to achieve a growing radio industry
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Sep 16, 2018 |
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Talent plus brand = success?
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Sep 10, 2018 |
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Naming your own radio station: what’s yours?
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Sep 03, 2018 |
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Can a smart speaker replace a kitchen radio?
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Aug 26, 2018 |
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Is object-based media in your future?
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Aug 20, 2018 |
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iHeartRadio - the future of radio?
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Aug 13, 2018 |
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Some new advertising ideas are the pits
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Aug 04, 2018 |
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Podcast positivity
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Jul 29, 2018 |
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Re-thinking and reinventing
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Jul 23, 2018 |
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At last - a chance for global podcasting measurement
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Jul 15, 2018 |
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Multiplatform radio lessons from Germany
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Jul 09, 2018 |
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Why you’re wrong to pull out of TuneIn
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Jun 30, 2018 |
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Google Podcasts: friend or foe to radio?
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Jun 24, 2018 |
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The next step for personalised radio
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Jun 17, 2018 |
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Learning from NPR
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Jun 10, 2018 |
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Are we heading for an all-IP media future?
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Jun 03, 2018 |
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What is a radio, anyway?
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May 27, 2018 |
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Measuring your best customers
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May 21, 2018 |
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A look at a new London radio station
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May 13, 2018 |
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Rajar's MIDAS touch
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May 06, 2018 |
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Digital radio's tight targeting
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Apr 28, 2018 |
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Will podcasts eat radio?
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Apr 22, 2018 |
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Editing and polishing live radio
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Apr 16, 2018 |
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Radio station swag
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Apr 09, 2018 |
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Live radio is lazy radio
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Apr 02, 2018 |
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Is radio dead? This futurist thinks so
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Mar 25, 2018 |
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The great Norwegian experiment - switching off FM
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Mar 18, 2018 |
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Digital-first radio
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Mar 11, 2018 |
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We can learn lots from European radio
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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Is your website HTTPS? And should you care?
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Feb 26, 2018 |
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AM: death by a thousand transmitters
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Feb 22, 2018 |
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The UK: almost ready to switch off FM?
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Feb 11, 2018 |
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Broadcast radio - are data-driven ads the future?
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Feb 04, 2018 |
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Young people don't listen to the radio
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Jan 28, 2018 |
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Should radio take podcasting more seriously?
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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How are we listening to audio in 2018?
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Jan 15, 2018 |
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The Brits are turning off AM - SHOULD WE PANIC????!!!1
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Jan 09, 2018 |
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Australian radio’s christmas-time sabotage
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Dec 21, 2017 |
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FM licences will be worth less - but it doesn't matter
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Dec 14, 2017 |
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Presenters and blogs - make it stop
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Dec 10, 2017 |
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Smart speakers for smart listeners
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Nov 28, 2017 |
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Is it time for radio to tune out of TuneIn?
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Nov 21, 2017 |
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Why UK radio is doing so well
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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What to put in your top-of-hour ident to make people listen longer
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Nov 05, 2017 |
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The Main Studio Rule - US radio’s biggest opportunity in years
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Oct 31, 2017 |
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A visit to Q Radio in Belfast
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Oct 05, 2017 |
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The UK’s slow road to AM/FM switchoff
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Oct 01, 2017 |
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OzPod 2017- the state of podcasting in September 2017
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Sep 10, 2017 |
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The thing most radio station websites forget
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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Shopping with the radio
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Sep 03, 2017 |
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Radio should go where the speakers are
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Aug 15, 2017 |
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Saying thank you
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Aug 08, 2017 |
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Social media goes massive for Slovenian radio hosts
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Aug 08, 2017 |
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Is zero-rated data good news for radio?
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Jul 13, 2017 |
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Lazy Buggles Headlines
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Jul 08, 2017 |
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Smart ads aren't so smart - so when will we fix streaming?
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Jun 28, 2017 |
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Radio engineers need to talk too!
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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Radio and young people - is it an on-demand future?
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Jun 15, 2017 |
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Learning from China
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Jun 06, 2017 |
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Get your tech right for an emergency
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May 23, 2017 |
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Lessons on radio's future from 1941
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May 21, 2017 |
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Simple radio marketing that works
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Apr 19, 2017 |
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Where is the best radio in the world?
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Apr 18, 2017 |
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Is Beats 1 really “the biggest radio station in the world”?
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Apr 02, 2017 |
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What's the point of a radio conference?
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Apr 02, 2017 |
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I listened to lots of podcasts and this is what I learnt
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Mar 14, 2017 |
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What Volkswagen can teach us about radio’s future
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Mar 08, 2017 |
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Getting out of the studio with a USB microphone
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Feb 26, 2017 |
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The state of podcasting today - from the award organisers
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Feb 14, 2017 |
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Making the most of your content - the Super Bowl edition
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Feb 08, 2017 |
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Hacking radio stations - the new normal ##EXPLICIT LANGUAGE##
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Jan 31, 2017 |
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Did the iPhone really destroy radio?
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Jan 24, 2017 |
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Is it all over for live overnight radio?
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Jan 15, 2017 |
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Norway switches off FM. Why don't they just stream everything?
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Jan 08, 2017 |
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The great radio switchoff
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Jan 03, 2017 |
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Why radio matters
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Dec 24, 2016 |
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The radio station in a pub, and other company-run stations
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Dec 19, 2016 |
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Barking mad - radio for dogs
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Dec 12, 2016 |
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Making digital-first radio
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Dec 06, 2016 |
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Boom 97.3's Christmasizer 2000 - a podcast extra!
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Dec 04, 2016 |
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NPR One - the future of connected radio?
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Nov 29, 2016 |
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Radio in cars - popular everywhere
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Nov 21, 2016 |
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The lazy antique radio photo - and what we need to do to eradicate it
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Nov 15, 2016 |
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Malaysia: where radio is even more popular
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Nov 14, 2016 |
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The one-man radio station with 35,000 listeners
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Nov 14, 2016 |
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The radio station with no studios
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Nov 09, 2016 |