23 July 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Two stories last week made me think. First, this off-the-cuff tweet from a radio station in Scotland, having a day of...
16 July 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland James Purnell, the ultimate boss of BBC Radio, blogged late last week that ‘we need an industry chart for UK podcasts’. He’s...
9 July 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland I was in the sunny German city of Nuremberg last week, as the guest of the "lokalrundfunktage." The state media regulator...
2 July 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Last week, US broadcaster Entercom decided to pull its streams off TuneIn, the radio aggregator. From now on, the...
25 June 2018 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...
18 June 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Jamie Dupree is a radio reporter with Cox Media Group in the US, for WSB: and two years ago he lost...
11 June 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland NPR’s audience is up. “The average weekly broadcast audiences of the top 20 NPR member stations continue to grow — from...
4 June 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland “We believe that the days when all media will be distributed over the internet are not too far away.”...
28 May 2018 And what’s a smart speaker? Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland I rather like this tweet, from the UK industry group Radiocentre, which does a very good...
21 May 2018 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...
21 May 2018 Placings on Apple's Podcast Chart can be bought says James Cridland A company called Podcast Influencer promises to get your podcast into the iTunes Top 10 for...
7 May 2018 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...
29 April 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland One of the benefits of digital platforms is that you can launch new, niche radio stations there. My daughter...
23 April 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Last week saw Edison Research release its latest Podcast Consumer data. It’s a good piece of research that is...
9 April 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Last week I got a nice thing through the post. It’s a very small piece of plastic with a tiny logo...
2 April 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland There’s nothing more enjoyable than doing live radio. There’s the adrenaline of knowing that what you’re saying is going...
26 March 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Ben Hammersley is a very clever man. He’s a “futurist”, and sports a very fine Victorian bushy moustache...
20 March 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland This week, I’m in the cold and snowy environment of Vienna in Austria, at the world’s largest radio conference,...
12 March 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland It was great to see recently a story about Andover Radio, which is going on-air next month in the South of...
6 March 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland In a few weeks, I’ll be at Radiodays Europe, the meeting-place for radio. It’ll be happening in Vienna in Austria, home...
26 February 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Occasionally, this column goes deep into tech, and this is one of those weeks. Apologies in advance, but I think it’s...
19 February 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Absolute Radio in the UK is one of the three “Independent National Radio” stations that were launched in the early...
12 February 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Across Europe, they’ve been busy switching off AM, and the switchoff of FM is getting closer for one of the largest...
5 February 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Back in the mid 1990s, I was doing the afternoon drive shift on a radio station. The only computer in the...
29 January 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Young people are falling out of love with radio. How do you know? You just have to ask a random guy...
18 January 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Last week, we saw two sets of brilliant research made available to radio people. The first was from the...
10 January 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland This month will be another month of headlines about the end of radio - and this time it’ll be...
20 December 2017 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland, originally from the UK, now living in Australia Ah, Christmas time is here again. Christmas is mostly baffling to me.
11 December 2017 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland I’ve worked with a ton of radio presenters over the past 28 years, and if I was going to make a...
5 December 2017 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland The big news in London is that there are going to be two new talk radio stations shortly - CitiTalk and CitiSport....