James Cridland. Radio Tomorrow

Three podcasts we can learn from

18 June 2019 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland At the recent Podcast Day in London, I was asked to share three of my favourite podcasts,...

Radio’s biggest strength and worst enemy: habit

5 May 2019 Radio Tomorrow with James CridlandTypically, when I speak at conferences, I start by pointing out how popular radio is. 9 out of...

Is the future for AM radio a switch to digital?

29 April 2019 Radio Tomorrow with James CridlandIf radio’s audience is getting progressively older, AM radio is partly to blame: in most parts of the...

NAB Show highlights a trend away from studio complexes

16 April 2019 Radio Tomorrow with James CridlandI recently went to the NAB Show in Las Vegas – the first time I’d been...

A radio station that just plays podcasts

19 March 2019 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland iHeartRadio has launched what it claims is a first – a radio station that just plays podcasts. The...

Speakers vs headphones

5 March 2019 Radio Tomorrow with James CridlandNew figures have come out this week from Triton Digital, who produce a ranker for (in this case)...

Big T, Little T – should “engineering” be different to “IT”?

5 February 2019 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland In 2007, I started working for the BBC in London, in something then known as Future Media...

A commercial radio breakfast show, without the commercials

22 January 2019 Radio Tomorrow with James CridlandLast year, Chris Evans was the presenter of the most listened-to breakfast show in Europe – The Chris...

The BBC’s unfortunate bullying of Fortunately listeners

15 January 2019 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Try to listen to the new season of Fortunately, a podcast from the BBC, and you’ll be told...

Standards are boring – but they are there for a reason

27 November 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Tune in to many FM stations with RDS signals in France, Italy or the USA, and you’ll notice...

Check your speakers really are smart

20 November 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland I’m swearing at my smart speakers a little this week. I’ve a few Google speakers in the...

Why you’re wrong to pull out of TuneIn

2 July 2018 Radio Tomorrow with James CridlandLast week, US broadcaster Entercom decided to pull its streams off TuneIn, the radio aggregator. From...

What is a radio, anyway?

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,...

They say young people don’t listen to the radio

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...

Cridland lets fly at ‘that’ US radio report

10 September 2017 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland The biggest news this week is a master of doom-mongery, “New Report Shows Why...

The great AM radio switchoff

5 February 2017 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Norway is switching FM transmitters off: if you want to keep listening, you’ll find most...

The radio stations without radio studios

13 November 2016 Radio Tomorrow with James CridlandMy first job for radio was in a radio studio built in 1975 to a full...

Paul Henry – watching radio on the telly in New Zealand

23 October 2016 Radio Tomorrow with James CridlandI’ve just been on holiday to New Zealand. It was very nice, thank you for asking....

How important is a local radio station name?

3 October 2016 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland The biggest commercial radio group in Australia, Southern Cross Austereo, is doing something courageous in...

Radio in smartphones to get better

25 September 2016 Radio Tomorrow with James CridlandSmartphones contain a lot of technology: and developers have access to most of it.If you’re a...

AM Radio – Does It Have A Future?

21 August 2016 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland In the Coachella Valley in California, two AM radio stations have just shut down: KPSI...

Radio internet listening – hit, or myth?

14 August 2016 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland In a piece in The Guardian over the weekend, former radio presenter turned podcaster Scroobius...

A radio sales tactic your station must try!

7 August 2016 The radio ads targeted to just one personRadio Tomorrow with James CridlandSometimes it’s easy to forget that radio, as an advertising medium,...

Podcast stats: what we (don’t) know

24 July 2016 Radio Tomorrow with James CridlandThe recent Podcast Movement conference in Chicago has clearly highlighted that podcasting is big business. It’s...

The truth about online live, linear radio

10 July 2016 Radio Tomorrow with James CridlandI had a fearsome argument the other week on Facebook. It was about radio, which before...

Apple apparently removes the headphone jack. Should radio panic?

3 July 2016 Radio Tomorrow with James CridlandA photograph has been published by tech news websites, apparently showing an updated Apple iPhone without...

Radio Free Europe – how European radio works

26 June 2016 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland.With Brexit now decided, where does that leave Radio?From a radio point of view there almost isn’t such...

Radio could take a leaf from TV’s book to tell a stronger story

12 June 2016 Radio Tomorrow with James CridlandThis week, the television industry released data from countries all across the world showing that television...

Five ways to fix radio conferences

22 May 2016 Radio Tomorrow with James CridlandI spend quite a lot of time in radio conferences. It’s fascinating, going round the world...

Radio with one voice - Local Radio Day

15 May 2016 Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland In many radio markets, there appears a lack of working together. Companies fight between themselves,...