HeyJaredRadioland, with James Cridland - radio futurologist
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.
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Streaming music overtakes AM/FM radio in the US (opens the original)
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“Radio is still where people go to discover music”, we keep hearing. New data from Edison Research shows that, actually, streaming music services now reach more Americans than AM/FM radio does . I’m of the opinion that music really isn’t the reason people tune into the radio any more. It’s not a very fashionable opinion. But this data does show that if radio broadcasters are relying on music to be their “unique selling proposition”, then they’re on borrowed time. As you’ll hear in my opening key
Kyle's first online show 'a disaster' (opens the original)
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Kyle Sandilands went on-air this morning with his paid-for show. It looked to be a bit of a technical mess ; his most chummy media partner called it chaotic , and detailed some of the content we all missed out on. Radioinfo says the issue was that you needed to watch the video to be able to listen ; “Not an easy listen this morning, and not just because of the teething problems”. Nine suggests it was a disaster - “never-ending audio issues that ended up sounding like a drive-thru speaker in a th
The MFWs, a new BBC station, and more from Canada (opens the original)
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Hell has no fury like an MFW - Duncan Campbell, former content director of ARN, writes about the pressure group Mad Fudging Witches. “Make no mistake about it, Alan Jones, Kyle Sandilands and Karl Stefanovic all lost their jobs because of MFW”, he claims. Not sure about Karl - probably uncritically interviewing Tommy Robinson did that for him - but, Campbell suggests we should be concerned that MFW have this kind of influence. MFW targets the advertisers who fund the shows, contacting them direc
Radio listening data from Europe and the US (opens the original)
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The EBU released its Radio Trends Report 2026 . Weekly reach across Europe is 81.3%, down 2.7% from five years ago. As above - time spent listening is 2h 10m per day - down 15 minutes on 5 years ago (and down 50 minutes from 20 years ago). Nielsen released its Podcast Listen & Watch Report , though there’s information in there for radio as well. Particularly, it quotes Edison Research’s Share of Ear for Q1, which sys that 20% of time spent with ad-supported audio is podcasting: radio is more tha
AI gets a number 1 song (opens the original)
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