# Radioland, with James Cridland - radio futurologist Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972.md RSS feed: https://media.rss.com/james-cridland/feed.xml Official site: https://radioland.email Author: James Cridland Episodes: 250 ## Resource 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. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972.md ## Episodes - [The MFWs, a new BBC station, and more from Canada](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/the-mfws-a-new-bbc-station-and-more-from-canada) — 2026-07-29T10:59:46+00:00 - [Radio listening data from Europe and the US](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/radio-listening-data-from-europe-and-the-us) — 2026-07-19T06:28:26+00:00 - [AI gets a number 1 song](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/ai-gets-a-number-1-song) — 2026-07-12T23:51:22+00:00 - [Linear audio vs ondemand audio](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/linear-audio-vs-ondemand-audio) — 2026-07-06T06:09:32+00:00 - [BBC Radio 4 long-wave closes down](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/bbc-radio-4-long-wave-closes-down) — 2026-06-27T11:23:52+00:00 - [What Kyle does next; and doing shows away from your studio](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/what-kyle-does-next-and-doing-shows-away-from-your-studio) — 2026-06-20T10:16:38+00:00 - [No more Kyle and Jackie O: the effect on radio overall](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/no-more-kyle-and-jackie-o-the-effect-on-radio-overall) — 2026-06-15T00:06:35+00:00 - [ARN's thoughts about the ACMA licence conditions](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/arn-s-thoughts-about-the-acma-licence-conditions) — 2026-06-04T03:05:23+00:00 - [Should the ABC merge with the SBS?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/should-the-abc-merge-with-the-sbs) — 2026-05-29T03:16:37+00:00 - [A 'clear-channel' AM station sells its transmitters for housing](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/a-clear-channel-am-station-sells-its-transmitters-for-housing) — 2026-05-18T14:33:25+00:00 - [DAB+, DRM, Radio 4 LW and the death of radio news](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/dab-drm-radio-4-lw-and-the-death-of-radio-news) — 2026-05-18T14:32:27+00:00 - [Fakt Tapt video, the ACMA FoI, and how local is US radio really?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/fakt-tapt-video-the-acma-foi-and-how-local-is-us-radio-really) — 2026-05-05T01:09:50+00:00 - [SiriusXM and iHeart to merge?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/siriusxm-and-iheart-to-merge) — 2026-04-27T11:19:42+00:00 - [Longwave closures and job cuts from the BBC](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/longwave-closures-and-job-cuts-from-the-bbc) — 2026-04-20T10:08:20+00:00 - [The AI top 40, and the BBC News channel in Australia](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/the-ai-top-40-and-the-bbc-news-channel-in-australia) — 2026-04-15T11:23:15+00:00 - [Should you pull your radio station off TuneIn?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/should-you-pull-your-radio-station-off-tunein) — 2026-04-05T07:27:50+00:00 - [What the radio figures actually say about multiplatform radio](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/what-the-radio-figures-actually-say-about-multiplatform-radio) — 2026-04-01T01:06:26+00:00 - [The world of radio goes to Rīga](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/the-world-of-radio-goes-to-r-ga) — 2026-03-22T15:22:16+00:00 - [The big changes for radio's 55+ audience](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/the-big-changes-for-radio-s-55-audience) — 2026-03-16T00:08:04+00:00 - [Kyle and Jackie O - what their show ending means for the radio industry](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/kyle-and-jackie-o-what-their-show-ending-means-for-the-radio-industry) — 2026-03-08T09:51:08+00:00 - [Ofcom's news rules to cool FM band?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/ofcom-s-news-rules-to-cool-fm-band) — 2026-03-01T22:44:38+00:00 - [Radioland gets a Marty; NRJ to leave national radio in Sweden](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/radioland-gets-a-marty-nrj-to-leave-national-radio-in-sweden) — 2026-02-22T23:13:06+00:00 - [Why TV's decline matters for radio](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/why-tv-s-decline-matters-for-radio) — 2026-02-16T09:19:50+00:00 - [New Australian broadcast rules - covering AI and kids](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/new-australian-broadcast-rules-covering-ai-and-kids) — 2026-02-10T04:37:34+00:00 - [Your emergency broadcaster - except when you're not](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/your-emergency-broadcaster-except-when-you-re-not) — 2026-02-01T12:07:58+00:00 - [ABC comes off iHeart](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/abc-comes-off-iheart) — 2026-01-27T11:19:20+00:00 - [STV Radio launches, and more AM switchoffs](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/stv-radio-launches-and-more-am-switchoffs) — 2026-01-18T11:17:00+00:00 - [Radiocentre's 2025 - and closures as we move into 2026](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/radiocentre-s-2025-and-closures-as-we-move-into-2026) — 2026-01-04T09:57:09+00:00 - [The future isn't AM in cities](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radioland-with-james-cridland-radio-futurologist-220972/the-future-isn-t-am-in-cities) — 2025-12-21T12:17:42+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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