Radioland, with James Cridland - radio futurologist
James Cridland
Show overview
Radioland, with James Cridland - radio futurologist has been publishing since 2016, and across the 10 years since has built a catalogue of 241 episodes. That works out to roughly 25 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run under ten minutes — most land between 3 min and 9 min — with run-times ranging widely across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language Business show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 4 days ago, with 19 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2018, with 46 episodes published. Published by James Cridland.
From the publisher
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.
Latest Episodes
View all 241 episodesA 'clear-channel' AM station sells its transmitters for housing
DAB+, DRM, Radio 4 LW and the death of radio news
Fakt Tapt video, the ACMA FoI, and how local is US radio really?
SiriusXM and iHeart to merge?
Longwave closures and job cuts from the BBC
The AI top 40, and the BBC News channel in Australia
Should you pull your radio station off TuneIn?
What the radio figures actually say about multiplatform radio
There's a nice graph here: https://james.cridland.net/blog/2026/multiplatform-radio-figures/
The world of radio goes to Rīga
Latvia is the home of Radiodays Europe this yearhttps://radioland.email for more!
The big changes for radio's 55+ audience
New research shows that radio's core audience is changing rapidly.More on this and everything else at https://radioland.email
Kyle and Jackie O - what their show ending means for the radio industry
One of Australia’s biggest radio shows, Kyle & Jackie O, has ended. Tuesday’s announcement to the ASX, the Australian stock market, makes it clear that it isn’t a stunt. The show is now off the air: Kent Small is doing the breakfast show in both Sydney and Melbourne (this is Australian radio, so he has to have a nickname, which is “Smallzy”).Employment lawyers will now be involved, in two of the biggest media legal cases in the country, as things begin to get messy. Jackie “O” Henderson is now saying that she “did not quit or resign”, in a statement that, perhaps pointedly, didn’t mention Kyle’s name once. Kyle (who has also taken time away from TV duties) is also reported to be priming his lawyers for a reported $88mn; potentially arguing that a similar argument on-air last year wasn’t treated as serious by ARN, his whole show was based on controversy, and a slightly misguided view that ARN’s censors should have prevented the argument going out. There’s plenty more informed coverage in the Game Changers Radio podcast.This might look like a peculiarly Australian news story. But, actually, I think it raises questions for radio people everywhere. Here are some of them.
Ofcom's news rules to cool FM band?
Read this at https://radioland.email
Radioland gets a Marty; NRJ to leave national radio in Sweden
More at https://radioland.email
Why TV's decline matters for radio
Read this, see the links and more at https://radioland.email
New Australian broadcast rules - covering AI and kids
The new rules from CRA in Australia. What do they say?https://james.cridland.net/blog/2026/new-australian-rules for links and more!
Your emergency broadcaster - except when you're not
Links and more at https://james.cridland.net/blog/2026/emergency-broadcasters/
ABC comes off iHeart
Links and more - https://james.cridland.net/blog/2026/abc-comes-off-iheart/
STV Radio launches, and more AM switchoffs
https://james.cridland.net/blog/2026/stv-radio-launches/ for links and more
Radiocentre's 2025 - and closures as we move into 2026
https://james.cridland.net/blog/2026/closures-at-end-of-2025/ for links to everything I talk about, and more
The future isn't AM in cities
More including audio at https://james.cridland.net/blog/2025/arn-change-minds/