I like James Cridland. He’s a UK based radio guy who just “gets it”. Not just about radio but how radio and media and the internet are all converging.
Last year he did a very brave thing many of us would love to do but don’t have the balls to. He packed in a big job at the BBC to travel the world for six months learning about radio around the globe.
The results are a nice escape from the inward looking boxes we find ourselves in sometimes and you can hear/see …

James Cridland is a “radio futurologist” who just get’s the advantage of combining traditional radio and new platforms to make radio amazing.  After much experience at Virgin Radio (now Absolute Radio) and the BBC he is now working independently.
James has a rather unique and very effective way of making engaging presentations.  Below is an 8 minute presentation he gave recently to the WorldDMB General Assembly in Paris. Watch it and in 8 minutes you too will “get it”.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0mYHHoIaMY
Check out James’ blog at james.cridland.net/blog

In October key proponents of DAB from around the world gathered in London for the Digital Radio Show conference. It was held in the Armouries Hall in London with a rather unique wall display as you can see above! The result of the conference was some real information being exchanged on how DAB is progressing worldwide and the following are some notes I made while attending.
Greg Watson -MuxCo
In the UK it costs approx £20m a year to run all the DAB mux transmitters. The cost is high for two reasons. …

How digital is taking radio into the 21st Century was perfectly summed up in a presentation by two key figures from the UK radio industry at the recent Radio Days conference in Sweden.
The focus of the BBC’s James Cridland and Global Radio’s Nick Piggott is to take radio to the same standard as the amazing media devices that people now own. Phones, mp3 players and so on all have screens which display useful information such as artist, title, album artwork and so on. What digital radio can do is …