Try to listen to the new season of Fortunately, a podcast from the BBC, and you'll be told you can't.

It's a show that BBC produces which never makes it on the radio. Instead, it follows the same genre as many podcasts do: two friends chatting over a coffee with a special guest. The "friends" in this case are Fi Glover and Jane Garvey, two broadcasters who share the same kind of humor. The podcast itself is recorded in the coffee shop in the "BBC Piazza," the public space outside the BBC's gleaming Broadcasting House in central London.

Last year, the BBC launched a new smartphone app. Called BBC Sounds, it contains bespoke content like this, as well as radio shows (on-demand and live), and some music mixes. Mistakenly, the app was launched before it had reached feature parity with its predecessor, BBC iPlayer Radio. It's also not available outside the U.K.

Welcome to 2019. How are your personal New Year's Resolutions going? I thought I'd suggest a few for the radio industry Lower your ad load - twelve or even fifteen minutes of ads an hour is a poor experience when compared to many of our competitors. In many cases, ads ...

What will we see in radio in 2019? My job's to look at trends in radio consumption, not really future-gazing: but perhaps I might offer the following thoughts: Smart speakers will continue to grow. Google's ecosystem is much larger than Amazon's, though if you only ...

In the U.S., it's relatively common for radio stations to suddenly flip to playing Christmas music. You can go to bed one night, wake up and discover that your favourite station is suddenly playing nothing but "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" or "All I Want For ...

Tune in to many FM stations with RDS signals in France, Italy or the U.S.A., and you'll notice that some stations try putting some now-playing information over the 8-character radio station name. Watch, and it slowly scrolls through a song name, or - worse - some ...

I'm swearing at my smart speakers a little this week. I've a few Google speakers in the house, including a Google Home Hub - the one with a little screen on it. It's great as a radio from my point of view, since it has a decent-ish speaker on it (better for voice than ...

About 50% of all radio listening happens in the car (the figure's lower in countries like the U.K., but higher in places like the U.S.). In many ways, radio is best in the car. Radio - the original multitasking medium - lets you concentrate enough to drive your 1,300kg ...

Automation Killed The Radio Star, says the latest blog from Dick Taylor, a U.S. radio writer. Two things about this. The first is the use of a lazy Buggles headline. Radio is still very much alive, with 9 out of 10 people in most large countries listening every week. ...

Scott Adams, the Dilbert cartoonist, wrote a book a while ago called "How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big." Part of his thought process is that you should actively manage your mood and your own personal energy, and one of the ways of doing so is to avoid ...

It was interesting seeing one of the pieces of news that recently came out of Radio Alive, the radio conference in Australia--the Australian radio industry is putting together a Podcast Working Group "to spearhead the development of the growing podcast industry in ...