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 (2,800 lb) metal death-machine along busy streets alongside soft, vulnerable fleshy pedestrians, while you enjoy an unfunny stunt from breakfast show presenters who are such awful people who you'd never allow in to your house.

Radio's popularity in the car is clearly important to us as an industry. But the experience of a car radio hasn't changed much since the original car radio in the 1950s. We have to remember two random numbers to listen to a radio station - a frequency and a preset number. Switching between FM, AM (and DAB) often changes the user experience entirely.

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 ...

I still remember my first look round a radio station. In spite of writing to Signal Radio in Stoke-on-Trent and being ignored (shame on you, Signal), Radio Aire in Leeds held an open house day, and I got to look around the studios. I remember being amazed by the ...

New technology enables us to delight our listeners even more - particularly, radio operators that are now offering more choices than ever before. In Australia, Southern Cross Austereo have been doing a crafty job of launching additional brand extensions for rock and ...

I had a conversation a while ago about FM RDS, that thing which tells you what radio station you're listening to on a big screen in your car, so you don't forget. For some reason, this U.S. radio company that I was talking to didn't have RDS. The fundamental question ...

I was in London last week for the Next Radio conference - a great fun day with a lot of very good speakers. Regular readers of this column, all two of you, will remember that a while ago I wrote about Triple J's Hottest 100 - saying at the time that it was one of the ...

I'm writing this in London, where the doors are (as I type) just about to open for Next Radio, the radio conference that I run here with my friend Matt Deegan. It's a positive radio conference with an uplifting feel. Go to a radio conference in the U.S. or Canada, and ...

So, Chris Evans, the current presenter on AC/BBC Radio 2's breakfast show - the largest breakfast show in Europe, by cume - has announced that he's leaving the station later this year. He's off to Virgin Radio, where he's going to do the breakfast show. Side note: it's ...