The radio ratings in Australia come out every six weeks, which I still find slightly amazing. I'm much more used to the UK's sedate pace of a set of figures every quarter.

The local TV news bulletins report on the figures, too - something fairly unheard of in the UK. Indeed, relations with local media in the UK were rather frosty: I remember colleagues having the station logo on their t-shirts painted out before their pictures appeared in the local paper.

This time around, in Brisbane, an unlikely station has made an appearance in the top of the charts. It's saddled with a name consisting of a listener-unfriendly set of call letters; it broadcasts oldies; and - for goodness sake - it's on AM.

Johannesburg, South Africa, is a place like no other to hold a radio conference, and I was privileged to be at Radio Days Africa recently on their tenth anniversary. Radio is an important part of life in Africa in general. Radio reaches people who cannot read or write; ...

I'm in Malaysia, planning for Radiodays Asia - a new radio conference for Asia, to be held at the end of August in Kuala Lumpur. Radiodays Asia might sound familiar, if you've been to Radiodays Europe - as well it might. But radio across Asia has a lot of different ...

Radio TOK FM is one of the most listened to radio stations in Warsaw, Poland--owned by Agora Radio Group. A news/talk station with over 40 journalists, the station is doing something unusual: charging for podcasts. Jaroslaw Slizewski, the company's Chief Digital ...

At the recent Podcast Day in London, I was asked to share three of my favorite podcasts, and as always, I decided to slightly subvert the plan and talk about three podcasts that we can learn from. Reasons To Be Cheerful, with Geoff Lloyd and Ed Miliband, (produced by ...

You've probably heard about iTunes going away. In truth, this means little - iTunes "went away" on iPhones a long time ago, and this latest change is just replacing iTunes with three separate apps on the Mac. If you run a Windows machine, iTunes continues as normal. ...

A while ago, I worked on a radio station called "The Groove," which was a Soul music station in London. It didn't have frequencies, since it was just online and through DAB broadcasting, which doesn't use them; so it was just called "The Groove." It became quite ...

In Canada recently, I heard a little bit of history - or, so it seemed to me. Radio executives were openly banging the drum for FM chips in phones: an argument I thought was long since dead. You can understand why this discussion is still live in Canada. Some ...

Something fun is happening in my home town of Brisbane, Australia - some of our radio stations are on the move. Top 40 station Hit 105 and rock station Triple M lived in buildings in North Quay next to the river, where they've been for the last twenty years. They're ...

There's trouble for vTuner, the heritage company used by many manufacturers as an internet radio directory. On May 1, vTuner's service apparently fell over for eleven hours, and Frontier Silicon, who used the vTuner service for their internet radio modules (used by ...