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 moving a two minute walk away, up the hill to Petrie Terrace, a new entertainment district with a cinema, restaurants, and next to Caxton Street, one of Brisbane's oldest entertainment streets with bars, pubs and clubs. It's just a quick walk away from Suncorp Stadium, the city's sports and entertainment arena.

Meanwhile, the AC formatted "97.3," and hot oldies station 4KQ, just moved from a dumpy building in Stones Corner, an out-of-town location 5km away from the city where they've been for thirty years. They're moving to a building on Coronation Drive in Milton, overlooking the river and close to both the city center and to a restaurant district that also boasts the highest concentration of beer breweries, including Queensland's famous XXXX.

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 ...

Radio's biggest strength and worst enemy: habit. Typically, when I speak at conferences, I start by pointing out how popular radio is. Nine out of 10 of us listen to the radio in any given week - whether you live in Boston, Massachusetts; Boston, England; or Boston in ...

If radio's audience is getting progressively older, AM radio is partly to blame. In most parts of the world, AM radio is the home of shouting and reactionary talk radio, urgent-sounding 24/7 news broadcasts, sports broadcasters or "oldies" stations - which I always ...

I recently went to the NAB Show in Las Vegas - the first time I'd been there for three years or so. I used to stay at The Riviera, a gloriously run down hotel and casino, which had two good things - first, it was a short walk away from the Convention Center, and ...

I've just been to Radiodays Europe in Lausanne, Switzerland. It's the highlight of my radio conference year--over 2,500 people highlighting the very best of radio across Europe and beyond. This year, I detected a change. Darren Davis from iHeartRadio, the US commercial ...

'Never assume,' we're told in our earliest days of learning. To ass-u-me, we're told, makes an "ass" out of "u" and "me." And so we laughed. And had another cookie. And willed the rest of the day to finish. In radio, we assume too often: mainly, we assume that all our ...

iHeartRadio has launched what it claims is a first - a radio station that just plays podcasts. The nattily entitled iHeartRadio Podcast Channel AM 1470, in Allentown-Bethlehem PA, USA, will broadcast podcasts from the iHeartRadio catalogue 24-hours a day. When I tuned ...

I'm often asked what the difference is between podcasting and radio, since I'm increasingly straddling both industries. The answer? Podcasters like each other. I was at Podfest, a podcasting conference in Orlando last week. The conference, sponsored by Himalaya, had ...

New figures have come out this week from Triton Digital, who produce a ranker for (in this case) streaming radio online. They show that "radio listening on smart speakers has doubled." In fact, it's increased by 111%, a bit more than double. These figures confirm the ...