During the spring NAB show in April, the RadioDNS project demonstrated a complete implementation of hybrid radio, combining broadcast radio and IP to create an enhanced listener experience. 
What do you use your mobile phone for? Angry Birds, obviously, but excepting that, you probably use it for email, the odd phone call, a text message or two, and the occasional bit of web browsing.
Among the highs and the lows of the new RAJAR figures, UK radio’s quarterly listening survey, comes news of another use of a mobile phone… as a radio.
17% of adults aged 15+ say they’ve listened to radio via a mobile phone: a figure that’s up by almost a quarter year-on-year. For 15-24s, over a third claim to have listened to the radio in this way. This figure’s growing, particularly for older, 25+ listeners. 
Amazing Radio has ceased broadcasting on the national Digital One multiplex.
Candidate pour devenir le distributeur d'une offre de radios payantes - une première en France -, la société prévoit de diffuser 63 radios. Pour se financer, elle envisage une introduction en Bourse si elle obtient le feu vert du CSA. 
After years of rumours, whisperings, outright denials, and instances of "well, maybe...", Spotify has finally released its iPad app to the world. 
A Swiss pop-up digital radio station is to broadcast in the capital for this summer’s Olympic games. International Radio Festival will be the second DAB station specifically for the event, joining national station BBC Radio 5 live Olympics Extra. 
Le lancement de la RNT est inscrit dans la loi de 2007 sur la modernisation de la diffusion audiovisuelle, mais aucune date n'y est fixée.
The second phase of a major consumer campaign to promote digital terrestrial radio in the UK has kicked off. For the first time, it promotes availability of digital on the move. 
Le CSA relance une consultation publique concernant la technologie à adopter pour la Radio Numérique Terrestre, dans un nouvel effort pour tenter de la faire émerger. 
Consumers who grew up with mobile technology switch between devices and media platforms once every two minutes. That's according to a new study from Time Inc. called "A Biometric Day in the Life."
When industry pundits focus on problems facing terrestrial radio broadcasting, they tend to emphasize a single issue without creating a language and framework for a larger view. We see details when we look at a terrain from 20 feet, but we can only see the larger pattern from an altitude of 10,000 feet. Both views are important because they each contribute different kinds of information. The proposed .radio generic top-level domain is now officially contested, after the European Broadcasting Union confirmed that it plans to apply for the gTLD. The year is 2016. What will the successful radio station have done in social media by then? And what will have happened to the station that did nothing? Via Nicolas Moulard - Actuonda |
Want to hear radio adverts on your iPhone? There's an app for that. The LoveRadioAds app is a free download for smartphones, which lets users search for and play radio adverts. 
Users already spend a lot of time in the Flipboard app, and if past data is any indication, audio could keep people "flipping" a lot longer.
A new chart will rank plays on platforms including We7, Napster, Deezer, Zune and ChartsNow. The Official Streaming Chart will launch next Monday, billed as the first chart to rank audio streams from both ad-funded and subscription services in the UK. 
The web is unmuting, says Soundcloud CEO Alexander Ljung. Why he believes video will take a backseat to sound in the battle for web attention.
After relaunching its call for digital radio networks in Paris, Marseille and Nice, French broadcast authority CSA plans to open a call for digital terrestrial licences for France's next 20 biggest cities. CSA states that the 23 cities account for 62 percent of the French population. The licensing process, which is opposed by the big analogue stations, has yet to be approved in plenary session. It is backed by independent and smaller stations as well as public broadcaster Radio France. At the 2012 NAB Show, the European Broadcast Union assisted in demonstrating one of the most interesting developments in radio today: RadioDNS. A RadioDNS-enabled radio examines certain labeling signals already broadcast with FM or digital radio and tracks down, via a RadioDNS server, the content the listener wants from the Internet. RadioVIS then displays the content on the screen of the radio. Official data relating to digital radio broadcasts in Australia was released by Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) today in the Digital Radio Industry Report 2012, showing the technology is tracking ahead of forecast, with 1.2 million* people listening to digital radio in an average week, in the five state metropolitan capitals of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide and close to 800,000** digital radios sold. 
The French broadcasting authority CSA has opened a public consultation on changing the country's digital terrestrial radio standard to DAB+. Les Echos reports that the CSA wants to deliver authorisations for Paris, Marseille and Nice and to launch a call for applications for 20 other cities. 
Les principales radios privées estiment que les conditions pour un lancement réussi de la radio numérique terrestre, annoncé pour 2012 par le CSA, ne sont pas réunies. 
If you’ve got a smartphone, or a modern DAB/FM radio, chances are it can connect to the internet on 3G or wifi. This lets your smartphone also check your emails, and your modern radio listen to internet radio streams. But what it doesn’t let you do is find out more about the station you’re listening to. At least, until now. (Read that in a dramatic voice and let the tension sink in a little. Done? Then let us proceed!) 
Where would modern radio stations be without the Internet? As online increasingly becomes part of everyday life, this is becoming a key question for many broadcasters, aspiring to utilize this relatively new platform to their best advantage. 
Ed Vaizey, the government minister responsible for broadcasting, has met leading retailers to talk about how they can support the move to promote switchover. |
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