James Cridland, managing director of Media UK and a radio futurologist, reminisces on the sporting summer and the impact on radio listening and its digital future…

James Cridland, managing director of Media UK and a radio futurologist, says radio continues to change and the new listening figures make this ever more clear…

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.

The new RAJAR radio research figures are out – and you’ll read two sets of stories today regarding digital radio.

James Cridland, managing director of Media UK and a radio futurologist, says today’s RAJAR release continues to show a slow but steady increase in take-up of digital radio. If there is a way to accelerate this, it’s good for listeners and broadcasters alike – but it is also prudent to remain patient…

James Cridland, managing director of Media UK and a radio futurologist, says the power is now in the brand, not in the individual stations that make them up…

James Cridland says in a world of on-demand, video-with-everything, iThat and iThis, it’s easy to forget that while broadcast radio is not shiny or ‘new’, it is an established and successful part of the media landscape: indeed, one that according to today’s figures is getting more popular, not less…

James Cridland, managing director of Media UK and a radio futurologist, says the latest digital listening figures are a welcome, gradual, improvement: but anyone expecting the internet or DAB to replace FM listening any time soon might have egg on their face…

James Cridland, a radio futurologist, says “extra” is beginning to be the theme of the quarterly RAJAR radio audience figures…