WEBVTT 00:00:00.880 --> 00:00:03.480 Hello, I'm James Criddon, the radio futurologist, 00:00:03.480 --> 00:00:06.820 and this is Radioland, my weekly newsletter and 00:00:06.820 --> 00:00:10.060 podcast all about international radio trends 00:00:10.060 --> 00:00:13.519 and all of that. We're sponsored by RSS .com, 00:00:13.660 --> 00:00:16.760 which last week was announced as one of the new 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:19.899 partners for Apple Podcasts' new video thing. 00:00:20.339 --> 00:00:24.239 If you want to be in video and available in Apple 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:27.160 Podcasts, then you can do that with RSS .com, 00:00:27.219 --> 00:00:31.500 which is nice. Now, the world of radio is in 00:00:31.500 --> 00:00:34.679 Riga, in Latvia, including me. I'm in this beautiful 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:40.000 hotel room here. We are here for Radio Days Europe. 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:42.560 And as Nick Goodman said to me yesterday, it's 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:44.840 a really special feeling of the band getting 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:47.420 back together as you bump into people over breakfast 00:00:47.420 --> 00:00:50.020 at the hotel and in the bars across the city. 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:53.299 And I've just spent a little bit of time at the 00:00:53.299 --> 00:00:56.340 venue for the Focused Summits, which have been 00:00:56.340 --> 00:00:59.119 going on all day today. opening drinks tonight, 00:00:59.259 --> 00:01:01.840 then the conference kicks into full swing tomorrow. 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:04.640 I'm speaking on Tuesday morning about the future 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:07.239 of radio, but also talking to Steve Jones about 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:10.340 TuneIn, and also talking about Kyle and Jackie 00:01:10.340 --> 00:01:12.799 O, of course, more to come in this podcast. The 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:15.739 event is, as ever, very well organised. The use 00:01:15.739 --> 00:01:17.819 of students is a very clever thing. They are 00:01:17.819 --> 00:01:22.180 helpers across the day, and it just makes the 00:01:22.180 --> 00:01:24.530 event feel as if it's full of young people. It's 00:01:24.530 --> 00:01:27.230 very clever. I wasn't able to be here last year, 00:01:27.310 --> 00:01:29.230 so I'm just noticing that everybody looks two 00:01:29.230 --> 00:01:32.090 years older than I remembered them looking. Because, 00:01:32.189 --> 00:01:34.310 of course, not being here last year means that 00:01:34.310 --> 00:01:36.569 I missed all of that. But thank you to many people 00:01:36.569 --> 00:01:38.290 who've said nice things about this newsletter 00:01:38.290 --> 00:01:41.109 and about the podcast version. Whenever somebody 00:01:41.109 --> 00:01:43.469 tells me that they're a reader, I'm always slightly 00:01:43.469 --> 00:01:46.590 worried if I've been a little bit too mean to 00:01:46.590 --> 00:01:50.349 them. So everybody's been very nice so far, which 00:01:50.349 --> 00:01:53.760 is nice. Now, of course, the big news this week 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:57.040 is all about Kyle and Jackie O, I'm afraid. On 00:01:57.040 --> 00:01:59.040 the same day as I sent the newsletter out last 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:02.120 week, the Australian media regulator ACMA woke 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:05.659 up. and published new licence conditions for 00:02:05.659 --> 00:02:08.259 KISS FM in Sydney and Melbourne, specifically 00:02:08.259 --> 00:02:11.240 about Kyle and Jackie O. The conditions only 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:15.520 cover shows with Kyle and or Jackie, so the company 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:17.639 is free to get anybody else on air to talk about 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:19.340 the kind of stuff that Kyle and Jackie O were 00:02:19.340 --> 00:02:21.659 talking about, and should Kyle or Jackie pop 00:02:21.659 --> 00:02:23.580 up on a different station, then they'll be fine 00:02:23.580 --> 00:02:26.080 to talk about that kind of stuff too. But the 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:28.900 statement of reasons, the statement of reasons... 00:02:29.500 --> 00:02:32.340 which I link to in the newsletter, highlights 00:02:32.340 --> 00:02:34.780 part of ARN's response. I've requested that in 00:02:34.780 --> 00:02:37.080 full under the Freedom of Information Act, so 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:40.060 it'll be interesting to see if I get that. But 00:02:40.060 --> 00:02:43.539 they have, the ACMA have, correctly removed a 00:02:43.539 --> 00:02:46.099 potential breach of sexual innuendo. They've 00:02:46.099 --> 00:02:49.620 whipped it out. And I think that that's relatively 00:02:49.620 --> 00:02:53.560 sensible because, you know, goodness, it's quite 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:57.120 hard to work out what is sexual innuendo and 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:00.860 what isn't, to be honest. As I've said way back 00:03:00.860 --> 00:03:03.599 in November, actually, the ACMA have been a little 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:05.719 constrained by the regulatory power that the 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:07.800 law affords them. That's no excuse for their 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:12.840 tardy response. But as it is, you could argue 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:15.460 that the ACMA doesn't actually have the powers 00:03:15.460 --> 00:03:18.780 it needs to to be able to regulate broadcast 00:03:18.780 --> 00:03:23.060 radio effectively. Anyway, ARN also sacked Kyle 00:03:23.060 --> 00:03:25.979 Sanderlands officially last week, giving a statement 00:03:25.979 --> 00:03:28.819 to the ASX, to the stock market. Kyle himself 00:03:28.819 --> 00:03:31.099 released a long statement essentially saying 00:03:31.099 --> 00:03:33.580 that his lawyers will be in touch and that ARN 00:03:33.580 --> 00:03:36.219 hasn't honoured the contract. Surprise, surprise. 00:03:36.460 --> 00:03:39.860 I was interviewed on Nine's national breakfast 00:03:39.860 --> 00:03:42.539 television Today show about the whole thing. 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:45.400 And what was quite instructive to me is how Nine 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:49.060 took the interview, reposted it on YouTube, used 00:03:49.060 --> 00:03:51.419 clips of that interview again in their news bulletins, 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:53.460 posted those to Instagram, really getting the 00:03:53.460 --> 00:03:56.580 most out of the content. And reusing and repeating 00:03:56.580 --> 00:03:59.060 material is something that radio is surprisingly 00:03:59.060 --> 00:04:02.159 bad at. So it was good to see that happening 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:05.759 here. Elsewhere, Australian Radio released its 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:08.240 first ratings of the year. They are essentially 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:10.879 Kyle and Jackie O's last figures. And if you're 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:14.919 wondering, a 12 .7 % share for Breakfast in Sydney, 00:04:15.060 --> 00:04:21.300 coming second behind 2GB's 16 .6%. As ever, Survey 00:04:21.300 --> 00:04:24.480 1 is often an interesting book and there's normally 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:27.279 been a lot of change. Gold, Sydney and Melbourne 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:30.319 both saw drops after Christian O 'Connell's show 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:32.939 was started to be carried on both, but it's much 00:04:32.939 --> 00:04:35.519 too early. early to make a decision about that 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:38.920 quite yet. ABC Radio Perth's switch to FM was 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:41.259 right at the end of the survey. It saw a small 00:04:41.259 --> 00:04:43.639 increase, plenty of other changes to monitor 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:46.939 as well. In Adelaide, this was interesting, Mix 00:04:46.939 --> 00:04:51.319 102 .3 changed its name to Kiss 102 .3, but apparently 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:54.920 made no other changes at all. And just that name 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:59.420 change alone cost them 3 .3 in share, which is 00:04:59.420 --> 00:05:02.959 quite a big drop. There's a fascinating thing. 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:06.639 And something to watch out for is survey two 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:09.759 is based on numbers from February the 8th to 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:13.279 April the 4th. So that survey still won't tell 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:15.259 the true story about whatever happens to Carl 00:05:15.259 --> 00:05:17.699 and Jackie O's audience, because half of it, 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:19.839 Carl and Jackie O would still have been on the 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:22.420 air. Nor will it tell the true story of ABC Radio 00:05:22.420 --> 00:05:24.259 Perth's switch to FM. We'll have to wait until 00:05:24.259 --> 00:05:27.079 survey three for that, which comes out in June. 00:05:28.620 --> 00:05:32.740 And also in other news, CBS News Radio is to 00:05:32.740 --> 00:05:36.600 shut down in May. CBS News is the BBC's news 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:40.129 partner in the US, which... It's a surprising 00:05:40.129 --> 00:05:44.209 choice. And CBS News did news bulletins at the 00:05:44.209 --> 00:05:46.730 top and bottom of the hour for 700 affiliated 00:05:46.730 --> 00:05:49.089 radio stations. You would have thought, wouldn't 00:05:49.089 --> 00:05:51.430 you, that if the BBC was quick and nimble, they 00:05:51.430 --> 00:05:53.750 would jump in and produce national news bulletins 00:05:53.750 --> 00:05:55.990 for the US as a commercial business. They've 00:05:55.990 --> 00:05:58.689 got enough journalists to do that sort of thing. 00:05:58.829 --> 00:06:02.750 So why would they not do that? But who knows? 00:06:02.850 --> 00:06:04.930 There may be some very good reasons, like the 00:06:04.930 --> 00:06:07.250 BBC isn't nimble enough. It's probably the good 00:06:07.250 --> 00:06:10.420 reason. But yeah, you would have thought that 00:06:10.420 --> 00:06:13.579 that would be a sensible move. Where am I speaking 00:06:13.579 --> 00:06:18.339 next? Well, I'm speaking here in Riga. for Radio 00:06:18.339 --> 00:06:21.819 Days Europe Tuesday morning 9am the future of 00:06:21.819 --> 00:06:25.199 audio is people powered I'm also talking with 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:30.100 Steve Jones of Stingray Monday at 2pm about TuneIn, 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:33.120 Canadian Radio and more and I'm in a session 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:35.639 about what happens when you lose your big star 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:39.480 which is on Tuesday at some point 12 something, 00:06:39.699 --> 00:06:43.009 12 .30 I'd like to say Anyway, looking forward 00:06:43.009 --> 00:06:46.350 to that. That should be good fun. And also, obviously, 00:06:46.410 --> 00:06:48.569 I'm talking at the podcast show later on in the 00:06:48.569 --> 00:06:51.050 year as well, keynoting at that event as well 00:06:51.050 --> 00:06:53.069 as recording a Pod News Weekly review there as 00:06:53.069 --> 00:06:55.790 well. 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