Listen to Marte on day two of Radiodays Europe 2019.  

Breakfast show-hosting tag team Christian Bonde and Maria Fantino shared their own checklist and taught the delegates through their most valuable strategies how to engage listeners. Hiring young hosts may seem obvious, but it is actually crucial. As Christian said: “If you engage with the listener in your own life, they will feel closer to you.

Listen to Matt on day two of Radiodays Europe 2019.  

John Purcell (KCLR 96FM) was first to greet the delegates and talked about what went right and wrong with the Irish ‘Sound & Vision’ fund. The strengths include money for projects that independent broadcasters couldn’t afford otherwise. The weaknesses include its bureaucratic, cumbersome application process, and that TV dominates the share of the fund. Next up Siobhan Kenny

Florence Fischer, who is a host at SRF in Switzerland, started the session by discussing fake news – and how to avoid it. She said, don’t share something you don’t know is 100% trustworthy. Double check things first. Wade Kingsley, founder of The Ideas Business in Australia spoke about making on-air promotions better. He suggested that delegates

Stewart Copeland is a music industry legend, having been part of one of the most successful rock bands of all time - The Police.  In this session, he talked to Ben Jones from Virgin Radio about his amazing career, and the role radio has played in his life. Stewart shared stories of his

DAB and podcasting was Grant Blackley’s focus over the course of the session. But he started by outlining the company’s priorities; - Reach (95% of Australians are reached by SCA), localism (operating across 65 key locations), and attributes such as people and sales. Snapping up their maximum allotment of DAB on release of

Michal Marcinik from AdTonos showed delegates how, through the use of technology, radio can stay one step ahead of the tech giants.   Michal created one of the first internet radio stations Radio Net in 1989 at a time when people didn’t understand it nor at that time were they interested in it. From

The room was not big enough for all the delegates wanting to find out more about young audiences.  First up, Rasmus Kidde shared the results of “Convenience and Relationship”, a study about the media consumption habits of Danish youth. A study that had the close cooperation of Radiodays Europe’s general manager, Peter Niegel.  The

The key difference between broadcasters and Spotify is curation, radio must make good programs with good content. Should we be making local content or should we centralize content production to save money and use better talent? He suggests neither approach is optimal, in Nico’s view a hybrid approach is best. Research suggests the channel doesn’t matter that