Radiodays Europe announces Prague as the next host city in 26 – 28 March 2023
In the Finale of Radiodays Europe 2022 it was announced that Prague would be the host city for this now three-day event, in 2023, 26 – 28 March. Peter Niegel, General Manager of Radiodays Europe said, “We are happy that next year we are going to Prague to celebrate the 100th birthday of Czech
30 groundbreaking ideas
Thomas Korponay-Pfeifer (Programme Director of Radio 88.6) is giving five commandments for Programme Directors. The first is to always remember station values and ensure everyone is on the same page. Faith in your people is important too; let your team do their job, trust your talent and do not micromanage. A lack of failure indicates
A voice clone presenting on your station could be the future of radio
In the last few years technology in radio has drastically improved. Once we didn’t even have audio editing software, now we have presenters doing shows from home. New technology, descript, allows you to edit a transcription of audio and those edits appear in the audio file. It even allows you to change words
Collaboration is king
One of the things that both big and small companies are all thinking about is how to digitise radio and audio content says Sam Bonham (Podcast Editor at BBC). Vincent Benveniste (CEO of DAVID Systems) points out the Øresund Bridge and how it's used as a connecting lifeline between two countries. We
Music classics will always be hit songs
Music classics never get old. From Bohemian Rhapsody to Yesterday, classics remain on listeners' playlists and broadcast on radio. Sean Ross in this session showed how old and classic hits took over the radio. The truth is that the classics didn't just stay in the memory of the last century. Classics are increasingly broadcast
Looking for advertisers in different places
Patricia Sonius, Head of Research & Development at STER, notes that when a brand spends money on media only 5% of that goes to radio despite it making up a much higher percentage of the media people consume. Her research shows that media and marketing professionals don’t understand how beneficial radio can be,
What’s up with Spotify?
In this detailed session, James Cridland, the Radio Futurologist and Editor of Podnews, chatted with Johan Seidefors, the Nordic Head of Content at Spotify. Johan looks after both podcasts and music for the streaming giant. He said that he said that that makes sense, especially in a smaller market like the Nordics. "We
Caring is the difference
Those allow him to look ahead, figure out where in a radio show he is, and scribble things as he presents to include later in his show. Stephanie Hirst (Host at Hits Radio) does the same. There's nothing better than prep. At Hits, she can look at the logs weeks ahead and even
The in-car radio experience continues to attract investment.
The modernization of cars also challenges radio to keep up with development. It was from this idea that Joe D’Angelo and Gereon Joachim spoke about their various experiences, existing opportunities, challenges and expectations. Despite the challenges that new audio platforms bring, Joe recalled their differences: "Sotify it ́s not radio”. Cars feature a wide
“When we pull together as an industry we are pretty unstoppable”
Mark Cunning, CEO & Content Director at iRadio, knows how powerful radio is - coming back to the Spiderman quote “with great power comes great responsibility”. When it comes to ‘responsibility’ it is important to put differences aside and create a cause which stations can collaborate on, regardless of previous rivalry. This