I don't much like talking about radio in negative terms. And I'd rather people didn't compare radio, a medium I love, with a cockroach, an insect I hate.

Some cockroaches can live for a month without food, or even survive just using the glue from a postage stamp. And if you think a nuclear war might kill the things off, you'd not be right - they're fifteen times more resistant to radiation than we are. Cockroaches are really hard to get rid of.

And radio? Well.

The UK has just seen its latest radio research. It's interestingly complete data: a properly nationwide sample (unlike Australian or Malaysian data); measuring every radio station irrespective of whether it appears broken out in the figures below; it's quite open about time-spent-listening as well as population reach (unlike the US or Canada); and the current research has been going since 1999 in much the same form, so it's now got twenty years of data behind it, though the methodology has subtly changed through the years.

RAJARCLICK TO ENLARGE RAJAR, the audio research company best known for the radio figures in the UK, also releases a survey called MIDAS every quarter; and it's always a good read. Some pieces of data are the same every quarter, but they seem to put new bits of data in ...

In an idle chat a few weeks ago on Twitter, I asked to see music logs from radio stations. (By a "music log", I mean the thing that is printed out for disc jockeys that tells you what songs you're playing that hour, and where the ad breaks go). I found one from 1996. ...

The radio ratings in Australia come out every six weeks, which I still find slightly amazing. I'm much more used to the UK's sedate pace of a set of figures every quarter. The local TV news bulletins report on the figures, too - something fairly unheard of in the UK. ...

Johannesburg, South Africa, is a place like no other to hold a radio conference, and I was privileged to be at Radio Days Africa recently on their tenth anniversary. Radio is an important part of life in Africa in general. Radio reaches people who cannot read or write; ...

I'm in Malaysia, planning for Radiodays Asia - a new radio conference for Asia, to be held at the end of August in Kuala Lumpur. Radiodays Asia might sound familiar, if you've been to Radiodays Europe - as well it might. But radio across Asia has a lot of different ...

Radio TOK FM is one of the most listened to radio stations in Warsaw, Poland--owned by Agora Radio Group. A news/talk station with over 40 journalists, the station is doing something unusual: charging for podcasts. Jaroslaw Slizewski, the company's Chief Digital ...

At the recent Podcast Day in London, I was asked to share three of my favorite podcasts, and as always, I decided to slightly subvert the plan and talk about three podcasts that we can learn from. Reasons To Be Cheerful, with Geoff Lloyd and Ed Miliband, (produced by ...

You've probably heard about iTunes going away. In truth, this means little - iTunes "went away" on iPhones a long time ago, and this latest change is just replacing iTunes with three separate apps on the Mac. If you run a Windows machine, iTunes continues as normal. ...

A while ago, I worked on a radio station called "The Groove," which was a Soul music station in London. It didn't have frequencies, since it was just online and through DAB broadcasting, which doesn't use them; so it was just called "The Groove." It became quite ...