R4 has managed to grow, whilst LBC has moved up the chart, steadily growing and maintaining its share. The first phase is listener acquisition. It acted as a sampler and teaser that encouraged people to log on and listen in October 2014. I think that’s a good word – and something that’s much more connected to the idea of building a group of listeners who you can activate to do something – subscribe.I think much of what you say is correct. Don’t worry! To break out it’s going to need to do something special. Je kunt naar meer dan 450 radio stations luisteren. The result of this early work, was that in the digital future we all live in now, the sector has a broad range of channels from new and existing brands, that it can deliver on the modernised version of it’s heritage platform – a radio box – but also now has the material to distribute on any device that has an internet connection and speaker. We store mask contents & mask preview for every mask created in the app. Can a station find a gap in the market, can it push that gap and make it bigger? And a great reason to launch a radio station.However, the danger, is mission creep and forgetting your objectives.I think I must have had discussions with at least 50 people serious about launching radio stations over the past few years and probably another 100 time wasters. As the Hits TSA market share table below shows, older stations dominate, whilst many local stations are in a knife-fight around the 3% share mark. Its listeners are happy to drift through hard news, a soap opera, and a programme about poetry without causing much channel changing. The obvious place would be Radio 1. Kisstory, Virgin Radio, Absolute 80s and Magic Soul now make their mark too.As the number of stations has exploded, its music that’s been the differentiator. Indeed, radio (a curated linear feed with plenty of human involvement) has ended up dominating new devices like smart speakers – even if it shares them with new shouty upstarts like music streaming services. Sign up here: Regular readers will know that RAJAR is an oddity for Fun Kids, you need to be a part of it to be seen as a ‘proper’ radio station, but it only measures 10 plusses – which is a bit annoying for us as our station is for under 10s! “Hey we’re just surfacing other people’s great work”, whilst at the same time adding a new well-marketed competitor, putting even more pressure on regular journalistic endeavours.It’s been a busy old time with one of my side projects, the In the middle of April we had a chat with our production company, So here are some things that popped into my head, which are hopefully interesting for anyone doing events or organising a big project.To us Europeans, the flexibility of broadcast radio formats in the US is quite different to our very regulated environment. It’s, of course, much more interesting going on the attack. Not unnaturally the figures dropped to around 700k, and now this quarter have fallen to 526k. In Breakfast there’s been a softening from a fairly reliable low-50s to a drop last quarter and this. Mask is rendered offline on users devices. Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan is leading an all-day radiothon on 680/The Fan Tuesday, June 30 to raise money for his new Advancing The Lives (ATL) of the Black Community Fund.Via GoFundMe, he has raised $1.27 million with a goal of reaching $2 million. I imagine there’s probably two groups to appeal to:The second phase is turning this group of people into proper fans – to make them feel like the Times environment is one that interests them, represents them, entertains them.Working out subscription conversion is difficult, but 2% of a station with 500,000 listeners would hit that 10k.For me the interesting thing to learn from NewsCorps’ existing research with Times subscribers is the interplay between news and non-news content. But whilst he’s up year on year, he’s slightly down on the quarter.