November is the celebration of 100 years of commercial radio worldwide. There are very few mediums that have changed so little since inception – the type of radio your great-grandfather would have listened to is broadly the same as what you listen to.
It was telling that many people I spoke to at the start of the year felt that radio had stagnated, that it was just going through the motions. Sure, there were the inevitable technical and digital moves, but broadly radio didn’t need to change. Audiences were good, lineups were solid and ad revenue was constant. This safety net meant little innovation, little push to change, little threat...
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