The register

Everything, in the order the scale puts it

All 31 pieces, earliest year first. Where the record carries no single date, the year column carries a bracket instead of a numeral.

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Year	Piece	Section
1973	Bauer and Global: How Two Groups Came to Carry Most of UK Commercial Radio	The Groups
1985	Radio Martí: What the Public Record Shows About a State-Funded Broadcaster	The Groups
1988	PRS and PPL: Why UK Radio Pays Two Different Bodies for the Same Song	The Money
1995	SoundExchange and the Right That Terrestrial Radio Still Does Not Pay	The Money
2000	Two Decades Without Ads: The SomaFM and Radio Paradise Model	Listening
2004	Community Radio's Licensing Deal and Why the Funding Rules Are the Point	The Money
2004	How the Copyright Royalty Board Sets the Rate Every Five Years	The Money
2010	RTVE and the Spanish Públicas: Funding Without a Licence Fee	The Groups
2010	The Loudness War Reaches a Regulator: R 128 and How Normalisation Changed Radio	The Signal
2011	NTS and Worldwide FM: Internet-Native Radio's Operating Logic	Listening
2012	TuneIn and the Aggregator Layer Between Station and Ear	Listening
2014	GEMA, SACEM, and How European Collecting Societies Set Their Own Rates	The Money
2016	Radio Garden: What Happens When the Map Is the Interface	Listening
2017	One Region at a Time: How Norway Turned Off FM in 2017	The Switchovers
2017	The Masts That Did Not Come Down	The Signal
2019	iHeartMedia: The Debt, the Chapter 11, and What Emerged in 2019	The Groups
2020	Germany's Quiet Mandate: DAB+ in Every New Car	The Switchovers
2020	The Dashboard Is the Real Battleground	Listening
2023	The American Music Fairness Act and the Case Against the Exemption	The Money
2024	Audacy Files: The Second Large-Group Bankruptcy in Five Years	The Groups
2024	DAB, DAB+, and What the Codec Upgrade Actually Changed	The Signal
2024	Smart Speakers and What Radio Lost When the Tuner Disappeared	Listening
2024	Switzerland Closes the Loop	The Switchovers
2026		The Money
	BBC Sounds and Sveriges Radio: What a Public-Broadcaster App Has to Do	Listening
	Denmark and the Rest of the Nordic Timetable	The Switchovers
	From Microphone to Mast: The Broadcast Chain in Its Current Form	The Signal
	HD Radio's Adoption Curve and the Absent Switch-Off Date	The Switchovers
	Icecast, HLS, and the Buffer That Lives Between Studio and Listener	The Signal
	The Date That Keeps Moving: Britain's DAB Migration	The Switchovers
	Where FM Is Not Going Away	The Switchovers