Section 2 of 5
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The platforms and devices where radio is actually heard now — aggregators, public-broadcaster apps, smart speakers, and the car dashboard fight.
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2012
TuneIn and the Aggregator Layer Between Station and Ear
The platform that lists your station has more leverage than many broadcasters care to admit.
The angle is infrastructure: TuneIn is not a broadcaster but its decisions about what to list shape what listeners find.
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2016Listening
Radio Garden: What Happens When the Map Is the Interface
Describes the Jonathan Puckey-designed Radio Garden project — its origin at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, its globe-as-dial interface, and its relationship with broadcasting rights — drawing on the project's own published documentation.
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2000Listening
Two Decades Without Ads: The SomaFM and Radio Paradise Model
Covers the listener-funded, ad-free model pioneered by SomaFM (founded 2000, San Francisco) and Radio Paradise (founded 2000, Paradise, California), including their SoundExchange royalty obligations and how listener-donation income has covered those costs over two decades.
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2011Listening
NTS and Worldwide FM: Internet-Native Radio's Operating Logic
Describes NTS Radio (London, founded 2011) and Worldwide FM (London, founded 2016) as stations born for streaming rather than adapted to it — their scheduling, archive, and licensing approach compared with legacy broadcasters adapting to the same distribution layer.
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BBC Sounds and Sveriges Radio: What a Public-Broadcaster App Has to Do
Compares the BBC Sounds and Sveriges Radio Play app architectures — their rights obligations, live-versus-catch-up balance, and the requirement to carry emergency broadcast signals — drawing on the BBC's published annual reports and PTS documentation from Sweden.
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2020Listening
The Dashboard Is the Real Battleground
Examines Android Auto and CarPlay as the dominant in-car radio interfaces and what their adoption means for DAB+, HD Radio, and streaming relative to analogue FM, drawing on automobile manufacturer data and published Ofcom and Edison Research listening surveys.
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2024Listening
Smart Speakers and What Radio Lost When the Tuner Disappeared
Covers Amazon Echo, Google Nest, and Apple HomePod as the dominant smart-speaker platforms and their effect on radio listening time, citing RAJAR, Edison Research, and published device-sales data.
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