This year we celebrated 10 years of Radio Surviving. We ended out our first year of publication in 2009 with a look back at the “Decade’s Most Important Radio Trends.” As the 2nd decade of the 21st century draws to a close, we will now similarly review the last ten years of radio.
Some changes are obvious – for instance, Clear Channel is now known as iHeartRadio – while others are more subtle. The majority of the technologies that most influence audio and radio media today were extant in December 2009: smartphones, mobile broadband, internet radio and podcasting, to name just four. So what is different?
That’s the question we’ll take up between now and January 31, 2020. As we publish each trend we’ll list it here for easy reference.
What do you think are the most important trends in radio for the years 2010 – 2019? Drop us an email, tweet at us or comment on our Facebook page.
The Trends:
- The Rise and Possible Fall of FrankenFMs Is One of the Most Important Radio Trends of the Decade
- The Near-Death of Independent Internet Radio Is One of the Most Important Radio Trends of the Decade
- The Greatest Flowering of Community Radio History Happened in the 2010s
- Preservation is One of the Most Important Radio Trends of the Decade
- More College Radio than Ever in the 2010s as it Takes New Forms
