The secret to achieve a growing radio industry could be as simple as this

 

I’m writing this in London, where the doors are (as I type) just about to open for Next Radio, the radio conference that I run here with my friend Matt Deegan. It’s a positive radio conference with an uplifting feel.

 

Go to a radio conference in the US or Canada, and there won’t be very many smiling faces. There’s a general feeling in the US and Canada that radio is managing decline. But in other countries, radio is behaving differently.

 

The UK commercial industry has grown, over the past year, by 5.2%. It’s now a US $887m market.

 

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