25 April 2017 John Patkin looks at where we're at with rude words on the radio Fuck! The F-bomb is no stranger to radio but we tend to...
10 May 2016 Last month, we posted an article by Australian expat and media researcher, John Patkin, now based in Hong Kong, who argued that AM/FM and DAB+ would become obsolete...
13 April 2016 ABC Australia's Director of Radio Michael Mason also feels strongly about an article by John Patkin, published on radioinfo earlier this week. Readers will recall...
12 April 2016 John Patkin's article, "AM/FM/DAB+ are endangered radio species," posted Monday on radionfo has certainly stirred up some controversy. Like Patkin, many in the industry...
12 April 2016 Joan Warner, CEO of Commercial Radio Australia, weighs in on John Patkin's article “AM/FM/DAB+ is an endangered species.” John Patkin wrote in AsiaRadioToday that...
10 April 2016 You probably won't find a 3.5 mm audio socket in the next iPhone as Apple wants to slim down its revolutionary communicator. It's another nail...
20 March 2016 Remember the Canadian radio station with the QuickHitz format that halved the length of songs? It seemed a bit rude for radio edits to be...
5 July 2015 John Patkin has been staying in southern Israel and reflects on how the recent ISIL attacks in the Sinai sent him searching for instant news...
21 June 2015 A recent survey reported on radioinfo shows radio is the most engaging industry on Facebook. It’s an impressive bullet point for a PowerPoint presentation but...
14 June 2015 Comment from John Patkin I have never liked Jeremy Clarkson or Top Gear. As an Australian, I have been offended by the way the English...
16 March 2015 Be wary of data writes John Patkin The temptation to employ data to generalise and subsequently change programming may be costly. Have you ever thought about...
5 December 2014 How would you write a commercial targeting Asian consumers of rice? The first thought might be based on what is called the availability heuristic...
25 June 2014 In an editorial in the South China Morning Post, media researcher John Patkin has asked the Communications Authority to ask RTHK to explain how its...