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Author: Ivna Franic
Photo Credit: IDA Radio
After years of being represented mostly by reports about the rise of podcasts, or only discussed as an alternative to the cold, automated streaming algorithms, online radios seems to finally be coming into the spotlight. If we take a look at just the past couple of years, the number of independent online radio stations that have popped up across Europe is quite impressive, from Athens’s Movement and Tbilisi’s Mutant Radio, through Bordeaux’s (now Marseille’s) Ola Radio, Leipzig’s Sphere and Warsaw’s Radio Kapitał, all the way to, say, Skopje’s recently launched Amok Radio. Those that have been around a little longer than that – such as Dublin Digital Radio, Brussells’s Kiosk Radio, Malmö’s Retreat Radio, Kyiv’s 20ft Radio, the Tallinn-via-Helsinki IDA, Lisbon’s Rádio Quântica, Munich’s Radio 80000, Copenhagen’s The Lake Radio or Berlin’s Cashmere Radio – make for essential parts of their local scenes, as well as a bridge to what increasingly feels like a closely connected international radio landscape.
Much more than an amalgam of podcasts and curated playlists or DJ mixes, online rad...
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