I was listening to Stan Park’s interesting interview with Les Burrage this week. Les is the CEO of Roberts Radio and a very likeable man who has strong views about parts of the radio industry.  In this podcast, recorded at Maple Street Studios in London, he believes there is far less original content on the radio today, than there was 10 years ago. I have pondered about that a lot this week. There are hundreds of community radio stations right now often contributing fresh and interesting content, student radio is awash with talent and is often very original, listenership to radio is up across the decade, podcasts galore showcase tons of new thought provoking stuff (although is that radio?). There are more radio stations from The BBC, some DAB offerings are wonderful and the list goes on. He is right that there are less ILR stations around these days but most of those that have gone should not have been awarded in the first place. However, commercial radio has more listeners now even with fewer services so it must be doing something right. The industry is hardly suffering in this respect.