Radio Garden
Dutch radio and digital research project
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2024 | Radio Garden reported an expanded collection of over 40,000 radio stations, significantly growing from its initial 2016 offering. |
January 2023 | Radio Garden announced an extended restriction on international radio stations for UK users due to unresolved copyright and neighbouring rights issues, with no definitive end date to the limitation. |
2022 | Radio Garden began offering refunds to UK users who had paid for ad removal, with the refund period extending until December 2023. |
September 2022 | Radio Garden limited UK listeners to UK-only channels, removing most BBC Radio stations except the BBC World Service. |
January 2022 | Radio Garden was banned in Turkey by the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), requiring the platform to pay a license fee or terminate service in the country. |
March 14 2020 | Radio Garden released a new version with upgraded features, enhancing the digital radio exploration platform developed by Studio Puckey and Studio Moniker in partnership with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. |
2019 | A new search function was implemented, allowing users to search for radio stations by name or location on the platform. |
2018 | Radio Garden launched native mobile applications for iOS and Android platforms, expanding its accessibility to mobile users. |
2016 | Radio Garden completed development, providing access to nearly 8,000 radio stations. The project was highlighted at The Radio Conference 2016: Transnational Encounters, where it was noted to have gone viral. |
2013 | Radio Garden project began development at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, supervised by Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg's Golo Föllmer, in collaboration with the Transnational Radio Knowledge Platform and five other European universities. |
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