Welcome back to Radioland, and here’s something seemingly unreported by any of the radio trades - the great Google smart speaker bug of 2025, which wiped thousands of radio stations off these smart speakers for weeks. As I understand it, here’s the story - Google rolled out new firmware to their smart speakers and Nest displays about four weeks ago. This new firmware had the side-effect of breaking support for streaming AAC, a format of audio streaming that many radio stations use (higher...
