The Spanish Association of Commercial Broadcasting (AERC) was founded forty years ago and represents almost 100% of the 1,150 commercially financed and privately owned radio stations in Spain.
The Romanian Association for Audiovisual Communications (Asociatia Româna de Comunicatii Audiovizuale - ARCA) was founded in 1990 as a non-for-profit, independent, non-governmental organisation.
The Association of National Radio Broadcasters (RNA-Radio Nazionali Associate) was founded in 1989 with the aim to promote and sustain the development of private radio broadcasting and especially the national private radio broadcasters.
SIRTI was created in 1981, in the advent of “free radios” in France. Today, SIRTI brings together 130 private radios – local, regional or thematic – and 10 private cable and satellite television channels.
The RadioCentre formed in July 2006 from the merger of the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) and the Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA). Its members consist of the overwhelming majority of UK Commercial Radio stations who fund the organisation.
The VPRT was founded in 1990 after the merger of two associations with parallel objectives: the BPRT (Federal Association of Private Broadcasters and Telecommunication) and the BKS (Association of Cable and Satellite).