MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE USE The Wider Spectrum Group (WSG) met with Andrus Ansip, the European Commission Vice President for the Digital Single Market, today to urge support for creative producers and distributors of European cultural content in upcoming EU legislation on the UHF frequencies. Commenting on the outcome of the meeting WSG’s Alan March […]
Author: Francesca Fabbri
AER 2016 General Assembly – 25/02/2016
AER RENEWS ITS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND RECALLS THAT COMMERCIAL RADIO IS PRESENT ON A MULTITUDE OF PLATFORMS FOR ALL The Association of European Radios (AER) held in Brussels its 2016 General Assembly on February 25th. The AER Executive Committee meeting was renewed, with the re-conduction of Stefan Möller as President, Marianne Bugge Zederkof and Matt […]
World Radio Day – (Commercial) Radio Is Here, There, In The Car, Everywhere, For You! – 13/02/2016
WORLD RADIO DAY, FEBRUARY 13TH, 2016 – (COMMERCIAL) RADIO IS HERE, THERE, IN THE CAR, EVERYWHERE, FOR YOU / JOURNEE MONDIALE DE LA RADIO, 13 FEVRIER 2016 – LA RADIO (PRIVEE) VOUS ACCOMPAGNE EN VOITURE, PARTOUT, TOUTE LA JOURNEE MEDIA RELEASE / COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE EN On this World Radio Day, the Association of European […]
Digital Single Market – Radio Advertising – 2015
July 2015 – Digital Single Market – Radio Advertising Advertising is already regulated by strict rules set at EU and national level, usefully complemented by self-regulation. Commercially funded radio depends almost 100% on advertising: adding advertising restrictions equates to fewer and poorer free-to-air programmes. Introducing warning messages in radio advertising is not the appropriate tool to […]
Latvian Law on Radios Licences to Broadcast – AER Calls on Promulgation of Last Week’s Amendments – 02/11/2015
Latvian Law on Radios Licences to Broadcast – AER Calls on Promulgation of Last Week’s Amendments MEDIA RELEASE EN The Association of European Radios (AER), representing more than 4500 commercially-funded radios from all across Europe, welcomes the amendments adopted last week by the Latvian Parliament to the Latvian law on radios licences to broadcast avoiding […]
The needs of Europe’s audiovisual, creative and cultural ecosystem should be a top priority of the EU’s Spectrum Management Policy – 22/10/2015
One year after the Lamy report’s publication and shortly before the World Radiocommunications Conference 2015, senior representatives from broadcasting, network infrastructure, trade unions, viewer groups and media organisations met in Brussels to engage with Pascal Lamy and EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger on spectrum policy and the future of Europe’s audiovisual, creative and cultural sector. BRUSSELS, […]
AER Comments on the European Commission Consultation on Directive 2010/13/EU on Audiovisual Media Services (AVMSD) – 2015
30 September 2015 – AER COMMENTS ON THE CONSULTATION ON DIRECTIVE 2010/13/EU ON AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA SERVICES (AVMSD) – A MEDIA FRAMEWORK FOR THE 21st CENTURY The Association of European Radios (AER) is a Europe-wide trade body representing the interests of over 4500 commercially funded radio stations across the EU28 and in Switzerland. AER is located […]
AER EU Bulletin 2015Q2
AER EU Bulletin 2015Q1
Digital Single Market – Audiovisual Media Services Directive – 2015
July 2015 – Digital Single Market – Audiovisual Media Services Directive: No Need to Extend the Scope to Radio Radio is local, regional or, at the most, national. With the development of new technology, radio increasingly integrates new platforms and develops new offers to reach its audience: programmes are being broadcast, streamed, webcast and offered […]