AER Annual Conference – European Parliament – Brussels – 21/06/2016

The AER 2016 Conference was held on Tuesday, June 21st, from 12.15 until 14.30, at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, kindly hosted by the European Parliament Audiovisual Unit (DG Communication). The conference focused this year on Radios and the Digital Single Market. The .pdf version of the presentation on findability of radio delivered by […]

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“European content is at risk” says WIDER SPECTRUM GROUP – 29/02/2016

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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