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 […]
European Hit Radio
SuperFM was renamed European Hit Radio on November 1st, 2002. European Hit Radio draws its origins in the 1992 Latvian Spring and was the very first commercial radio station in Latvia. At that time, SuperFM was the only music radio station which covered Riga and its surroundings. Now European Hit Radio is heard practically everywhere […]
Future Use of UHF TV Broadcasting Band: The Lamy Report
10 April 2015 – EUROPEAN COMMISSION – PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON THE FUTURE USE OF UHF TV BROADCASTING BAND: THE LAMY REPORT – AER COMMENTS The Association of European Radios (AER) is a Europe-wide trade body representing the interests of over 4,500 commercially-funded radio stations across the EU28 and in Switzerland. AER is located at: Association […]
VSP
With its 37 members from German-speaking, Italian-speaking and Romansh-speaking Switzerland, the Swiss Private Radio Association (VSP) is the leading association of private radio stations in Switzerland. The main objective of the VSP is to protect the interests of its members and private commercial radio stations in general. In particular, the association represents its members towards […]