Digital Single Market – Radio’s Access to Infrastructure – The Future of Radio is Multi-Platform AER continues to support a multi-platform future for radio. As well as analogue broadcast streams and digital broadcast signals the inclusion of other digital means of transmission in radio receivers, such as internet reception, will help to ensure a continuing […]
Digital Single Market – Radio and Copyright – 2017
Digital Single Market – Radio and Copyright 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 maintain its unique relation with its audience: programmes are being broadcast, streamed and offered on demand. Radio’s output, even online, remains the same, […]
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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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]