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Broadcasters ask for music quota relief
“contributes to radio listening declines”

Representatives of major French broadcasters visited regulator CSA (March 16) raising the old music quota issue, reports Les Echos (March 17). French broadcasters have had strict 40% quotas for French language music and 20% new music production since 1996. The rules were relaxed somewhat in 2000 to consider music formats separately. The CSA monitors music content and, occasionally, fines offending broadcasters. (See more on media in France here)

The broadcasters are asking the CSA to consider French artists who perform in English as French content. They also want the new music production quota dropped. “The effect of standardizing the musical offering contributes to the decline of radio listening,” said RTL’s Jerome Fouqueray. (JMH)

Talk radio on acid
Where’s Owsley, The Toad?

Scandinavian broadcaster Modern Times Group (MTG) is launching a new talk radio station in Sweden, reports Dagensmedia (March 14). The station will take over the Star FM frequency in Stockholm.

“We’ll talk about things that are timely with guests and callers,” said one of the new station’s new show hosts, Robert Aschberg. “We have absolutely no standards of objectivity,” he said. It will be like “P1 on acid.” P1 is the main information channel of Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Radio.

Swedish radio has suffered in recent years from extreme listener boredom. MTG is considered the Clear Channel of Scandinavia, in reference to the US-based low-content broadcaster.  (read: “Cheap Channel”) Aschberg, a former communist, was famously expelled from the high school in the US for refusing to cut his hair.

Coincidentally, Owsley Stanley, considered the prodigious chemist to the stars in the 1960’s, reportedly died in an automobile accident (March 13) in Australia. We’re not sure what happened to The Toad. (JMH)

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