ftm Radio Page - November 21, 2014

Details, The Devil And Plunging Audience
The closer we look at a market the more it changes. It is the lesson from physics for those pouring over numbers that dutifully report snapshots. The numbers are, of course, givers of life for all in the media. What was true yesterday is different today. “Let the devil take tomorrow,” said the songwriter.

Broadcaster violated rules by airing presidential expletives
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The Czech public broadcaster has been warned of possibly violating the country’s media laws by broadcasting an interview with the country’s president in which he used “vulgar” language, said regulator Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting (RRTV). President Milos Zeman appearing live for an interview program broadcast on public radio news channel CRo 1 November 2nd dashed off a few colorful terms disdainfully describing government employees and members of Russian punk collective Pussy Riot. The regulator also sanctioned Czech public TV and privately owned TV Nova for using the juicy parts in a newscast. This could get messy.

“We don’t judge the President, only the content of the broadcast,” said RRTV Council president Ivan Krejci,” reported Czech news portal tyden.cz (November 19), noting “more than two hundred complaints.” Czech public radio (Cesky Rozhlas) officials have been asked to explain whether or not the radio interviewer had sufficient control over the program, which is mandated by the code of conduct within Czech media rules. The sanctions bring no specific penalty under current law but can affect licensing and, in the case of the public broadcaster, appointments to governing boards. Czech TV and TV Nova, said Mr. Krejci, “had the opportunity to prevent this occurrence… unlike the live broadcast.” (See more about press/media freedom here)

Czech Radio “is convinced” the episode does not break the code of conduct, said spokesperson Jiri Hosna. “We want to continue (the program) in the same format and believe that a similar situation will not be repeated.” Perhaps, they will be installing a 7 second delay and a bleep button. Imagine, if you will, the radio interviewer and, presumably, technicians charged with producing this live program at the moment the country’s president vocalizes the F-Bomb.

“I am amazed that the (RRTV) Council claims the right to judge what is and is not a vulgarism,” responded President Zeman, who was jeered by crowds in Prague this week at remembrance observations for the start of the Velvet Revolution.  Mr. Zeman has recently sided with riot police action against protesters in 1989.

No welcome mat for radio outreach project
It’s gotta be a plot

That recent Russian Federation media outreach concept stubbed its toe just a week after propaganda boss Dmitry Kiselev announced its launch. This particular idea focuses on finding friends in former Soviet colonies and fellow travelers through broadcast radio and the internet called Radio Sputnik. All of this is under the Russia Today multimedia umbrella.

A bit of a problem arose this week with the Radio Sputnik program in Georgia. Shortly after the new program took to the FM airwaves in Tbilisi owners of R-Radio, which had brokered the time to Russia Today affiliate News Georgia, were informed by regulator National Telecommunications Commission of an “urgent” review, reported Radio Svoboda (RFE/RL) and RFI Russian (November 16). R-Radio’s owners “severed” the arrangement.

“We haven’t even had time to prepare one program about Georgian-Russian relations,” said a Tbilisi spokesperson for production house Studio Sputnik.

Mr. Kiselev indicated “30 hubs” would be eventually rolled out for Radio Sputnik, producing content in local languages distributed through FM affiliates and online distribution. Staffing has begun in the Serbian capital Belgrade and in Kazakhstan. The Russia Today (RT) television channels are well-known as outlets for various conspiracy theories.

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Recently added radio audience figures and resources

• France - Greater Paris Radio Audience (November 2014)
  national and local channels, market share, trend
• France - National Radio Audience (November 2014)
  national channels, sectors, market share, reach/TSL
• Serbia - Major Media - Radio Broadcasting (November 2014)
  public and private, national and regional, management
• Croatia - Major Media - Radio Broadcasting (November 2014)
  public, private and religious broadcasters, national and regional, management, audience estimates
• UK - National Radio Audience (October 2014)
  market share, trend, sectors
• UK - London Radio Audience (October 2014)
  market share, trend
• UK - National Radio Audience (October 2014)
  BBC/commercial 'gap'
• Portugal - National Radio Audience (October 2014)
  leading stations, audience share, trend
• France - National Radio Summer Audience (September 2014)
  national channels, summer period 2010-2014 trend
• Estonia - Major Media - Broadcasting (radio and television) (September 2014)
  public and private, ownership, management, platforms, national audience trend
• Latvia - National Radio Audience (September 2014)
  national channels, audience share, trend
• Spain - National Radio Audience (August 2014)
  national channels, reach share, trend
• Spain - Major Media - Radio (August 2014)
  public and private broadcasting companies, channels, management, platforms, audience estimates

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