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More Good News For Broadcasters, Some At Least…
Ado FM Paris National stations and local stations are different. Big city stations are different, too. Within it all, audiences are increasing. Broadcasters are finding opportunity as the folks continue to spin that dial.

 

 

Measurement Goes Mobile
smartphone The ubiquity of the mobile phone has become a basic building block of the media world. Only cave-dwellers question the power of this device, loved by consumers, to deliver a different business model. The measurement people know this.

 

 

 

News and Talk Raises Radio Listening
Punto Radio Radio talk shows continue to push the right buttons, on the radio dial that is. Show hosts are big brands and when channels make changes entire markets shift. And more people tune in.

 

 

End of winter for Dutch radio
Public radio gains

February-March Dutch radio audience figures released by Intomart GfK (April 22) give public channels, mostly, a boost. Radio 5 (easy listening), Radio 6 (jazz and alternative music), Radio 3FM (pop music), Radio 1 (news) and Radio 4 (classical music) all gained market share, year on year. Radio 2 (oldies) didn’t.

Radio 3FM moved up to 3rd spot with 9.0% market share (persons 10+) from 7.9% one year on. (See more on Dutch radio here)

On the commercial side, Radio Veronica and 100%NL gained a bit. Others, largely, were off. (JMH)

War on music radio
No jingles, either

Somalia is a country in misery. Warring Islamic forces ordered radio stations to stop playing music. Un-Islamic, they said, channeling the Taliban.

The government, such as it is, told stations they’d lose their licenses for paying attention to the Hizbul Islam rebels. Confusion being the daily fabric of Somali life, stations that stopped playing music were ordered closed then ordered back on the air.

"The Somali government is not happy with the oppression of the media and will always work toward creating an enabling environment where it can operate freely," said Information Minister Dahir Mohamud Gelle, quoted by AP (April 20). "I inform the radio stations closed today they can resume their operations." (More on Somali media strugggles here)

Without a functioning government for nearly two decades, citizens overwhelmingly use radio for information and a brief respite from the despair. (JMH)


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