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Lower listening boosts niche formats
The universe is shrinking

The new autumn season tallied inauspicious results in the September-October Médiamétrie audience estimates for Il-de-France (Greater Paris). First off, literally, is overall listening, down to 71.7% from 73.9% year on year, average time spent listening (Persons 13 year and older, Monday-Friday 5 am to midnight) down 10 minutes to 2 hours 40 minutes. Morning listening (7 am to 9 am) was also down. Several local stations fell off the rankings completely.

The shrinking radio audience universe may or may not have affected individual results, but some were hit much harder than others. RTL, of course, is the top rated radio channel in Greater Paris. Its audience share fell to 12.8% from 15.3% one year on. Public news and talk channel France Inter, number 2, dropped to 11.4% audience share from 12.0%. News, business and sports channel RMC moved into 3rd place with 8.0% audience share, up from 7.8%. Embattled general interest channel Europe 1, 4th place, dropped to 7.3% audience share from 8.0%. Public all-news channel France Info held 5th place raising audience share to 5.9% from 5.2%. (See more about media in France here)

Two broadcasters, tied for 6th place, caught the market by surprise. Public channel France Culture bolted to best-ever 3.8% audience share from 2.5% year on year. Two well-known show hosts joined France Culture from Europe 1. Latin-flavored local station Radio Latina also reached an historic audience share, 3.8% from 2.4%. Both hip-hop/rap channel Skyrock and top hits NRJ were displaced in the rankings, dropping to 8th and 9th, respectively. Oldies channel Nostalgie placed 10th, 3.2% audience share up from 2.0%.

Digital rules catch up to reality
"soft start"

Radio broadcasters everywhere pay a variety of fees to do what they do. The biggest, naturally, are transmission fees. It is typical in Europe, sometimes statutory, for broadcasters to lease, in effect, transmitters and antennas.

Another fee, usually not huge but also not insignificant, is for music performance rights. In Austria rules for music performance rights fees were set in the last century as the first privately-owned stations were licensed. Being in the day of AM/MW and FM these rights fees were based on estimates of technical coverage.

After a five-year “quarrel,” noted Weiner Zeitung (November 14), the two major rights collecting agents have agreed to a new method of calculation. Rather than based on technical coverage, a broadcasters’ music rights fee will now be discounted by actual weekly reach share. Rights fee remain based on a percentage of a broadcasters’ revenue, as high as 8%. (See more about media in Austria here) (See more about digital radio here)

This will have an immediate effect on DAB (digital audio broadcasting) development as the main transmission services provider - Austrian Broadcasting Services (ORS) - put new construction on hold pending the outcome of arbitration. Further, the ORS agreed to a special rate for DAB start-ups “allowing for a soft start.” In August telecom regulator KommAustria granted to ORS authority to construct and lease nation-wide DAB+ multiplexes to begin next spring. A DAB+ multiplex has operated in Vienna since 2015.

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