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2012-02-03: Beasley Broadcast Group has reported fourth quarter revenues down 6.8% but net income was up 1.7% and for the full year revenues were down 0.3% but net income was up 26.5%.
In the final quarter the revenue decline from USD 27.0 million to USD 25.2 million was put down to "the impact of a reduction in national and political advertising compared with the same period in 2010" : Operating income was down by 11.5% to USD 6.9 million and station operating income (SOI) was down 9.5% to USD 9.4 million.
Operating expenses in the quarter were down by 4.9% but a 42.9% reduction in interest expenses as a result of lower outstanding credit facility balances and the expiration of swap agreements at the end of the 2011 first and third quarters more than offset the reduction in operating income taking net income up 1.7% to USD 3.4 million (Net income per basic and diluted share was unchanged at 15 cents.)
For the full year net revenue was USD 97.7 million, down from USD 98.0 million with SOI down 2.9% to USD 34.4 million; operating income up 4.6% to USD 23,9 million and net income up 26.5% to USD 10.1 million (From 35 cents to 45 cents per diluted share).
Beasley also noted that during the final quarter the company made repayments of USD 5.9 million against its credit facility; that total bank debt at the end of 2011 was USD 126.7 million compared to USD 142.0 million a year earlier and that the company remains "committed to using cash from operations to further lower debt as well as other initiatives that can enhance shareholder value."
Commenting on the figures chairman and CEO George G. Beasley said, "Radio advertising remained relatively stable despite widespread economic concerns and volatility in the capital markets throughout the year."
"Importantly," he added "during the fourth quarter and throughout 2011, we continued to make progress across the organization in enhancing operating efficiencies and maintaining a disciplined approach to spending. Overall, the industry recorded seven consecutive quarters of growth through the third quarter of 2011 which underscores our belief that radio remains both resilient and highly relevant in a digital world. During the quarter, the Company celebrated its 50th consecutive year in radio broadcasting and our success over this period has been defined by our ability to bring consumers and advertisers a platform that efficiently addresses their respective needs.
"In this regard, Beasley Broadcast Group remains committed to continuously developing strategies to benefit from changes in the media and advertising environments and the preferences of consumers and advertisers."
Regarding the income decline he noted the effects of a reduction in political spending, adding, "Excluding the impact of political, revenue would have increased on a full year basis."
""Looking forward, "he continued "we remain focused on our station clusters matching or exceeding their market's revenue performance, and further strengthening the balance sheet through reductions in borrowings.
We have strong station clusters and ratings in key markets and we are highly focused on generating profitable station and digital revenue growth.
"We believe our concurrent focus on our core content and new media opportunities allows us to best address both current and prospective radio users. We also believe our platform is emerging as a high value media buy for advertisers and a primary source of on-air, online and mobile entertainment for consumers, which in turn is expected to generate new value for shareholders. In addition, we expect a return of political spending in 2012 with several of our markets expected to benefit from contested elections."
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2012-02-03: Latest Irish radio ratings from the JNLR/Ipsos MRBI survey just released covering the period from January to December 2011 show 85% of the Irish adult population listen to radio daily, up from 84% in the previous survey and unchanged from year earlier.
Listening to listening to any multi-city/regional/local radio service compared to the previous quarter was unchanged at 58% but up from 57% a year earlier.
Of the main national stations, compared to the previous quarter RTÉ Radio 1 held on to its weekday reach of 25% (25% a year earlier); RTÉ 2FM held on to 11% (13% a year earlier); and figures were unchanged for Today FM at 13% (13% a year earlier) but up from 8% to 9% for Newstalk (8% a year earlier) and from 3% to 4% for RTÉ Lyric FM (3% a year earlier).
In terms of overall market share for weekdays 07:00 to 19:00 national stations recorded an 0.9% increase to 47.6% (53.6% a year earlier) within which RTÉ Radio 1 was up 0.1 to 23.4% (22.7% a year earlier), Today FM was up 0.4% to 9.5% (9.3 % a year earlier); Newstalk was up 0.3% to 4.7% (4.0% a year earlier); RTÉ Lyric FM was up 0.1% to 1.9% (1.7% a year earlier) and RTÉ 2FM was up 0.1% to 7.5% (8.2% a year earlier).
As regards weekday reach of the multi-city and regional stations Beat 102-
103FM held on to 20% (19% a year earlier) with share down from 12.1% to 11.1% (13.1% a year earlier); regional youth service Spin South West was down from 19% to 20% (21% a year earlier) with share down from 10.4% to 10.2% (13.1% a year earlier); North-West regional service i102-104FM was up from 19% to 20% (14% a year earlier) with share down from 11.7% to 11.6 (14.0% a year earlier) and North-East regional service i105-107FM, was down from 10% to 9% (9% a year earlier) with share down from 7.6% to 5.9% (7.0% a year earlier).
Multi-City Service 4FM, which went on air in February 2009, held on to 3% (3% a year earlier) with share up 1.8% TO 2% (1.8% a year earlier).
Amongst local stations, excluding Dublin and Cork, the top five ranks (weekday reach compared to the previous ratings) were taken by Donegal North station Highland Radio with 67% -up from 65% (67% a year earlier); Mayo station Midwest Radio -with 63% - up from 58% (49% a year earlier); Roscommon/Longford/Sth Leitrim station Shannonside -with 54% - down from 55% (- only the combined Shannonside/Northern Sound was listed a year earlier when it had 53% - the two stations have their own schedules for most of the weekday 0700-1900 period); then with an unchanged 50% Donegal South/Sligo/Nth Leitrim station Shannonside/Northern Sound (53% for the combined stations a year earlier) and Kerry station Radio Kerry, also with an unchanged 50% (51% a year earlier).
In weekday share terms the top five ranks were taken by Donegal North station Highland Radio with 62.8% (Up from 62.7% and from 62.3% a year earlier); Mayo station Midwest Radio with 53.3% (Up from 51.0% and from 49.0% a year earlier) ; Kerry station Radio Kerry with 53.1% (Down from 54.2% and from 57.0% a year earlier); Waterford station WLR-FM with 48.6% (Up from 46.5% and 45.1% a year earlier) Roscommon/Longford/ Sth Leitrim/ Cavan/ Monaghan station Shannonside with 48.3% (Up from 48.2% - 49% a year earlier when only the combined Shannonside was listed).
In Dublin the leaders in terms of weekday reach were RTÉ Radio 1 with
unchanged 31.0 (It also had 31% - up from 30% in the Dublin Commuter ratings - only introduced in the previous ratings - and 29 % year earlier: Its share was 33.1% for Co Dublin and 32.4% for Dublin commuter compared to 31.4% for each in the previous ratings. A year earlier it had 30.5%); FM 104 with 21% - up from 20% (20% a year earlier: Its share was 11.6%, up from 11.4% and 11.2% a year earlier); Spin 1038 with 15% (Up from 14% and 14% a year earlier: Its share was 5.7% (down from 5.9% and 6/6% a year earlier) ;
In Cork the leaders in weekday reach were Cork 96FM/County Sound 103FM with 49% (Up from 48% and 46 % a year earlier: Its share was 42.% down from 44.4- 41.6% a year earlier); Cork's 96FM with 36% (Up from 35% -30.3% a year earlier: Its share was 29%, down from 30.6% and 32.4% a year earlier) RTÉ Radio 1 with an unchanged 26% (26% a year earlier: Its share was 20.9%, down from 21% and 22.3% a year earlier); Cork's Red FM with a 19% (Up from 18% - 19% a year earlier: Its share was 10.7% up from 10.4% and 10.6% a year earlier); C103 with an unchanged 17% (14% a year earlier: Its share was 13.0o%, down from 13.8% and up from 11.4% a year earlier); and Today FM with 15% (Up from 13% and 15% a year earlier: Its share was 10.0%, up from 7.9% and 9.7% a year earlier)
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2012-02-02: Montreal-headquartered Astral Media has reported what it terms "strong" results for its first fiscal quarter to the end of November last year with consolidated revenues up 2% over a year earlier at CAD 271.1 million (USD 272.7 million - this is the International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") figure to which Astral is moving - GAAP figure was CAD 268 million - USD 269.6 million) driven by Out of Home whose revenues were up 13% and TV - up 3%- whilst radio was down 4%.
Within the figures TV subscription related revenues were up 3% to CAD 112.96 million (USD 113.63 million); TV advertising revenues were up 1% to CAD 40.59 million (USD 40.83 million); radio was down 4% to CAD 88.29 million (USD 88.82 million); and Out-of-Home was up 13% to CAD 29.26 million (USD 29.43 million).
Earnings per share were up from CAD 0.86 basic and 0.85 diluted (GAAP - IFRS figure was CAD 0:53 for each - to CAD 0.88 basic and CAD 0.87 diluted with IFRS figures the same)
The company also noted that during the quarter, it repaid CAD 10.0 million (USD 10.1 million) of its long-term debt and repurchased 231,900 Class A shares for a total of CAD 7.8 million (USD 7.9 million) and also completed the acquisition of CHHR-FM (Shore FM) in Vancouver taking Astral Radio's number of stations to 84.
EBITDA rose 1% to CAD 90.4 million (USD 90.9 million) with earnings before income taxes up 4% to CAD 76.98 million (USD 77.47 million) and net earnings were up 5% to CAD 55/76 million (USD 56.09 million).
Commenting on the results President and CEO Ian Greenberg said, "I am pleased with our Company's overall growth in the first three months of Fiscal 2012. Once again, our balanced asset mix and geographical footprint enabled us to display continued consolidated growth at all levels, achieved in spite of the challenging economic and advertising conditions in which we operate."
"While we remain in a low visibility environment, he added "I am confident that the ongoing efforts to strengthen our multiplatform offering and presence in key markets, combined with new television distribution agreements and continued investments in our brands, provide us with the optimal conditions to achieve our goals."
Astral has also announced the appointment of Robert Fortier, who has served as the Company's Vice-President, Finance since October 2005, as Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, effective February 1, 2012.
He takes over from CFO Claude Gagnon who left at the end of January to retire after more than two decades with the company.
Greenberg commented of the changes, "Claude has been one of the architects of Astral's transformation into a pure-play media company and played a key role in our many acquisitions and asset dispositions over the years" and added of his replacement, "Robert holds an impressive professional track record and has earned a strong reputation both within Astral and among the financial community."
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2012-02-02: The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has denied a petition from the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC) to reconsider its 2010 approval of details of Sirius XM's implementation of its plans to make 4% of the full-time audio channels on their satellites available to "qualified entities" (See RNW Oct 19, 2010)
Sirius XM made the commitment to further approval of the merger of the then Sirius and XM Satellite Radios and the FCC having adopted a definition of "qualified entities" left it to Sirius XM to make the selection of those entities who qualified. Details of the five organizations selected were announced last April (See RNW Apr 18, 2011).
The MMTC requested that the Commission broaden the definition of the term Qualified Entity to permit additional entities to qualify and in its petition asserted that the Commission was vague and ambiguous because the definition of Qualified Entity "does not address whether programmers that have had non-extensive relationships with Sirius XM . . . should be precluded from receiving the opportunity to program a set-aside channel."
The agency did not agree with the MMTC on this and other points and also noted that reconsideration if appropriate when it was demonstrated that an original order contained a material error or omission.
In this case it also considered and rejected the MMTC's arguments that it was necessary to direct Sirius XM to afford special consideration to companies that will promote diversity by virtue of their educational mission, language, or Native American status.
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2012-02-02: A slogan down each seems to be the endgame in the battle between Merlin Media and CBS Radio.
CBS won an earlier round when Merlin's WEMP ("FM News 101.9") stopped using the phrases of "all-news, all the time" and we'll give you the world" that CBS lawyers claimed were "intentionally confusingly similar" to the long-time WINS-AM slogan, "Give us 22 minutes and we'll give you the world." (See RNW Jan 20)
Merlin Chairman and CEO Randy Michaels fired back with a demand that CBS drop the slogan that WINS is "New York's one and only all-news station": Merlin lawyers said this was violating the Lanham Act and "falsely advertising the services it offers at WINS" and that it had been "patently false" since the launch of WEMP.
WINS has now dropped that slogan in favour of a new one - "More people get their news from 1010 WINS than any other radio station in the nation."
RNW comment: So lawyers 2; publicity score positive for Merlin; and net benefit to the public nil.
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2012-02-02: Latest UK radio ratings covering the final quarter of 2011 show the medium holding up in audience terms reaching 90% of the UK adult population (46.677) million -each week, down slightly from the 91% (47.137 million) for the third quarter. Listening hours were also down slightly - from just under 1.076 billion to just above 1.030 billion a week.
BBC Radio took a 55.5% share - up from 54.5% in the previous ratings and commercial radio 42.4%, down from 43.3%.
Within the BBC listening Radio 4 , Radio 4 Extra (the former Radio 7), 6 Music and 1Xtra all did well with the Radio 4's audience up from 10.5 to 10.8 million and the digital stations all recording their highest ever audiences - 1.55 million up from 1.526 million for 4 Extra; 1.443 million - up from 1.229 million for 6 music; and 1.017 million - up from 904,000 -for 1Xttra.
BBC Radio 2, which remained the most listened to station, saw its audience down from 14.3 to 14.2 million and BBC Radio 1 was down from 11.8 to 11.6 million.
Of the national commercial stations Absolute Radio was down from 1.604 to 1.599 million and Global Radio's Classic FM also lost audience - down from 5.388 million to 5.364 million but UTV's talkSPORT was up from 3.132 million to 3.196 million - the combined total for BBC 5 Live and sister station 5 Live Sports Extra was down from 6.432 million to 6.342 million.
In London, Global Radio's Capital Radio was up from 2.179 million to 2.254 million, retaining its lead in reach and also overtaking Bauer's Heart - whose reach was down from 2.027 million to 1.931 million - in listening share: This quarter Capital took 5.9%, up from 5.6% in the third quarter whilst Heart was down from 5.8% to 4.6%.
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RNW Note: This is a brief preliminary report that will be updated with further detail and comment.
2012-02-01: In a run of enforcement actions involving Florida pirate FM operators the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has imposed or proposed penalties totalling USD 54,000: It also issued a USD 4,000 forfeiture to a California Ford dealership and a USD 8,000 NAL to a New Mexico AM.
In four Florida cases the highest penalties went to repeat offenders: In descending amount order the FCC has:
*Issued a USD 25,000 NAL to Whisler Fleurinor of Fort Lauderdale. In March last year the agency had issued to USD 20,000 NAL - double the base amount - to Fleurinor, who had previously been issued with a Notice of Unlicensed Operation in 2008 (See RNW Mar 7, 2011).
This was later reduced to USD 500 on the basis of inability to pay - a forfeiture that was paid - but in August and November last year agents traced a signal to the same address identified in the earlier NAL.
In view of Fleurinor's history the agency has accordingly opted this time to increase the proposed penalty from the base amount of USD 10,000 to USD 25,000
*Issued a USD 20.000 NAL to Robens Cheriza of West Palm Beach: In his case following a complaint about interference to Palm Beach International Airport's control tower frequency agents traced a signal to a residence in West Palm Beach.
Cheriza admitted that he was the owner of an operational broadcast studio that led to a transmitter, that he had operated the station for around a month, and that he was aware that operating an unlicensed station was illegal.
He also confirmed that he broadcast a party live from his residence on the evening of April 1, 2011, which is consistent with the FAA's complaint about hearing audio of a party on that evening.
In this case the agency is proposing doubling the penalty from the base amount to USD 20,000.
*Issued a USD 10,000 NAL to Mercius Dorvilus of Pompano Beach after agents responding to a complaint traced a signal to residence in Pompano Beach in May last year;
In June they inspected the radio station, which was located in a locked room in the residence and two days later a detective with the Broward County Sheriff's Office interviewed Dorvilus regarding the unlicensed radio station.
During the interview, Mr. Dorvilus stated that he purchased and installed all of the radio station equipment and was responsible for operating and transmitting on 92.7 MHz from the rented room.
According to Florida Department of State Division of Corporations records, Dorvilus is doing business as "Radio VisionFM 927, Inc.": He has also registered the domain name, www.visionfm.org.
*Issued USD 1,000 penalty to Durrant Clarke of Miami, who had in May last year been issued with a USD 10,000 NAL for operating an unlicensed FM transmitter from his business (See RNW May 21, 2011 ).
Clarke responded and admitted that he allowed someone to place radio equipment in his space but denies participation in the "breaking of any law" Mr. and also requested a reduction of the proposed forfeiture based on his inability to pay the forfeiture.
In the other cases:
*Rosendo Casarez, Jr., licensee of KCRX-AM, Roswell, New Mexico, was issued with a USD 8,000 NAL for failure to ensure the operational readiness of the station's Emergency Alert System (EAS) equipment.
Agents inspected the station in June last year and observed that although the station had EAS equipment it was not installed and operational. Casarez also informed the agent that the station's EAS equipment had not been operational since approximately eight months prior, when the EAS equipment was damaged due to water leaking into the station's main studio after a heavy rain storm.
The agency has proposed the base forfeiture of USD 8,000
*Cerritos Ford, licensee of WQKA311, was issued with a USD 4,000 forfeiture when following a complaint agents found it using a frequency not on its licence.
Cerritos Ford is authorized to operate the station on five frequencies and when issued with an NAL (Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture" for this amount responded by saying that it thought it was operating on an authorized frequency, that it made a good faith effort to comply with the Rules, and that it paid a third-party radio company to program its radios to ensure no violations took place. The FCC said the argument did not justify a reduction or cancellation and confirmed the full penalty.
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2012-02-01: The US Media Rating Council (MRC) has withdrawn accreditation for the company's monthly AQH radio ratings data from five of the 14 Arbitron Portable People Meter (PPM) markets that it had accredited.
Losing accreditation were Cleveland; Portland, Oregon; Riverside-San Bernardino; Salt Lake City-Ogden-Provo;and Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater: Neither Arbitron or the MRC has so far commented on the reasons for the withdrawal.
The nine markets remaining accredited are Atlanta; Cincinnati, Houston (DMA); Kansas City; Milwaukee-Racine; Minneapolis-St. Paul;Philadelphia; Phoenix, and St. Louis. In addition to these Arbitron produces PPM ratings for 34 markets that remain unaccredited.
Commenting on the move, Arbitron's executive vice president, Service Innovation and Chief Research Officer Gregg Lindner said in a company release, "Consistent with our long-standing priorities, we will work to retain accreditation where we have it, to regain accreditation where it was withdrawn and to achieve accreditation in our remaining PPM markets. As always, we will continue our work with the MRC in order to address their concerns."
Arbitron adds that it currently plans to have all 48 PPM markets undergo new MRC audits in 2012.
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2012-02-01: The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has opened a consultation - with a March 14 deadline for the submission of responses - on a Draft Code of Fairness, Objectivity and Impartiality in News and Current Affairs that includes within a total of 32 draft rules proposed new rules for news presenters and reporters and current affairs presenters and reporters relating to the expression of personal views and a public register of interests.
Ireland's Broadcasting Act 2009 requires that broadcasters ensure that all news broadcast is reported and presented in an objective and impartial manner without any expression of the broadcaster's own views and that the treatment of current affairs programming, including matters which are either of public controversy or the subject of public debate, is fair to all interests concerned and presented in an objective and impartial manner without any expression of his or her own views.
It also requires the BAI to develop codes governing the standards and practices to be observed by broadcasters in response to which the BAI has developed the 32-page draft code of which its Chairperson Bob Collins, said: "This Code will assist broadcasters to meet the statutory obligations placed on them by Section 39 of the Broadcasting Act 2009. It will also assist viewers and listeners to determine whether the news and current affairs material they see and hear meets the standards to which the Code aspires."
He added, "In preparing the draft, we have tried to balance the right of broadcasters to present news and current affairs in an interesting and robust manner that promotes the public interest, with the need to ensure fairness, objectivity and impartiality for those who may be the subject of such broadcasts."
In regard to conflicts of interest the agency notes that "situations can arise when presenters, reporters or persons involved in editorial decision making are conflicted in relation to certain news or current affairs items, by virtue of their personal, professional, business or financial interests" and goes on to say that it is proposing that "such conflicts should be flagged and, where appropriate, a presenter or reporter should not present the item, nor should a person with an editorial role be involved in editorial decision making."
It then proposes the register of interests "to enhance transparency, together with rules that say interests that "call into question the perceived fairness, objectivity or impartiality of the item being covered must be made clear to the audience"; that "A presenter or reporter should not participate in a news or current affairs matter where such a conflict of interest arises."; and that "Each broadcaster shall maintain a Public Register of Interests in which personnel with an editorial role in news and current affairs shall enter details of all financial or commercial relationships that might be perceived as representing a material influence on them in, or in relation to, the performance of such editorial role, together with an indication of any individuals or companies to which the personnel in question may be deemed to owe a fiduciary duty."
Other topics dealt with in the proposed code include sections on "Code Objectives, Structure and Application" and "Principles Underpinning the Rules": There are various more detailed sections dealing with such issues as rules on the "Statutory Duties of Broadcasters"; "Procedures for dealing with contributors/interviewees"; "Consent: "no comment?; refusal to participate"; "Programme Compilation: Editing; Material re-use; Reconstructions"; "Secret/Undisclosed Recording; "Door Stepping"; "Confidentiality."; "Objectivity & Impartiality Rules" including a sub sections on "Accuracy; Linking Broadcasts; Factual Representation"; "Handling Mistakes; Treatment of Individuals/Groups in Society" , "Presenters? own views; Authored Programmes", and "Conflicts of Interest; Public Register of Interests"
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2012-01-31: Complaints figures for the third quarter of last year just released by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) show the overall number of complaints in the top five reported categories up 10% from the second quarter total - to 66,847 from 59,080: A year earlier the figure for the top four reported categories was 47,947.
Within the total Radio and Television Broadcasting complaints decreased by more than 3% compared to the second quarter - down from 2,164 to 2,083: This compared with a third quarter 2010 total of 2,611.
Of the broadcasting complaints "other programming" complaints formed the largest category - 881 in all - compared to 1,026 in the second quarter and 950 in the third quarter of 2010. The second largest category was of Indecency/Obscenity complaints - 538 - down from 617 in the second quarter and from 958 n the third quarter of 2010.
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2012-01-31: Industry body Commercial Radio Australia has announced that the Australian radio industry is to commence a trial using online data and then mobile devices for radio ratings as a supplement to its current diary system although it is still evaluating the use of electronic monitoring devices.
The online data trial - to be launched in March by Ipsos and involving 300 people is to be followed by what Commercial Radio Australia calls "a world-first application for tablets and mobile phones, which will allow people to input their listening habits via these devices."
It adds that the developments approaches have been implemented as a result of recommendations put forward by the industry's Research Committee which oversees the audience survey system and has been investigating best practice for listenership audience measurement in a changing digital environment.
Commercial Radio Australia Chief Executive Joan Warner commented in a release, "Australian radio has one of the most robust listenership measurement systems in the world but that doesn't stop us investigating ways to improve it further. It also should be remembered that one of radio's major strengths, its mobility and reach into all situations, conversely provides one of the major challenges for radio audience measurement."
Henry Tajer, Chair of the Media Federation of Australia (MFA) added, "We are pleased that the radio industry is exploring additional data collection methods that will help to bring radio measurement into the 21st century. MFA looks forward to working with the industry over the next few months to test and progress additional forms of digital measurement."
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