Spanish radio stations on the warpath against management entities

The Spanish Association of Commercial Radio Broadcasting (AERC) describes as exorbitant the rate increase that the Intellectual Rights Management Association (AGEDI) and the Association of Artists, Performers and Performers (AIE) demand for the use of the musical repertoire.

The Spanish Association of Commercial Radio Broadcasting (AERC) denounces a strategy by the Intellectual Rights Management Association (AGEDI) and the Association of Artists, Performers and Performers (AIE) to ask the media for “exorbitant amounts that the radio stations are not in a position to pay” with the aim of “compensating” for the loss of income caused by Internet piracy.

This fee that affects the music broadcast by stations could thus be increased between 70 and 200%.

Alfonso Ruiz de Assin, general secretary of the AERC, considers that these increases could be unreasonable and unaffordable in the case of those stations whose programming is primarily based on music.

For his part, the president of the AERC and CEO of the COPE, Rafael Pérez del Puerto, has compared the intention of the management entities to raise prices with the controversy with the League and has assured that "modifying the 'status quos' does not go anywhere. It is a similar issue to football because we find that music without media outlets like the radios that release those records, that make the current singer fashionable, is nobody," he indicated.

Pérez del Puerto has recalled the symbiosis that exists between stations, record labels and the artists themselves as a fundamental element for promotion.

AERC highlights the fact that both management entities have reached an agreement with LA FORTA applying a discount that has not been offered to commercial radio.