The European Radio Show Gets Underway In Paris

Happening In Paris

The 2017 Edition of THE EUROPEAN RADIO SHOW got underway YESTERDAY (1/29) in PARIS, FRANCE’s 19th Arrondissement at LE GRANDE HALLE DE LA VILLETTE. The show is designed to be a “conference for all” and to celebrate all areas of radio with exhibitors and speakers from all areas of the radio business united under one roof here at LE GRANDE HALLE DE LA VILLETTE.

Over the 3 days from JANUARY 29th to 31st, a total of over 170 workshops for over 6,000 industry attendees are taking place -- with many of them in English only. The UNITED KINGDOM is the guest of honour at this year’s conference and the opening Conference YESTERDAY focussed on the U.K. and its title was “Radio Is In The Future.” The panel members speaking were DOM CHAMBERS of SOMER VALLEY FM (COMMUNITY RADIO, U.K.) ALAN DAVEY, BBC U.K., FORD ENNALS of DIGITAL RADIO U.K., WILL HARDING, GLOBAL U.K., VANESSA MESSAD, WIRELESS GROUP, IAN O’NEILL, DEPARTMENT FOR CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT (U.K. GOVERNMENT DEPT.) and STEVE PARKINSON of BAUER MEDIA U.K.

Deregulation of the U.K. market was one of the topics the panel were probed about, but no clear answers were given or resolved as to how this would improve the market or stop consolidation or the networking that has started to mean job industry losses over the past ten years there. 

Other workshops have included topics like How To Attract Millennials, The Genuine Dot Radio Extension with ALAIN ARTERO and GRAHAM DIXON of THE EUROPEAN BROADCASTING UNION, SEBASTIAN BUSCH of DAVID SYSTEMS gave an exhibitor’s workshop in English on “Playout Ubiquity and the ability to make the tablet the studio.” COMMUNITY RADIO and LOCAL CONTENTS in The U.K. with WILL JACKSON of RADIO INDEPENDENTS GROUP and DOM CHAMBERS of SOMER VALLEY FM workshop spoke about maintaining quality of programming in Community Radio and the current challenges the area faces versus commercial radio in the U.K. at present. 

MARK BARBER of RADIOCENTRE U.K. hosted a workshop today on “AUDIO RESEARCH, ADVERTISING & REGULATORY CHALLENGES FOR RADIO IN EUROPE."

MONDAY’s keynote address to attendees from around the world and all over EUROPE was delivered by CURRIENORDEN’s FRANCIS CURRIE, DENIS FLORENT of FLORENT MEDIA GROUP and NIKLAS NORDEN of CURRIE NORDEN and was entitled “MORNING SHOW SECRETS” where case studies shown came from CURRIE NORDEN clients like FUN RADIO, NRJ and SKYROCK (PARIS) and other examples used to demonstrate their unique new technology a “moment by moment” research tool came from DAVE BERRY on CAPITAL FM U.K., NICK GRIMSHAW BBC RADIO 1 U.K., KYLE and JACKIE O on KIIS 106.5/SYDNEY and ELVIS DURAN from WHTZ (Z100)/NEW YORK. 

MARK FRIEND of BBC U.K. gave the other keynote address based on re-inventing music radio to attract younger people to listen: “Reinventing Radio And Music For Digital Audience At The BBC,” striking an interesting note that almost 0% of the under 16’s in the U.K. are engaging with radio in the way previous generations did. Social Media and Apps have the market dominated with things like FACEBOOK, SNAPCHAT and WHATSAPP being the mediums they use to engage with their friends and find out about new music nowadays. 

Radio Listening Trends In The U.K. AND FRANCE were compared in the session by ARNAUD ANNEBICQUE of MEDIAMETRIE (FR), AURELIE FAU (FR), MEDIAMETRIE and JERRY HILL of RAJAR (U.K.)

MILES PALMER of TUNEIN.COM was among the speaker lineup for the session dedicated to “Recipes Of Radio Portals: Smartphones, Cars Etc.,” which spoke about the increasing need to reach listeners in their cars and on their phones to increase listening habits for commuters and younger people. 

VALERIE GELLER (GELLER MEDIA INTERNATIONAL) spoke about Podcasting in her session entitled “Powerful Radio’S New Platform - Podcasting.” 

“Celebrating the curation and business of music radio content” was the key message from DARRYL VON DANIKEN of INTERNATIONAL RADIO FESTIVAL in his section within the workshop “New Visions For Content - Is Audio Push One Key?” and also featuring great and insightful speeches from DENIS FLORENT of FLORENT MEDIA GROUP and MAXIMILIAN KNOP from KONSOLE MEDIA LABS. 

THE EUROPEAN RADIO SHOW continues in PARIS until TUESDAY evening. You can find out more about the conference at www.european-show.radio, @EuropeRadioShow on TWITTER for non-stop show updates. 

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