Document T067

Conventional radio, Internet radio and satellite radio: a 2005 literature scan

Prepared for the Association québécoise de l'industrie du disque, du spectacle et de la vidéo, March 2006.

This report sets out to answer the following question: what is the likely impact of other audio technologies, such as satellite radio, Internet radio, podcasting, file sharing and downloading, on commercial radio and the music industry?

The Association québécoise de l'industrie du disque, du spectacle et de la vidéo asked Circum Network Inc. to conduct an independent review of the recent literature on this issue. Based on existing documentation, our mandate was:

to assess the quality and reliability of the study methodologies;
to document the main findings on the evolution of financial results and market shares;
to identify the results relative to consumer profiles characteristics of each type of radio;
to summarize the likely impact of satellite and Internet radio on conventional radio.

45 pages, 191k [PDF format]