This report summarises the results of IFACCA’s 30th D’Art question, initiated by the Arts Council of Finland as part of a research project on the regulation of radio music. The project is affiliated with an initiative financed by the Academy of Finland entitled Music cultures and corporate cultures: changes in music broadcasting in Finland, 1963-2005.
The objective of the Arts Council’s research is to examine legislative and other types of regulation relating to music broadcast by public service broadcasters and commercial local radio stations in certain countries. The key questions of the project are to find out whether radio regulation exists and, if so, does that regulation have cultural policy dimensions? In particular, does the regulation have an impact on the amount, genre and origin of radio music?