Question 32473 — audiovisual and communication

Summary

Mrs. Florence Provendier alerts the Minister of Culture about the job cuts in private local independent radio stations. The economic crisis linked to the covid-19 epidemic has been affecting local radio stations intermittently for months due to the historic collapse of the advertising market. Indeed, despite an optimistic trend on the national market, local advertising, which represents around 50% of the turnover of independent radio stations, is still in sharp decline. On average since the start of the pandemic, these radio stations have lost 70% of their turnover. The summer season did not make up for this drop because all the related event activities they organized were canceled or postponed. Today, 1 in 3 radio stations are making job cuts and 79% of them indicate that they will be forced to do so in 2021 if the situation does not improve. During confinement, they continued to broadcast to play their social and information role in the territories, sometimes in complicated conditions but always with a lot of inventiveness and energy. The aid measures put in place by the Government, such as the support fund for FM and DAB+ terrestrial broadcasting or the creation tax credit applicable to SACEM and SPRé, allowed them to maintain their activities for a time. This time is now over, and the refusal to exempt URSSAF contributions has taken a toll on several jobs. While France Relaunch makes maintaining employment the priority of the recovery plan, it would like to know the specific measures that will be taken so that independent radio stations, which play a central role in their territories in terms of information, entertainment and discovery of music, can preserve their jobs.

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