Radio programme production and broadcasting

This Sub-class includes the activities of creating radio content on entertainment, news, talk, and the like or acquiring the right to distribute these content and subsequently broadcasting these content. Also included is data broadcasting, typically integrated with radio broadcasting. The broadcasting can be performed using different technologies, over-the-air, via satellite, via a cable network or via Internet. The production of radio programmes that are typically narrowcast in nature (limited format, such as news, sports, education or youth-oriented programming) on a subscription or fee basis, to a third party, for subsequent broadcasting to the public is also included. Units in this Sub-class are primarily engaged in one or more of the following: •broadcasting audio signals through radio broadcasting studios and facilities for the transmission of aural programming to the public, to affiliates or to subscribers. The aural programmes may originate in their own radio studios, from an affiliated network or from external sources •activities of radio networks, i.e. assembling and transmitting aural programming to the affiliates or subscribers via over-the-air broadcasts, cable or satellite •broadcasting activities over the Internet (Internet radio stations) •data broadcasting integrated with radio broadcasting.

•production of taped radio programming, see 59201