• Tomasz Chróstny, President of UOKiK, has closed the investigation into entities forming the Radio Research Committee.
• The information collected has not proven any violation of competition rules in shaping methodology of the Radio Track research and verification of its results.

Entities being members of the Radio Research Committee (Pol: Komitet Badań Radiowych - KBR) jointly order and finance the Radio Track research. The Radio Track research affects all radio stations broadcasting under the current licence. The research is performed by a third-party entity and enables to prepare lists of listening figures for radio stations in line with the specific variables and parameters. Radio stations which are not KBR members may purchase the results of the Radio Track research and use them to evaluate advertising time. The results of radio stations listening figures may thus constitute the “settlement currency” on the radio advertising market, including for media houses and advertisers.

– The investigation into entrepreneurs forming the Radio Research Committee has been instigated after some signals coming from the market. The material we have collected and deeply analysed has given us no grounds to conclude that the Act on Competition and Consumer Protection might have been violated – says Tomasz Chróstny, President of the UOKiK.

The investigation focused on explanation whether KBR members might have violated the competition law in shaping methodology of the Radio Track research and in verification of the results of the said research. The in-depth analysis made by UOKiK has failed to disclose any acts in violation of law. The Radio Track research has been made by the independent Kantar Polska institute and has been performed in accordance with the standards applicable in the sector. We have not found any KBR members to intervene in its results. The said investigation has not disclosed that acts of entrepreneurs had been aimed at weakening of listening figures of some competitive radio stations, either. The analyses have additionally excluded blocking the capacity for other members to join the Committee by broadcasters.

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