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As with APRA's television distribution, radio stations are separated into many discrete distribution 'pools'. In fact, each Australian and New Zealand commercial radio station (or often in the case of New Zealand, each radio network) forms its own discrete 'pool'. With few exceptions, radio stations provide APRA with computerised logs detailing all music played by the station throughout year.
In total, approximately 2.5 million hours of radio broadcasts are analysed for music content, representing about 20 million broadcasts of musical works each year.
Distribution weighting factors are applied to radio broadcasts.
The radio weights are shown in the table below:
Music Use Weighting Factors
| Type of Music Use (Vocal or Instrumental) |
Weighting |
| Featured |
100% |
| Advertisements, Station IDs, Public Service Announcements, Stings, Bridges, Programme Promos and News Themes |
50% |
Australian and New Zealand Commercial Radio
Virtually all commercial stations provide APRA with electronic reports four times a year, containing details of musical works broadcast during the previous three month period. Only paper-based reports (mostly, news themes, jingles etc) continue to be analysed on a sample basis.
Each radio station or, where applicable, New Zealand radio network now has its own discrete distribution 'pool', enabling the APRA licence fee paid by a station to be distributed directly to the music it plays.
ABC Radio
There are seven domestic ABC radio networks. With the exception of Local Radio (regional) and Radio Australia, each domestic network receives a direct allocation on a census (or close to census) basis. The ABC’s licence fees attributable to their radio services are allocated to each network in direct proportion to the total duration of copyright music broadcast. The allocation to ABC Classic FM is increased by 50% to take into account the effects of APRA’s ‘Long Work Schedule’, as detailed in APRA’s Distribution Rules.
Triple J – A full census analysis is undertaken of Triple J’s computerised playlist. Electronic reports are provided to APRA and analysed in exactly the same way as commercial radio. There are however musical works broadcast by Triple J that are not able to be reported electronically and these are reported on paper 12 weeks a year (one week per month).
Local Radio (metro) – Music broadcast details are reported electronically for 52 weeks per year. Data is provided from the metros’ central playlist, which covers virtually all music going to air.
Radio National – The ABC provide paper logs only. These report 100% of the music used in music or music-rich programmes, but do not include music that may occasionally be included in other programming. This method of reporting covers approximately 90% of all music broadcast by this network.
ABC Classic FM – Paper based logs report all music broadcast.
ABC News Radio – Only uses themes and radio promos. Full details of this music are provided by the ABC.
SBS Radio 2EA and 3EA (Multicultural broadcasts in different languages)
All languages for territories with a copyright law and a performing right society are analysed one week in four.
Australian Community (Public) Radio
Total APRA licence fees are extremely small in this category, reflecting the non-commercial and often voluntary nature of these stations. Consequently, APRA's level of music analysis is commensurately low.
Stations paying an APRA licence fee over a certain amount are analysed on either a census or sample basis (as devised by AC Nielsen). Although a number of stations are now providing electronic reports, the large majority of stations are still providing their music usage information by means of typed or hand written hardcopy.
New Zealand Public Stations
There are two New Zealand public radio networks ("National" and "Concert") which are funded by the New Zealand government. The Concert (serious music) network receives a 13 week per annum analysis. However, APRA is able to include the National network in its distributions on a 100% (census) basis, because of their ability to provide APRA with electronic music use reports.
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