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Emma Rodero; Marina V´squez; olatz Larrea; Toni Sellas & Eva Comaspurely audible nature and its easiness to divide. Due to the great diversification that the radio stations haveexperimented in the last few years, determining the profile of the usual listeners of some programmes, or evenstations, is easy and beneficial when it comes to addressing a campaign to a very specific audience. Thischaracteristic is particularly useful if the advertised product or service is exclusively addressed towards a certainsocial group or very specific places, which turns the radio into a good medium for local businesses and, at thesame time, also for great campaigns addressed towards a very specific target. In both radio programmes, most ofthe products, if not all of them, are addressed to a male audience, a trend that keeps the coherence regarding thecategories used in other football shows. In a detailed analysis of the data, we can see that the main category is theone regarding cars. Both stations coincide with four breaks per show. Cadena SER advertises the Opel car brandfour times, and COPE advertises Seat twice, and Renault and Euromaster once. Once again, the car sector isstereotyped as a product which only interests men. Also in our analysis, data show identification between thetarget of the product and the objective audience of the football shows.Product Carrusel Deportivo Tiempo de Juego TOTALAwards 4 5 9Beverages 1 2 3Books 1 0 1Car 4 4 8Education 1 0 1Financial 1 0 1Footwear 2 0 2Hair 2 1 3Insurance 1 3 4Media 1 2 3Snacks 0 1 1Solidarity 1 0 1Table 2. Advertiser categoriesFinally, we must point out the coincidence among the products advertised in both programmes. The sameway we showed before that the immobilism of the advertising sector in the radio provokes equal sections in thevarious general stations; the analysis of the products shows the same conclusion. Apparently, that illusion in theselection of the advertisers in each station is not accidental. It would seem that one of the reasons to invest in theradio is that the competence does it. "Thus, investments do not obey strategic criteria, but what we call the effectof being there. In fact, advertising in the Internet started the same way. It is true that this kind of investment isusually a waste of money, but it forces the medium to grow, to evolve and to reorientate itself" (Barbeito & Fajula,2005). That effect of being there has given way to new stages in the Internet and, even if they are two differentmedia, it might be a first step to make the radio progress. No doubt, the overcoming of that stage involvesreaching a turning point where most of the great advertisers bet on the radio, which will not happen if they do notsee the radio as a profitable medium, when it comes to advertising; but it will not be profitable if it keeps thecurrent formats. "In short, we have reached a point where we have a resourceful bidirectionality: the advertiserbelieves that the radio has lost its prestige and that investing money on it is a waste, since it does not know themedium at all" (Barbeito & Fajula, 2005). The effect of being there described by these authors is also reflected inthis research. Even though most of the products advertised in a station have their equivalent in the competence,there is a particularly unusual case: brands Floïd and Verti, which participate in the advertising programming ashair tonics; two equal products with different brands, inserted in both stations. Besides the effect of being there,data show again an identification of the purchasing target of the product with the objective audience of the300 | ECREA: Radio Evolution: technology, content, audiences – conference 2011