RPP Noticias

What is RPP Noticias?

RPP Noticias is a Peruvian news radio network that also publishes at rpp.pe, where the site's own metadata identifies the publisher as Grupo RPP.^[1] Its output spans politics, national and international news, economy, entertainment, technology, health and regional coverage, with a standing sport section.^[1]

The Media Ownership Monitor Peru records the ownership in detail: the network was founded by Manuel Delgado Parker and is owned by his six children through Grupo RPP, with Manuel Octavio Delgado Nachtigall holding the largest individual stake at 17.34%.^[2] The monitor's radio findings place Grupo RPP among three radio groups it describes as having a presence throughout the country.^[3] Those figures are from the monitor's research period and are not a current shareholder register.^[2]

What does RPP Noticias cover?

Its sport section covers football, volleyball, tennis and the Olympic Games, alongside the network's general news output in politics, economy, technology, health and the regions.^[1] Sport is a section of a general news service rather than the whole of it, and it is published on a path of the same domain.^[1]

The network's reach into sport is also a matter of the medium. The Media Ownership Monitor Peru's radio findings report that the Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones has authorised 5,257 radio stations nationally, and place Grupo RPP among three groups it describes as having a presence throughout the country, which is the frame within which a national radio sports service operates.^[3]

Its football reporting includes documented governing-body decisions rather than results alone. On 22 February 2019 it reported FIFA's withdrawal of the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup from Peru and published the Federación Peruana de Fútbol's own statement that the unmet condition was “la Garantía Gubernamental N8 relacionada al tratamiento de impuestos”.^[4] That report is the source used for the withdrawal on the Peru country page, and the stated ground on it is the federation's account rather than FIFA's wording.^[4]

How large is RPP Noticias's audience?

This is the one outlet on this list for which the market's recognised radio currency publishes a retrievable figure. The Media Ownership Monitor Peru's profile of RPP Noticias gives its audience share as “25.6 (alcance semanal, CPI 2015)” — a weekly reach measured by CPI, the Compañía Peruana de Estudios de Mercados y Opinión Pública, for 2015.^[2] That is a period figure and not a current reading.^[2]

The monitor's radio findings add a second CPI-sourced statement, for 2018: “According to the survey firm CPI (2018), there is only one news broadcaster in the ten most popular: RPP.”^[3] On the digital side, the monitor lists www.Rpp.pe among the ten online outlets it examined by audience share, naming the Interactive Advertising Bureau as the measuring body but publishing no figure for the site.^[5] Traffic estimators are not audited measurement and none is used here.

Since when has RPP Noticias existed?

The Media Ownership Monitor Peru gives the founding year as 1963 and names Manuel Delgado Parker as founder.^[2] The network's own site as retrieved publishes no founding date in its imprint, so the 1963 date rests on that single source.^[1][2]

Founding and ownership are separately dated in the monitor's account: the founder is named for 1963 while the shareholding it records is that of his six children at the time of the research, with the largest individual holding at 17.34%.^[2] The monitor also records the Delgado Nachtigall brothers seeking licences in particular regions, which is a licensing fact and not a change of ownership.^[3]

Why does RPP Noticias matter in Peru's sport?

Two documented reasons, neither of them an adjective. The first is measurement: RPP is the only sports-carrying outlet in this set for which a named audience currency publishes a retrievable number, the CPI weekly reach of 25.6 for 2015 recorded by the Media Ownership Monitor.^[2] The second is ownership position: the monitor's radio findings state that “three media groups control 64% of the FM band in metropolitan Lima: Corporación Radial del Perú of the Zavala family, the RPP Group of Delgado Natchigall family and Corporación Universal of the Capuñay family”.^[6] RPP is named there by the monitoring body itself, and the quotation is carried rather than summarised.

For sport specifically, the network's value on this list is its record of governing-body decisions affecting Peru, of which the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup withdrawal is the documented example.^[4] That places it outside the El Comercio group, whose holdings the monitor counts at 16 of the “40 media outlets with the largest audience numbers in Peru” it analysed.^[7]