Monday, 21 April 2025

types of operation

Radio Industry Operations

Definition

Examples of Stations

Ethos and Purpose

Funding / Revenue Streams

Typical Content

Reach/ Size

National commercial

National commercial is radio that isn’t owned by the state it’s in. when its owned by a state its used for educational purposes.

Classic FM 

Talksport

profit

primarily based on the practice of airing radio advertisements and television advertisements for profit.

Music 

News

weather

39.3 million listeners

Public

they are not operated for the purpose of creating a profit for individual owners. It’s for the public.

BBC radio

Inform/educate and entertain

The funding of public service media may be ensured, through a flat broadcasting licence fee, taxation, state subsidies, subscription fees etc.

Weather

Music 

News 

32.7 million

Regional

The Regional Stations in different States form the middle tier of broadcasting. They originate programmes in the regional languages and dialects.

BBC – London

BBC – Scotland

BBC - Bristol


To provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them

through advertising. Extra income also comes from sponsored content and events

Music 

Updates 

debates

7.3 million

Community 

Community radio stations are operated, owned, and influenced by the communities they serve.

London Turkish radio.

Link FM

Reprezent

provides a platform to communities to air local voices on issues concerning Health, Nutrition, Education, Agriculture etc

Advertising (either in the form of 'spot ads' or commercial sponsorship of particular shows or strands)

Music 

Weather 


4.7 million

Internet 

are an audio service that use the Internet to broadcast instead of traditional radio waves. Online radio or net radio.

Soho radio

Worldwide FM

Beatles FM

offer news, sports, talk, and various genres of music

Sell on-air ad spots

Music weather 

Debates 

News 

41 million

Non-profit

radio station that doesn't make incomecollege radioproviding a free service to the communitystations own communitynews weather information1.2 million

 

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