(13 February 2020) – There were 5 017 enterprises operating as radio broadcaster across the European Union in 2017. This is 300 fewer than in the previous year and 11% fewer than the 5 641 enterprises in 2013.
In 2017, radio broadcasting enterprises generated €2 652 million of value added, 29% less than in 2013, while they recorded a turnover of €5 192 million, down from €6 979 million in 2013. They employed 48 345 persons in the EU, 14% less than in 2013.
Among EU Member States, the number of radio broadcasting enterprises varied greatly. There were many more of these enterprises in Spain (963), Italy (720), Greece (622, provisional data), Hungary (310) and Portugal (293), than in Luxembourg (6), Estonia (10), Slovakia (16), Lithuania (23) and Cyprus (37).
The number of persons employed in this sector also varied greatly across the EU Member States. Germany employed 8 727 persons in the radio broadcasting sector whereas in Slovakia just 63 persons were employed in the same sector in 2017.