Who owns TV + Radio

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Fred Stiening

While 99.97% of this web site is about radio, the database does track TV.

While the grouping is somewhat arbitrary, this new list gives a really good feel of who owns what on the broadcast media

http://streamingradioguide.com/license-count-by-owner.php

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One Response to Who owns TV + Radio

  1. Art Stone says:
    April 26, 2015 at 2:28 am

    The perception that radio is controlled by a handful of mega corporations (see: Roger Hedgecock) is quite wrong. Here is a list showing the size of owners by AM+FM license counts

    +-----------+----------+
| amfmCount | count(*) |
+-----------+----------+
|         0 |     3426 |
|         1 |     4124 |
|         2 |     1038 |
|         3 |      409 |
|         4 |      247 |
|         5 |      159 |
|         6 |      108 |
|         7 |       61 |
|         8 |       48 |
|         9 |       29 |
|        10 |       20 |
|        11 |       15 |
|        12 |       14 |
|        13 |       12 |
|        14 |        8 |
|        15 |       10 |
|        16 |        8 |
|        17 |        5 |
|        18 |        4 |
|        19 |        5 |
|        20 |        6 |
|        21 |        1 |
|        22 |        1 |
|        23 |        2 |
|        24 |        1 |
|        25 |        2 |
|        26 |        2 |
|        27 |        2 |
|        28 |        1 |
|        30 |        1 |
|        31 |        1 |
|        32 |        1 |
|        33 |        2 |
|        34 |        1 |
|        35 |        1 |
|        36 |        2 |
|        38 |        2 |
|        42 |        2 |
|        44 |        2 |
|        48 |        1 |
|        49 |        1 |
|        51 |        1 |
|        56 |        1 |
|        59 |        1 |
|        60 |        1 |
|        73 |        1 |
|        83 |        1 |
|        86 |        1 |
|       112 |        1 |
|       159 |        1 |
|       174 |        1 |
|       175 |        1 |
|       178 |        1 |
|       220 |        1 |
|       277 |        1 |
|       349 |        1 |
+-----------+----------+

    The first number is the number of licensees with no radio stations (they ceased operations or changed their name)

    With a little over 16,000 licenses, half are controlled by owners with 4 or fewer stations. The list is a little misleading as a few owners put each station or cluster into a separate legal entity (example: Townsquare)

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