Creative media sectors: Radio and Publishing

Radio has been around the UK for over 100 years. Now it is undergoing a digital revolution, which will decide its fate. Radio today falls into three main categories; publicly-funded, commercial and community. This media sector has been growing steadily recently, now employing over 22,000 people, more people than terrestrial TV. They range from the well known radio stations such as BBC, to not-for-profit (or voluntary) community radio stations


Publishing has been around for almost twice as long as radio, but in the age of growing technology, this particular sector in media is now in danger of becoming extinct since less people are using it. They are most common in books, newspapers and magazines.

This industry consists of mainly small companies, 88% of them having less than 10 people. And yet the 3% with 200 or more employees have over half of all those working in the industry on their payroll.

The main area of employment is London and the South East. The rest of the East of England is next, followed by the South West, Scotland and the North West. In Wales and Northern Ireland the sector is mainly made up of smaller newspaper companies.

The most well known newspaper companies are Daily Mirror and The Sun. A less well known company is The Sentinel, since that's regional to Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire.