1. commercial radio, is a radio station that is owned by a commercial entity. To be qualified as such, but it
also must be supported by the owner and for profit. Commercial radio means as the name says. It
basically means any radio station that is owned by a commercial entity. The station must also be
advertiser-supported for the profit that they make. The first commercial radio station went on air in
1920. Commercial radio is a radio that is operating budget from selling advertising, or putting it in
another way its selling radio commercials. This advertising income is how the station pays it business
expenses and makes money.
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3. Some of the national commercial radio stations are Absolute radio, classic FM, and talk
sport
• Classic FM was the first national commercial radio that was broadcasted in 1992 and
days after the classic FM went on air for the first time.
• Absolute radio is dedicated to play popular rock music.
• Talk sport has many sport channels such as F1, Football , cricket , racing and much more.
4. There are not that many local commercial radio stations the only ones that there are
• The most popular commercial radio station is in London are
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magic 105.4
capital 95.8
heart 106.2
LBC 97.3
5. The companies that own commercial radio is NBC in America and the commercial broadcast
television and they own their production companies which came in a lot of profit for them.
No the company does not own the largest commercial radio the biggest company is the BBC
this is because NBC only broadcast in America but the BBC is national so all the people throwout the world can see it.
