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Media > Radio Stats: compare key data on Nigeria & South Africa

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List of radio stations <p>Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) - state-run, operates 37 stations broadcasting in 15 languages</p> </p>Voice of Nigeria - FRCN&#039;s external service, via shortwave</p> </p>Ray Power - private, owned by DAAR Communications, runs music-based and speech-based FM stations</p> <br> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13949549">Full Article</a> <p>SABC - state broadcaster with 20 regional and national services in 11 languages, including: national English-language network SAfm; contemporary music station 5 FM; national Afrikaans station Radio Sonder Grense; national Zulu station Ukhozi FM; Sesotho station Lesedi FM</p> </p>Channel Africa - SABC&#039;s pan-African external radio</p> </p>YFM - popular Johannesburg commercial R&amp;B, soul and hip-hop station</p> <br> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14094861">Full Article</a>
Percentage of government (public) radio institutions 76.53%
Ranked 6th. 5 times more than South Africa
16.67%
Ranked 20th.
Percentage of private radio institutions 23.47%
Ranked 63th.
83.33%
Ranked 49th. 4 times more than Nigeria
Percentage of public channels with national coverage 1.98%
Ranked 51st.
26.32%
Ranked 20th. 13 times more than Nigeria
Ratio of private to government (public) radio institutions 0.307
Ranked 60th.
5
Ranked 46th. 16 times more than Nigeria
Total number of channels 101
Ranked 11th. 5 times more than South Africa
19
Ranked 30th.
Total number of channels per million people 0.724
Ranked 50th. 80% more than South Africa
0.403
Ranked 61st.

SOURCES: British Broadcasting Corporation 2014; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

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