Who Works in Radio?
Radio has a highly-skilled and well-qualified workforce of which almost two thirds are graduates. About a quarter of the workforce is freelance or employed on contracts of less than a year. On average the radio workforce is older than that of the creative media industries as a whole. About half the workforce is female. The radio industry employs a relatively low proportion of people from minority ethnic groups, compared both with the local populations from which it recruits, and with the wider creative media industries. The proportion of people with a disability in radio is higher than that across the creative media industries as a whole, but low compared to the wider population. What are the Skills Gaps and Shortages? The common skills shortages identified range from radio specific skills to general management, business and IT skills. But there is a particular shared concern about the shortage of radio engineers with the breadth of skills and versatility to meet the demands of a chang
