English text 6. The number of people actively involved with local radio varies from 20 in small villages up to 200 in big cities.
Some participants already have some experience with radio, television or journalism.
Most of them however are new to the job. All in all there are over 20,000 people actively involved with local broadcasting in the Netherlands. Apart from these more than 15,000 volunteers there are about 500 employed staff members, mostly in management positions. Funding The annual budgets of a local stations range from fl 1000 in some small villages to more than fl 4,500,000 in big cities. In 1997 the average station received fl 20.000 per year in advertising fees.