Programming, broadcasting, news agency and other content distribution activities
Activities
NACE division 60 · 4 activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| News agency activities60310 | 712 | 21 | 2 | 396 |
| Programming, broadcasting, news agency and other content distribution activities60100 | 316 | 12 | 2 | 208 |
| Programming, broadcasting, news agency and other content distribution activities60390 | 264 | 189 | 0 | - |
| Programming, broadcasting, news agency and other content distribution activities60200 | 149 | 27 | 0 | 3,773 |
Filed accounts
NACE division 60 · financial year 2025 · 303 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | - | - | 47.9% | 47.4% | 51.8% | 54.1% | 50.5% | 49.1% |
| Median net result | - | - | €4,389 | €7,644 | €6,707 | €5,901 | €6,163 | €4,585 |
| Filed late | 45.5% | 51.8% | 47.6% | 40.0% | 44.2% | 42.1% | 44.4% | - |
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Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 60
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Bankruptcies
Bankruptcies per year in division 60
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Jobs lost | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
2026 through April. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 26-10-2026 | Mathus, Sabine
BE 0555.899.080 · sole trader · Uccle |
| 04-05-2026 | BEHO FM
BE 0435.796.353 |
| 15-04-2026 | BAFFREY -JAUREGUI
BE 0896.390.856 |
| 18-11-2025 | DRmedia
BE 0884.964.850 |
| 07-07-2025 | van Abeelen, Vince
BE 1006.709.154 · sole trader · Hamont-Achel |
| 07-10-2024 | Enjeux Groupe
BE 0712.562.097 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 661 of 1,439 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Brussels
- Wallonia
- Abroad
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Largest employers
NACE division 60 · staff from the latest accounts- 1 De Vlaamse Radio- en TelevisieomroeporganisatieSchaerbeek 1,930 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 DPG MediaAntwerp 1,156 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 RTL BELGIUMSchaerbeek 394 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 Editions de l’Avenir PresseNamur 174 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 Belga News AgencyBrussels 122 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 58 companies- 227 Audiovisual sector 24
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 20
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 6
- 329.02 Socio-cultural sector 5
- 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 4
- 201 Independent retail 1
- 302 Hotels and catering 1
- 329 Socio-cultural sector 1
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- 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
4 of the 619 companies in NACE division 60 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: France (1), United Kingdom (1) and Netherlands (1). Together they employ 40 of the division's 4,376 FTE: 0.9%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €19.4m awarded
- Federal transfers 16,342 amount as published
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €37.6m paid
- EU budget €26.0m attributed share
- EU research €11.9m EU contribution
Insights on Programming and broadcasting
Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €4,585 is below Belgium's €16,516. 19.6% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. Return on equity of 7.4% is below Belgium's 15.9%.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. In 12 months, 17.3 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is more than in 97% of the 86 other NACE divisions. Brussels holds 22.4% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 10.9 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium.
Staff and filing. The median staff cost per FTE of €79,389 is above Belgium's €61,417. 44.4% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 3,776 of the 4,376 FTE: 86.3%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 47.9% in financial year 2020 to 49.1% in financial year 2025.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 07-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 60 exists.
The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,547 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,272 registrations publish no activity.
Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.