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NACE 601 · division 60 Programming and broadcasting
Current registrations 316division 60: 1,436
Starters, 12 months 246division 60 · 17.1 per 100 · Belgium 7.5
Bankruptcies, 5 years 20.63% of the registrations · Belgium 1.61%
Employment (FTE) 4,778division 60 · financial year 2025
Median age 10.9 yearsdivision 60 · Belgium 10.7 years

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 60 · financial year 2025 · 302 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
47.8%
Belgium 46.2%
Median net result
€4,497
Belgium €16,557
Median equity
€76,352
Belgium €98,554
Loss-making
40.6%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
19.7%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
7.6%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.85
Belgium 1.66

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 60

41 employers
Median
€79,400
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€69,700 to €98,900
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
14 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first

Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 12 months
4
division 60 · 2.8 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 5.5

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
04-05-2026 BEHO FM
BE 0435.796.353
15-04-2026 BAFFREY -JAUREGUI
BE 0896.390.856

Every bankruptcy in division 60, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 251 of 316 enterprises with a registered office on file
  • Flanders 138 · 55.0%
  • Wallonia 71 · 28.3%
  • Brussels 40 · 15.9%
  • Unknown 2 · 0.8%
fewer moremax 46

Largest employers

NACE division 60 · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 De Vlaamse Radio- en TelevisieomroeporganisatieSchaarbeek 1,930 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 DPG MediaAntwerp 1,156 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 RTL BELGIUMSchaarbeek 394 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 Editions de l’Avenir PresseNamur 174 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 Belga News AgencyBrussels 122 FTEfinancial year 2025

4 of the 620 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 15% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €19.4m awarded 35 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Televisieomroeporganisatie: Werkingssubsidie voor een erkende regionale televisieomroep (Mediadecreet 2009)
  • Federal transfers 16,342 amount as published 1 recipient · 2025 · largest: Digitale transformatie: subsidies aan ondernemingen
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €37.6m paid 50 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions aux médias de proximité
  • EU budget €26.0m attributed share 9 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Actions financed under the prerogatives of the Commission and specific competences conferred to the Commission
  • EU research €11.9m eu contribution 5 recipients · 2011 to 2026 · largest: Horizon 2020

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The number of starters per 100 companies in NACE division 60 is higher than that of 95% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure.

This sector's historical share is lower than that of 72% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure.

The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 60 is 0.1%, against 0.2% for Belgium as a whole. It is computed over 561 scored companies.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 02-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 601 exists.

The historical share is the share of current registrations for which a bankruptcy opening was published in the past five years. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors. The historical share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

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 "higher than 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Their number is given with the figure.

The filed-accounts figures cover the whole NACE division 60, not only NACE 601. There are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the division's 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.