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Today, the radio market comprises national networks and local radio stations. This segment started to emerge in its modern form in the mid-1990s, when FM radio stations in Russia. The newcomers were of foreign , and the first networks of commercial FM radio Radio Maximum, Nostalgie have been set up by French and American companies. But at the same time, the growing popularity of Russian music brought about a number of new stations and networks with Russian music formats and domestic ownership. The key players in the radio market today are several scores of central radio stations. By various , there are from 35 to 40 radio networks operating in the country. The development of regional radio broadcasting occurs mostly because local broadcasters join the existing networks.

Radio broadcasting in Russia is developing with a comparatively good business dynamic. As in other media sectors, of radio stations is either state or private, and the key players are the state-owned channels with news-and-music content (Radio Rossii, Mayak). Music channels (Russkoje Radio, Dorozhnoe Radio, Avtoradio, Retro FM, etc.) are their main competitors though on different audience clusters. Most of them use FM frequencies that limit the distribution within a single place or a small city (Radio Broadcasting in Russia, 2014, 58). A few radio broadcasters offer a talk-radio , these include the traditionally popular Echo Moskvy and its recent rivals RSN or Komsomolskaya Pravda or Business-FM.