Amateur Radio License Counts Statistics: U.S. Snapshot
ARRL counted 727,499 active individual FCC amateur radio licenses through November 10, 2026. Explore reported counts across states and territories and by license class.
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Source-based figures about radio history & electronics hobbies, with dates, definitions and links.
Audio Listening Time Statistics: Radio, Music and Podcasts
UK radio averaged 20.5 hours per week in Q1 2024. Other measures describe music, podcast, platform and location listening across distinct populations and periods.
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Community Radio Stations Statistics: UK and Australia
Explore reported community radio statistics from UK and Australian surveys, including station structures, volunteer activity, grant outcomes, audience estimates and music contributions.
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Consumer Electronics Recycling Statistics: U.S. and Global Data
EPA’s selected U.S. consumer electronics recycling rate was 38.5% in 2018. Global figures detail 2022 e-waste generation, formal collection, materials, and policy coverage.
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Electronic Component Manufacturing Employment Statistics
Explore U.S. electronic component manufacturing employment across monthly 2025 payroll readings, May 2024 occupations, 2024–34 projections, and 2006 QCEW records.
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Electronics Hobby Participation Statistics: What Surveys Reveal
Available surveys offer a limited view of electronics hobby participation, from broad U.S. science-hobby measures to amateur-radio interests and the practices of experienced prototype builders.
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Electronics Repair Business Counts Statistics: U.S. Trends and State Examples
U.S. consumer electronics repair establishments averaged 3,217 in 2002 and 2,154 in 2010. See how counts, employment, and annual wages changed across selected years.
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Electronics Technician Employment Statistics
A focused guide to U.S. employment estimates, major industries, job outlook, wages, state employment levels, and adjacent repair occupations.
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Emergency Radio Ownership Statistics: Survey Findings and Receiver Types
Survey findings reveal how reported working battery-radio possession varied across demographic groups and states, alongside separate historical measures of NOAA Weather Radio ownership and receiver types.
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FM Radio Station Counts: FCC Licensed Station Data
FCC station totals show distinct patterns for commercial FM, educational and noncommercial FM, low-power FM, and translators and boosters. See how the counts vary across dated benchmarks.
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Household Radio Ownership Statistics Across Seven Countries
A country-by-country look at household radio ownership statistics, with measures grouped by year, residence, headship, zone, and receiver type.
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Maker Space Participation Statistics: Attendance, Demographics and Activities
Explore maker space participation statistics from studies spanning 2017 to 2023, including campus visits, youth-site counts, user demographics, tools and reported experiences.
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Portable Radio Sales Statistics: Historical Sales and DAB Trends
Explore documented portable radio sales figures across Finland, Canada, the UK and Austria, with dates, units and category definitions kept intact.
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Radio Advertising Revenue Statistics: Canada, U.S. and New Zealand
A source-led look at commercial radio revenue across Canada, U.S. radio digital sales and station benchmarks, iHeartMedia broadcast revenue, and New Zealand turnover.
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Radio Broadcasting Employment Statistics: Jobs, Wages, and Trends
Explore radio employment counts, occupational wages, announcer projections, EU country figures, Croatian station staffing, and Canadian workforce trends—with each figure kept in its proper scope.
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Shortwave Broadcasting Stations Statistics: Counts, Power, and Monitoring
A source-based guide to historical U.S. shortwave licensing, NASB power examples, and ILGRadio signal-set and monitoring-entry totals.
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STEM Hobby Participation Statistics: Activities and Patterns
Explore U.S. statistics on science-related hobbies, citizen science participation, visits to informal science venues, and family science activities, with dates and populations clearly identified.
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AM Radio Station Counts Statistics: Historical U.S. Totals
U.S. AM station counts rose from 5 in 1921 to 4,288 in 1970. Historical Census and FCC records show how the reported totals changed across distinct periods.
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Public Radio Listening Statistics: Broadcast Audiences and Station Reach
Explore public radio listening statistics spanning NPR’s weekly terrestrial audience from 2005 to 2022, PRI and PRX figures, station audiences, program reach, and local listening measures.
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Radio Listening Reach Statistics: Audience Data and Listening Patterns
Explore radio listening reach statistics from national surveys and UK audience reports, with dates, age bases and measurement definitions kept in view.
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