What Radio Lac does

Radio Lac is a private, for-profit radio station headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, founded in 1986. According to its firmographic profile, it broadcasts live music and news programming to listeners in the Lake Geneva region, operating as part of Media One Group's portfolio of radio brands. The station maintains 51-100 employees, consistent with the staffing profile of a regional commercial broadcaster that combines on-air talent with sales, production, and administrative functions.

The underlying operational footprint is anchored to a linear FM/streaming broadcast model, with digital presence represented by the yesfm.ch platform operated under Media One Group's brand aggregation. The website exposes standard radio-station functionality — program schedules, station listings, and listener contact channels — but no proprietary technology stack, app product, or technical integration is documented in the source data. There is no evidence of owned-and-operated streaming infrastructure beyond the Media One Group parent platform, no published SDK or API surface, and no disclosed data assets.

The business model is consistent with a conventional commercial local radio station: audience reach is monetized through advertising sales to regional businesses, with secondary potential from digital extensions and group-level cross-promotion across Media One Group's other radio properties. No pricing model, rate card, advertiser disclosure, or revenue split is available in the source material, and the relationship between Radio Lac's economics and Media One Group's consolidated reporting is not detailed. The lack of disclosed revenue, customer, or product data represents a material gap for any investment-grade assessment, and any conclusions beyond the operational profile presented above should be treated as inferential rather than evidenced.

Name

Radio Lac

Website

https://yesfm.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

1986

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Radio Lac is a Geneva-based private radio station broadcasting live music and news, founded in 1986 and operating as a brand under Swiss media group Media One Group.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Genève

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Core offering

Radio Lac is a regional radio station that broadcasts live music and news programming to listeners in the Genève / French-speaking Switzerland market. Its programming is delivered over FM terrestrial broadcast and via an online web presence (yesfm.ch), and the station operates as part of the Media One Group media portfolio.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Radio Lac live radio broadcast

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Rhône FM: Local Swiss French-language radio station serving the Valais region with a general entertainment and news format. Comparable as a regional Swiss private radio station with similar broadcasting model and French-speaking audience focus.
• NRJ Group (Swiss operations): Major commercial radio network operating in Switzerland (NRJ Suisse). Directly comparable as a for-profit commercial radio brand competing for the same Swiss Franc advertising market and overlapping audience demographics.
• One FM (Switzerland): One FM is a Swiss private radio brand that, like Radio Lac, operates under Media One Group. Directly comparable as a sister station with shared parent infrastructure and similar commercial radio positioning.
• Rouge FM: Rouge FM is a Swiss private radio station operating in the French-speaking market with music and entertainment programming. Comparable as a competing commercial radio brand targeting similar French-speaking Swiss listeners.
• Energy Group (Switzerland): Energy operates major Swiss commercial radio stations (Energy Zürich, Energy Bern, etc.) with music-forward formats. Comparable as a private-sector commercial radio operator with similar music+news positioning in the Swiss market.

Regional players

• Léman Bleu: Local Geneva-based television broadcaster covering the same Leman region as Radio Lac. Comparable as a sibling local media outlet competing for the same regional advertising budgets in Geneva, though operating in TV rather than radio.
• Radio Cité (Genève): Community-focused radio station serving the Geneva area. Comparable as a direct geographic competitor for Geneva listener attention and local advertising share.

Broad incumbents

• RTS (Radio Télévision Suisse): Swiss public broadcaster operating national radio networks including news and music stations. Comparable because it competes for the same Geneva-region radio audience and advertising/attention share, though funded via public means and operating at national scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/radiolacch
• Facebookfacebook.com/RadioLacOfficiel
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/radio-lac-s-a

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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