Campus & City Radio St. Pölten

What Campus & City Radio St. Pölten does

Campus & City Radio St. Pölten (CR 94.4) is a non-profit community radio station (Verein) founded in 2002, broadcasting on FM 94.4 MHz to St. Pölten and surrounding areas in Lower Austria, with worldwide reach via website livestream and the CBA (Communitary Broadcasting Austria) podcast archive. The station produces multilingual programming spanning cultural, social, music, local news, and civic topics, and is structurally embedded in the Campus St. Pölten ecosystem — including the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten (FH St. Pölten), USTP, and the Media Highschool Henriettenplatz — which supplies student hosts, interns, and workshop participants.

The station's core technology stack comprises an FM broadcast transmitter at 94.4 MHz, a website-based livestream, an on-demand CBA podcast archive, a Songfinder database lookup tool, and a Studiochat feature for real-time listener interaction during live shows. Beyond broadcast, CR 94.4 operates a community onboarding pipeline via free quarterly workshops on radio hosting and program design and a monthly open meetup ('Radio Chillerei', first Thursday, 17:00–19:00), giving new participants a path from idea to on-air show.

Its business model is freemium and non-commercial: programming is free to listeners, participation is free to contributors, and the station is funded through the implied mix of Austrian public broadcasting subsidies for free/community radio, membership fees, and donations (none publicly disclosed). Distribution is regional via FM with global extension via livestream, and commercial relationships are limited to channel-style partnerships with Kulturvernetzung NÖ, SMARTUP St. Pölten, Jugendinfo NÖ, Radio Ypsilon, and the freie-radios.net content network rather than paid customers.

Name

Campus & City Radio St. Pölten

Legal name

Campus & City Radio St. Pölten

Website

https://cr944.at

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Campus & City Radio St. Pölten (CR 94.4) is a non-profit community radio station broadcasting on FM 94.4 MHz in St. Pölten, Austria, serving local residents, students, and faculty with multilingual programming, free radio workshops, and on-demand podcasts via its website and CBA archive.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Radio Broadcasting

NAICS

Radio Broadcasting Stations (51611), Radio Broadcasting Stations (516110)

SIC

Radio Broadcasting Stations (4832)

akta.pro primary industry

Public/Community Local Stations (PBS Member Stations, Community Radio, LPFM) (MPABACAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

University/Educational Local Stations (College Radio, Campus TV) (MPABACAH), Community/Low-Power Nonprofit Radio (LPFM/Community Radio) (MPABADAE)

Keywords

• Community radio broadcasting
• FM radio programming
• Online livestream audio
• Media education workshops
• Multilingual radio content

Headquarters

HQ city

St. Pölten

HQ country

Austria

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Community Radio Operations: As a free/community radio station, Campus & City Radio operates as a non-profit entity (Verein) likely funded through public subsidies, membership fees, donations, and possibly grants. The station provides free participation opportunities through workshops and open meetings.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Campus & City Radio St. Pölten operates a free community radio station broadcasting on FM 94.4 MHz in St. Pölten and surroundings, with a multilingual program covering cultural, social, music, and local topics. The station also distributes its programming worldwide via an online livestream and a podcast archive, and offers free community workshops that guide participants from idea to hosting their own radio show.

Product overview

Campus & City Radio St. Pölten (CR 94.4) is a free community radio station broadcasting on FM frequency 94.4 MHz in St. Pölten, Austria, with a multilingual program covering cultural, social, and local topics. The station's core offering comprises FM radio broadcasting alongside a global livestream, complemented by an on-demand archive (CBA Archiv/Sendungen zum Nachhören), an interactive Studiochat for real-time listener interaction during shows, and a Songfinder tool for track identification. The station also provides free community workshops for radio hosting and show design, including its open Radio Chillerei meetup and formal workshop sessions held multiple times per year.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Campus & City Radio 94.4 FM Broadcast

Quantifiable outcome

• Free workshops available for all interested people to learn radio hosting and program design

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Radio YpsilonminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 May 2026Radio Ypsilon is the festival radio for the WEIN/4-Festival 2026. They produce a weekly culture magazine 'Das Vereinslokal' which is broadcast by Campus & City Radio St. Pölten as program takeover. The collaboration involves selected program exchanges between the two regional radio stations.
• CBA (Communitary Broadcasting Austria)coreOthersCampus & City Radio St. Pölten uses the CBA (CBA.fro.at) platform for archiving broadcasts and podcasts. The station is listed in the CBA directory as CR94.4 Campus Cityradio St. Pölten.
• Kulturvernetzung NÖminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerKulturvernetzung NÖ organizes the Viertelfestival (including WEIN/4-Festival 2026). Campus & City Radio participates by broadcasting selected programs from the festival.
• SMARTUP St. PöltenminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCampus & City Radio broadcasts the 'Innovationswelten' podcast from SMARTUP St. Pölten, featuring interviews with innovative entrepreneurs. The station hosts this content as part of its program schedule.
• Jugendinfo NÖminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCampus & City Radio broadcasts special programs featuring the winners of the Jugend:Redewettbewerb NÖ (Youth Speech Competition Lower Austria), organized by Jugendinfo NÖ.
• Freie Radios Netzwerk (freie-radios.net)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCampus & City Radio sources international radio content from the freie-radios.net audio platform, which aggregates programming from free radio stations across German-speaking countries.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• NPR: Large-scale public/noncommercial radio network in the United States. Operates a structurally comparable non-commercial, public-service, community-supported radio model, though at vastly greater scale and with institutional maturity CR 94.4 does not approach.
• BBC Radio: Public broadcaster with extensive radio services. While far larger and more established, its public-service, non-commercial mandate and portfolio of local/regional stations make it a reference point for the long-term operational model of a community-rooted public broadcaster.

Regional players

• Freie Radios Österreich: Umbrella network of Austrian free/community radio stations that CR 94.4 is part of. Functions as a coordinating body and content exchange platform for the same niche, regulatory, and operational model.

Direct peers

• Radio Helsinki: Free community radio in Graz, Austria, with comparable non-profit status, volunteer-driven programming, and a focus on cultural and social content. Shares the same Austrian free radio (Freies Radio) legislative framework as CR 94.4.
• Radio Ypsilon: Regional Austrian free/community radio that already collaborates with CR 94.4 on program exchanges (e.g., 'Das Vereinslokal' during the WEIN/4-Festival 2026). Operates a similar non-commercial, community-led model in Lower Austria.
• WUK Radio: Community radio operating out of Vienna's WUK (Kulturhaus), combining non-commercial programming with educational and cultural programming under a Verein structure — comparable mission and structure to Campus & City Radio St. Pölten.
• Radio FRO: Free community radio station in Linz, Austria, operating on a similar non-profit, community-participation model with workshops, multilingual programming, and membership in the Austrian free radio network — directly comparable to Campus & City Radio St. Pölten in size, structure, and regulatory positioning.
• Radio Orange 94.0: Vienna's free community radio station, operating the same community-broadcasting model (free radio, non-commercial, volunteer programming) under the same Austrian regulatory framework — a direct structural peer, though larger in audience and team.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/campuscityradio94.4
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/campus-city-radio-st-p%C3%B6lten
• Instagraminstagram.com/campusundcityradiostpoelten

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Investors

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