Regio TV Schwaben

What Regio TV Schwaben does

Regio TV Schwaben is a private German regional television broadcaster founded in 2006 and headquartered in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg. The company operates under the trading name "Regio TV" and produces regional news content for audiences in five specific sub-regions: Stuttgart, Schwaben, and Bodensee within Baden-Württemberg, and Rostock and Uckermark within Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. This dual-state footprint across geographically non-adjacent regions indicates multi-jurisdictional broadcasting operations subject to separate regulatory oversight.

The company's core product is a regional television news portal (regio-tv.de) delivering localized news, supplemented by traditional broadcast distribution through cable and satellite carriage in its licensed coverage areas. The underlying technology stack is not disclosed in available data, but the business model is consistent with conventional German private regional broadcasters: licensed transmission capacity, local editorial production, and advertising-funded revenue supplemented where applicable by state media subsidies. No digital product extensions, mobile applications, API offerings, or third-party integrations are documented in the source data.

The operating model is small-scale, with 11–50 employees and no disclosed management team, funding history, ownership structure, or financial metrics. No customers, advertiser relationships, pricing details, or revenue figures are publicly reported. The absence of disclosed product portfolio beyond the news portal, combined with no documented partnerships, acquisitions, or strategic transactions, suggests a stable, narrow-scope regional media operation rather than an actively scaling enterprise.

Name

Regio TV Schwaben

Legal name

Regio TV Schwaben

Website

https://regio-tv.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Regio TV Schwaben is a private German regional television broadcaster founded in 2006, based in Ulm, delivering localized news to audiences in Baden-Württemberg (Stuttgart, Schwaben, Bodensee) and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Rostock, Uckermark) via broadcast and web portal.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Regional Television Broadcasting

NAICS

Television Broadcasting Stations (51612), Television Broadcasting Stations (516120)

SIC

Television Broadcasting Stations (4833)

akta.pro primary industry

Independent Local TV Stations (MPABACAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Local News & Weather Stations (MPABACAJ)

Keywords

• Regional television broadcasting
• Local news coverage
• Regional news portal
• German regional media
• Local current affairs

Headquarters

HQ city

Ulm, Baden-Württemberg

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Core offering

Regio TV Schwaben operates a regional television and web-based news portal that delivers local news, current affairs, and informational programming for the regions of Stuttgart, Schwaben, and Bodensee in Baden-Württemberg and Rostock and Uckermark in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Its core service is localized editorial content produced for residents of those catchments.

Product overview

Regio TV Schwaben is a regional television news portal serving communities in Baden-Württemberg (Stuttgart, Schwaben, Bodensee) and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Rostock, Uckermark). The source data provides only high-level coverage information without detailing specific product offerings, modules, or service portfolio beyond the news portal itself.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• ProSiebenSat.1 Media: Germany's largest commercial broadcasting group, operating ProSieben, SAT.1, and regional cable channels (e.g., SAT.1 Bayern, kabel eins). Comparable as a German broadcaster with regional news content, though operating at national scale.
• RTL (Germany): Major German commercial broadcaster with national reach and regional programming windows. Comparable as a TV broadcaster operating in Germany, but at vastly larger scale with national advertising and prime-time content production.

Direct peers

• münchen.tv: Regional television station serving the Munich metropolitan area in Bavaria with local news and programming. Directly comparable as a German regional/local TV broadcaster operating outside the major national network oligopoly.
• Baden TV: Regional television broadcaster based in Baden-Württemberg, overlapping with the same German state where Regio TV Schwaben operates. Highly comparable as a fellow regional TV operator in the same market area.
• nrwision: Regional TV channel for North Rhine-Westphalia delivering local programming and news. Comparable as a German state-level regional broadcaster with a similar small-team, locally-focused operating model.
• Hamburg 1: Regional TV broadcaster serving the Hamburg region with local news and information programming. Comparable as a small-to-mid-sized German regional TV operator focused on local news content delivery.
• rheinmaintv: Regional television station broadcasting for the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main metropolitan area. Directly comparable as a German regional local TV station focused on local news, events, and information.
• Regio TV Berlin-Brandenburg: Sister regional TV station under the broader Regio TV brand umbrella in Germany, operating in a different German state. Directly comparable as a regional local TV broadcaster sharing the Regio TV brand family and similar news-portal operating model.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/regiotvschwaben

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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