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Baltic Media Health Check is an annual study that analyses trends, finances and issues of importance in the Baltic media markets.

The analysis of 75 most popular media titles across newspapers, magazines, online news websites, TV and radio stations across the Baltics shows that 41 media outlet saw their audience shrink in 2017.

Traditionally, print media has been taking the hardest hit and 2017 wasn’t an exception – more newspaper and magazine titles saw their audiences decline than grow. As for radio and TV, the same number of companies lost followers, as the number of companies who gained an audience. Online is the only category where more media saw their audience grow rather than fall.

In 2017, 75 most popular media outlets were owned by 46 media houses. More than half (25) of them saw their turnover decline in 2017. The companies that saw the sharpest decline in turnover were Estonia’s Taevaraadio(turnover shrank by -46.6% in 2017 compared to 2016), Lithuania’s Žurnalų leidybos grupė (-39.7%) and Lietuvos ryto televizija (-21.7%). While Latvia’s Delfi and EHR mediju grupa and Lithuania’s Delfi were among the top performers when ranked by increase in turnover in 2017 compared to 2016.