Radio Vaterland in Liechtenstein operates without a conventional studio, using artificial intelligence to write news bulletins, clone editors’ voices and select music. The station’s founder, Daniel Bargetze, said the system draws on articles from the newspaper Liechtensteiner Vaterland and costs 10 to 20 times less than the former public broadcaster. The AI currently speaks Standard German and still makes occasional pronunciation errors. The station’s market share is smaller than that of the former public service broadcaster.

Liechtenstein’s public broadcasting ended after a 2024 referendum in which a small majority supported privatization, leaving 25 employees without work. Former broadcaster employee Michel Erismann said AI radio could not provide the same human emotion and started a Liechtenstein version of the Swiss Radio2go channel. In the Netherlands, TalkRadio also began developing an AI-powered station, while NPO Radio 1 said it had no plans to replace human makers with AI. Erismann has sought government funding for a full-service channel with independent journalism, but the request has so far been rejected.