Radio as a vehicle of music is popular in Slovenia. The public broadcaster RTV Slovenia runs the three national public service radio stations but a vibrant network of local commercial radio stations also commands a great deal of listener loyalty throughout the country.

Radio Slovenia, with its studios in Ljubljana and two regional centres in Maribor and Koper, accounts for over half of Slovenia's radio audience. Its flagship station is Radio Slovenia First Channel - A1 (RA SLO 1), but in fact it is Radio Slovenia Second Channel - VAL202 which attracts the country's most listeners. Radio Slovenia Third Channel - ARS focuses on art programmes, especially literature, radio plays and classic music.

Radio Slovenia also broadcasts in Italian for the Italian minority community on Radio Koper-Capodistria and runs Radio Slovenia Muravidéki Magyar Rádió (MMR), a special service for the Hungarian minority.

As a national broadcaster, Radio Slovenia attempts to promote standard Slovene language, although talk shows account for merely 30 per cent of programming, whilst the rest is music.

The youth market is a major growth area of radio broadcasting in Slovenia. A high-quality cultural programme is presented daily by Radio Študent (RŠ), one of the oldest and largest non-commercial radio stations in the region. Apart from creating and broadcasting artistic, informative and musical programmes, Radio Študent places great stress on its educational role and the promotion of civil society values and cultural pluralism. It presents the latest from non-commercial discography and DJ programmes of various musical genres ranging from underground rock, techno, funk and rap to ethnic music and jazz. Programmes on humanities theory and art criticism, interviews, round tables and live broadcasts are also common. Mariborski radio Študent (MARŠ) is another important student radio station which broadcasts to Eastern Slovenia.

Since the advent of digital broadcasting in Spring 2007 (see below) RTV's three national stations have been broadcast as DTT services.

Slovenia currently has three national and two local public service broadcast channels and over 30 commercial television channels, the majority of which are local in scope.

Televizija Slovenija is the largest television station and most important in terms of diversity and quantity of its production. As a public service broadcaster it offers high-quality children’s programmes, documentaries, cultural programmes, classical music, news, drama series and TV movies. The leading commercial TV channels - Pop TV and Kanal A - are owned by Pro Plus, a company with mixed ownership (CME and Slovene partners). They are independent, free TV channels and produce a wide range of domestic programmes (including reports on local popular culture) as well as offering a variety of international programmes, such as family movies, popular series and comedies.

Both RTV and its commercial rivals cover local, national and international cultural events. The most important producer of cultural programming is undoubtedly the national television channel Televizija Slovenija.

Television Slovenia often matches funds with (or offers equipment and staff to) the Slovene Film Fund or the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) as a co-producer of TV films, animation or video.

Since 1997 both TV Slovenia 1 and TV Slovenia 2 have been available via the satellite Hot Bird 3, and in May 2003 they were joined by the private TV Pika. These programmes are now available right across Europe and in parts of Africa and Asia. Since the advent of digital broadcasting in Spring 2007 (see below), TV Slovenia 1, TV Slovenia 2 and RTV's two local television channels have been broadcast as DTT services.

Digital broadcasting has been trialed since 2001; the bill of November 2005 allocated a full multiplex for services provided by Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), which commenced digital broadcasting of its two national television and two regional television services, parliamentary TV and three national radio services in Spring 2007. Commercial broadcasters will in future be allowed capacity on other multiplexes. Analogue switch-off has been announced for either 2010 or 2011.

The forthcoming media law distinguishes between three types of television programming: public, non-commercial and commercial. National public programming must provide high-quality and diverse information, cultural, educational and entertainment programmes, must televise cultural and artistic events, incorporate non-commercial programming of other Slovene television stations and make Slovene programmes available to a foreign audience. Non-commercial stations are also obliged to provide informative, cultural/artistic and educational programmes. In the field of media and film emphasis is laid on broadcasting original Slovene productions as well as allowing permanent access to the inheritance of world cinema.

In June 2005 Parliament confirmed the controversial government bill on Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia), which replaced the law of 1994. A programming council is now responsible for the programme and personnel issues, while it no longer has any major managerial powers. These were transferred to a newly-introduced supervisory board, which adopted the statute and financial plan of the broadcaster, something that was previously done by the RTV Slovenia Council. Parliament appoints 21 out of 29 members of the programme council. While 16 out of these are nominated by the TV audience, universities and associations in the arts, culture, science and the press, a further five are put forward by political parties in accordance with their representation in parliament. The Italian and Hungarian minority have a member each, as well as the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU). Two members are appointed by the president at the proposal of registered religious communities, while three members are elected by RTV Slovenia employees. The supervisory board has 11 members. Five are appointed by parliament, four by the government and two by employees.

Ensuring freedom of communications and programming independence, openness of radio and TV programmes, and the implementation of statutory provisions regarding European quotas is the responsibility of the Broadcasting Council of the Republic of Slovenia and the Culture and Media Inspectorate, Ministry of Culture. The Broadcasting Council operates within the Post and Electronic Communications Agency of the Republic of Slovenia and also makes decisions on the allocation of radio and television frequencies. The Association of Slovene Local Television Stations (LTV Slovenia) and the Professional Association of Non-Commercial Radio Stations of Slovenia (within the Chamber of Publishing, Bookselling, Graphic Industry, Radio and TV Media (GZS-ZKGM)) aim to unite non-commercial stations.