List of radio orchestras

List of Radio orchestras with the links in their English names, and the local language in bracketed italics (where available).

European radio orchestras

* Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra ("Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien")
* Albanian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra
* Flemish Radio Orchestra ("Vlaams Radio Orkest") - (Recently Renamed "Brussels Philharmonic")
* Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
* Symphony Orchestra of Croatian Radiotelevision ("Simfonijski orkestar Hrvatske radiotelevizije")
* DR Radio Symphony Orchestra ("Danmarks-Radio (DR) Radiosymfoniorkestret")
* Danish Radio Sinfonietta ("DR RadioUnderholdningsOrkestret")
* Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra ("YLE Radion sinfoniaorkesteri")
* Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France ("Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France")
* French National Orchestra
* Hungarian Radio Orchestra
* RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland
* RTÉ Concert Orchestra
* RAI National Symphony Orchestra ("Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI", created in a merger of the four Symphony Orchestras of RAI from Turin, Rome, Naples and Milan)
* Netherlands (Dutch) Radio Philharmonic Orchestra ("Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Holland")
* Norwegian Radio Orchestra ("Kringkastingsorkestret")
* Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra ("Narodowa Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiego Radia(NOSPR)")
* Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra ("Polska Orkiestra Radiowa")
* National Radio Orchestra of Romania ("Orchestra Nationala Radio")
* Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio (Большой симфонический оркестр имени П. И. Чайковского)
* Symphony Orchestra of Radio Television of Serbia ("Simfonijski orkestar Radio Televizije Srbije")
* Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra ("Symfonický orchester Slovenského Rozhlasu")
* Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra ("Simfoničnegaorkestra Radiotelevizija Slovenija")
* RTVE Symphony Orchestra ("Orquesta Sinfónica de RadioTelevisión Española")
* Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra ("Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester")
* Orchestra of RTSI ("Orchestra della Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana")

United Kingdom radio orchestras

* BBC Radio Big Band
* BBC Concert Orchestra
* BBC National Orchestra of Wales ("Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Gymreig y BBC")
* BBC Philharmonic
* BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
* BBC Symphony Orchestra

German radio orchestras

* Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra ("Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks")
* Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra ("Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin")
* German Symphony Orchestra - Berlin ("Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin") (Formerly "RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester")
* German Film Orchestra of Babelsberg ("Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg")
* Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra ("hr Sinfonieorchester") (Formerly the "Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra")
* MDR Symphony Orchestra ("MDR Sinfonieorchester")
* Munich Radio Orchestra ("Münchner Rundfunkorchester")
* NDR Radio Philharmonic ("Radiophilharmonie des Norddeutschen Rundfunks")
* NDR Symphony Orchestra ("NDR Sinfonieorchester")
* NDR Bigband
* German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern, ("Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern"; created in a merger of Radio-Symphony Orchestra of Saarbrücken ("Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken") and Radio-Orchestra of Kaiserslautern ("Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern"))
* Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra ("SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg", formerly "Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks")
* Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra ("Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des Südwestrundfunk")
* WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne ("WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln")
* WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne ("WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln")
* WDR Big Band Cologne ("WDR Big Band Köln")

Radio orchestras on other continents

* NHK Symphony Orchestra (NHK 交響楽団)
* NBC Symphony Orchestra, later on Symphony of the Air

Defunct Radio Orchestras

* Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra ("Nederlands Radio Symfonie Orkest")
* BBC Northern Dance Orchestra (Renamed the BBC Northern Radio Orchestra in 1975) [http://www.nfo.net/brit/bn.html#TOP]
* BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra (Disbanded and most members joined the Ulster Orchestra)
* BBC Television Orchestra (Disbanded in 1939)