At first look it seems as if Chris Evans has not had a great RAJAR, losing 341,000 listeners quarter on quarter. However, on closer inspection he only has 5,000 less listeners than his predecessor, Terry Wogan did a year ago.
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Magic 105.4 has re-claimed the top spot in London after losing out to Heart 106.2 FM in last quarter’s RAJAR release.
BBC Radio 2 still has the highest number of national listeners despite a small drop in reach during Q3 2010.
Commercial Radio has enjoyed yet another good RAJAR release, gaining half a million new listeners across national and local stations.
Helen Keable, investment director at Manning Gottlieb OMD, wonders whether we have been temporarily dazzled by the bright lights of “scale” and lost sight of why we really value local radio…
Mark Barber, director of planning at the Radio Advertising Bureau, says the changes to the Heart, Smooth and Capital brands are just a natural evolution but could also be an important factor in helping radio claim a fairer share of ad revenue…
Global Radio, the biggest commercial radio operator in the UK, plans to launch London’s Capital Radio across the UK.
Radio merited relatively few mentions around Edinburgh over the weekend – reasonable enough as it is a TV conference – but the BBC director general Mark Thompson’s radio comments – not reported much – were significant on two fronts.
Absolute Radio has announced that its interactive digital radio station dabbl will be taken down, less than a year after it was launched.
According to the new Ofcom Communications Market Report, media multi-tasking – for example, when a phone call is made while using the internet – accounts for 35% of all media consumption throughout the day.