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Overall, national breakfast shows enjoyed a boost in listeners between October and December. BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans show has retained Terry Wogan’s crown as the most popular way to wake up in the morning, with a weekly reach of 8.7 million listeners.

Commercial listening suffered a slight drop in Q4, with local commercial seeing a dip in figures. However, national commercial stations made a gain – up QoQ and YoY.

Less than a week before MediaTel’s much-anticipated 2011 Year Ahead event, industry body chiefs from Thinkbox, the RAB and Postar give their views and predictions for the year ahead…

Ofcom has permitted all three Kiss commercial radio stations to drop their current ‘localness’ obligations.

2.2 million smartphone owners have downloaded a radio app; 16.3 million listeners now claim to listen to radio via the internet; 12.7 million adults have used a Listen Again service; and 8.1 million adults have downloaded a podcast, according to RAJAR’s Midas 7 survey.

RAJAR is on the verge of taking part of the survey online, research director Paul Kennedy told the ASI European Radio Symposium in Paris.

Margo Swadley, the BBC’s head of audience research for audio and music, opened the ASI European Radio Symposium by putting a brave face on digital radio take up in the UK.

Marnie Virdee, head of sales operations at talkSPORT, explains why last week’s RAJAR release wasn’t an “artificial blip”; what talkSPORT is doing to help commercial radio compete on a level playing field; and how the station copes with not having “the same deep pockets of the BBC” when it comes to sports rights…

A week after the Q3 2010 RAJAR release, Ofcom has received a format change request from Bauer to launch a new national version of Kiss.

RAJAR’s Q3 2010 figures show another strong performance from commercial radio in what was an all-round positive release for the radio industry.But what do the figures really mean?  Will a nationwide Capital brand do as well as the Heart Network?  Is the target of 50% of digital listening by 2015 still achievable?  Can commercial continue… Continue reading Industry view: Agencies praise “fantastic” commercial radio results