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Market research firm TNS has rejected a £948 million offer for the company made by Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP.WPP approached TNS at the weekend with a cash and shares offer valuing the company’s shares at 230p.The bid followed the announcement that TNS was in discussions with GfK about a nil-premium merger.TNS rejected WPP’s offer on… Continue reading TNS Rejects £948m WPP Bid

Andrew Freeman, senior consultant, media research at Harris Interactive, takes a big picture view of the latest RAJAR figures and looks at the implications for both commercial and local radio…This RAJAR, while many stations will be talking about increases in reach, fewer enjoy longer listening hours. Yet again, at a headline level only the BBC’s… Continue reading RAJAR: An Analysts View – Is Radio Connecting?

The latest RAJAR figures, for Q1 2008, show that All BBC radio saw a year on year and period on period increase in weekly reach.All Commercial, meanwhile, reported a year on year decline in reach, although it was up period on period, by 1%.All Commercial also experienced a year on year decline in share of… Continue reading All BBC Radio Sees Weekly Reach Growth

Magic 105.4 once again had the highest weekly reach in London, at around 1.9 million listeners, after a year on year increase of 6.2%, according to RAJAR figures for Q1 2008.Its share of listening, at 5.8%, down by around 1.7% points year on year, was level with that of Heart 106.2 FM, which enjoyed a… Continue reading Magic 105.4 Has Highest Weekly Reach In London

This analysis is comparing the weekly reach of the breakfast shows of the London stations and not the time slots. Heart 106.2 FM’s and Magic 105.4’s breakfast shows currently run from 6am-9am while 95.8 Capital Radio’s runs from 6am-10am.95.8 Capital Radio’s breakfast show, hosted by Johnny Vaughan and Denise Van Outen, remained on top in… Continue reading Capital Radio Is Top London Breakfast Show

Today’s RAJAR figures, for Q1 2008, reveal that 17.8% of all radio listening is now done via a digital platform, up from 16.6% in the fourth quarter of 2007.DAB digital radio, meanwhile, makes up 10.8% of all radio listening, an increase on the 9.9% recorded last quarter.The internet now makes up 2.1% of all radio… Continue reading Almost 18% Of All Radio Listening Now Via Digital

The latest RAJAR figures, for Q1 2008, show that BBC Radio 2 had the highest weekly reach of all the national stations, at more than 13.6 million listeners, up almost 2.9% year on year and 6.3% period on period.Not far behind it was BBC Radio 1, with a reach of around 11 million listeners. It… Continue reading BBC Radio 2 Sees Weekly Reach Increase

Nearly half a million DAB digital radios were sold in quarter one 2008 delivering sales growth of 28% year-on-year, according to figures from GfK, the industry’s marketing service.Cumulative sales of DAB radio sets at the end of March stood at 6.94 million.In a tough retail quarter on the High Street, 489,000 DAB sets were sold… Continue reading Nearly Half A Million DAB Radios Sold In Q1

RAJAR is to pilot a new online system of recording radio listening and abandon its trial of electronic device alternatives to its diary-based system.The two-year trial of portable people meters as due to continue until the beginning of 2009 but will now end in June.The new survey is intended to give the radio industry more… Continue reading RAJAR To Pilot Online Diary

GCap Media is to increase the number of networked shows across its mainstream local radio stations.A new three-hour weekday show is to be launched across GCap’s entire One Network, as well as the introduction of a number of new syndicated shows to its weekend schedule.The One Network includes London’s Capital 95.8 FM, BRMB in Birmingham… Continue reading GCap Plans To Increase Networking Across Local Stations