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All BBC radio saw a year on year and period on period upturn in its weekly reach and share of listening for the final quarter of 2007, according to the latest RAJAR listening figures.Reach for All BBC rose to over 33.1 million, a 1% year on year increase, whilst share for Q4 2007 now stands… Continue reading All BBC Records Upturn In Reach And Share Whilst All Commercial Falls

Q4 2007 RAJAR figures show that Magic FM (London) once again had the highest weekly reach in the Capital, at almost two million listeners, after a year on year rise of 9.9%.However, the station was down by almost 2.9% period on period.Its share of listening, at 6.1%, was up 10.9 percentage points year on year,… Continue reading Magic FM Still Has Top Reach In London

95.8 Capital Radio reached the top spot with its breakfast show in London in Q4 2007, with the latest RAJAR figures seeing the station reporting a year on year rise in reach of over 4%.The station’s weekly reach now stands at 937,000, which was however down from over one million in Q3 2007, but still… Continue reading Capital Radio Scoops Breakfast Top Spot In London

The latest RAJAR figures, for Q4 2007, show that 16.6% of all radio listening Is now done via a digital platform, up from 15% in the previous quarter.The figures show that 9.9% of all radio listening is via DAB ( v 8.6% in Q3 2007), 3.1% via DTV (vs. 3.0% in Q3, 2007) and 1.9%… Continue reading Over 16% Of All Radio Listening Now Via Digital

GCap’s ‘indie’ station, Xfm, is to launch a music podcast featuring 30-second clips of 10 new songs before they are available to buy online.Users will be able to download the clips as part of the New Music Rising podcast every Saturday morning.The service follows a deal struck last year between commercial radio and the PPL,… Continue reading Xfm Launches New Podcast

Almost 12 million people have listened to the radio via the internet, while 4.3 million have downloaded a podcast, according to new research from RAJAR.The figures are from RAJAR’s first Podcasting and Radio Listening via Internet Survey, which was conducted last autumn by Ipsos Mori.It found that In any given week, 8.1 million people listen… Continue reading Almost 12m Listen To Internet Radio

GCap Media group programme director Dirk Anthony is the latest executive to leave the group.Anthony will leave at the end of March, with GCap saying that he is leaving by mutual consent in order to explore other career opportunities.His departure follows the announcement that operations director Steve Orchard will also be leaving the company (see… Continue reading GCap Programme Director To Leave

GCap Media’s Xfm has today signed a second major promotional deal with Paramount Pictures, this time to support the premiere release of sci-fi action thriller Cloverfield.Launching on January 28, the multi-media campaign will run across Xfm London, Xfm Scotland and Xfm South Wales during Breakfast and Xfm Manchester during drivetime and will include a mix… Continue reading Xfm Signs Second Major Promotional Deal With Paramount Pictures

One million DAB digital radios were bought in the fourth quarter of 2007, with more than 550,000 sold in December alone, a 22% rise on December 2006.According to the Digital Radio Development Bureau (DRDB), best sellers were portable kitchen radios, MP3/DAB personals, DAB hi-fi systems and, with a particularly strong result, DAB clock radios.At one… Continue reading Strong Christmas Sales For Digital Radios

BBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac is to host a an afternoon show on the station, covering Sara Cox’s slot during her maternity leave.She will be on air Saturdays and Sundays between 1pm and 4pm, with her first weekend shows on 23 and 24 February.In further news, Nick Grimshaw is joining Radio 1 to front… Continue reading Annie Mac Gets Radio 1 Weekend Show