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Veteran DJ Tony Blackburn is to join London’s Smooth Radio as the presenter of its weekend breakfast show.Blackburn, who left GCap Media’s Classic Gold before its merger with sister network Capital Gold last year (see New Gold Network Releases Schedule), will present his first show on Smooth on February 16.“Smooth Radio is a wonderful station… Continue reading Blackburn Joins Smooth Radio London For Weekend Breakfast

Danny Wallace will be livening up the Xfm London and Manchester schedules when he begins his weekly Saturday show from 10am to 2pm on February 9.Some of Wallace’s most famous credits include his books Join Me and Yes Man, TV show How to Start Your Own Country for BBC Two, and his presenting work on… Continue reading Danny Wallace Gets Xfm Saturday Show

The latest RAJAR figures, for Q4 2007, show that BBC Radio 2 remained the national station with the highest weekly reach, of more than 12.8 million listeners. However, it was down both period on period and year on year, by 1.5% and 3.4% respectively.BBC Radio 1 was up period on period by 1.1% to around… Continue reading BBC Radio 2 Sees Weekly Reach Decline

The weekly reach of All Commercial stations declined by around 2% year on year for all demographic groups in Q4 2007, as well as falling over 1.6% period on period.Meanwhile, All BBC’s weekly reach across all demographics was up both year on year and period on period, by 1% and over 0.7% respectively.All BBC now… Continue reading Reach Declines Across All Demographics For Commercial Radio Whilst BBC Reports Upturn

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