Year on year, the largest percentage increase in weekly reach among national stations was at BBC Radio 2, which put in a strong performance again, increasing 15.5% year on year to achieve an average weekly reach of 12.3 million.In the commercial sector Classic FM managed an increase of just under 11% year on year. Meanwhile… Continue reading RAJAR Results Q4 2001- National Stations
Listening to internet radio showed strong growth during 2001, with the UK’s Virgin Radio London the second most listened to station, according to data from MeasureCast released this week. Virgin was not surveyed for the whole year, however, and early January data suggest that the station takes the spot as the most listened to on… Continue reading Virgin Radio Leads Internet Stations Listening, According To MeasureCast
GWR this morning stated that it anticipates that revenues for the UK market in January will be around 6% down, year on year but declines to predict any further ahead than that saying “The radio advertising market continues to be volatile making it difficult to forecast revenues even in the short term”. In the 3… Continue reading Trading Statements Reveal Little Optimism For UK Radio Market This Year
US radio revenue figures for November stabilised in the local ad markets, as ad sales dropped 7% compared to the same month a year ago, according to the latest data from the US Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB). The Bureau says that national advertising – harder hit than local in the downturn – appears to have… Continue reading US Radio Set For Slow But Steady Recovery, Says RAB
Recruitment advertising revenue represented 26.1% of the £1.8bn spent on classified ads in the regional press during 2000 (Advertising Association Yearbook). With over 50% of UK residents now in the online habit (Office of National Statistics), increasing numbers of online recruitment sites are poised to claim a cut of this revenue. Several of the UK’s… Continue reading Recruitment Websites Will Cut Into Classified Revenues
Digital radio receivers will be available for less than £100 by the middle of next year, according to radio operator GWR Group. The company’s Digital One subsidiary has developed the technology in partnership with Imagination Technologies. The new processor chips, especially designed to bring down the cost of digital radios, will be available in a… Continue reading Insight Analysis: Radio Companies Push Cheap Digital Receivers
The following tables show the best and worst performers, in terms of weekly reach and share of listening, of the local commercial stations broadcasting outside London.Among those gaining the largest increases period on period in terms of weekly reach was the Wireless Group’s Big AM, which managed a 77.8% increase taking it to 32,000. GWR’s… Continue reading September 2001 RAJAR – Local Commercial Stations
The period held good news for many of Commercial Radio’s London stations. Among those stations seeing period on period increases in reach was Magic, which rose 10% to over 1.4m, News Direct, which increased its reach by 28%, Virgin which added 11.6% quarter on quarter to hit 1.2m, Choice, which added 28.5% and Jazz which… Continue reading London’s Commercial Stations See Positive Quarter
National Commercial radio continued to increase its reach this quarter, as year on year analysis revealed gains for Classic FM and talkSPORT. Classic FM, which recently reported its first full year’s profit, saw a 6.3% year on year increase in reach, while talkSPORT, which experienced significant gains last quarter, saw an 8.3% increase during this… Continue reading RAJAR: Continued Success For National Commercial Radio
The following tables show the performance of each of the main UK radio groups in the latest RAJAR figures for the one year to September 2001. BBC Radio Stations Weekly Reach (000s) Year On Year Comparisons Station Survey Period Ending September 2000 Ending September 2001 % Ch BBC 3 Counties H 126 179 42.1 BBC… Continue reading RAJAR September 2001 – Performance By Ownership
