The BBC has stolen the largest slice of the pie away from commercial radio in the latest radio audience listening figures, released by RAJAR this afternoon. For Q1 1999 All BBC Radio took a 50.3% share of listening, leaving All Commercial stations with 47.5% and Other Listening taking the remaining 2.2%.In terms of reach, however,… Continue reading BBC Takes Majority Share Of Listening In Latest RAJAR Figures
Capital 95.8 FM leads the London radio market with an average three million listeners each week, according to Q1 1999 radio listener figures, released by RAJAR this afternoon. The station takes a majority share of listening of 12.2% in London. Capital’s ‘indie/alternative’ station, Xfm, now reaches 354,000 people in London each week, a share of… Continue reading Capital Radio Leads London Market
The weekly reach of All BBC stations rose by 0.6% to 26.73 million in Q4 1998, according to this afternoon’s RAJAR data release. This compares to All Commercial’s weekly reach increase of 0.2% to 28.45 million. Whilst BBC Network Radio saw a 0.9% rise in its weekly reach (23.15m), All National Commercial radio fell by… Continue reading Q4 1998 RAJAR – National Stations
In this quarter’s RAJAR data it is the local commercial radio stations which have staved off what could have been a poor showing by the commercial sector as whole. Where national commercial stations lost 4.9% of their weekly reach and their share of listening fell from 10.0% to 9.3%, the local stations pushed their reach… Continue reading Q4 RAJAR – Local Commercial Stations (Subscribers)
The Q4 RAJAR figures released today have thrown up a rather mixed batch of results in the London Stations sector, showing some sharp increases in weekly reach, but also some substantial falls. Choice FM showed the largest proportional rise in weekly reach, rising 27.9%, taking its total weekly reach up to 261,000.London Stations RAJAR Q4… Continue reading Q4 RAJAR 1998 – London Stations
The UK commercial radio industry saw its total revenue increase to over £420 million in 1998 according to figures just released by the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB). This represents an annual growth of 18.6%, or £66 million, as well as being the largest revenue figure yet achieved by the industry. This growth is set against… Continue reading Commercial Radio Revenue Tops £420m In 1998
Commercial radio is claiming to have hit its highest ever hours per listener for the summer period, up to 15.1 in these RAJAR figures. Radio listening as a whole, was also up for this quarter by 4%.In the local commercial market London’s Capital 95.8 has turned in strong results with its market-leading share of listening… Continue reading Q3 RAJAR – Local Commercial Stations
The weekly reach of all BBC stations increased by 1.4% this quarter to 26.6 million, a slightly larger increase than all commercial stations, which saw a rise of 1.2% year on year. During the summer period, both Talk Radio and Virgin saw healthy increases in weekly reach, of 11.2 and 18.6 percent respectively.Radio 4 saw… Continue reading Q3 RAJAR 1998 – National Stations
James Gordon Looks Back On The 25 Years That Have Made Commercial Radio A Successfrom The Times 2 October 1998Commercial radio celebrates the 25th anniversary of LBC’s first broadcast on Thursday. The station launched at 6am on October 8, 1973.London was not the easiest place in which to start radio with local appeal since the… Continue reading Radio Has Reason To Party
The Commercial Radio Industry is to celebrate 25 years of broadcasting on 8 October 1998.Since the launch of LBC, the first local commercial station, in 1973, the industry has grown to over 200 stations. It spawned what the industry refers to as the ‘Commercial Radio Generation’, which is those listeners who, over the past 25… Continue reading Commercial Radio Hits A Quarter Of Century
