The weekly reach of All BBC stations dropped by 0.3% to 26.6 million, whilst All Commercial’s reach increased by 0.5% to 28.6 million. BBC’s Network Radio’s reach fell by 0.4% to 23.0 million.Q2 1998 Weekly Reach (000s) YoY Comparisons Station Q2 1997 Q2 1998 % Change All BBC 26,691 26,609 -0.3 All BBC Network Radio… Continue reading Q2 RAJAR 1998 – National Stations
RAJAR results for Q2 show that overall, radio listening has dropped by 0.2%, and there have been some notable movements in the weekly reach of local commercial stations.Q2 RAJAR Local Commercial Stations Showing Greatest % Change YoY In Weekly Reach (000s) Station Q2 1997 Q2 1998 % Change Wyvern FM 76 123 61.8 96.3 Q.FM… Continue reading Q2 RAJAR Summary – Local Commercial Stations
The Q2 RAJAR results for London stations, announced today, show a mixed bunch of results. In terms of weekly reach, 963/972 AM Liberty showed the biggest increase (up 105% year on year), with Spectrum Radio and Virgin 105.8 next in line (up 32.5% and 31.5% respectively). Despite its huge increase in weekly reach however, AM… Continue reading Q2 RAJAR 1998 – London Stations
The local commercial radio stations have returned very mixed results for the first quarter of 1998 with some stations improving dramatically, others declining dramatically and a few remaining fairly stable. All Local Commercial radio showed a 0.2% drop in weekly reach and a 0.5% points increase in share of listening.The biggest success story in this… Continue reading Q1 RAJAR – Local Stations
Commercial radio continued to pull away from the BBC in terms of share of listening for RAJAR Q1 1998: all commercial achieved a share of 50.1% (up from 49.4% last year) while the BBC’s share stood at 47.7% (down from 48.4% last year). Overall, all national commercial stations had a listening share of 10.2% (up… Continue reading Q1 RAJAR – National Stations
A new survey commissioned by MediaTel has found that 94% of the radio industry believes that it will be 10 years before digital radio becomes available in the majority of homes.The full-scale study into the viability of digital radio in the UK was conducted during November 1997 – January 1998 amongst commercial radio companies, the… Continue reading The Future Of Digital Radio
