BBC Radio 1 has turned in a strong performance in the latest RAJAR figures, showing increases in both share of listening and weekly reach. The station’s share rose by 0.5% points to 10.3% and weekly reach was up by 0.9% to just under 11 million listeners. This means that Radio 1 is still the country’s… Continue reading BBC Radio 1 Increases Share And Reach

The commercial radio sector has clinched a slightly higher total share of listening than BBC Radio, according to the latest audience figures released by RAJAR this afternoon. All Commercial’s share of listening came in at 49.2% and the BBC took a share of 49.0%. The remaining 1.8% of listening is accounted for by radio stations… Continue reading Commercial Radio Inches Ahead Of BBC In Latest Listening Figures

BBC Radio 1 remains the most listened to station in the country according to new radio audience figures, released by RAJAR this afternoon. Radio 1 had an average weekly reach of 10.8 million listeners during the first quarter of 1999. This is followed by Radio 2, with 9.7 million and Radio 4 with 9.5 million.… Continue reading Radio 1 Still The UK’s Favourite Station

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