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

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