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The Evening Standard‘s circulation was down by almost 30% year on year in May following its relaunch at the start of the month (see Evening Standard relaunches today with promises of better behaviour) which saw the title adopt a new distribution strategy.There have already been reports that executives at the paper believe the figures –… Continue reading Evening Standard’s circulation down almost 30% YoY

Daily Newspaper MarketThe latest NRS figures, for April 2008 To March 2009, show impressive readership increases for three of the Quality daily titles.The Financial Times, Guardian and Times all increased their readership totals year on year.Quality Daily TitlesThe Financial Times enjoyed a very healthy rise of around 15% year on year, taking its total to… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: Apr 2008 – Mar 2009

After two months away from the top spot Guardian.co.uk is once again the most popular website of the audited national newspapers.According to data released by ABCe, the Guardian site crawled its way back in April gaining 2 million unique users to reclaim its number one position. The rankings have been fairly uncharacteristic of late, with… Continue reading ABCe April 2009: Guardian crawls back to top spot

The ongoing recession is still causing problems for the television market, with all stations recording year on year falls in their revenue totals. The worst hit was Five, with revenue down by 31.5% on April 2008.Following closely behind was Channel 4, with a fall of 25.3%. The broadcaster, which is trying to secure a tie-up… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – April 2009

TV viewing data for April shows that ITV1’s share was down year on year, with the other main terrestrial broadcasters also seeing falls.All ViewingITV1’s viewing share was down 1.4 percentage points year on year, from 18.9% in April 2008 to 17.5% in April 2009.The channel did have some strong performing shows during the month though,… Continue reading Television Viewing Round-Up – April 2009

Daily Newspaper Market Overall, the daily newspaper market was down by almost 5% year on year in April, although the Daily Star bucked the general downward trend and reported impressive year on year growth.The Independent suffered the largest circulation decline, although other daily titles also recorded significant falls. National Newspaper ABC Figures – April 2009… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: April 2009

The latest ABC figures, for April 2009, show that the Evening Standard‘s circulation was down 6.4% year on year, leaving its total at 263,312 copies.Elsewhere, afternoon freesheets thelondonpaper and the London Lite remained relatively static, with distribution figures of around 500,800 and 400,100 respectively.NewsLine reported earlier today that thelondonpaper racked up losses of almost £13… Continue reading ABC London Newspaper Focus: Apr 2009

The latest RAJAR figures, for Q1 2009, are released today, with Magic 105.4 recording the highest weekly reach in London for the ninth consecutive quarter.Johnny Vaughan’s 95.8 Capital Radio breakfast show, meanwhile, remained the Capital’s top morning listen, with a weekly reach of more than 1 million, after an impressive year on year increase of… Continue reading RAJAR Q1 2009: Round-up

Although BBC Radio 2 once again had the largest weekly reach figure of any national station, it was down 1.3% year on year to around 13.5 million listeners.BBC Radio 1 remained unchanged year on year, at 11 million listeners, according to the latest RAJAR figures, for Q1 2009.Commercial chat and sport station talkSPORT suffered a… Continue reading RAJAR Q1 09: National Stations

All Commercial radio enjoyed a year on year rise in weekly reach in the three months to the end March, according to the latest RAJAR figures.Its share of listening was down 0.6 percentage points period on period, although it was up year on year.Share of ListeningAll Commercial saw its share of listening rise 0.5 percentage… Continue reading RAJAR Q1 09: BBC & Commercial