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This report on national radio stations has been slightly amended to incorporate the re-release of data from RAJAR for Q4 2007, following weighting irregularities from RAJAR’s contractor RSMB on six monthly reporting stations. Any changes are clearly highlighted in the text and tables (where appropriate).The latest RAJAR figures, for Q4 2007, show that BBC Radio… Continue reading BBC Radio 2 Sees Weekly Reach Decline

Daily Newspaper MarketBritain’s national daily newspapers reported an overall decline in readership of almost 2% year on year for the last six months of 2007.All dailies, with the exception of the Daily Mail and the Sun, saw a fall in readership, according to the latest NRS data, with the Guardian and the Daily Star reporting… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: July – December 2007

The latest ABC figures show that men’s free weekly title Shortlist had the largest circulation figure in the men’s lifestyle sector, although it just missed its target of 500,000 copies.Shortlist, which launched in September last year (see Free Men’s Mag ShortList Grows), had a total circulation of nearly 463,000 copies (as the title only launched… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2007:Shortlist Falls Just Short Of Circulation Target

It was a generally gloomy picture in the women’s weekly market, with sizeable declines for several titles and few exceptions to the trend.Take A Break remained top with a circulation of a little over a million for July to December 2007, despite a decline of over 26,000 copies year on year.Celebrity focused title, Heat, reported… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2007: Women’s Weeklies See Sizeable Declines With Few Bucking The Trend

It was a relatively stable and optimistic outlook for the home interest sector, with many titles recording upturns in circulation for the six months to December 2007, according to the latest ABC data.In-store magazine, Homebase Ideas, is the most widely circulated title in the sector at 423,300, following a lift of 1.2% year on year… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2007:Home Interest Sector Reports Overall Optimistic Outlook

December was a very good month for the terrestrial channels, with only ITV1 recording a marginal year on year decrease of revenue intake.Across the whole ITV1 network revenue decreased by 0.9% compared to December 2006, to stand at a total of £109.9 million. With the recent return of News At Ten and the revamped weekday… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – December 2007

Daily Newspaper MarketBritain’s national daily newspapers suffered an almost 3% overall drop in circulation year on year for January, with nearly all titles recording a downturn, according to the latest ABC figures.The Financial Times was once again the only daily paper to bolster its circulation, reporting a 3% rise year on year for the month.The… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: January 2008

In January thelondonpaper saw its circulation rise by more than 6% month on month, giving it a total figure of over 500,000 copies.This was well ahead of the London Lite, which following an increase of around 2.5% now has a circulation nearing 400,000 .Paid-for title the Evening Standard also enjoyed a circulation upturn in January,… Continue reading thelondonpaper’s Circulation Up 6%

The latest RAJAR figures, for Q4 2007, show that 16.6% of all radio listening Is now done via a digital platform, up from 15% in the previous quarter.The figures show that 9.9% of all radio listening is via DAB ( v 8.6% in Q3 2007), 3.1% via DTV (vs. 3.0% in Q3, 2007) and 1.9%… Continue reading Over 16% Of All Radio Listening Now Via Digital

The latest RAJAR figures, for Q4 2007, show that BBC Radio 2 remained the national station with the highest weekly reach, of more than 12.8 million listeners. However, it was down both period on period and year on year, by 1.5% and 3.4% respectively.BBC Radio 1 was up period on period by 1.1% to around… Continue reading BBC Radio 2 Sees Weekly Reach Decline