Programmes EastEnders managed to gain the top rated programme spot again in April, as the Phil Mitchell shooting storyline garnered an audience of 20m on Thursday 5 April. Coronation Street fought back during the rest of the month, managing to top the weekly chart each week from then on, but with audiences barely reaching the… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – April 2001
Month on MonthNational newspaper circulation data for April 2001 has now been released. The figures reveal that the loss sustained in circulation across all titles has not been too severe in a month on month analysis, falling just 0.5% or just over 120,000.The greatest loss in terms of percentage change in circulation was at the… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up – April 2001
The March 2001 RAJAR figures for local commercial radio show that weekly reach has decreased quarter on quarter from 26.2m to 26.1m or 1% quarter on quarter, now standing at 54%. Local commercial radio’s share of listening has risen for the same period, by 0.4 percentage points to 38.3.The following tables show the best and… Continue reading March 2001 RAJAR – Local Commercial Stations
The lead enjoyed by Capital 95.8 FM among the London stations was retained for this quarter, despite slight declines for the station in both reach and share, period on period. Meanwhile the fight for second place continues, with the heavy marketing campaigns of Heart and Magic beginning to bear fruit.Capital remains a dominant force when… Continue reading Capital Continues London Domination Despite Falls In Share And Reach
The following tables show the performances of each of the main UK radio groups in the latest RAJAR figures for the one year period to March 2001. BBC Radio Stations Weekly Reach (000s) Year On Year Comparisons Station Survey Period Ending Mar 2000 Ending Mar 2001 % Ch BBC 3 Counties H 175 142 -18.9… Continue reading March 2001 RAJAR – Performance By Ownership
RAJAR’s latest figures, released this morning, showed that while All BBC managed to inch up another 0.4 percentage points quarter on quarter to reach a 52.1% share of listening, All Commercial radio remained static with a 46% share.All BBC Network Radio went up 0.2 percentage points, as did BBC Local and BBC Local/Regional. Local commercial… Continue reading BBC Local Stations Make Gains In Q1 2001 RAJAR Figures
Once again this was a bad quarter for national commercial radio, which saw a decline in reach across all its stations. Like the previous quarter, worst hit were Atlantic 252, which dropped 21.2% and Virgin AM, which fell 34.3% in a year on year comparison.The BBC stations did not do very much better, with Radio… Continue reading Rajar Figures Show Another Tough Quarter For Commercial Stations
April’s digital TV viewing figures showed that the non-terrestrial channels increased their average weekly share of viewing from 16.5% to 19.2% year on year. BBC1 also managed an increase, up from from 26.3% in April 2000 to 26.5 in April this year. The largest loss in viewing share was at BBC2 which dropped from an… Continue reading Digital Television Round-Up – April 2001
Readership of national newspapers showed a year on year decline of 3.3%, according to NRS figures released for March 2001.Among only four titles which managed a year on year increase for the six month period were tabloids the Sun and the Mirror. The Sun still leads the field, with a readership which grew 1.8% to… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS Round-Up – March 2001
Programmes The top rated programme of the month was the whodunnit shooting of Phil Mitchell in Eastenders. The programme shown on 1 March was watched by an average audience of 18.01m.Despite the hype surrounding the shooting of the ‘nice’ Mitchell brother, the must-see programme of the month had to be Raw Spice. Featuring behind-the- scenes… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – March 2001
