Commercial terrestrial television channels saw an overall decline in yearly revenues in April, with total terrestrial down -8.6% on the previous year. However, total satellite saw growth of 16.3% – over £20 million.
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Only the Daily Express, Financial Times and the Independent platforms saw any increase in readership across print and online, period on period. However, the results still show the continuing dominance of the Daily Mail platforms and the considerable impact of online to a newsbrand’s readership figures more generally.
April saw the return to ITV of Simon Cowell’s other cash cow TV project, Britain’s Got Talent, proving there is still an appetite for watching members of public make fools of themselves, as original drama has a great month across all the major channels.
Despite significant declines recorded in March, all digital news platforms experienced good growth in April, except for the Independent.co.uk, which saw a -7.4% decline to just over one million daily users.
Last week RAJAR announced that 90% of the UK adult population – 47.3 million people – tuned in to their selected radio stations in the first quarter of 2013, up by approximately 608,000 on Q1 2012. Here Newsline presents industry reaction on the latest results, with opinion from Indicia, G2 Joshua, Gekko and Adconnection.
The latest figures from NRS for the period April 2012 – March 2013 show that the national newspaper market experienced, with only two exceptions, further year on year declines. The ‘i’ and the Financial Times were the only papers to see any growth, up 3.2% and 3.7%, respectively.
All the headlines and highlights from RAJAR’s Q1 2013 release, including the national stations and networks and the digital, London and breakfast markets.
According to the latest RAJAR findings, listening to radio via a digital platform has increased by 11% year on year, with 26 million people now tuning in to radio via a digitally enabled receiver – a yearly increase of three million.
Total Global Radio and BBC Radio 2 remain at the top of the national stations and networks when it comes to weekly audience reach, according to the latest RAJAR findings for the first quarter of 2013 – with BBC Radio 2 as the top national station, seeing a 4.9% year on year (YoY) increase and reaching over 15 million listeners.
MediaTel has compiled together a PowerPoint of the latest RAJAR Q1 2013 figures for MediaTel subscribers.