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Digital radio put in a strong performance once again, posting increases in weekly reach, hours, share and DAB set ownership.

The newly renamed Capital London has raced to the top of the London charts after an impressive 11.1% QoQ and 14.4% YoY increase pushed its reach up to almost 2.2 million listeners.

Radio listeners across the UK still like to wake up to Chris Evans, apparently. The BBC Radio 2 Chris Evans Breakfast Show has a weekly reach of almost 9.2 million listeners (up 5.3% QoQ but down 5.7% YoY) ahead of BBC Radio 1 and Radio 4.

The latest RAJAR figures show a positive period for the radio industry with commercial radio’s share up 1.3% YoY and reach up 5.9% YoY.

Channel 5 had a bumper month in March with revenues up 22.4% compared to this time last year.

Comic Relief banked the top ratings in March with more than 10 million average viewers. The BBC’s coverage of the charity event came number one in the top programme rankings for the month, beating ITV1’s popular Sunday night hits Dancing on Ice and Wild at Heart.

Data recently released by Kantar Media shows that the online population in Great Britain grew by just under 2% in the past year. A monthly average of 37.5 million people were online in GB from January to March 2011.

March brought an increase in overall users for the first time in 2011, according to data released by UKOM. There were signs of recovery from the post-Christmas slump with a boost of 750,000 users to the online population, totalling just under 40 million for the month.

National newspaper circulation figures were down across the board once again in March, with the daily market posting a 5% year on year decline.

The UK’s online audience fell below 40 million in February, according to data released by online measurement company UKOM.

This was the second month in a row that the total monthly audience dropped, resulting in 39.2 million, down 1.2 million users from December.