All the headlines and highlights from RAJAR’s Q1 2013 release, including the national stations and networks and the digital, London and breakfast markets.
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Last night saw soap fans reel in horror as football bled into the schedules, forcing Coronation Street to air much earlier than usual – resulting in a significant drop in viewers.
Netflix accounts for over 32% of all US prime-time content streaming, finds new report, with more than 20% of all traffic on fixed networks generated by smartphones or tablets.
For $9.99 per month, US Google Play subscribers will have access to millions of songs provided by music companies Sony, Universal and Warner.
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.
The latest RAJAR results report, along with the usual ups and downs, a potentially seminal moment in the life of digital radio: half of the UK adult population now listens to the radio on a digital platform. Unfortunately this is not ‘the’ 50% that has been touted by the Government as the tipping point for any digital switch over, but it’s still positive news says IPSOS MediaCT’s Andy Haylett.
From Sun+ Premier League clips and BT’s ‘free sports’ deal to ITV’s England qualifiers coverage and even Channel 4’s Paralympics win – sport is shaking up vast swathes of the media. Yet the only certainty in all this flurry of activity is that there will be only one winner says Raymond Snoddy…
MediaTel has compiled together a PowerPoint of the latest RAJAR Q1 2013 figures for MediaTel subscribers.
After Monday evening’s cornucopia of harsh realism, Tuesday’s prime time options at least attempted to remedy the dire situation with a new series about (comparatively) happy characters.
