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The Financial Times has decided to follow News International’s lead and launch a pay-per-view model for access to the FT.com.

BBC Radio 2 remained the national station with the highest reach in Q2 2009, up 3.3% year on year to just under 13.5 million listeners.With 11.3 million listeners, Radio 1 enjoyed a year on year increase of around 6% according to the latest RAJAR figures.In a successful quarter for the BBC’s national stations, Radio 4… Continue reading RAJAR Q2 09: National Stations

All Commercial and All BBC radio enjoyed a year on year rise in weekly reach in the three months to the end of June, according to the latest RAJAR figures for Q2 2009.All Commercial also witnessed an increase in its share of listening, however, All BBC’s share of listening was down both year on year… Continue reading RAJAR Q2 09: BBC & Commercial

Magic 105.4 remains above all the other London stations for the tenth consecutive quarter in terms of weekly reach, but has fallen just behind 95.8 Capital Radio’s average hours per listener, according to the latest RAJAR figures for Q2 2009.Magic’s average weekly reach in London still sits above the 2 million listeners’ mark after a… Continue reading RAJAR Q2 09: London Stations

This analysis is comparing the weekly reach of the breakfast shows of the London stations and not the time slots. Heart 106.2 FM’s breakfast show currently run from 6am-9am, while 95.8 Capital Radio’s runs from 6am-10am and Magic 105.4’s runs from 5.30am-9am.Johnny Vaughan’s 95.8 Capital Radio breakfast show remains on top in the Capital once… Continue reading RAJAR Q2 09: Breakfast

The latest RAJAR figures, for Q2 2009, show that DAB set ownership increased 22% year on year, with 16.9m adults (15+) now claiming to live in a household which has a DAB receiver, or 33% of adults.The data also shows that 13.1% of all radio listening is now via DAB, up from 11% in the… Continue reading RAJAR Q2 09: Digital

The latest RAJAR figures for Q2 2009 paint a pretty positive picture for All Commercial radio, with its share of listening up 0.3 percentage points year on year to almost 43% of all listeners.All Commercial’s weekly reach also increased, up 3.2% year on year to almost 32 million listeners.Looking at just the London stations, Magic… Continue reading RAJAR Q2 2009: Round-up

Rupert Murdoch plans to start charging users to access his news websites, including The Times, the Sun and the News of the World by this time next year.In response to News Corporation’s $3.4 billion (£2 billion) net loss for the year to the end of June, Murdoch said the free model era was over.“Quality journalism… Continue reading Murdoch plans to implement pay model for all news sites

Britons are still spending on mobile phones, the internet and television services despite the recession, according to Ofcom’s annual ‘Communications Market’ report.The media regulator found that consumers view spending on communications and technology as a higher priority than most things, apart from food.Out of the 862 participants, over 40% said they would rather cut back… Continue reading Ofcom: Britons rate communications as priority despite downturn

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has reported a $3.4 billion (£2 billion) net loss in the year to 30 June.Figures released today reveal that the media giant took $8.9 billion in writedowns on acquisitions, including a previously undisclosed $452 million charge in Q4 against the Fox Interactive Media division, which owns MySpace.Profits at the company’s global… Continue reading News Corp reports $3.4bn loss