Charlie Yeates, associate director, Investment Trading at MediaCom, congratulates some of the specialist radio brands who offer niché and unique choices to both listeners and advertisers…
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Mike Williamson, head of radio at Carat, says today’s RAJAR results represent a superb year overall but some stations need to re-focus after disappointing results…
Steve Parkinson, MD of Bauer Radio London, gives a positive view on the latest RAJAR results…
Adam Bowie, head of strategy & planning at Absolute Radio, says one concerning trend across the whole radio industry is the long-term decline of radio listening among the younger audience.
Facebook has filed its long-awaited plans for a float on the US stock market yesterday. The social networks initial public offering (IPO) of US$5 billion of shares is the largest for an internet company since Google in 2004.
UK outdoor revenues for the fourth quarter of 2011 rose 1.4% year on year to £256.4m. Total revenue for the full year was £886.3m, up 1% on 2010.
The new RAJAR radio research figures are out – and you’ll read two sets of stories today regarding digital radio.
Digital radio put in a strong performance once again last quarter. Listening to radio via a digital platform in terms of weekly reach has increased by 10% year on year, with 23.1 million people now tuning in to radio via a digitally enabled receiver (DAB, DTV, internet) each week (up from 20.9 million in Q4 2010 and 22.8 million in Q3 2011).
Radio listeners in the UK continue to favour Chris Evans’ BBC Radio 2 breakfast show, which enjoyed a 1.6% YoY rise in weekly reach in Q4 2011.
Capital has retained its position at the top of the London chart after a healthy 14.9% YoY increase in reach (up 3.4% QoQ) to almost 2.3 million listeners.
