The tables showing the best and worst performers, in terms of weekly reach and share of listening, of the local commercial stations broadcasting outside London are now available to subscribers in the Radio reports section on the left.
Stations reporting for the first time are: Saga 106.6 FM, which will report quarterly.
New national reports include: Core, The Hits, Planet Rock, Q, The Storm, 6 Music from the BBC, 1Xtra from the BBC, BBC Radio FIVE LIVE inc. SPORTS EXTRA, FIVE LIVE SPORTS EXTRA and BBC7. All of these station will report quarterly.
New national TSA reports are: Total Capital Gold UK and Total Magic, both of which will report quarterly.
Thames 107.8 and London’s Liberty 963 – 972 left RAJAR as of Q3 2003 and will no longer report.
Oneword radio will now report half yearly.
New group/combination reports are: Total Capital Radio Group UK, which will report half yearly.
The following station name changes have occurred: Signal’s BIG AM (was Signal Two) is now Signal Two Signal One & Signal’s BIG AM (was Signal Two) has become Signal One & Signal Two Home 107.9 has changed to Huddersfield’s Home 107.9 107.8 Arrow FM will now be known as 107.8 Arrow for Hastings Total Kiss Network is now Total Kiss Magic Network has become Magic Network (ILR) BBC North Yorkshire (BBC Radio York) will know be known as BBC Radio York
Ethnic Background
Mixed race options have been included for the first time under ethnic background. These are:
Mixed – White/Black Caribbean Mixed – White/Black African Mixed – White/Asian Mixed – Other Mixed Background
The previous options, Black-British and Asian-British, no longer appear on the survey. This brings RAJAR into line with the standard ONS question on ethnic background, as well as the primary source used for ethnic population estimates on RAJAR (Labour Force Survey).
Household Shopping
This question has been rephrased from “Are you responsible for the main food and general household shopping?” to “Are you mainly or jointly responsible for the main food and general household shopping?” This brings the RAJAR survey into line with other joint industry surveys.
Number of radio sets in household
Rather than split out car radios and household radios, the survey now asks how many radio sets are in the household (including car radios).
Telephone question
Respondents are no longer asked whether they have a telephone in their household.
Digital TV Services
In addition to satellite, cable and Freeview respondents are now asked if they can receive Digital TV via a TV set with digital built in (iDTV).
Subscribers can access the Radio database by selecting “Radio” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.
