Radio Listnership
Article: JNLR 2011-3 National Listenership
National Listenership of any radio stations fell to 82%. Still it’s a bad figure being just shy of three million people listening every day, but it's certainly going in the wrong direction. The rant on this part of the web is normally the s...
Article: JNLR 2011-3 Dublin Listenership
Still dominating the capital is the National broadcaster RTE1 having pulled back 3% points on the same period last year. 2FM dipping into single digits in Dublin has to be worrying (again). Perhaps Montrose would allow the newly appointed...
Article: JNLR 2011-3 Local Listenership
Briefly the locals. Highland is still the highest listened to local station reaching 65% of its franchise area, but still dropped 4% points year on year. Bolting into second this year, from forth, is Mid-West with an impressive 8% points increase....
Article: 2FM Quarter Hour Segments 2011
Where have all the listeners gone? Well the graph below charts the day in quarter hour segments from 2009 to 2011. It really highlights the desertion of ears in the morning slot after the untimely demise of Gerry Ryan.
Article: JNLR Q2 2011 Local Stations
The local stations have varying penetration ranging from Highlands 67% to East Coasts 23%. But still in top spot is Highland with a fairly commanding lead. The only real movements were KCLR up 7 points and ocean up 6. On the other side...
Article: JNLR Q2 2011 Dublin Figures
Dublin market whilst very crowded, it’s actually fairly static. In the list below there has only been two one changes in the order: 2FM down and Newstalk up. 2FM lost about a quarter of its listeners in the capital and is now...
Article: JNLR Q2 2011 National Figures
The latest JNLR figures hold no real surprise in some quarters. Radio listenership, whilst still particularly healthy with a 85% penetration, has dropped back a little on last year’s comparable figures.
Article: JNLR 2010 July 09 to June 10
In order to digest this you’d have to take this in two chunks. The first part we will deal with the ‘national stations’ and later we will deal with the ‘local stations’. As with most research/analysis – the numbers normally speak for...
Article: JNLR April 2010 to March 2011 Local Stations
Looking at the local stations and the king pin is still Highland Radio, but it has fallen back year on year. Some of the station had a free run for years competing only against the National broadcaster. However most of the multi city stations have...
Article: JNLR April 2010 to March 2011 Dublin Radio Stations
In the Capital, the radio waves are pretty crowded with twelve stations, not including any spill-over or community based stations. Radio reaches 85% of the capitals citizens or 837,000 people every day (average listened yesterday). The...
Article: JNLR April 2010 to March 2011 National Stations
Radio seems in a healthy state. It manages to captivate 85% of the population on an average weekday. That’s just over the 3m mark and only loosing 40,000 pairs of ears over the twelve month period to April 2010 to March 2011. But the r...
Article: JNLR (Joint National Listenership Research) 2010 National Stations
The JNLR figures thump in the desks today and, on the surface it would seem that there is a small shift away from radio.
Article: JNLR (Joint National Listenership Research) 2010 Local Radio
In terms of the overall health of the listening market within the local franchises, that figure varies considerably across the counties. In the OceanFM franchise – Donegal South/Sligo/Nth Leit – the listened to any radio yesterday figure is 95%...
Article: JNLR (Joint National Listenership Research) 2010 Cork Stations
Cork's story is that it saw some of the biggest swings in the major franchises. The listened to yesterday for Cork was 81% down from 85% the previous 12 months (21,000 listeners). 2Fm, again, lost out as did 96FM which dropped a fairly...
Article: JNLR (Joint National Listenership Research) 2010 Dublin Stations
Turning the attentions to the Dublin area, the runners and riders are listed below, as is there form to date.
Article: JNLR September 2010 Irish National Radio
The JNLR for the period October 2009 to September 2010 has been released. Before we delve into the figures, these two facts should be considered. In many cases (even the official B.A.I. press release) comparisons are generally made between...
Article: JNLR September 2010 – Dublin Radio Stations
Evening loosing 2% points in Dublin, RTE 1 is still the dominant player in the market and by nearly 100,000 pairs of ears. FM104 is its nearest rival in the capital at a reach of 189,000 people followed by Spin at 140,000 how have vaulted a place...
Article: JNLR September 2010 – Regional Stations
Turning our attention to the regional stations, some have had a better 12 months than others. Still the outright leader in this league table is Highland with a fairly formidable 69% reach. The three stations bordering capital are at the...
Article: JNLR 2010 Local stations
Local radio is alive and well some better than others, but that’s down to a variety of factors. Still dominant (relative to it’s peers) is Highland Radio with a reach of 69% of its franchise area. On the other hand is Kfm who only 24% its...
Article: Radio Quarters and spikes
As we await the JNLR tomorrow, I heard an interesting conversation on the said medium. I was listening to the fact that Mr Yates is (allegedly) none to keen on the 3:30am awakenings so that he can present the morning show on Newstalk so is looking...