There’s a lot in the regional and locals so I’m simply going to provide the ammunition: those who want can fire the bullets. All regional stations are performing well against the nationals but still have a way to go before they reach the “home local” grouping in their respective franchises. You can see from the table below where each of the national stations rank in the various franchises. It shows that, in the main, they would be second to the home locals, ahead of RTE1, in all areas, bar one.
| NE | NW | SE | SW | |
| Home Local | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Regional | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| RTE Radio 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Today FM | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| RTE2FM | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Newstalk | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| RTE Lyric FM | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
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The approach for the locals was a little different this time out. I’ve grouped all the non-national stations onto one block and compared them to their results in the last twelve months(14Q3). The table can be sorted and you can look at any of the grouped franchises together or by any of the dimensions you please.
| Franchise | Station | 15Q3 | 14Q3 | +/- | +/- % |
| National | RTE Radio 1 | 868 | 837 | 31 | 4% |
| National | Today FM | 453 | 463 | -10 | -2% |
| National | Newstalk | 402 | 376 | 26 | 7% |
| National | RTE 2FM | 394 | 366 | 28 | 8% |
| Dublin | FM104 | 194 | 182 | 12 | 7% |
| Dublin | Spin 1038 | 147 | 138 | 9 | 7% |
| National | RTE Lyric FM | 134 | 142 | -8 | -6% |
| Multi City | Classic Hits 4FM | 128 | 111 | 17 | 15% |
| NW | iRadio NW | 125 | 118 | 7 | 6% |
| Cork | Cork’s Red FM | 125 | 88 | 37 | 42% |
| Cork | Cork’s 96FM | 114 | 134 | -20 | -15% |
| Dublin | Dublin’s 98FM | 106 | 103 | 3 | 3% |
| NE | iRadio NE | 101 | 99 | 2 | 2% |
| SW | Beat 102-103FM | 95 | 99 | -4 | -4% |
| SW | Spin South West | 95 | 86 | 9 | 10% |
| Dublin | Q102 | 89 | 82 | 7 | 9% |
| Dub Commute | Radio Nova 100FM | 81 | 66 | 15 | 23% |
| Local | LMFM | 72 | 56 | 16 | 29% |
| Cork | C103 | 64 | 66 | -2 | -3% |
| Local | Midlands 103 | 64 | 65 | -1 | -2% |
| Local | Galway Bay FM | 63 | 68 | -5 | -7% |
| Local | Limerick Live 95 | 62 | 66 | -4 | -6% |
| Local | Highland Radio | 61 | 62 | -1 | -2% |
| Local | Radio Kerry | 58 | 60 | -2 | -3% |
| Dublin | Sunshine 106.8 | 57 | 38 | 19 | 50% |
| Local | Mid West Radio | 57 | 61 | -4 | -7% |
| Local | South East Radio | 48 | 43 | 5 | 12% |
| Local | Northern Sound | 45 | 41 | 4 | 10% |
| Local | Shannonside | 44 | 47 | -3 | -6% |
| Local | Tipp FM | 42 | 43 | -1 | -2% |
| Local | Clare FM | 42 | 42 | 0 | 0% |
| Local | KCLR 96FM | 41 | 42 | -1 | -2% |
| Local | KFM | 39 | 36 | 3 | 8% |
| Local | WLR FM | 38 | 42 | -4 | -10% |
| Local | Ocean FM | 36 | 35 | 1 | 3% |
| Local | East Coast FM | 31 | 36 | -5 | -14% |
| Dublin | Phantom 105.2FM | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0% |
