The latest quarterly Joint National Listenership Research figures have just been released by the BCI.
Nationally, there’s little movement in the Weekday Share Figures (7am to 7pm), which have Radio 1 at 23% (+0.3%), 2fm at 10.9% (-0.7%), Today FM at 10.6% (same), Newstalk at 3.7% (+0.1%) and Lyric FM at 1.6% (-0.1%).
Radio One remains top in Dublin with 32% (+0.6%) with FM104 at 11.5% (-1%) and Dublin’s 98 at 10.9% (-0.1%) bagging second and third.
Q102 will be pleased with their rise to 8.1% (+1.1%) while Phantom 105.2 register a modest increase to 1.7% (+0.1%).
Of the new multi-city and regional services, 4FM have achieved a 1% Weekday Share in their franchise area while i105-107FM start on 0.5%
There’s better news for sister station i102-104FM who are up to 9.1% (+1.8%).
Going around the country, Highland Radio remains top of the local pile with a whopping 64.2% Weekday Share (+1.8%). There are sizable gains for South East Radio at 34.9% (+3.3%), KCLR 96FM at 33.2% (+3.1%) and Galway Bay FM at 23.4% (+2.8%) and more modest ones for WLR FM at 48.4% (+1.4%) and Radio Kerry at 49.7% (+1.1%).