jnlr radio Listenership Announced

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has announced the latest JNLR Listenership results. Nationally most stations have seen slight increases or decreases or no change at all. In Dublin RTÉ Radio 1 remains at the top with a 29% share (down 1), Dublin's FM104 is next with 21% (no change). Together Communicorp stations have a 47% share of the total audience across Today FM, NewsTalk, Spin and 98fm, a drop of 4% in the capital.

In Cork the significant winner is Cork 96FM with a 48% share of the audience (no change), RTÉ Radio 1 decreased its share in Cork by 1%, while 4fm highest listenership remains in Cork at 7% (no change). In the South East Local Radio remains popular with an audience share of 60% (down 2%), Beat FM comes second with 22% (no change), with RTÉ Radio 1 coming in 3rd with a 21% share (down 1%). Local radio also claims the top spots in the rest of the country. In the south west  RTÉ Radio 1 is also in third place with 20% share (no change) while Spin South West gains 1 to 21% .

In the North west i102 has 20% (no change), while Radio 1 again 1 to 23%.

North East and Midlands seeing smaller audience for i105 with just a11%(up 1) audience share. No chage to RTÉ Radio 1 there with 22%.

4FM the multicity radio station has 4% share in its catchment area with other local radio taking 55% of the share in city areas, RTÉ Radio 1 has a 28% share.

Table extracts below for each region, taken from the JNLR research as carried out by JNLR/ISPOS MRBI for the BAI.

 

  National Weekdays
Radio Station Share Change
RTÉ Radio 1 25 0
RTÉ 2fm 11 0
RTÉ Lyric FM 4 0
Today FM 14 0
NewsTalk 8 0
Local Radio 58 -1

 

  Dublin Weekdays
Radio Station Share Change
RTÉ Radio 1 29 -1
RTÉ 2fm 7 -1
RTÉ Lyric FM 6 0
Today FM 8 -1
NewsTalk 12 -1
Local Radio 49 -2
4FM 2 0
Radio Nova 5 0
98FM 11 -2
FM104 21 0
Q102 10 -1
Sunshine 3 -1
Spin 1038 16 +1
Phantom 2 0

 

  Cork Weekdays
Radio Station Share Change
RTÉ Radio 1 27 -1
RTÉ 2fm 11 +1
RTÉ Lyric FM 5 0
Today FM 16 0
NewsTalk 9 -1
Local Radio 65 +1
4FM 7 0
96FM/103 48 0
96FM 35 0
C103 16 -1
Red FM 20 +1

 

  South East Weekdays
Radio Station Share Change
RTÉ Radio 1 21 -1
RTÉ 2fm 12 0
RTÉ Lyric FM 3 0
Today FM 17 +1
NewsTalk 6 0
Local Radio 60 -1
Beat FM 22 0

 

  South West Weekdays
Radio Station Share Change
RTÉ Radio 1 20 0
RTÉ 2fm 14 +1
RTÉ Lyric FM 2 +1
Today FM 17 +2
NewsTalk 6 0
Local Radio 66 +1
Spin FM 21 +1

 

  North West Weekdays
Radio Station Share Change
RTÉ Radio 1 23 +1
RTÉ 2fm 13 +1
RTÉ Lyric FM 3 0
Today FM 17 +1
NewsTalk 7 0
Local Radio 71 0
i102 20 0

 

  North East and MidlandsWeekdays
Radio Station Share Change
RTÉ Radio 1 22 0
RTÉ 2fm 14 -1
RTÉ Lyric FM 2 0
Today FM 15 0
NewsTalk 6 0
Local Radio 52 -1
i105 11 +1

 

  MultiCity Weekdays
Radio Station Share Change
RTÉ Radio 1 28 0
RTÉ 2fm 10 0
RTÉ Lyric FM 5 0
Today FM 13 0
NewsTalk 10 -1
Local Radio 55 -1
4FM 4 +1

 

 
Dublin Commuter Weekdays
Radio Station Share Change
RTÉ Radio 1 29 -1
RTÉ 2fm 8 -1
RTÉ Lyric FM 6 +1
Today FM 10 0
NewsTalk 12 0
Local Radio 49 -2
4FM 2 0
Radio Nova 5 0