Category: Audio

The first release of 2013 is actually the last data from 2012. In general, last quarter, radio listening had fallen a bit – a combination of the summer and the Olympics. Television did well, which in turn meant that radio suffered. Did listening bounce back in Q4? Yes it did. Overall, 90% of UK adults…

During the Radio Festival, I was busily writing some contemporaneous notes about what was happening at the sessions I attended. But these weren’t really a considered view – more, what struck me as interesting or worth repeating at the time I was writing them. Having had a couple of night’s sleep since then, these are…

Apologies for any typos in these notes. I’ll tidy things up later… The excellent Margherita Taylor – due to be inducted into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame this evening – is once again hosting room 2 at the Lowry in Salford. But the first session in the room was on speech radio. Colin Pattinson…

I’m writing this as we go, and will tidy up the text later. But these are my notes “live”… As David Lloyd, MCing Techcon at the Radio Festival again this year mentions, it’s been a quiet weekend in the media. The first session was about studio design, and Tim Lowther from Global talked us through…

On Monday, the great and the good of the UK radio industry, and visitors from beyond, will gather in Salford for the annual Radio Festival. If you’re going, say hi to me! But there are potentially some dark clouds on the horizon. It might be a somewhat distant horizon, but the radio industry – as…

As the long nights begin to draw in, it’s time for RAJAR again. There has been a not insignificant amount of uncertainty as to what this quarter would bring, as it covers the Olympics and Paralympics (the Euros mostly fell in the previous quarter). The big question was what impact – if any – they…

A break in Olympics coverage for a brief whizz through the latest RAJAR results. I think it’s fair this time around, to say that one of the main stories this RAJAR is actually the Absolute Radio’s network of stations’ performance. So let’s start there. Absolute Radio Network is up 6.7% in reach on the quarter…

If you happen to be passing by during RAJAR periods, you’ll know that I now tend to put together a nice chart of historical RAJAR that you can play with. This is for the national picture of course. And I’d meaning for a while to have a look at London specifically. A few weeks ago,…

It’s May, and that means it’s time for another round of radio numbers and RAJAR. I’m not sure that there’s a completely compelling over-arching story this time around. Nationally, Radio 1 has slipped a little in reach and hours, but Radio 2 has done well with a decent increase in reach to nearly 14.6m adults,…