Radio One gains as Capital slips to another historic low

Source: Music Week

 

 

Radio One has bounced back from a blip in its Rajar showing in quarter one with newly-released figures showing its share lifted by nearly 12% year-on-year in the following quarter.

 

The BBC station's share of listening rose from 9.2% in quarter two 2005 to 10.3% in the same period this year as the number of people listening rose from 10.24m to 10.42m.

Sister station Radio Two endured a slight decline in share over 12 months, dropping from 16.0% to 15.7%, although its reach improved from 13.27m in quarter two 2005 to 13.29m in the same quarter this year.

 

In London, Emap's Magic 105.4 retained its position as the city's biggest commercial station as Chrysalis Radio's Heart 106.2 remained as runner-up. GCap's Capital Radio remains in third place but its share slipped to another historic low, going from 5.5% in quarter one to 5.0% in quarter two. Year-on-year that represents an 18.0% decline.

 

Magic's market-leading position came despite its share dropping quarter-on-quarter from 7.0% to 6.5%, although year-on-year share has improved for the station by 27.5%. Heart's own share rose from 5.7% to 6.1% quarter-on-quarter, although it was not enough to catch Magic.

 

With Capital suffering another historic low set of Rajar figures, Emap's Kiss 100 also has the GCap station now in its sights. Its share moved from 3.7% to 4.4% quarter-on-quarter, leaving it just 0.6 percentage points behind Capital. Meanwhile, GMG's Smooth FM saw its share rise quarter-on-quarter from 1.6% to 2.1%.

 

In contrast to further declines at Capital, GCap executives had some good news in the shape of Xfm, which reached a new high of 2.3% in share in quarter two.

 

Meanwhile, commercial radio slightly closed the gap on the BBC on share of all listening as its share of the cake improved quarter-on-quarter from 42.6% to 42.9%. The BBC's share slipped over the same period from 55.4% to 54.7%.

 

Capital radio should get rid of Johnny Vaughn for a start.

people are saying chris moyles is helping radio1. he is but i prefer listening to Scott Mills he funnier IMO

I agree Scott Mills is the best new radio DJ of the 21st Century.

Yeah Scott is my favourite DJ on Radio 1 and I think his shows audience had increased by about 500k or so over the past few months, although IMO Scott's show definitley wouldn't be as good without Chappers or Laura.