UK Radio Listening Data - Q2 2017

Thanks Mike.

I dread the demise of FM for Radio 3, though hopefully the FLAC experiment will bear fruit. 

Yes indeed Gary.      Year on year data shows a fall in R3 listening numbers.    2,201,000 in Q2/16 to 2,062,000 in Q2/17 a fall of -6.3%.  A strange number is the Q1/17  with only 1,884,000,  strange as Q1 is the winter months & I would have thought would be inclined to get more listeners.

How does R3 compare with other most popular BBC stations in Q2/17 -

R1 = 9,586,000   R2 = 14.884,000   R4 = 11,551,000   R6 Music =  2,235,000

And Chris Evans has managed to mislay half a million R2 listeners despite his multi million £ pay cheque. VFM ??

Ah well its back to Radio Paradise for me!

At least Chris Evans trys.  Steve Wright has been doing the exact same (awful) radio show for the last 20 years.

I will stick with 6Music, with the occasional dip into Radio3

if only Radio 6 was broadcast on FM. 

One way to skew the numbers, put more and more of the interesting stations on digital only platforms.... those devious fiends

i suspect for various reasons nothing will happen before 2020... could be wrong... but I suspect not 

Parlow posted:

At least Chris Evans trys.  Steve Wright has been doing the exact same (awful) radio show for the last 20 years.

I will stick with 6Music, with the occasional dip into Radio3

Agree whole heartedly about Steve Wright....time he was binned. Will give a big up to Ken Bruce though...brightens up my mornings....won't even mention popmaster!

Popmaster rules !

They can leave FM alone at least until those of us in the sticks have a decent broadband connection to allow streaming of R3 without dropouts every 2 minutes! My NAT01 is in use almost every day because of this.

Mike-B posted:

RAJAR have published the latest UK radio listening trends for Q2 2017.   I've shown Q2 2016 compared to Q2 2017

	Q2 2016	Q2 2017	% Change
FM/AM %	54.7	51.3	-6.2%
DAB %	32.2	34.5	7.1%
DTV %	5.1	5.4	5.9%
OnLine %	8.0	8.8	10.0%

The fall in FM/AM & growth in digital continues toward the 50% number that is supposed to trigger the FM switch-off decision point & for the Gov to announce the dates for this. How the government priorities such as brexit will impact this ???   watch this space

The growth in all digital platforms combined incl. mobile is 7.5%,  the biggest change in this sector is OnLine (web radio) @ 10%

I only see a growth of 3.4% in digital (same as decrease in AM/FM) and only 0.8% growth in online which is less than growth in DAB which is 2.3%.

Erich posted:

I only see a growth of 3.4% in digital (same as decrease in AM/FM) and only 0.8% growth in online which is less than growth in DAB which is 2.3%.

 Maybe you can recheck your math;  to keep it simple the OnLine change goes from 8.0 to 8.8,  do you agree thats 10% growth ???    The formula is the standard MS Excel for % change     =(new value–old value)/old value     e.g. =(A2-A1)/A1.     If there is a mistake in the calculation I will have a word with Bill Gates. 

Sorry for stating the obvious for other folks in the know, but it's the difference between 'percentage' change and 'percentage points' change.

There is a 3.4 percentage point reduction in FM/AM, which in percentage terms is a change of -6.2% (as Mike says).

A note of humour perhaps. I was once berated by a senior manager at a work meeting for referring to 'percentage point' changes when making a summary report on a set of indicators, in a short time slot. She effectively told me to stop the BS and simply refer to, for example, what would have been a 3.4 percentage point change as a change of 3.4%. I said there was a difference; she told me 'that's nonsense'! The others at the meeting kept 'stum'  (well she was formidable, and on that day moreso!). Both of course are valid ways of reporting changes, provided the audience can relate to each term.          

 As I say, sorry for that, everyone can wake up again now!!