James Cridland’s Future of Radio: RAJAR figures for the UK, ice-cream and top stations in Uganda
James Cridland
James Cridland is Managing Director of media.info, and an Australia-based radio futurologist. He is a consultant, writer and public speaker who concentrates on the effect that new platforms and technology are having on the radio business. Find out more or subscribe at http://james.cridland.net
Not all of Global’s plans work, though. Juice FM Liverpool’s last RAJAR figures showed total hours at 1.9m. It rebranded to Capital, and has lost half its time spent listening as a result.
Meanwhile, it’s an undoubted juggernaut, but BBC Radio 2 seems static since 2012.
BBC Radio London excitedly shouted about their record figures (for reach). Last quarter, though, their figures were the lowest for ten years; and overall, the station’s figures don’t have the appearance of a station increasing their audience. This looks much more like a blip than a trend.
It’s also good to see an increase for talkRADIO, and in particular for Iain Lee’s late night show, I understand.
Norway: Ipsos poll for a newspaper in Norway: over 60% of people aren’t happy with the enforced DAB switchover. I dare say that if I ran a poll asking people if they’re happy about having to go out and buy a new radio, they’d probably tell me they weren’t, too. Radio listening doesn’t appear to have been too affected by the change, I understand – at least, from the figures I’ve seen.
