KIIS 1065‘s Kyle and Jackie O have regained lost ground and are leaders in cumulative listening in Sydney in GfK Radio 360 Survey 5, 2024. Jase and Lauren on Nova 100 have consolidated their No 1 spot in Melbourne, where they have also pipped Christian O’Connell and Fifi, Fev and Nick to now be No 1 FM breakfast overall.
In terms of cumulative audiences every network had wins and losses. The Nova Network will be particularly happy with Nova 100 and Nova 96.9 Sydney plus smoothfm Sydney and Melbourne four of the six most listened to stations in the country. Smooth 95.3 Sydney however lost its No 1 spot overall and Bogart Torelli saw the largest losses in cumulative listening on breakfast. Nova 93.7 Perth also saw losses, but remained No 1 station and in breakfast overall.
The most surprising cumulative listening results, for my mind, were for Nine Radio, who I had expected to pick up listeners check in on Olympics results in breakfast and across the day. That was true for 3AW in Melbourne, the station was up and Ross and Russ on breakfast now have double the listening audience of anyone else and move up to 5th in cumulative audience too. This didn’t translate to gains in Sydney on 2GB, Brisbane on 4BC or in Perth on 6PR.
SCA is No 1 station overall for cumulative listening in Melbourne for 101.9 The Fox with Fifi Fev and Nick steady at third in breakfast listening overall. B105 is still the most listened to in Brisbane, despite cumulative losses. 2Day FM Sydney and Triple M Melbourne, who have both lost their breakfast shows across the last two surveys, each saw around 80K cumulative losses.
ARN will be happy with the progress of Kyle and Jackie O in Sydney (No 1 overall cumes and up 50K) and in Melbourne on KIIS 101.1 where there were small cume losses, but a slight up tick in listening. Christian O’Connell seems to have pockets of Melbourne that listen and others that don’t as, similar to last year, he’s seen a significant gains for his breakfast show and for Gold 104.3 at the start of 2024 fall away. WSFM and Jonesy and Amanda‘s cumes were down too.
The ABC saw cumulative gains for Sydney and Melbourne overall but not as much as they probably would have hoped considering their involvement in the Olympics. SEN saw losses, but I think they’ll bounce back strongly next survey, post Olympics and one that will include NRL and AFL Finals series. A final nod to the Ace Radio Network and 4BH in Brisbane. BBQ Bob Gallagher nearly cracked a 10% audience share on breakfast and the station picked up listeners too.
Jen Seyderhelm is a writer, editor and podcaster for Radioinfo
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