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I agree with the general tenor of the podcast that Nine Radio is generally the market leader in all capital cities that Nine Radio covers.
However, I do find an anomaly with the Canberra market for commercial talk radio and the ABC.
The commercial talk market of 2CC in Canberra is owned by a joint venture of Capital Radio and Grant Broadcasters.
Yes they are not Nine Radio but many of Nine Radio's programs are relayed from Nine Radio's 2GB which include: Ray Hadley, Den Knight, Mark Levy and John Stanley.
Source:
https://www.2cc.net.au/programs/ .
The 2GB broadcasters are market leaders in Sydney but not so in contributing to the overall rating of 6.5%.
The ABC stations RN and ABC Canberra rate 7.4% and 11.1% respectively.
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The anomaly? In other capital city markets the ratings for RN and capital city metropolitan stations have tanked to about 1%-1.6% (approximately) and 5%-6% (approximately) respectively while Nine Radio are "near" market leaders for example Brisbane's 4BH (music) at 9.5% versus Nova 106.9, 11.9% and 4BC (talk) at 6.4% versus ABC Brisbane 5.6%.
Generally the Canberra market is quite different and talk programs supplied by 2GB don't imply that what works for Sydney will work in Canberra.
Conversely what doesn't work for the ABC in the major capital cities works in Canberra.
People with more knowledge of the markets can elaborate.
Thank you
Anthony, Strathfield South, in the land of the Wangal and Darug Peoples of the Eora Nation