Youth hip hop and R&B station CADA continues to grow its audience in Sydney in GfK Radio 360 Survey 3 2026 with a cume audience up over 160K. Breakfast with Jake Powell continues to do well with a 14K increase, but weekends are when the station really shines with the audience nudging towards the 100K mark.

The return of AFL and NRL upped listening to ABC Sport with the DAB+ station seeing one of its best results. TikTok Trending saw the biggest losses.

Sydney digital stations with a more than 100K cume audience Survey 3 were CADA, Coles Radio, DANCE HITS and KIIS Australia. The latter is only available in Sydney and Melbourne and does well, so its surprising it hasn’t yet been rolled out elsewhere.

Melbourne saw SCA‘s DANCE HITS the most listened to on DAB with it and GOLD 80s the only two above 100K cume audience, although smooth relax and Coles Radio were just shy of that mark. Like Sydney there was a large uptick in ABC Sport listening, but unlike them Melbourne increased its TikTok Trending audience.

smooth FM was top in Brisbane with Coles Radio and DANCE HITS the next best. The Gold Network has found an audience but Heart and Heart Hits, which debuted strongly, dropped this survey.

Smooth was also No 1 in Adelaide with Coles Radio second. Heart saw decent gains.

And finally Perth where smooth FM was far and away the leader with an impressive 94K cume audience. It would appear that some listeners who checked out Heart as an alternative last survey returned to smooth as their preferred option. Coles Radio was second with another good increase for ABC Sport.

The full GfK Radio 360 Survey 3 results are here.