New figures from the latest JNLR/TNSmrbi survey for the 12 months from January 2005 to December 2005 reveal that 85% (unchanged) of the adult population were listening daily to a mix of national, regional and local radio throughout the country.
The figures show that the Irish adult listens to over three and a half hours of radio on weekday between 7am and 7pm.
The reach figure for local/regional stations moved up 1% to 57% and still exceeds the proportion tuning into national stations which fell 1% to 51%.
Of the National stations RTÉ Radio One fell 1% to 25%, Today FM fell 1% to 15%, Lyric FM was steady at 3% and RTÉ 2FM stayed the same at 21%.
There were more people listening to the radio at the weekend and the figures show that 18 of the Top 20 All-week National Radio Programmes are RTÉ Radio programmes and seven of these are RTÉ Radio weekend programmes.
Market share for all adults 15+, covering the key 7am-7pm period a day, showed an increase for any regional/local station to 51% (a rise of 2%). But RTE Radio One's market share was down 1 percentage points to 22% with 2FM and Today FM achieving market shares of 14% (-1%) and 11% (unchanged) respectively. RTE Lyric FM saw its market share stay steady at 2%.
In Cork Red FM moved up 1% to 10% in the 7am - 7pm period and in Dublin Newstalk moved up 1% to 5% while 98FM and FM104 stayed the same at 11% and 14% respectively.
