RTÉ lyric fm has seen a very successful rise in listenership figures across the schedule, reflected in the Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR report) released today.

Based on the figures released this time last year, RTÉ lyric fm has an additional 37,000 listeners, while the book-on-book comparison of the average listenership for programmes across the four previous quarters (three-month periods) are as follows:

  • Marty in the Morning has 67,000 listeners (+13,000 BoB) tuning in every weekday morning
  • Aedín Gormley's Movies and Musicals every Saturday afternoon has 67,000 listeners (+9,000 BoB)
  • Sunday Afternoon with Simon Delaney has 60,000 listeners (+10,000 BoB)
  • Niall Carroll's Classical Daytime has 51,000 (+5,000 BoB) listeners each weekday
  • The Full Score with Liz Nolan has 51,000 listeners (+7,000 BoB)
  • Lorcan Murray's Classic Drive takes 57,000(+1,000 BoB) listeners into the evening each weekday
  • Aedín in the Afternoon (Friday) has 51,000 listeners (+7,000 BoB)
  • Daybreak with Evonne Ferguson has 46,000 listeners (+3,000 BoB) on Saturday mornings
  • The Hamilton Scores with George Hamilton has 46,000(+2,000 BoB) listeners on Saturdays and 52,000(+8,000 BoB) on Sundays
  • Mystery Train with John Kelly has 28,000(+6,000 BoB) listeners weekday evenings
  • RTÉ lyric Live with Paul Herriott has 28,000 (+6,000 BoB)

Sinéad Wylde, Head of RTÉ lyric fm, said: "RTÉ lyric fm has been celebrating its 25th birthday year since May and this book is the icing on the cake for programme teams with our best ever gains. In a noisy, busy world music has the ability to speak to us, help us to recalibrate as we make it, listen to it and dance to it. It connects us.

RTÉ lyric fm remains committed to bringing great music to Irish audiences. We are very grateful to all the new listeners who have found us and opened their ears to be with us for an alternative listening experience and delighted to welcome 37,000 new listeners including many new younger listeners, in the 15-34 years age group, who have come to RTÉ lyric fm in the last year."

RTÉ lyric fm celebrated its 25th birthday this year