ftm Radio Page - November 27, 2015

Self-space shrinks, local stations hit by national wave
the eyes have it

French research institute Médiamétrie released this week September-October radio audience estimates for the Il-de-France (IDF - Greater Paris) - region finding, once again, listener preferences in Paris a bit different. In the national audience estimates for the same period, released a week earlier, some broadcasters got good news, some not so good and the rest not at all. (See France national radio overview here) For national broadcasters there were big gains and big losses. For local Paris broadcasters the results were uniformly tepid.

National general interest channels RTL, France Inter, Europe 1 and RMC again took the first four places, in order. The audience share for RTL dropped to 13.2% from 14.3%, year on year. Public channel France Inter, as in the national audience estimates, increased audience share to a rather audacious 13.0% from 10.1%, the channel’s best showing in, like, forever. Europe 1 and RMC were both lower, 8.8% and 6.9% respectively. (See September-October 2015 IDF trend chart here)

Rap and hip-hop Skyrock kicked into 5th place with 5.0% audience share, seriously higher than 3.8% one year on. It’s Skyrock’s best showing in four years. National hit music channel NRJ was up more modestly for 6th place, 4.7% audience share from 4.3%. Seventh in the IDF rankings was public all-news channel France Info, struggling with a variety of changes, 4.2% audience share from 5.2%. Radio Classique, France Culture and Cherie FM round out the top 10, all up, France Culture and Cherie FM rather significantly.

Local Paris stations appear to have been crowded out by national channels. The aggregated audience share for local stations dropped to 16.5% from 18.3% year on year. Radio Latina led the category, again, with 2.6%, up slightly. Oui FM, Ado FM and TSF Jazz showed gains while public station FIP, Generations and Radio Nova dropped. Chante France reappeared but Tropiques FM failed to meet the minimum required for listing.

Let the music of the season be online
from the north, where reindeer fly

Christmas Radio returns to Finland this weekend for its 13th season. With a network of FM stations across the country Jouluradio operates all Christmas music, all the time from the first Sunday in Advent until January 6th. According to Finnish tradition the secret workshop of Father Christmas is in the far north, where the reindeer live.

In addition to the Jouluradio channel, a mainstream mix of holiday favorites, organizers offer seven online channels with variations on the Christmas theme: one with Finnish Christmas songs, Nordic music Julradion, Estonian language Jouluraadio, English language channel Xmas, a classical music channel, a children’s channel and, last but not least, a Christmas rock music channel Rouhea joulu.

All channels can be heard worldwide on the jouluradio.fi website and the streaming audio service radiot.fi. Jouluradio is commercial-free and supported by Lutheran parishes in Finland.

Norwegian daily newspaper Ekstra Bladets is offering its own online Christmas music channel, Juleradio, through the first of the new year. Sweden’s public broadcaster Sveriges Radio (SR) began all Christmas music this week via online channel P4 Bjällerklang.

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Recently added radio audience figures and resources

• Spain - Major Media - Radio Broadcasting (December 2015)
  public and private broadcasting companies, channels, management, platforms, audience estimates
• France - Greater Paris Radio Audience (November 2015)
  national and local channels, market share, trend
• France - National Radio Audience (November 2015)
  national channels, sectors, market share, reach/TSL
• Ireland - Major Media - Radio Broadcasting (November 2015)
  national public and commercial radio channels, major local/regional stations, management, listening share
• UK - National Radio Audience (October 2015)
  market share, trend, sectors
• UK - London Radio Audience (October 2015)
  market share, trend
• UK - National Radio Audience (October 2015)
  BBC/commercial 'gap'
• Finland - Major Media - Radio Broadcasting (September 2015)
  public and private radio channels, management, market share, platforms
• France - National Radio Summer Audience (September 2015)
  national channels, summer period 2010-2015 trend
• Ireland - National Radio Audience (August 2015)
  market share, 07h00-19h00, trend
• Ireland - Dublin Radio Audience (August 2015)
  market share, 07h00-19h00, trend
• Germany - Radio Audience (July 2015)
  leading stations, audience trend, daily reach
• Spain - National Radio Audience (July 2015)
  national channels, reach share, trend
• Greece - Major Media - Radio Broadcasting (June 2015))
  public and private broadcasting, owners, executives, market share

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