Sydney radio ratings: Kiis lifts but 2GB and WSFM end year on top
Total audience share ratings, Survey 8 2014. Source: GfK
The final radio ratings of the year have seen KiisFM’s Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson boost their lead in the FM breakfast radio battle climbing to an audience share of 11.3, still 3.5 per cent behind market leader Alan Jones on 2GB.
Nova will be buoyed after its national Drive trio of Kate Ritchie, Marty Sheargold and Tim Blackwell reclaimed the top spot across all networks raising their share by 1.2 points to 10.1, leapfrogging ABC702’s Richard Glover who dropped 0.6 to 9.4 points.
2GB ended the year top of the pile for total people share with 12.1, down 0.2 on the last survey, whilst Australian Radio Network’s WSFM topped the FM charts with an 8.9 share, holding of stablemate KiisFM which had 8.6 points.
Fairfax Radio’s 2UE Evening host Clive Robertson enjoyed the biggest lift gaining 2.7 points to a 9.1 share, largely at the expense of rival Steve Price who had the biggest drop of the survey losing 3 points dropping from 15.2 share to 12.2.
Of the departing shows Southern Cross Austereo’s 2DayFM trio of Merrick Watts, Sophie Monk and Jules Lund managed a 0.1 point increase to 3 per cent share, having polled a 3.8 share in their first survey of the year. They will be replaced by Maz and Dan in January, who also lifted in their Drive show to a 4.3 share.
In Drive Tim ‘Rosso’ Ross enjoyed a 0.3 point bounce for his last weeks with KissFM finishing on 8.3 share, fourth overall in the timeslot in Sydney. TripleM’s One Percenters of Matt Tilley and Joe Hildebrand signed off with a 3.1 share, down 0.7 points on the last survey, having started the year with a 5.3 share.
For the overall ratings TripleM had the biggest fall for the last survey dropping 0.7 points to 5.4, with only SCA stablemate 2DayFM below it with a 3.5 share.
2UE’s breakfast team of Garry Linnell and John Stanley ended the year on 4.7 share, up 0.6 on their first outing.
Alex Hayes
Radio ratings survey 8 – Mon-Fri share and Breakfast. Source: GfK
its been the year of Alan Jones and Kyle and Jackie O.
They both have the haters, but people love to hate and tune in.
well done to both.
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So 2ue management does it again. Another lacklustre year. When will fairfax realise that it’s the people running their station who are the problem. Not always the DJs
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I guess 2UE will do what it always does and throw out this year and start again. Sad that 2GB has no competition.
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“2UE’s breakfast team of Garry Linnell and John Stanley ended the year on 4.7 share, up 0.6 on their first outing.”
Not according to the table you published at the end – 4.6 is DOWN 0.6 from 5.3 last survey.
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Hi Rrrosco,
Should have read – on their first outing of the year – i.e survey 1.
Cheers,
Alex – editor, Mumbrella
I thought 2ue have improved this year, they couldn’t do really worse really. They had taken Jones down a bit in brekky, lately Jones fired up against the govt bringing his ratings back but all in all its a good start.
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No just checked. 2UE year on year has gone backwards. 🙁
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Michael, Did those people fire you? If so they are very astute?
The station is on a steady slow rise. Nice to hear Ian Rogeson in the afternoon the week. They should put him on weekends. Good luck to them in 2015.
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Sydney is appatently Australia’s bogan capital.
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