Newstalk’s The Pat Kenny Show is the most listened to show on commercial radio according to the latest JNLR results (October ‘23 – September ‘24) published today. Some 241,000 listeners tune in daily for a mixture of comment, analysis and entertainment.
Across Ireland, Newstalk’s national market share at 8.5% is up .9% YoY at a time when 3.8 million (3,862,000) of all adults are tuning into Irish radio each week.
Weekly reach for the station performed strongly at 861,000, up 39,000 YoY. Newstalk also retains its status as the second most listened to radio station in the country every day with 508,000 listeners, up 42,000 YoY.
Elsewhere across the schedule Newstalk Breakfast with Ciara Kelly and Shane Coleman starts the day for 168,000 listeners while Andrea Gilligan’s Lunchtime Live also proves a popular drop-in for 134,000 listeners.
The station’s flagship weekend programme The Anton Savage Show is especially popular on Sundays with an increased audience of 125,000 (up 7,000 BoB). An additional 5,000 sports fans boosted Off The Ball Sunday numbers to 116,000 listeners while Down to Business with Bobby Kerr also performed well with an increased audience of 123,000.
Mark Simpson, deputy managing editor of Newstalk said:
We’re happy to see that Newstalk remains the most listened to daily talk station of choice for 20-44 year olds in Ireland, a real indication that our strategy of delivering a broad range of engaging, informative and compelling conversations that reflect what our audience are talking about, is working.
The Pat Kenny Show remains the No.1 commercial show on Irish radio and we are delighted that Pat leads our team into the busy election period ahead as one of the country’s most respected and trusted broadcasters.
We are also hugely encouraged to see further growth for our weekend programming with Anton Savage seeing a surge in listeners on Sunday mornings and to see a significant rise in the listenership to our long-running, daily flagship sports programme Off The Ball, with a jump of 8,000 extra people tuning in every evening from 7-10pm. Our success is down to an incredibly passionate and enthusiastic team of people who work tirelessly to provide hours of content – and company – to our listeners every single day”
Key figures for Newstalk weekday shows
Newstalk Breakfast –168,000 (no change BoB)
The Pat Kenny Show –241,000 (down 3,000 BoB)
Lunchtime Live with Andrea Gilligan –134,000 (down 3,000 BoB)
Moncrieff – 105,000 (down 3,000 BoB)
The Hard Shoulder – 152,000 (down 3,000 BoB)
Off The Ball – 53,000 (up 8,000 BoB)
Tom Dunne – 13,000 (down 1,000 BoB)
Newstalk Weekends – Saturday
The Home Show –45,000 (up 3,000 BoB)
Anton Savage Show Saturday –132,000 (down 2,000 BoB)
Down To Business –123,000 (up 3,000 BoB)
Off the Ball Saturday – 142,000 (down 1,000 BoB)
Tech Talk – 43,000 (up 6,000 BoB)
Screentime – 24,000 (up 4,000 BoB)
Newstalk Weekends– Sunday
Alive and Kicking – 32,000 (No Change BoB)
Taking Stock – 77,000 (up 8,000 BoB)
Anton Savage Show Sunday – 125,000 (up 7,000 BoB)
Futureproof – 70,000 (up 2,000 BoB)
Off the Ball Sunday – 116,000 (up 5,000 BoB)
Talking History – 20,000 (up 4,000 BoB)
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Information sourced from; JNLR/Ipsos 2024-3 (October ’23 – September ’24)
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