Ireland’s Classic Hits Radio has scored its highest daily and weekly listenership in its 15 year history in today’s JNLR radio listenership survey. The multi-city station now boasts 382,000 weekly listener and has broken through the 200,000 mark on daily listenership. The station has also shown a 13% increase in market share to 5.4%.
In additional to daily, weekly and market share growth, the station has also experienced strong growth in it’s daytime schedule, with its breakfast show, ‘Colm & Lucy in the Morning’ adding 10,000 listeners to 78,000, Classic Hits with Trina Mara increasing by 10,000 to 90,000 and Damien Farrelly in the Afternoon by 8,000 to 88,000 daily listeners.
Chief Executive, Kevin Branigan, said, “It’s great day for us here! Our total listenership has increased, yet again, with 382,000 people now listening to us across the country, our highest ever figure. We’ve also increased our share of radio listening and pretty every one of our day time shows from Colm & Lucy in the Morning right through to Nighttime Talks with Niall Boylan has increased considerably.
We’re delighted to be the home of the 80s and 90s for more and more people than ever before! Thank you to all of our listeners in Dublin, Cork, Limerick Galway, Clare and further afield – for listening to Ireland’s Classic Hits Radio.
Ireland’s Classic Hits Radio broadcasts to the eight most-populated counties in Ireland – Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Kildare, Meath, Wicklow & Clare – on FM and nationwide on its website, smartphone app and Irish Radio Player.
