Radio ratings


Media briefs: Fairfax rules the airwaves … The Fin soars like Eagles

MTR has its work cut out for it, since it’s already slipped in ratings. Plus, Business Spectator’s new thespian, Nine cuts down Telstra and other media news of the day.

Maybe Eddie could have kick-started Lachlan Murdoch’s revival

So Lachie Murdoch got a cut-price radio network, which was run like a cut-price radio network. Sensible? smart? No, just financially driven. He is like all other Australian radio owners: driven by the beans.

Glenn Dyer’s radio ratings: McGuire, Faine and Jones the big winners

Alan Jones, in Sydney, and Eddie McGuire and Jon Faine, in Melbourne, were the big winners from the first radio ratings survey for 2010.

The fall and rise of Kyle and Jackie O

Reports this week that troubled radio stars Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O had lost 20% of their audience were way off the mark. Is Vile Kyle just trying to get himself fired?

Australian wireless charts

Glenn Dyer gives a run-down on the latest Sydney and Melbourne radio ratings.

Radio market is a three horse race

The latest Sydney and Melbourne radio ratings show clearly that the market now has three players, with the ABC featuring prominently in both markets.

Media briefs and TV ratings

Radio ratings … Price on the big issues — blonde v brunette … Daylight savings mystery at The West … the mag numbers game … Recession can be a marketers friend.

John Laws quits, gives 2UE its best profits hope in years

Southern Cross Broadcasting will have to wait another five months, but it finally has been handed the opportunity to get a decent return on its expensive Sydney AM station 2UE by the decision of John Laws to retire from November, writes Glenn Dyer.