{"id":12235,"date":"2025-07-22T01:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T01:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12235\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T01:47:15","slug":"radio-ratings-nova-96fm-hit-by-breakfast-audience-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12235\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio ratings: Nova, 96FM hit by breakfast audience drop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two of Perth\u2019s most popular FM radio stations have haemorrhaged listeners, led by a breakfast tune-out.<\/p>\n

Nova FM and 96FM both recorded drops in their audience share of more than 2 per cent, in the latest radio ratings out on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The biggest change from the latest GFK ratings report \u2014 covering the period from April to July \u2014 was Nova\u2019s breakfast trio Nathan Morris, Nat Locke and Shaun McManus\u2019 4 per cent drop in audience to 15.5 per cent.<\/p>\n

The FM station recorded drops across all its daytime programming, as did 96FM, which still held its rank as Perth\u2019s most listened to radio station.<\/p>\n

Nova, however, lost its spot in second, dethroned by Mix 94.5, which rose to an audience share of 12.8 per cent.<\/p>\n

\"ShaunCamera IconShaun McManus, Tony Galati, Nat Locke and Ross Wallman at Nova\u2019s Tony Galati on May 29, 2025. Credit: Matt Jelonek\/The West Australian<\/p>\n

Morris revealed near the beginning of this ratings cycle the reasons for a protracted absence from the airwaves in May after three month off, explaining he had been dealing with some \u201clegal issues\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething happened in my personal life that was one of these monumental things that happens that you can\u2019t really process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething comes in that\u2019s so different no one has gone through it, no one can give you advice.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt started back last year and reared again this year. I can\u2019t speak too much about it because there is legal proceedings that\u2019s got nothing to do with me but I cannot speak about it because of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Triple M soared by 1.6 per cent, while youth radio station Triple J grew by one per cent across its weekday offerings.<\/p>\n

\"JoCamera IconJo Trilling Credit: ABC\/TheWest<\/p>\n

Over on the AM band, ABC radio remained steady, with small drops in audience share after growing most of this year.<\/p>\n

Breakfast host Mark Gibson dropped 0.2 per cent, while Afternoons\u2019 Jo Trilling saw her audience fall to 3.6 per cent, the lowest point so far this year.<\/p>\n

6PR defector and new ABC Drive host Gary Adshead grew his share by 0.3 per cent, consolidating his late afternoon time slot.<\/p>\n

While 6PR\u2019s breakfast duo of Steve Mills and Karl Langdon were hit by a near one per cent fall in their share to 8.3 per cent, Mornings host Simon Beaumont recorded a rise of 1.6 per cent to 8.3 per cent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of Perth\u2019s most popular FM radio stations have haemorrhaged listeners, led by a breakfast tune-out. Nova FM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,99,134,1685,136,44],"class_list":["post-12235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-entertainment","tag-media","tag-music","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}