{"id":448690,"date":"2026-05-14T15:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/448690\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:41:08","slug":"rte-radio-1s-new-schedule-sees-listeners-drop-for-key-shows-but-station-remains-dominant-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/448690\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 Radio 1\u2019s new schedule sees listeners drop for key shows \u2013 but station remains dominant \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT\u00c9<\/a> Radio 1 continues to dominate listenership figures in Ireland, though its recent rescheduling has led to losses among many of its biggest programmes. <\/p>\n

Morning Ireland remains the most listened to radio programme with an average of 452,000 people tuning in per day, down 15,000 from 467,000 over the previous three months, according to the latest JNLR (Joint National Listenership Research) figures published on Thursday. <\/p>\n

The figures cover the 12-month period up to March this year. <\/p>\n

RT\u00c9 holds 17 out of the top 20 radio programmes and the entire top 10, with its market share at 28.8 per cent. <\/p>\n

Today with David McCullagh<\/a> (now in the 9am-11am slot) took the second spot at 423,000, though down 17,000 listeners from 440,000 in the previous JNLR figures in February. <\/p>\n

Oliver Callan<\/a> has 296,000 listeners in his new slot from 11am-1pm, down from 308,000. <\/p>\n

News at One has 275,000 listeners, down slightly from 279,000 in the previous three months, while Liveline and its new presenter Kieran Cuddihy<\/a> has a listenership of 268,000 compared to 280,000.<\/p>\n

The Louise Duffy<\/a> Show has 145,000 listeners in her new 3pm slot (down 13,000) while Drivetime with Katie Hannon and Colm \u00d3 Mong\u00e1in has 211,000 listeners from 4-6pm (down 7,000).<\/p>\n

Brendan O\u2019Connor on Saturday has 414,000 listeners, which is up 51,000 year-on-year, with 409,000 tuning in on Sunday (up 40,000 year-on-year). <\/p>\n

The Business has 372,000 listeners on Saturday mornings, up 52,000 year-on-year, while Sunday with Miriam has 334,000 listeners, up 30,000 year-on-year.<\/p>\n

Tara Campbell, head of RT\u00c9 Radio 1, said: \u201cAs our new schedule continues to bed in, RT\u00c9 Radio 1 remains the biggest radio station in the country.\u201d <\/p>\n

RT\u00c9 2FM has held its market share at 5 per cent and has a 9.3 per cent share of 15- to 34-year-olds.<\/p>\n

Dan Healy, head of RT\u00c9 2FM, said it was \u201ca stable result\u201d for 2FM and \u201cthese numbers tell us our foundation is solid\u201d.<\/p>\n

RT\u00c9 Lyric FM now reaches 359,000 listeners every week and has increased its share to an all-time high of 3.6 per cent, up from 2.7 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Why RT\u00c9 scrapping Sunday Miscellany\u2019s trumpet sounds such a bum noteOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Over at Newstalk, the new Claire Byrne Show has the same number of listeners that Pat Kenny did when he finished up with 206,000.<\/p>\n

The Hard Shoulder, now presented by Shane Coleman and Ciara Kelly, have added 4,000 listeners to reach an audience of 153,000.<\/p>\n

Anton Savage, who left his Saturday show on Newstalk to take over the breakfast show from Kelly and Coleman, has the same number of listeners as his predecessors at 158,000.<\/p>\n

The Pat Kenny Show has an audience of 159,000 on Saturdays and 119,000 on Sundays.<\/p>\n

Overall, Newstalk\u2019s market share has increased to 7.8 per cent, up 0.3 per cent since the last set of JNLR data. <\/p>\n

Managing editor Eric Moylan described the figures as a \u201creally positive performance\u201d following the launch of its new schedule.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0RT\u00c9\u2019s Radio 1 reboot: \u2018We weren\u2019t aware that this level of a shake-up was on the cards\u2019Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

At Today FM, the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show recorded its highest ever listenership of 232,000 (up 8,000). The Last Word with Matt Cooper achieved its highest audience result in over 15 years, jumping to 192,000 listeners (also up 8,000).<\/p>\n

The survey carried out by Ipsos B&A on behalf of JNLR is commissioned by all national, regional and local radio stations, as well as Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n, the Association of Advertisers in Ireland and the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland. <\/p>\n

A total of 16,700 people were interviewed during the survey period, Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 Radio 1 continues to dominate listenership figures in Ireland, though its recent rescheduling has led to losses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[47886,93,61,60,24558,24561,47888,41142,6085],"class_list":["post-448690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-david-mccullagh","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-katie-hannon","tag-kieran-cuddihy","tag-louise-duffy","tag-oliver-callan","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}