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Survey 6 Radio Ratings Results 2024: No Olympic Gold for 2GB, KIIS top in Sydney, down in Melbourne

The 6th Australian Radio Ratings Survey results for 2024 have been released.

• No Olympic Gold for 2GB as it slips off its overall top position in Sydney, down 3.1% into 4th place in the market. With Olympics coverage being largely overnight, the station’s breakfast shift was significantly affected.

• KIIS 106.5 has jumped to top overall position in Sydney, but has lost ground in Melbourne.

• ABC Radio Sydney’s new breakfast presenter Craig Reucassel (also with AM and Sarah Macdonald in the timeslot) has taken a big chunk out of Ben Fordham’s 2GB breakfast show, with Fordham losing 3.1 share points. ABC and WSFM divided up the spoils of Fordham’s drop, with Reucassel nabbing 1.2% and Jonesy and Amanda grabbing 1.3% of share in that timeslot.

• Nine Radio stations in the other cities were not as badly hit by the overnight Olympics coverage as Sydney, although the surge that is normally seen for Nine’s talk and sport stations during footy finals season was not as evident as usual, another indicator that the Olympics may have damaged Nine’s results (but perhaps not its revenue).

• Disrupt Radio is now gone from the DAB+ airwaves, with consistently low survey numbers and reports the company was not able to pay its DAB+ licence rental fees to SEN. It will now pursue a different audio strategy.

• Nova’s Priceline Radio appears on DAB+ in Sydney and Melbourne for the first time in this survey.

• New leader in Adelaide as Mix 102.3 jumps ahead of Triple M

• New leader in Perth as 96fm overtakes Nova

The survey was conducted by GfK for Commercial Radio Australia between  Sun Jul 7 to Sat Sep 14, 2024. With the rolling survey structure, this still includes the Olympics, as well as footy finals season.

Displayed below are Share, Cume, DAB+ and Platform results. Click to enlarge each chart.

First published by RadioInfo. Read original here