{"id":858,"date":"2018-05-17T08:58:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/?p=858"},"modified":"2018-05-17T08:59:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:59:02","slug":"latest-audience-figures-report-growth-in-digital-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/2018\/05\/17\/latest-audience-figures-report-growth-in-digital-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Audience Figures Report Growth In Digital Listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RAJAR Q1 2018 audience figures has reported a growth in digital listeners, with 50% of listening done via digital platforms (including DAB, digital TV, and online).<\/p>\n<p>A number of digital only stations have increased in popularity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heart 80s now reaches 1.4 million listeners, but Absolute Radio 80s (with a smaller coverage area) remains the UK&#8217;s most popular 80s radio stations with 1.5 million listeners.<\/li>\n<li>Union Jack now has 114,000 listeners, up from 71,000 year on year.<\/li>\n<li>Virgin Radio, whilst loosing some listeners, has increased listening hours, meaning its listeners are listening to the station for longer.<\/li>\n<li>Kisstory, Jazz FM, Smooth Extra, and some other digital only stations have also gained more listeners.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, most BBC national station have remained mostly static, but the Heart network (including Heart 80s, and the Heart Extra national service) now has more listeners than BBC Radio 1.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Editors comments: I&#8217;ve actually went the opposite way, switching back to analogue methods, as the poor quality mono sound that most DAB stations provide is not satisfactory. DAB+, whilst stereo, gives even poorer sound quality to the point that listening to some DAB+ stations actually gives me headaches. Forces Radio BFBS (using 24kbps stereo) offers very poor sound quality.<\/p>\n<p>I have now switched back to my local BBC station, BBC Newcastle. Following transmitter changes, I no longer have access to Rathergood Radio on FM, but I still listen to this station via Radio Player.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RAJAR Q1 2018 audience figures has reported a growth in digital listeners, with 50% of listening done via digital platforms (including DAB, digital TV, and online). A number of digital only stations have increased in popularity: Heart 80s now reaches 1.4 million listeners, but Absolute Radio 80s (with a smaller coverage area) remains the&#8230;<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/2018\/05\/17\/latest-audience-figures-report-growth-in-digital-platform\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,59],"tags":[126,129,14,125,128,130,124,123,127,117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}