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RTÉ RADIO ONE’S flagship news programme Morning Ireland remains the most listened to radio show in the country, despite dropping listeners over the past year.
The latest radio listenership figures for the last quarter of 2017 show that Morning Ireland had a daily listenership of 423,000 people – making it the most listened to radio show in the country.
This is despite the fact that it dropped 25,000 listeners when compared with the same period last year.
In total, RTÉ said that its stations reach just over two million listeners, with 53% of people aged 15 and over tuning in every week.
This is an increase of 112,000 year-on-year and 8,000 book-on-book (as in, last quarter).
Despite this, Radio One saw drops almost across the board in listenership for its weekday programmes.
Liveline with Joe Duffy had 373,000 listeners daily, down 14 from last year but up 3,000 from the last quarter.
Meanwhile, at 2FM, Breakfast Republic was at 186,000 listeners, up 32,000 in the year (but down 3,000 book-on-book).
There were rises in listenership at 2FM for most of its weekday programmes.
“This is the fifth consecutive book in a row that 2FM has seen increases,” said Dan Healy, head of radio strategy and 2FM.
Stations take two years to recover and we’ve beaten our nearest rival Today FM for the second book in a row, increasing the margin by 13,000 in three months.
RTÉ’s weekend schedule also had a boost, with Saturday and Sunday Sport shows increasing their listenership by 49,000 and 51,000 people respectively year on year.
Sunday sport now has 224,000 daily listeners across the day.
Communicorp
Meanwhile, over at Communicorp, Newstalk had a mixed result, with some shows dropping listeners and others gaining.
Newstalk Breakfast had 119,000 daily listeners 0 down 2,000 book-on-book and down 3,000 year-on-year.
Pat Kenny was at 143,000 – a drop of 4,000 year-on-year. It is now close to 170,000 listeners behind RTÉ’s Today With Sean O’Rourke.
Despite this, Sean O’Rourke had a drop of 20,000 listeners year-on-year.
Moncrieff meanwhile had 82,000 listeners – up 2,000 book-book and 9,00 year-on-year.
The Hard Shoulder with Ivan Yates also had a boost 9,000 listeners to 139,000.
“We are very pleased with Newstalk’s performance, as outlined in today’s JNLR figures, which shows that Newstalk’s weekly reach has risen to 754,000, an all-time high for the station representing an increase of 63,000 listeners across the last year,” said Chris Doyle from Newstalk.
At Today FM, Ian Dempsey’s Breakfast Show was at 160,000 listeners, dropping 7,000 year-on-year.
Fergal D’Arcy also increased his listenership by 5,000 to 102,000 in the last quarter.
The Last Word with Matt Cooper also saw a slight rise of 2,000 listeners year-on-year to 134,000.
The full figures for the main national radio stations are:
RTÉ Radio One
RTÉ 2FM
Today FM
Newstalk
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Finally, an informed, accurate piece on this topic
Yes informed however the Minister for Health and former Minister for Health (Leo) should step down
It would be good to know it the wife’s and daughters of the Senior management had their test done in the same way and if in recent weeks they had tests and in which clinics?
@Cranky: how else would the tests be done. They could have paid to do it privately but its still the same test. Did you actually read the article.
I concur with the article. However a phone call and call back has resulted in no answers to my questions from the helpline. HSE/CS I want action and not any more time wasting and being passed from Billy to Jack.
I’m getting one per year from now on. Will have to pay but there’s no price on life.
Good article & it’s essential women have confidence in cervical screening which if abnormalities detected early treatment can commence.
I’ve a few observations to make: According to article today”US Laboratories contracted by Cervical Check to carry out standard screening only” which article says “with higher potential for error!.This is shocking when you read the article which shows that since 2002 the US CPL labs also had the capacity to check smears for HPV!So since 2008 at least,that is a lost decade when all smears could have been tested for HPV in the US CPL Labs!Who made that decision to exclude HPV cervical smear testing?
Women’s lives and health are more important than cost,etc.
So why werent they contracted to also check smears for HPV especially with the history of missed diagnosis of abnormalities on smears?
CPL Labs could have been contracted to also check smears for HPV as they had already did that for US women,etc!
I also note that HIQA advised Government in May 2017 to bring in this superior test in May 2017 but no action taken.
This scandal is more important than party politics and Government as it’s literally women’s lives affected and their children and families.There will be no tolerance of the usual “moving on” from scandals,there MUST be accountability,there MUST be transparency,there MUST be full answers,there MUST be full confidence restored in cervical screening including most importantly ensuring the screening labs screen smears for HPV,there must be full supports & medical support including any drugs that may prolong these women’s lives including compensation for women&their families without need for court cases,and finally the patient MUST come first and be No1 top priority in whatever healthcare Ireland has.
What I understand from the brave young women who have spoken out is that it was hard enough to get the diagnosis of terminal cancer and the heartbreak it is causing their families but to find out that abnormalities were missed and not been informed about that for years adds to the trauma.It is disgraceful.
Urgent actions can be taken even in conjunction with the scoping enquiry such as ensuring the US CPL Labs conduct HPV testing re smears including in its sister company here so that women can have more confidence in cervical screening.Urgent supports to the women& families affected.Also PAC can continue this week to further question HSE,Dept of Health, Cervical Care&State Claims Agency,HIQA,etc so the public is further informed including the shocking memos.(PAC debates transcripts May 10th)
The women of Ireland&their families deserve answers and to have confidence restored and FULL accountability and transparency not just from Cervical Check,HSE,Dept of Health but also Government who make policies and can bring in strong legislation re accountability and transparency in all our public services.As Emma said “talk is cheap”,actions speak louder than words!
@Nuala Mc Namara: The HSE wouldn’t pay for the HPV to be included that’s why it was cheaper. Secondly Harris saying we will be one of the first countries to have HPV included is total crap. It’s standard practice for a number of yrs in Finland and other countries.
That’s why i am afraid to go for a smear test i don’t want to be told I’m grand and in fact
that i have cancer
@GiGi O’Dwyer: Hopefully now all smears will be tested for HPV which causes most cervical cancer and that if there’s a history of cancer in the family or any unusual symptoms eg bleeding women should contact their doctor for exam &?
HPV vaccine should protect our children.
You would wonder will this whole mess benefit VHI, Laya and private health insurance generally?
Though you would not know it from glossy brochure,corporate logo this was the cheapest check possible. One woman 3 times via this system was failed another 2. There was some serious quality issue buried here. Why are all the cases from US tests. This should of all been dealt with in 2015.
But the administrators who run the private contracts were too busy deflecting and projecting greatness onto themselves. This for me is not a communication issue alone, its the accuracy of the test, we knew it wasn’t as accurate in those labs in 2008 and seems to have been outperformed by the Coombe now substantially. The correspondence database for those dept’s will show they knew but those with most to hide will want a private commission. a brief open public inquest is what is needed.
A victims impact module included. Were the US test under performing ? Quality assurance was meant to be inbuilt into Cervical Check, who knew about issue the who what when ? , what did they do ? Give these women every treatment we can and honour them by coming clean and no Denis Naughten like talk of private in a personal capacity.
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