Newstalk radio station achieved a 5 per cent 'reach' of radio listeners in its first six months of national broadcasting, new figures show.
The Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR) radio listenership figures for the period April to March 2007 indicate that 85 per cent of the adult population listened daily to a mix of national, regional and local radio.
Listenership to any regional/local station was 55 per cent, down one percentage point, when compared with the previous survey period.
RTÉ Radio 1's reach decreased to 23 per cent, also down one point, while RTÉ 2FM, Today FM and Lyric FM all maintained their reach figures at 18 per cent, 16 per cent and 3 per cent respectively.
Newstalk received its first national figures for the six months covering September 29th to March 31st , achieving a reach figure of 5 per cent.
On market share of the airwaves, the figure for the number of listeners to any regional station decreased by 0.5 per cent to 50.5 per cent in the 7am to 7pm period.
Both RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ 2FM's market share decreased slightly to 20.5 per cent (-0.4) and 12.6 per cent (-0.3) respectively.
Today FM again saw a marginal increase in share to 12.4 per cent (+0.3), while RTÉ Lyric FM's national market share was 1.9 per cent (+0.2). Newstalk's market share for the six months surveyed was 3.2 per cent.