The JNLR report, covering the period July ‘22 to June ‘23 shows that Radio enjoys huge listenership with 91% of Irish adults and 87% of 15–34-year-oldslistening to radio every week.

The daily listenership levels are also hugely impressive with the daily audience growing by a further 65,000 with over 3.3 million adults listening to radio every single weekday, a record high in daily audience levels in recent years. Listenership for 15–34-year-olds also increased with 70% of this age group listening every weekday, an increase of 12,000 listeners compared the previous research period (Apr '22 – Mar ’23). Listening levels to local and regional radio continues to be very strong with almost 2.2 million adults listen to their local or regional station every single weekday.

There is a steady increase of listening through devices with 5.9% of all adult listening now through a smart speaker while listening via a mobile device accounts for 3.5%of all radio listening. This increases to 7.6% of all listening through a smart speaker and 9% through a mobile device for the younger 15 to 34 age cohort.

The ability to access content easily and the quality and popularity of Irish radio is shown by this JNLR release reporting that the average adult is listening to radio content for over 4.1 hours each day.

Below you can download a presentation that summarises:

-National weekly reach

-Share of time spent

-Weekly reach by national station and sales group

-National prime time share of listening

-Weekly reach by Dublin station and sales group

-Dublin prime time share of listening

-Weekly reach by Cork station and sales group

-Cork prime time share of listening

-Weekly reach by regional station

-Regional prime time share of listening

-Weekly reach by local area