{"id":1912,"date":"2025-10-14T17:52:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:52:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:52:31","slug":"audiences-turn-to-abc-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/audiences-turn-to-abc-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Audiences turn to ABC Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au\/509642a533e7fdc0c72427488b17db6a?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&amp;cropH=485&amp;cropW=862&amp;xPos=0&amp;yPos=0&amp;width=862&amp;height=485\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ABC audiences have seen strong growth in GfK survey 6, released today. The ABC\u2019s overall network share has increased to 18.6% (+0.3) this survey while overall reach grew 3% to 4.893 million listeners each week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese results show that connection still matters. ABC Radio continues to be part of daily life for millions of Australians &#8211; trusted, curious, and close to the communities we serve.\u201d said Director ABC Audio Ben Latimer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a particularly strong survey for 702 ABC Radio Sydney, where audience share increased across all programs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mornings with Hamish Macdonald, who recently moved to 5 days a week with the program, saw another significant increase for the second survey in a row adding +1.5% for a 7.1% share.\u202fMeanwhile, James O\u2019Loghlin who is currently at the helm of Afternoons also increased listening, +2.0% for a 6.4% audience share.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drive with Chris Bath and Dom Knight and Evenings with Renee Krosch each added +0.6 for audience shares of 6.2% and 7.2% respectively.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere across our Capital City Network, our Breakfast programs in Brisbane and Melbourne added to their audience share. Breakfast on 612 ABC Radio Brisbane with Loretta and Craig saw a 1.3% share increase this survey to a 10.1% share nudging the program into 4th overall in the market.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 774 ABC Radio Melbourne, our Breakfast program with Bob Murphy and Sharnelle Vella added +0.9% for a share of 6.4%.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ABC Radio National Breakfast with Sally Sara also grew audience in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney and survey 6 saw ABC Radio National\u2019s overall reach grow +7.1% nationally to over half a million Australians.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ABC remains\u202fthe undisputed #1 network for digital live streaming 27.4% and with 1.41 million\u202flisteners during S6 a +5.1% YoY increase.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: GfK Radio360 Ratings, SMBAP Survey 6 2025, Mon-Sun 12MN-12MN, AP10+, unless otherwise specified<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC audiences have seen strong growth in GfK survey 6, released today. The ABC\u2019s overall network share has increased to 18.6% (+0.3) this survey while overall reach grew 3% to 4.893 million listeners each week.&nbsp; \u201cThese results show that connection still matters. ABC Radio continues to be part of daily life for millions of Australians &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/audiences-turn-to-abc-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Audiences turn to ABC Radio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}