ABC Radio Sydney slumps to worst-ever ratings result

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ABC Radio Sydney’s assemblage stock has slumped to its lowest level since records began successful the 2nd vigor ratings survey of the year.

The web delivered an assemblage stock of 5.1 per cent, down from 5.4 per cent successful the archetypal survey of the year, with its important moving bid shake-up truthful acold failing to seizure listeners.

ABC Sydney’s 2nd survey of the twelvemonth is its worst connected record.

Ratings bureau GfK has been compiling vigor information since 2004 and makes the numbers public. The ABC confirmed to this masthead that the figures were the worst since the survey started.

The meal show, helmed by caller big Craig Reucassel, besides dropped to its lowest stock since 2004, declining to 7.1 per cent from 7.9 per cent successful the archetypal survey of the year.

Reucassel replaced James Valentine astatine meal this year.

ABC Radio Sydney had the eighth-largest stock successful the market. The station’s wide cumulative assemblage was 510,000, down from 572,000 successful the erstwhile survey. The market-leading KIIS FM’s assemblage was 1.39 million.

The 2nd survey of the twelvemonth covers February 4 to March 30. It had important overlap with the first, and GfK’s categorisations for clip slots bash not ever perfectly align with amusement times.

Valentine’s 2nd survey backmost successful the day slot yielded a insignificant gain, rising from a 3.5 per cent stock to a 3.9 per cent share. Valentine announced successful March helium would beryllium taking a interruption from vigor aft being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer.

The Drive programme with Richard Glover roseate 0.7 points to a 4.8 per cent share.

The ABC’s caller audio boss, Ben Latimer, signalled changes to the section vigor web successful precocious 2023, a effect to assemblage figures trending down station the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We’re superior astir getting ABC section vigor backmost to wherever it needs to be,” Latimer said successful December. “Pre-COVID is wherever we judge we should be, and we tin be.”

While the effect is simply a grounds low, it is aboriginal stages for ABC Sydney, with assemblage trends usually taking immoderate clip to acceptable in. One twelvemonth ago, the station’s stock was 5.5 per cent.

Elsewhere, Sydney’s ascendant vigor fig Ray Hadley won a 156th consecutive ratings survey successful the influential greeting slot, marginally beating Nova’s euphony presumption SmoothFM.

Hadley, who has hosted the greeting amusement connected 2GB for much than 20 years, recorded a 13.5 per cent share, down 0.6 per cent from the archetypal survey of the year.

SmoothFM’s greeting stock roseate to 13 per cent, up from 12.7 per cent, with the station’s wide stock rising to 11 per cent (from 10.8 per cent) for adjacent 2nd spot with KIISFM successful the market.

2GB – which is owned by Nine, the steadfast of this masthead – led the marketplace with an wide stock of 11.9 per cent.

For the meal slot, KIIS pairing Kyle & Jackie O topped the marketplace with a 16.1 per cent share, up from 15.4 per cent, up of 2GB’s Ben Fordham, who dropped from a 16.6 per cent stock to 14.9 per cent.