Radio 1 loses out as listeners stop tuning in

RTÉ Radio 1 has emerged as the clear loser in the latest Joint National Listenership Research figures which showed all the station’s main programmes dropping audience numbers.

While Radio 1 maintained its leading position in the national radio market, its top presenters, including Marian Finucane, Pat Kenny and Joe Duffy, all recorded a sizeable fall-off in listenership over the past year.

Each of the station's main daytime programmes lost a significant number of listeners, according to the JNLR figures for July 2002-June 2003 published yesterday.