RTÉ holds dominance of airwaves

RTÉ maintained its dominance of the national airwaves during 2009 according to the latest Joint National Listenership Research results, although its pop station 2FM continues to lose audiences.

However, all RTÉ Radio 1’s top presenters recorded some of the biggest year-on-year gains of recent years across its daytime and weekend schedules.

Ryan Tubridy, turned in one of the most impressive performances with the Late Late Show presenter gaining 48,000 listeners for his weekday radio show over the past 12 months to reach an average audience of 363,000 – an annual increase in excess of 15%.