Listeners tuning out from RTÉ’s main radio shows

The latest Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR) figures show RTÉ Radio 1 has suffered a significant loss with a number of its main shows losing 20,000 or more listeners over the last 12 months.

The biggest fall has been experienced by one of its flagship news programmes, News at One. This time last year, it had a listenership of 349,000. That has now fallen to 312,000.

The next biggest declines were for the Sean O’Rourke and John Murray shows, which each experienced drops of 29,000. There are now 298,000 people tuning into Sean O’Rourke and 295,000 to John Murray