Tune in: half of radio listeners are women

In their recent columns on the supposed lack of female voices on Irish radio, Gerard Howlin and Alison O’Connor failed to consider all aspects of this problem.

Recent JNLR surveys show that RTÉ Radio 1 has strong female listenership, with a 50/50 gender balance across its programming.

Newstalk, which Ms O’Connor marks out for criticism, has had a 25% increase in the number of female listeners in the last two years and now has a 65/35 gender divide among its listeners, having previously had a very heavily male listenership. In all, over 50% of radio listeners are women.