Sydney radio ratings: Kiis FM breakfast stars Kyle & Jackie O lose FM ratings crown
Long-reigning FM breakfast champions Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson have lost their ratings crown for the first time in three years.
Sandilands and Henderson were previously breakfast show co-hosts on 2Day FM, but defected to Kiis FM in January of 2014. The defeat comes after a decade of almost continuous leadership of the Sydney FM breakfast battle by Sandilands and Henderson.
Kyle & Jackie O have been the most popular FM breakfast show for a number of years
Who was the evil genius who thought a 24×7 sports format would work on 2UE?
A quick look at Sky Sports Radio ratings should have warned them off such a change.
Revive the 2UE brand while there are people still alive who can remember it and go for a rolling news format using the Fairfax and Nine resources… Journos host the various shifts and call in their colleagues around the greater Nine/Fairfax network for interviews, insights and backgrounders as well as take talkback calls.
Play it down the centre politically and stay clear of right wing conspiracy theorists and ideologues.
Apart from anything else, great cross promotion for all Nine brands in print, radio and television.
Jack
Spot on Jack
Can we set up a GoFundMe to raise some money to buy the 2UE licence so we can give it to Jack?
I know it’s petty – but this news makes me happy.
Would like to see 2GB. Extend the Garden Clinic program by 1 hour on Saturday … Its such a great ,informative & interesting program to listen to Graham Ross & his fill in team have a lot knowledge with gardens lawns , landscaping
Tips ..a lot of listeners are disappointed 2GB Management reduced the time slot from 3 to 2 hours .. I think the 2GB sports program goes for a bit too long ..a 2 pm start time would be better . as for 2ue 954 . bring back the previous format ” talking lifestyle ” with maybe a little bit of music to break the continuous talk format .. Thanks
I can’t stand the garden clinic. Is as bad as the fishing show. I usually tune to 2SM when 2GB has hobbie programs like this.
I listen to 2GB for news and opinions. Not for how to grow plants or fish.
Please.. “AM Bandwidth”???
It’s the AM band. Or AM dial.
It’s a bit unfair to insinuate Nova is only popular because of the 10-17 demo. They’re #2 in 18-24 and 25-39, with #1 being different stations in both demos!
The revamping of 2UE has been disastrous. Get rid of the present Sports format and revert to the talk back current affairs as it once was.Otherwise get rid of it. It is a shambles
Looks like 2gb win hands down, so why is the story about FM listenership? Do you break down the figures for TV ratings?
Hi there,
The story was about FM listenership because it was the biggest and most significant change. After a while ‘Alan Jones wins again’ stops being ‘new’/’news’.
In the same way the mainstream media (in normal circumstances) didn’t lead their bulletins every day with ‘John Howard is still Prime Minister today’, but they DO report when there are actual changes/ almost changes/ would-be changes – we try to look for an interesting angle to the large volumes of data that come in.
We have, however, made sure to make 2GB’s wins in recent months more prominent based on feedback such as this.
Apologies, but I don’t quite understand what you’re asking about TV ratings given it doesn’t have FM and AM? We do break down main channels, multi-channels, main channel share and network share, as well as pointing out which station topped the key advertising demographics though.
Thanks,
Vivienne – Mumbrella
bring back the Saturday night 6 pm to 12 pm
music show with pete graham
what a joke Macquarie sports is. found out they have “sports talk” live from the uk overnight. this includes epl fixtures yippee but when commercial breaks come in from the uk, not sure who or what is running the station. before say 2.00am the uk commercials are clipped just as they commence and locals ads are run. however somebody cant communicate when the uk ones finish as when we come out of the local ones the uk ads have finished and they are back into the programme. after 2.00am the local ads cut in half way through the uk run and continue for the full allowable ad time and returns to the uk programme way into its feature. at some random time overnight the person or thing running local ads has gone to sleep or home and no local ads are run allowing the listener to ponder which uk product they wish to purchase but being able to hear the entire uk programme. wonder how much “sports talk” uk is paying them to run their programme cause I hope to hell mcquarie are not paying them
I cannot quite work out why 2GB wins all of the time. I used to listen to George and paul on 2UE but as soon as it went across to 2GB the ads increased by 30%. I like the format and presenters on 2GB but its like they talk for 1 minute and go to a 6 minute ad break. Then they say this ad break was brought to you by….