Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Aunti's Up but Triple M falls even further

Adam Spencer could very soon be Number 1 in Sydney Breakfast as he reached his highest ratings in Survey 4, commanding 12.2% of the Breakfast audience (+2%) while Breakfast King Alan Jones dropped to 13.8%. No longer is daylight the closest challenger of Jones but Spencer could realistically defeat Jones.

ABC 702 would be very happy with Spencer’s success after the Breakfast Show suffered after Angela Catterns retirement and then Julie McRossin’s sudden withdrawal left the ABC to gamble on Spencer who has re-invigorated the breakfast show.

Not for Spencer’s former Triple J co-host’s Wil Anderson’s station, Triple M which had a further drop in audience numbers. Despite Wil and Lehmo’s drive show picking up audience numbers, The Shebang dropped to 4.5% (again below 2CH) as Vega 95.3 close in on Triple M. The station overall fell to 5.8%.

2UE (6.6%) also shed 0.5% losing audience numbers across all slots expect weekends which remain unchanged and 2GB (11.6%) while still Number 1 in Sydney dropped 0.4% overall accept Afternoons and Drive increased their numbers. 702 (10.7% ) audience has grown by 1.7% propelling the station into Number 2 behind 2GB.

Nova (8.6%) remained unchanged as Merrick & Rosso & Kate Rithcie (8.7% ) increased slightly by 0.5% whilst rival 2DAYFM (10.2%) dropped 1.2% with Kyle and Jackie O (10.3%) losing 0.8%.

The Todd McKenny scandal increased Mix’s Breakfast ratings by 0.1% while Vega grew 0.7%. Meanwhile WSFM’s strong ratings performance last survey dipped slightly with the station shedding 1% to now read 7.5%.

So will any regular presenters be told that there is no need for them to front for work on Monday?

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