Talk radio shines as 2GB grow thanks to the Olympics, even without Alan Jones

Jason Morrisson (15.7%) has continued to grow Alan Jones audience (up 1.1%) whilst Jones has been absent battling prostate cancer. Thanks to the Olympics, 2GB remain Sydney’s Number 1 radio station with 13.4% of the commercial share with 2DAYFM (12.1%) second, up 1.3%.

ABC 702 (9.0%) held onto third despite dropping 1.6% to be just ahead of NOVA (8.6%) and 2UE (7.3%).

Triple M (5.2%) continued to head southwards (down 0.4%) and VEGA (4.4%) decided to join them (down 0.9%) for this survey as the trend was reversed for WSFM (6.7%) who grew by 1.3% and MIX (7.0%) who increased 0.2%.

Tony, Bec and Mikey on VEGA’s Breakfast is in trouble with only 3.4% of the share while Mix Mornings with Sonia and Todd are performing as poorly as the all ready axed Shebang, both 4.7%, so is the writing on the wall for Sonia and Todd?

2DAY FM’s Kyle and Jackie O (12.1%) held onto second in breakfast followed by ABC 702’s Adam Spencer (10.2%), NOVA’s Merrick and Rosso and Kate Ritchie (9.7%) and 2UE’s Mike and Sandy (7.3%).

Drive was all 2DAYFM’s Hamish and Andy (15.9%) with ABC 702’s Richard Glover (9.9%) second. NOVA’s The Wrong Way Home (8.8%), 2GB’s Phillip Clark (8.7%) and MIX 106.5’s Lars Peterson (8.2%) also did well.

Nights were understandably belonging to 2GB (18.1%) with the coverage of the Olympics followed by the Love God, Richard Mercer (9%) on MIX and 2UE’s Stuart Bocking (8.5%).

With Alan Jones back to work on Tuesday morning it will be business as usual for 2GB who continue to dominate the Sydney Radio Market while 2DAY FM continue to ‘own’ the FM band.

Blanda's Back

Sydney’s best commercial news reader Steve Blanda has returned to 2UE this morning after not being heard since the start of June.

Replacement Robert Spicer did a very good job filling the void but it's good to hear Blanda's voice again and, to even see his face.

He returns the morning before the latest Nielsen Media Radio Ratings are set to be released at 10AM tomorrow morning.

Has Jason Morrison been able to hold Alan Jones' audience at 2GB or will we see a new King of Sydney Breakfast radio, 702's Adam Spencer may now be Sydney's most popular breakfast presenter?

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?