Some 786,000 Irish people tune into Newstalk every week, today’s JNLR results have revealed. 

Every week, 3.7 million adults tune into the radio and Newstalk retains a 7% prime-time market share nationally - rising to 10.5% in Dublin. 

The Pat Kenny Show remains the station’s most popular programme with 174,000 listeners, while The Hard Shoulder is in second place with 152,000 listeners.

Newstalk Breakfast increased its listenership by 8,000 to 149,000 and a record 98,000 people now tune into Moncrieff - up 11,000 in the space of a year. 

'The voice of a new generation'

“We are delighted to be the talk station of choice for 786,000 listeners every week and to continue to be the voice of a new generation of talk listeners in Ireland,” Newstalk Managing Editor Patricia Monahan said. 

“We are particularly pleased to see Moncrieff with Sean Moncrieff and The Anton Savage show reach all-time highs in this book and look forward to continuing to attract new audiences in the coming months.”

The data was sourced by JNLR/Ipsos between April 2022 and March 2023.