The Pat Kenny Show remains the most listened-to show on Irish commercial radio, according to the latest JNLR figures.
The show welcomed some 241,000 listeners every day in the year to September.
Meanwhile, Newstalk has increased its national market share once again to 8.5% of Irish listeners.
Some 861,000 people tune into the station each week, a figure that is up 39,000 year-on-year.
It comes at a time when 3.8 million adults are tuning into Irish radio every week.
Shane Coleman and Ciara Kelly. Image: NewstalkThe station has also retained its status as the country’s second most-listened-to station, with 514,000 daily listeners.
Elsewhere across the schedule, Newstalk Breakfast with Ciara Kelly and Shane Coleman welcomed 168,000 listeners every day across the year.
Meanwhile, Andrea Gilligan’s Lunchtime Live continued to prove popular, with 134,000 listeners every day.
Pat Kenny. Image: NewstalkThe station’s flagship weekend programme The Anton Savage Show is especially popular on Sundays with an increased audience of 125,000 listeners – up 7,000 Book-on-Book.
Off the Ball Sunday increased its audience by 5,000, with 116,000 listeners tuning in every Sunday.
Down to Business with Bobby Kerr also performed well, increasing its audience share to 123,000.
Newstalk Deputy Managing Editor Mark Simpson said: “We’re happy to see that Newstalk remains the most listened to daily talk station of choice for 20 to 44-year-olds in Ireland, a real indication that our strategy of delivering a broad range of engaging, informative and compelling conversations that reflect what our audience are talking about, is working.”
“The Pat Kenny Show remains the No 1 commercial show on Irish radio and we are delighted that Pat leads our team into the busy election period ahead as one of the country’s most respected and trusted broadcasters.”
Mr Simpson said the station is “hugely encouraged” to see further growth in its weekend audience.
“Our success is down to an incredibly passionate and enthusiastic team of people who work tirelessly to provide hours of content - and company - to our listeners every single day,” he said.
Here are the key figures for Newstalk’s weekday shows:
- Newstalk Breakfast | 168,000 Listeners
- The Pat Kenny Show |241,000 Listeners
- Lunchtime Live | 134,000 Listeners
- Moncrieff | 105,000 Listeners
- The Hard Shoulder | 152,000 Listeners
- Off The Ball | 53,000 Listeners
- Tom Dunne | 13,000 Listeners
Weekend – Saturday
- The Home Show | 45,000 Listeners
- Anton Savage Show Saturday |132,000 Listeners
- Down To Business | 123,000 Listeners
- Off the Ball Saturday | 142,000 Listeners
- Tech Talk | 43,000 Listeners
- Screentime | 24,000 Listeners
Newstalk Weekends – Sunday
- Alive and Kicking | 32,000 Listeners
- Taking Stock | 77,000 Listeners
- Anton Savage Show Sunday | 125,000 Listeners
- Futureproof | 70,000 Listeners
- Off the Ball Sunday | 116,000 Listeners
- Talking History | 20,000 Listeners
