The big winner in the newly published Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR) figures is Today FM’s Ian Dempsey, who has seen a surge of 20,000 to bring his audience to 180,000. In fact, all of Today FM’s main daily shows saw increases. At RTÉ Radio One, the figures are almost as buoyant, particularly for two of its two main news programmes. Both Morning Ireland and News at One are up 16,000 — Morning Ireland now has 439,000 listeners and News at One has 343,000. The battle of the mid-morning shows in Cork City between PJ Coogan at 96FM and Neil Prendeville at Red FM remains tight.

Source: Irish Examiner February 08, 2019 05:03 UTC