Liveline audience was down 8,000 in June when Joe Duffy signed off the airwaves
In May, Duffy
announced his retirement from RTÉ Radio One
, after 37 years at the broadcaster and 27 years at the helm of Liveline.
His
final edition of Liveline was on 27 June and he said it was a 'privilege' to host the show.
Today, the JNLR listenership figures were released for the 12 months to the end of June, around the time Duffy bid farewell to Liveline.
The JNLR survey is conducted among an annual sample of around 16,800 people aged 15 and over.
It uses the 'one-day-aided' recall methodology, whereby the respondent recalls all their listening activity for the day prior.
According to the latest survey, roughly 3.83 million adults are listening to Irish radio every day.
That's a drop from the first quarter of the year, when this figure stood at 3.97 million.
Dublin Fire Brigade with pictured with Joe Duffy as he presents his final farewell show in Studio 1 in RTÉ Radio Centre.
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In the 12 months to March
, Liveline with Joe Duffy had an audience of 307,000.
In the most recent figures in the year to June, this audience dropped by 8,000 to 299,000 listeners.
Elsewhere, both Oliver Callan and RTÉ's flagship Morning Ireland saw slight decreases in listenership, down 1,000 to 354,000 for Callan and down 2,000 to 469,000 for Morning Ireland, which remains Ireland's most-listened-to radio show.
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Meanwhile, it's good news for Brendan O'Connor who sees a sharp increase in his audience.
When compared to the first quarter of the year, the audience for his Saturday show is up 49,000 to 412,000 while his Sunday audience is up 40,000 to 409,000.
Today with Claire Byrne meanwhile is up 6,000 to 354,000.
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RTÉ Radio One has also increased its weekly reach by 25,000 to hit 1.403 million.
Over on RTÉ 2FM, the Breakfast show is down 9,000 listeners to 139,000, Laura Fox has lost 5,000 listeners and has an audience of 122,000, while Drive with Doireann Garrihy is down 8,000 to 125,000.
File image of Doireann Garrihy
It was announced in January that
Garrihy would return to the station after a brief hiatus
.
Bauer network
It's been good news for the Bauer Media Audio Ireland, which includes Today FM and Newstalk, as well as 98FM, SPIN1038, Cork's Red FM, iRadio and Beat.
This radio network has a weekly reach of 2.28 million and a daily reach of 1.56 million.
On Today FM, the Ian Dempsey Show continues to add listeners, up 9,000 to reach a morning audience of 213,000.
Dave Moore has also seen a rise in listeners, up 5,000 when compared to March to an audience of 198,000.
Matt Cooper meanwhile has seen a sharp increase since figures from the first quarter of the year – his audience is up 17,000 to hit 181,000.
Meanwhile, the station as a whole has a weekly audience of 928,000, up 14,000, while its daily reach is 499,000, up 33,000.
Over on Newstalk, The Pat Kenny Show remains the most popular programme on commercial radio, though it is down 8,000 listeners to 216,000.
Newstalk's Pat Kenny
Kieran Cuddihy has added 12,000 listeners to the Hard Shoulder, with an audience of 165,000, while Off The Ball has seen its audience rise by 8,000 to 59,000.
On Off The Ball's weekend offerings, record audiences have been reached, with 158,000 tuning in on Saturday's, an increase of 1,000, while 155,000 listen in on Sunday's, up 9,000.
The Anton Savage Show on Saturday's meanwhile is up 6,000 to an audience of 139,000.
Elsewhere on the Bauer network, 98FM's weekly reach is down slightly to a figure of 195,000, a drop of 2,000, while Cork's Red FM has a weekly reach of 174,000.
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