This year DAB Digital Radio’s had more ups and downs than the Great Wall of China. Well, the industry has, meanwhile listeners are still buying the radios (7m of them) and listening more and more (DAB listening accounts for around 11% of all radio listening). It’s nice, however, to see some good news this afternoon [...]

The first is audience. 90% of the UK’s population listen to the radio each week for 1billion hours in total. This is an amazing figure, something we should be more proud of, but also recognise that it’s something that’s unlikely to go up. It is difficult to actually cram any more radio into people’s ears. [...]