Spotlighting the cumulative figures.
 

The Edge Digital remains at the top of the Sydney market despite dropping 14,000 listeners in the second survey of the year.
 
The Edge (84,000) leads MMM Greatest Hits (70,000), Coles Radio (64,000) and Urban Hits (61,000).
 
MMM Classic Rock shed almost half it’s audience, down 45,000 to 49,000 listeners.
 

Very little change in the latest GFK survey to come out the Gold Coast.
 

The latest Category report released by GfK and CRA looks at the listening habits of Parents, with 2.4 million, or 4 out of 5 parents listening to commercial radio each week

Other Key Insights include:

The latest Radio Insights research (previously known as AudienScope) shows that listeners consume rado just as much in summer as at other times of the year.

The holiday season does not diminish radio listening, according to the national online survey of behaviour which provides context and additional perspective to the Australian radio ratings.

The research is released quarterly and involves 5,000 respondents per year.

On survey days it is customary for GfK to inform stations of their results well before the media publishes them.
 
Yet, when the Newcastle survey was released last week that courtesy was, allegedly, not extended to the Super Network stations in that market. 
 
2HD and NEWFM had to wait until the media embargo was lifted at 9:30 am to read their results in radioinfo.
 

At Friday's Radio Alive conference in Melbourne, CRA and GfK have announced a world-first super pilot that will begin in the first half of 2019.

Results for radio ratings survey 6 have just been released.

In Sydney, 2GB surged ahead during this footy finals survey and the fallout from then leadership spill. Brisbane has a new market leader as Nova springs back to top position.