Regional radio surveys will resume in 2021 following a hiatus last year with the results for the Western Australian city of Geraldton to be the first to be released on March 9. 
 
25 surveys are  planned for the year with other major centres to be surveyed this year to include Hobart, Darwin, Townsville, Gosford, Sunshine Coast, Toowoomba and Shepparton.
 

UPDATED: first survey of 2019 - results here.

Now that the final radio ratings survey results for 2018 have been released, stations will finally wind down for the Christmas break.

After the holiday break, it won't be long before stations are back into survey mode.

The first metro survey for 2019 goes into the field on January 20th and runs until March 2nd. Results will be released on Tuesday March 12th.

The Gold Coast will be in survey from January 27th.

The NZ Radio industry has released survey dates for 2017.

New Zealand changed over to GfK surveys in mid 2015, conducting one survey that year and three in 2016. See those results here.

There will be four surveys this year.

GfK releases results in two areas, NZ Total Market and Major Markets. Cities surveyed are:

Our analysis of Survey 5 results by network and cities.

See the raw figures here and spin cycle here.

Networks

Nova Entertainment

In a largely volatile survey which treated FM stations badly, smoothfm was once again the shining success for Nova Entertainment with both their Sydney and Melbourne units gained ground while other FM stations lost it.

The results are in and so is the Spin from station Marketing and PR departments.

See it all below, refresh this page to get the latest releases as they are received.

The results for the second last survey of the year are below.

There were more significant falls than rises in Sydney and Melbourne. In Sydney 2GB retained top spot, while K&Y overtook stablemates J&A for the FM breakfast lead. In Mebourne top station 3AW lost share but remained top ahead of ABC774, which closed the gap. 

In Brisbane ABC891 had the biggest fall. In Adelaide Triple J rose well and the new name for SAFM, Hit 107 was used for the first time, with Hit falling fractionally. In Perth, 96fm and 6PR both recorded significant drops.

Last week Kyle and Jackie O teamed up with Channel 7’s Home and Away stars for their first listener event since joining KIIS.
 
Over 100 listeners were given the chance to party with the radio hosts at Sydney’s Ivy Penthouse ahead of survey results out tomorrow which will finally reveal listeners' response to the pair’s station hop announced last year.  
 
Check out all the pics from the exclusive party here.