Listenership down for RTÉ Radio 1 9am weekday slot, but there are strong weekend gains

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The most recent book-on-book figures include the first three months of Oliver Callan's official tenure on the morning show, the last three months of Ryan Tubridy's incumbency and the six months in between that saw a rotating roster of hosts fill the seat.

However, Oliver Callan is the third most-listened-to show in the country with 330,000 listeners each weekday.

Book-on-book is a comparison of the average listenership for programmes across the four previous quarters (three-month periods).

Oliver Callan is on RTÉ Radio 1, 9am, Monday - Friday
Louise Duffy continues to delight the midday audience during the week

Today with Claire Byrne remains steady at 341,000, The Louise Duffy Show is up 4,000 to 218,000 while News at One is down 5,000 to 301,000 book-on-book.

Liveline is slightly down by 2,000 to 301,000, The Ray D'Arcy Show has 181,000 listeners, which is down 5,000 while Drivetime is at 220,000, which is down 1,000.

Colm Ó Mongáin has gained 20,000 new listeners

On Saturdays, Countrywide is up 21,000 to 255,000, Playback is up 9,000 to 339,000, The Business is up 11,000 to 324,000, Saturday with Colm Ó Mongáin is up 20,000 to 242,000 and Saturday Sport/Doc on One is up 9,000 to 213,000.

On weekends, 352,000 listeners tune in to Brendan O'Connor on Saturdays, which is a gain of 10,000 since the last round of figures were released.

Sundays are just as strong with an extra 13,000 listening to Sunday Miscellany, which is an average of 321,000. Sunday with Miriam has jumped by 12,000 listeners to 304,000 and Sunday Sport has 213,000 people tuning in, which is up 3,000.

Miriam O'Callaghan's audience has grown by 12,000

Brendan O'Connor is up by 12,000 to 355,000, making the Sunday instalment of his show the second most-listened-to show in the country.

Over on 2FM, Breakfast with Doireann, Donncha and Carl and The Jennifer Zamparelli Show are down slightly this book, 3,000 to 143,000 and 1,000 to 135,000, respectively.

121,000 tune in to The Tracy Clifford Show on 2FM each weekday

The Tracy Clifford Show has gained 8,000 to 121,000 and Drive It with The 2 Johnnies is up 1,000 to 151,000.

At the weekend, Laura Fox is up 8,000 to 129,000 on Saturdays and by 5,000 to 120,000 on Sundays. Roz and Emma are down 2,000 to 124,000 on Saturdays and 8,000 to 97,000 on Sundays.

"Doireann leaves 2FM Breakfast in great shape, and Laura Fox continues to grow her show across weekends. It is great to have an exceptionally talented team both on and off air and I am confident that 2FM will continue to perform well for the rest of the year."

Dan Healy says Doireann Garrihy leaves 2FM's breakfast show "in great shape"

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