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Soofia Tariq

MIX 106.3 holds on as top Canberra radio station

Canberrans are continuing to wake up with MIX 106.3 presenters Kristen Davidson and Nige Johnson, with the radio station taking out number one spot in the breakfast, morning, afternoon, drive and weekend time slots. Picture by Dion Georgopoulos

MIX 106.3 is still Canberra's favourite radio station, according to the GfK radio ratings survey for 2022 released on Thursday.

Ratings showed MIX 106.3 remained the most listened to station between 5:30am and 12am, despite HIT 104.7 receiving more new listeners.

The survey was conducted between Sunday, April 24 to Saturday, June 18, and Sunday, July 17 to Saturday, September 10.

MIX 106.3 held the largest market share at 21.9 per cent, a 0.5 per cent increase from the last survey, followed by HIT 104.7 which held a 15 per cent market share of listeners, a 0.8 per cent increase from the previous survey.

The radio station also took out number one rankings in the breakfast, morning, afternoon, drive and weekend time slots, while ABC Canberra took out number one in the evening time time slot.

ABC Canberra came in third in overall market share of Canberra listeners at 11.2 per cent, despite a 1.6 per cent decrease in listeners from the last release of ratings, which was the biggest drop among all radio stations.

This was followed by 2RN with 9.6 per cent of total market share, ABC Classic with 8.9 per cent, 2JJJ with 8.4 per cent, 2CA with 6.1 per cent, 2CC with 4.8 per cent and lastly ABC News Radio with 4.0 per cent.

ABC Classic also experienced the biggest uptick in listeners, with a 2.2 per cent increase.

MIX 106.3's main audience was 40 to 54 year olds while the ABC Canberra's largest demographic was people over 65 and HIT 104.7 was most popular with 18 to 24 year olds.

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