{"id":12936,"date":"2026-08-06T00:15:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T00:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=12936"},"modified":"2026-08-06T00:15:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T00:15:56","slug":"stv-radio-first-audience-figures-beat-expectations-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=12936","title":{"rendered":"STV Radio first audience figures beat expectations \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>Amy Macdonald: guest<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">STV Radio, Scotland\u2019s newest and only national commercial radio station, has recorded a strong debut in its first official audience figures since its launch in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The station is attracting 139,000 weekly listeners, making it one of the top ten most-listened-to commercial radio stations in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">According to the latest RAJAR results for the station\u2019s first six months on air, listeners are spending over 9.3 hours with the station each week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The target age group \u2013 over 35s \u2013 accounts for a significant proportion of listeners (84%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It has welcomed guests such as musicians\u00a0KT Tunstall,\u00a0Amy Macdonald,\u00a0Marti Pellow,\u00a0Susan Boyle\u00a0and\u00a0Hue and Cry, as well as actors\u00a0Richard Gadd\u00a0and\u00a0Peter Capaldi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday afternoon programme,\u00a0The STV Radio Football Show, featuring Ewen Cameron and STV sport presenter\u00a0Ronnie Charters, has launched of a spin-off podcast, a new peak-time show on STV, STV Player and YouTube, as well as a live sell-out show from Glasgow\u2019s \u00d2ran M\u00f3r.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The station has attracted a range of advertisers, many of whom already advertise with broadcaster and streamer STV, and others that are new to the company. <\/p>\n<p>Graham Bryce: building loyalty<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Social media channels are attracting a growing audience of engaged users, with STV Radio channels (Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok and YouTube) delivering almost 20m video views and 1.5m engagements since launch; and\u00a0The STV Radio Football Podcast\u00a0amassing 21m video views across socials (X, Instagram and TikTok).<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Graham Bryce, managing of STV Radio said:\u00a0\u201cAs a new entrant, STV Radio has quickly established itself in the market and these first official figures are well ahead of our expectations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn just six months, we\u2019ve built a meaningful audience by offering something genuinely different for Scottish listeners \u2013 a strong mix of great music, personality-led programming, entertainment, sport and a distinctly Scottish perspective.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAudiences aren\u2019t just sampling STV Radio \u2013 they\u2019re spending time with us and making us part of their daily routine, spending over 9 hours per week. That tells us we\u2019re not only attracting audiences; we\u2019re building loyalty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Daily Business Bulletin:\u00a0Subscribe here for our morning bulletin of breaking news<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #STV #Radio #audience #figures #beat #expectations #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Macdonald: guest STV Radio, Scotland\u2019s newest and only national commercial radio station, has recorded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[6677,1659,272,306,651,1838,3266,2870,3265],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}