RAJAR Q1 2010: Capital's Johnny and Lisa still top dogs in London

LONDON - Global Radio scored a double in today's Rajar audience measurement results, taking both first and second place in the hotly contested battle of the London breakfast shows.

RAJAR Q1 2010: Capital's Johnny and Lisa still top dogs in London

Capital Radio’s Johnny Vaughan and Lisa Snowdon retained their position as number one breakfast show with 1.162m up 9% year-on-year.

Vaughan said: "Lisa and I are thrilled to receive such outstanding recognition for the show. We look forward to continuing to offer the most exciting wake-up call across London!"

Heart London also stamped its mark on the Capital with 1.885m weekly listeners. The Heart breakfast show polled second place in the Capital with Jamie Theakston and Harriet Scott recording 798,000 listeners.

Capital remained the number one commercial station, taking a market share of 6%, of up from 4.9% in the previous quarter and 4.7% year on year.

Magic took second prize in market share with 5.9% of the market, but this had dropped from 6.1% the previous quarter but was slightly up from 5.7% year-on-year. Global Radio's speech station LBC 97.3 took the third place rosette with a 5.1% share, which had dropped from 5.7% the previous quarter but up from 4.4% year on year.

The station expanded its weekly reach weekly reach from 841,000 to 878,000 quarter by quarter and was up from 841,705 year on year.

Heart took fourth place in market share with 4.7% of the audience, down from 5.3% the previous quarter and 5.9% year on year.

Richard Park, director of broadcasting at Global Radio, said: "These Rajars continue to prove our strategy of building Heart as a national brand, delivered locally, is working, and what we are doing is being appreciated by listeners across the UK. Overall it's a great local and national story for Global Radio."

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