The average Brit now listens to 21.3 hours of radio each week, nearly as many hours they spend watching TV, new figures for the third quarter of 2016 reveal.
Radio Joint Audience Research (RAJAR), the organisation which monitors radio UK consumption, reports that an additional 320,000 adults are tuning in each week compared to the same time last year.
Total listening hours now rival the amount of time we spend watching TV, currently at around 23.1 hours per week.
The report also states that 89 percent of the overall population listen to radio each week, with 59 percent opting for digital radio.
More than one in four (26.5 percent) now listen via a phone or tablet at least once a month, up from less than 15 percent three years ago.
Elsewhere, RAJAR also states that the BBC and commercial stations are nearly neck and neck, with 34.8 million listeners tuning into the corporation and 34.7 million choosing commercial stations.
For more stats, see the infographic below:
Radio Joint Audience Research (RAJAR), the organisation which monitors radio UK consumption, reports that an additional 320,000 adults are tuning in each week compared to the same time last year.
Total listening hours now rival the amount of time we spend watching TV, currently at around 23.1 hours per week.
The report also states that 89 percent of the overall population listen to radio each week, with 59 percent opting for digital radio.
More than one in four (26.5 percent) now listen via a phone or tablet at least once a month, up from less than 15 percent three years ago.
Elsewhere, RAJAR also states that the BBC and commercial stations are nearly neck and neck, with 34.8 million listeners tuning into the corporation and 34.7 million choosing commercial stations.
For more stats, see the infographic below:
