The latest numbers from the radio industry’s most recent audience survey – that is, from the quarter ending in December 2008 – show a hiccup in listening to digital radio. But the decline is small and concern in the industry is largely non-existent.
Total listening to digital radio is down by 0.5% quarter on quarter. A fall-off in listening to radio on the internet is being blamed for the reversal in digital radio’s popularity which has shown consistent, if slow, growth.
Listening to radio via the internet represents about 2% of all radio listening, a marginal drop from the previous quarter. Listening via digital TV remained the same (3.2%) as the previous quarter.
Listening on DAB grew by 0.1%.
For more information http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/29/digital-radio-listening-falls

Two big radio personalities in the north-west have died. Liverpool’s Phil Easton was 59 and Manchester’s Tim Grundy was 50.
Easton, who died at home of a brain tumour, had worked in radio for 30 years, almost all of them on Merseyside. He’d been fronting the breakfast show on City Talk. He had made his name at Radio City before moving to Magic.
Tim Grundy was a member of a well-known broadcasting family. A former Piccadilly Radio breakfast show front man, he was the son of TV journalist Bill Grundy and brother of veteran radio boss, Tony Grundy.
Tim was also a well-known radio and TV producer.