2FM managed a small increase in their listenership over the year but the underlying figures show that a large tranche of their programmes did not do well. Most interestingly, the slot that ‘took it for the team’ is the one that excelled in the figures – “Breakfast With Hector” adding 12,000 or 10% year on year. In the top thirty, only five programmes managed a 10%+ increase year on year and Hector was one of them! The ‘soldiers of the dawn’ did not desert their Captain, although it looks like the Generals did.It’s no harm in pointing out that there are

Morning Ireland added a few listeners as did John Murray (although absent for a large portion of the survey). In what’s now a very competitive morning slot Séan O’Rourke managed an increase of 6,000 on last year’s figure – but it’s only fair to say that it is down 7,000 on the previous survey (Q3) when he was only a month in the job. When Pat filled that slot he was pulling in around 320/30 thousand. He’s now in Newstalk and could be attracting about 150,000 to 130,000 if the maths are in his favour. This would mean that RTE1 has