Nielsen Media Research is the official contractor for radio audience surveys in all markets throughout Australia, providing detailed listening data for radio stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, eight times per year. Regular surveys are also conducted in numerous regional markets.

Commercial Radio Australia Limited, (www.commercialradio.com.au), currently administers the radio ratings contract on behalf of all commercial radio stations, and assists in the continued improvement of the research program and the audit of the survey methodology. Considered to be the most advanced of its kind anywhere in the world, Nielsen Media Research's diary system is based on personally-placed and collected diaries, which record seven day, quarter hour listening by pre-listed stations.

Radio Gateway

Current subscribers to the Nielsen Media Research Radio Ratings and Radio Advisor software can download data files for Radio Advisor through the Gateway service.Click Here to access this data. Please note you will need your login ID and password.

Radio Audience Surveys 2007

Please see below for latest survey results (Metropolitan and regional), access to past surveys and the 2007 metropolitan release timetable. All results are in PDF format requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader.