Kyle and Jackie O topple Ben Fordham in radio ratings
The latest radio ratings for the year have been released – with some surprise winners and losers.
Easy listening music topped conservative commentary for the second consecutive radio ratings survey in the Sydney market with Smoothfm beating Nine’s 2GB in the latest and fifth GfK survey of 2025.
Smoothfm recorded an 11.8 per cent market share (-0.5) to 2GB’s 11.4 (-0.2) across the week.
2GB’s Ben Fordham shed audience to finish behind KIISFM’s Kyle and Jackie O show who had a bumper survey and dominated the Sydney breakfast timeslot with 15.3 share (+1.4).
Fordham was not in disgrace though with a still sizeable 14.2 share (-0.5).
In third place in the timeslot in Sydney was GoldFM101.7’s Brendan Jones and Amanda Keller, the duo shedding 0.8 points in the survey in which they confirmed they’d be moving to drive in 2026 to ake way for their Melbourne counterpart Christian O’Connell. The duo delivered an 8.2 ratings share.
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Smoothfm finished fourth in the breakfast slot with 8.1 (-1.1) and ABC Sydney’s Craig Reucassel in fifth with 7.6 (-0.4).
Nova’s Fitzy, Wippa and Kate slipped to sixth with 7.5 (+0.4) – a result which will only add to speculation the trio will be replaced in the slot in 2026 with Nova’s drive team Tim Blackwell, Joel Creasey and Ricki-Lee Coulter.
Triple M’s Beau, Cat and Woodsy lifting by 0.8 to secure seventh spot with a 5.3 share and 2DAY’s Jimmy and Nath show with Emma was eighth with a 3.9 result (+0.1).
2GB’s Ray Hadley’s replacement Mark Levy also lost top spot to Smoothfm in the morning slot, with a 13.8 (+0.1) to 11.5 (-1.5) share.
ABC Sydney’s mornings host Hamish Macdonald had his first audience hike in three surveys delivering a 5.6 share (+1.0) which returns him to the result he achieved in the first survey of the year.
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At drive on ABC Sydney Chris Bath also picked up 0.9 to deliver a 5.6, a result that has softened due to the absence of afternoons stalwart James Valentine. His understudy James McLoughlin delivered a 4.4 share (+4.0).
Smoothfm dominated the drive slot in Sydney with a 12.2, KIIS was second with 11.4 and Nova’s Ricki-Lee, Tim and Joel took third with 8.3 (+0.2).
In Melbourne, following a 0.5 share point lift, K & J moved into seventh place at breakfast with a 6.0 share behind 3AW’s Ross Stevenson and Russel Howcroft (+2.4 to 19.0), GOLD104.3’s Christian O’Connell (steady at 10.1), Nova’s Jase & Lauren (-0.8 to 10), Fox FM’s Fifi, Fev & Nic (+0.1 to 9), Smooth’s Mike Perso (- 0.1 to 8) and Triple M Melbourne breakfast Mick in the morning with Roo, Titus and Rosie (+0.3 to 7.7).
