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GB News Radio Jumps 25% in Q3 RAJAR to Overtake Times Radio in Weekly Reach

RAJAR's Q3 2025 report shows BBC Radio 2 still draws the largest audience at roughly 12.79 million listeners.

Overview

  • GB News Radio's weekly reach rose to 684,000 in Q3 2025, up 25% quarter on quarter and its highest since launching on radio in 2022.
  • The gain put it ahead of Times Radio's 564,000 weekly reach for the quarter, with Times down 8.4% on the quarter and up about 1% year on year; GB News promoted the figures as making it "Britain's fastest-growing" station.
  • Total listening hours for GB News Radio climbed 60% to 4.9 million, and average hours per listener rose 29% to 7.1, though Times Radio (8.5) and Talk (9.9) recorded higher average-hours metrics.
  • At breakfast, Times Radio (295,000) and Talk (282,000) still led GB News Radio (267,000), even as GB News's breakfast audience rebounded 40% from the previous quarter.
  • BBC Radio 2 remained the UK's largest station with about 12.79 million weekly listeners in Q3, and Radio 4's Today programme slipped 2.7% to roughly 5.5 million.