SURVEY SIX HAS LANDED: HERE’S EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OUR PERFORMANCE
“NOVA Entertainment's brands continue to deliver excellent results across the country, with Survey 6 consolidating NOVA's leadership position across broadcast and streaming. Our teams remain focused on further growing audiences, delivering results for our commercial partners and growing the market with optimism and ambition.”
NOVA Entertainment CEO, Peter Charlton
For our 24th consecutive survey, NOVA Entertainment has held onto the title of Australia’s biggest metro radio audience (across broadcast, streaming, and DAB+), with over 6.5m P10+ consistently choosing to make our stations a staple in their daily routine.
BREAKING NEWS (AND RECORDS): Smooth FM 95.3 has continues to hold the title of AUSTRALIA’S MOST POPULAR STATION (CUME 1.45m) and is SYDNEY’s #1 STATION (13.2%) for SEVEN CONSECUTIVE SURVEYS.
POWER COUPLE ALERT: Thanks to the combined power of Nova and Smooth FM, NOVA Entertainment once again has more listeners across the key markets of Melbourne and Sydney than any other network. In fact, across these two commercially critical markets, we are:
#1 CUME & share for P10+, with an audience of 4.53m (576,000 ahead of our nearest competitor).
#1 CUME & share for P25-54, with an audience of 2.43m (375,000 ahead of our nearest competitor).
HERE’S WHAT ELSE STAYED THE SAME THIS SURVEY (because we’re nothing if not consistent):
Smooth 95.3’s More Music Breakfast Show with Bogart Torelli is SYDNEY’S #1 FM BREAKFAST SHOW, with a share of 11.8% and 751,000 listeners.
Not to be outdone in Melbourne, Smooth FM 91.5 is also holding firm as the #2FM STATION IN MELBOURNE, with a 10.4% share (0.1% behind our closest competitor, Gold).
Smooth Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth continue to be the #1 DAB NETWORK in each market.
Coles Radio remains the country’s #1 DAB+ NETWORK.
Nova continues to be AUSTRALIA’S MOST POPULAR NETWORK for both 10+ (CUME: 4.13m) and 25-54 (CUME: 2.38m).
Nova is still home to AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST BREAKFAST: 2.27m Australians choose to start their day with Nova. That’s 200,000+ more breakfast listeners than our nearest competitor.
Nova’s national drive show, Fitzy, Wippa & Kate, continues its reign as AUSTRALIA’S #1 DRIVE SHOW (4pm-6pm) with a share of 10.8% and 1.32 million listeners.
Nova 100’s Jase, Lauren & Clint held onto the top sport as MELBOURNE’S MOST POPULAR BREAKFAST SHOW, with 620,000 loyal listeners (for the 19th survey in a row, no less).
Nova 969’s Ricki-Lee and Tim is once again SYDNEY’S #2 MOST POPULAR FM BREAKFAST SHOW (behind Bogart), with 675,000 listeners and counting.
Nova 91.9 continues to increase its lead as ADELAIDE’S MOST POPULAR STATION (CUME: 349,000), with Jodie & Hayesy maintaining the title of ADELAIDE’S MOST POPULAR BREAKFAST SHOW (CUME: 198,000) and growing their share to 12.2%.
Nova 93.7 extends its lead as PERTH’S #1 STATION (Share: 18.3%, CUME: 692,000), with Nathan, Nat & Shaun securing their 57th survey as PERTH’S #1 BREAKFAST SHOW (Share: 18.3%, CUME: 418,000).
…and in some exciting news:
The Joel Creasey Show is AUSTRALIA’S MOST POPULAR LUNCHTIME SHOW, with 773,000 listeners.
FIVEAA is Adelaide’s #1 AM STATION, with David & Will with Stacey Lee now on top as ADELAIDE'S #1 AM BREAKFAST SHOW.
Source: GfK Radio360 Ratings Survey 6 2026, Total Radio SMBAP. Network Results based on 5 cap cities. Share & Cume vs. The Hit Network, Classic Hits Network, Triple M, Mix/Kiis/96 Network. Cume (000s) incl DAB+, Mon-Sun 530am -12mn, AP 10+, P25-54.