So, How Did Triple J's New Breakfast Duo Sally & Erica Fare In Their First Radio Ratings?

Can you believe it's March already? Following the longest January ever recorded (not hyperbole), February just flew by and now it's time for the first radio ratings of the year.

At the end of 2019, triple j saw a major shuffle in its presenting line-up (including the departure of Breakfast hosts Ben & Liam, Mornings host Linda Marigliano, Lunch's Gen Fricker and Hack's Tom Tilley).

That means this survey we'll see how Sally & Erica fared in their new roles at triple j Breakfast and how Adelaide responded to Ben & Liam's move to Nova 91.9.

Triple J Content Director Ollie Wards told The Music he was thrilled with the ratings. 

“We’re beyond stoked to have broken our reach record in the five cities for the second time running, attracting 2.249 million listeners each week," he said.

"This is such a great result for our all new line-up, especially seeing Sally & Erica increasing share on triple j Breakfast with the best result for a new breakfast show to date."

The station also saw a spike in its weekend share across the board on the back on the Hottest 100. 

"The Hottest 100 Weekend has continued to grow exponentially since implementing that format three years ago," Wards said. 

"In addition to this survey’s results, our bespoke survey found that 19% of Australians (or over 3.25 million people) listened to the countdown live on Saturday 25 January. That percentage increased to 29% of Australians aged 18-34." 

Check out the ratings for the period from 19 January to 29 February for each metro area below (click to expand each image) and head here to check out the previous ratings.

Sydney 

KIIS FM's Kyle & Jackie O hold onto their spot as Sydney's #1 FM breakfast team for another ratings period, even with a 1.5% decrease, with a 9.9% market share. WSFM's Jonesy & Amanda remain at #2 in the breakfast ratings with 9.1%, up 0.6% on last period. Nova saw a significant jump for their breakfast show, back to 8.0% (up 1.3%), and Triple M too is climbing back slowly after a substantial loss here last survey (up 0.2%).

Triple J's breakfast show with Sally & Erica saw a drop of 0.3% for a 5.3% market share, with the station also seeing losses in its Morning and Afternoon programs. Elsewhere it jumped a huge 1.8% and 2.0% respectively for its Drive and Evening shows and experienced a 3.4% increase for weekend share.

Melbourne 

Triple J experienced impressive growth across all programs at the end of this period bar Evenings (which dropped 0.4%) with Breakfast up 1.3% (6.0% market share), Mornings up 1.5% (6.2% market share), Afternoons up 0.9% (6.9% market share) and Drive up 0.3% (6.2% market share). Here too they experienced a huge jump in the weekend share, up 3.4%.

Gold FM's Christian O’Connell breakfast show reclaimed its #1 FM spot from Nova's Chrissy, Sam & Browny. O'Connell drew in 9.2% market share (up 1.8%) while Nova's show brought in 8.4% for a 0.1% growth. Triple M saw a decrease of 1.2% to land at 5.8% market share.

Brisbane

Triple J experienced a significant drop in market share pretty much across the board in Brisbane with Breakfast dipping 2.1% to make up 7.4% market share, Mornings down 2.0% (8.9% market share) and Afternoons at 9.3% market share (1.8% drop). Drive remained steady with 9.6% of the market and Evenings jumped up 0.1%. However, the youth broadcaster did experience a massive spike in the overall weekend share, up 3.3%.  

The return of Robin Bailey and Terry Hansen to 97.3 FM’s breakfast line-up with Bob Gallagher saw the station drop 1.1% for a 10.1% market share, which also saw Triple M and Hit105 both jump up 0.4% to tie for first place at 11.4% market share apiece. Nova's show with Ash, Kip, Luttsy & Susie increased 0.9% for an 11% market share.

Perth 

Triple J experienced steady growth in all programs apart from Breakfast which saw a 0.4% dip for 6% market share. Mornings was at 9.6% (up 0.5%), Afternoons at 9.8% (up 0.2%), Drive at 10.4% (up 0.9%) and Evenings at 7.1% (up 1.1%).

Nova's breakfast show with Nathan, Nat & Shaun remained Perth's most popular breakfast program at 15.1%, gaining 1.4%. Mix FM dropped to #4 with a 3.9% loss meaning 96FM skipped up 2.7% for 13.3% market share and HIT92.9 came in third with 9.6% market share.

Adelaide

Mix FM's Jodie & Soda remain #1 in the Adelaide FM breakfast market, with a total 11.6% market share, despite a 0.5% loss. Nova's new breakfast program with former triple j hosts Ben & Liam remained at #2 with 9.9% also suffering a loss (0.2%). Triple M too suffered a significant 2.1% loss for 6.6% market share.

Triple J is up across the board in Adelaide with a 0.8% increase for Breakfast (total 7.1%). Mornings and Afternoons are up 1.9% and 1.3% respectively while Drive is also up 1.3% for an 8.2% total and Evenings increased 1.0% for a 4.5% market share.