Radio's 2025 winners and losers

Radio's 2025 winners and losers

If there was one unifying theme across Australia’s 2025 radio ratings, it was this: habit beats hype. From Sydney to Perth, the winners were stations that knew exactly who they were and stuck to it, while brands chasing reinvention or short-term spikes struggled to convert flashes of momentum into year-long gains. Talk continued to punch above its weight – 2GB in Sydney and 3AW in Melbourne proved that fewer listeners, listening longer, still wi…