The Australian metropolitan radio ratings survey 4 results are in. Highlights include:
+ In Brisbane, it's Nova, Triple M, 97.3FM and 612 ABC overall, and Nova, 612ABC, Triple M, 4BC and 4KQ in breakfast. The biggest gainer in the cornflakes shift was 612's Spencer Howson, who added more than 3 percentage points to rebound from a shocker of a survey last time.
+ Things are not looking bright for the B105 breakfast show, with Labrat, Camilla and Stav now at the bottom of the commercial + metro ABC pile. They now have less than half the rating figure garnered by the networked Hamish and Andy show in the B105 drive slot and are, arguably, dragging the station down. (Sorry guys, but that's the only way I can see to read the numbers.)
+ In Sydney, 2GB still leads the way, but the pack is narrowing and all the majors suffered declines (except Nova, which lifted slightly in breakfast, possibly thanks to Kate Ritchie's Logies win). Alan Jones still leads the pack in breakfast, but ABC702's Adam Spencer has leap-frogged 2Day's overexposed Kyle and Jackie O to claim second spot.
+ Sonia Kruger and Todd McKenney on Sydney's Mix 106.5 had a 0.1 percent rise, which - if it were statistically significant - might be attributed to publicity surrounding McKenney's arrest for drug possession, his stoush with Channel 9 and the brief suspension of executive producer Brenden Wood.
Stay tuned for more details.
Disclosure: Brett Debritz is occasionally heard on the Spencer Howson show on 612ABC and, for various reasons, is no longer heard on the breakfast shows on 4BC and B105 (although he was when they were both getting higher ratings. Coincidence? You be the judge!)