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EAR > Global Radio - September–October 2025

More than 10 million daily listeners on digital digital A signal is said to be digital if it can be represented by a series of discrete values that can be coded in binary as either 0 or 1. It is the opposite of analogue signal. Digital broadcasting has become the primary mode for television broadcasting, whether by cable, satellite, or even terrestrial. Find out more media, an increase of nearly 500,000 listeners in one year

Every day, 36.8 million French people aged 13 and older listen to the radio. This audience audience The set of listeners, viewers, or TV viewers in which each individual is equally weighted, regardless of their listening/viewing duration or frequency of contact. Find out more , measured in the EAR > National survey survey A statistical method that aims to produce information about a population by interviewing part of the population (sample). This word is generally used to mean a survey conducted on a sample that have been interviewed using a questionnaire or else systematically observed. Find out more , takes into account all listening mediums, including both radio-specific devices and digital devices.

The EAR > Global Radio module analyzes digital radio listening behavior.

 

Every day, 10.3 million people listen to the radio on digital media, representing 18.2% of the population population The universe of a survey composed of basic statistical units. These units may be physical persons, households, companies, municipalities, etc. The population serves as a sampling frame for selecting a sample, and as a basis for calculation of the extrapolations from the sample. Find out more aged 13 and older. In one year, radio has gained 473,000 daily listeners on these mediums.

This growth in radio listening on digital platforms is driven by mobile phones, which account for 6.7 million daily users. Among other mediums, Voice-controlled Speakers attract 1.6 million listeners every day, still outpacing computers, which are used by 1.2 million listeners.

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Listening to the radio on digital digital A signal is said to be digital if it can be represented by a series of discrete values that can be coded in binary as either 0 or 1. It is the opposite of analogue signal. Digital broadcasting has become the primary mode for television broadcasting, whether by cable, satellite, or even terrestrial. Find out more devices continues to be particularly popular among 35- to 59-year-olds (23% of them listen to the radio every day on digital devices, up 1.2 percentage points in one year), Upper SPG categories Upper SPG categories This term describes business owners, artisans and merchants, executives, upper-level intellectual professions and intermediate professions. Find out more (25%, up 0.8 percentage points), and residents of the Île-de-France region region Geographic division. Mainland France is organised into 13 administrative regions (INSEE regions - there were previously 22 regions). Find out more (22.8%, up 1.9 percentage points). Listening to the radio on digital media is attracting an increasingly broad audience audience The set of listeners, viewers, or TV viewers in which each individual is equally weighted, regardless of their listening/viewing duration or frequency of contact. Find out more : 15.2% of those aged 60 and older are regular listeners, a figure up 1.1 percentage points in one year.

Digital radio listeners spend an average average The average is one of the most important statistical indicators for a set of numbers. By default, it is the arithmetic mean, calculated by adding the values in the set and then dividing that sum by the number of values. Find out more of 2 hours and 31 minutes listening to the radio on these media, which is longer than the average time spent listening of radio listeners using dedicated devices (2 hours and 30 minutes).

In total, these 10.3 million digital listeners account for 25.5% of total radio listening time, compared to 23.6% last year.

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