Mobile surveying platform, Geopoll, in its latest survey, revealed the radio shows that most Kenyans listen to in the morning ranking Classic 105 FM's Maina and King'ang'i Show 4th.
According to the Radio and TV Audience Ratings Report for the period between October and December 2017, most Kenyans are tuned to Radio Citizen's morning show (Jambo Kenya) between 6 am to 10 am.
Radio Maisha's morning show hosted by Alex Mwakideu and Nick Odhiambo comes in as the second most popular while GidiNaGhostAsubuhi on Radio Jambo is third.
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Maina and King'angi's show is fourth in the quarterly ranking.
"Radio listeners in Kenya tend to spend most of their time listening to Radio Citizen throughout the day. It attains its peak of the audience between 4-6PM with an average of 5.3. Radio Maisha is the second in ratings throughout the day.
"There is a stiff competition for the 3rd position in ratings between Jambo, Inooro which is a vernacular radio station and Kiss FM. Kiss FM being an English station continues to perform among the top 5 competing with Kiswahili stations that have traditionally dominated," the reports reads in part.
Radio Citizen also leads in the audience share with 15 percent countrywide followed by Radio Maisha with an audience share of 12 percent.
Radio Jambo and Kiss Fm both have 7 percent while Classic FM rounds off the top five with 6 percent audience share.
Others stations which feature in the list of the top stations include Milele FM, vernacular stations Inooro, Kameme and Ramogi FM with Radio Taifa coming in 10th.
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The report further ranks the top 10 TV stations in Kenya during peak hours between 7 PM to 9:30 PM.
"Citizen TV has the most viewership during peak hours having its peak being spotted around 9 PM which is the news hour with an average of 9.2. There is a stiff competition between KTN and NTV for the 2nd position in ratings.
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"Citizen TV is ranked the 1st in audience share with 27% followed by KTN and KTN News with 13% and 12% shares respectively. NTV achieves the 4th rank with an audience share of 11%," the report reveals.
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