Ustrell achieves his second best audience figure but Basté extends his lead

BarcelonaAt the end of 2011, Jordi Basté managed to lead morning audiences by a margin of only 1,000 listeners. Since then, he has maintained the top spot, with a tendency to distance himself from Catalunya Ràdio. The EGM wave that was made public this Tuesday represents a further step in this direction: if in July 2025 there was a difference of 283,000 listeners between Basté and Ricard Ustrell, on this occasion there are 287,000. However, the gap has considerably narrowed compared to the 352,000 followers there were in the previous wave, in April (comparisons, however, are made looking back a year, as radio has a strong seasonal component). In this way, El món a RAC 1 improves by 33,000 listeners and climbs to 745,000, while El matí de Catalunya Ràdio adds 29,000, jumping from 429,000 to 458,000. This is the second-best figure for the Sabadell native, who achieves the best rating for the public radio's morning magazine since the 2018-2019 season, although the bulk of the radio's listener growth has been capitalized by his rival. If looking at entire seasons, the average gap will have been 327,000 followers, while in the previous one it was 249,000.

Beyond their respective flagship shows, the trend for Catalan radio is good, as it remains stable, hovering around 1.7 million listeners: RAC1 adds 2,000, up to 1,018,000, and continues to be a comfortable leader, while Catalunya Ràdio, with 672,000, drops only 8,000 and, overall, achieves its second-best season in history.

In the rest of the time slots, RAC1 registers an irregular wave, with generalized drops in which the only exception is Versió RAC1, which reaches 403,000 listeners (it had 336,000 a year ago). In contrast, La competència drops 22,000, to 167,000; Vostè primer goes from 142,000 to 140,000; the news program 14/15, also falls from 114,000 to 94,000; No ho sé loses 20,000 listeners, down to 135,000, and Tu diràs loses 19,000, down to 124,000.

Regarding Catalunya Ràdio, the problem is concentrated mainly in the evenings. Tot costa suffers a setback, dropping from 132,000 last July to 85,000. Les dones i els dies by Montse Virgili falls from 73,000 to 52,000 followers, Catalunya nit drops from 94,000 to 85,000, and La nit dels ignorants recedes from 57,000 to 38,000. In daytime slots, La solució also drops, which had a difficult time because it has to be compared with the 96,000 from the highly anticipated farewell of El búnquer, which occupied that midday slot a year ago. Elisenda Carod registers 82,000 listeners this June with the new format, a significant improvement compared to the 65,000 with which she debuted. La tarda de Catalunya Ràdio premieres a new presenter this year with Francesc Garriga, who matches the 133,000 that the magazine precisely had a year ago in this slot – presented that spring by Agnès Marquès since the program's main host, Elisenda Carod, was on maternity leave – and overall in its first season, it improves results. Before that, Catalunya migdia increases from 132,000 to 157,000 listeners and can claim to be the most listened-to news program on the radio. La Renaixença, integrated as a last-minute segment of El matí de Catalunya Ràdio, closes its first season with 104,000 listeners, and Que no surti d'aquí, which counts as a last-minute segment of La tarda de Catalunya Ràdio, registers 55,000 followers. In this case, a comparison cannot be made because the previous season it aired at midday, when there is a larger base audience. Nevertheless, this third wave is the most discreet, after having achieved 65,000 followers with the first wave and 62,000 in the second of the season, with a format that is strong especially in deferred listening and on Spotify, which is not counted by the EGM.

There are not only confrontations on weekdays: the weekend is also a battleground. Xavi Bundó's Via lliure on RAC1 continues to lead comfortably, with 574,000 listeners on Saturdays (+74,000 from a year ago) and 488,000 on Sundays (-28,000). On the other side of Diagonal, Roger Escapa gets 348,000 on Saturdays (-13,000) and 337,000 on Sundays (+14,000) with El suplement. And in sports macro-programs, there are also disparate behaviors. The private broadcaster's Superesports rises significantly on Saturday, reaching 305,000 listeners (adding 98,000), but loses 50,000 on Sundays, down to 228,000. And on the public broadcaster, Tot gira improves by 38,000 followers on Saturdays, up to 121,000, and plummets from 209,000 to 68,000 on Sundays.

Beyond the classic duel between Catalunya Ràdio and RAC1, SER is the third most listened-to station in Catalonia, with 397,000 listeners, but it falls considerably compared to the 485,000 it had a year ago. Àngels Barceló's Hoy por hoy gets 222,000 followers here. And Marina Fernàndez's morning magazine on SER Catalunya barely registers 6,000 listeners. The fourth most listened-to station is Cope, with 250,000 (it had 269,000), and Onda Cero also declines from 157,000 to 152,000. Closing the top 5 is RNE, which gets 98,000 followers in Catalonia (it had 105,000 in July 2025).

Finally, 3Catinfo (formerly Catalunya Informació) achieves 89,000 listeners in its audio version (it had 112,000), Catalunya Música climbs to 41,000 followers (from the 26,000 it had), and iCat registers 30,000 (a notable increase from 20,000).

Live broadcasts are from RAC1; podcasts, from Catalunya Ràdio

Leadership on the internet continues to be RAC1's, thanks mainly to live broadcasts. The Grupo Godó station has 313,000 online listeners, compared to 180,000 for SER, 156,000 for Catalunya Ràdio, and 112,000 for Cope. The ranking is explained by RAC1's clear dominance in live broadcasts, where it has 254,000 followers, versus 110,000 for SER, 96,000 for Cope, and 77,000 for Catalunya Ràdio, which is trying to clarify if any technical condition is affecting this unusually low figure. Meanwhile, the public broadcaster dominates in the podcasting sphere, with 90,000 daily listeners, followed by the 78,000 of SER, the 73,000 of RAC1, and the 20,000 of Onda Cero.

Music radio: Los 40 continues to dominate

Once again, the first place for thematic stations goes to Los 40, which signs 332,000 listeners. Silver and bronze go to two sister stations, Flaix FM and Flaixbac, which get 276,000 and 266,000 followers, respectively. The list is completed with RAC105 (229,000), Cadena 100 (189,000), Los 40 Classic (185,000), Rock FM (160,000), Radio Teletaxi (151,000) and Cadena Dial (139,000).

Radio in Spain: there is no 'sorpasso'

In Spain, SER continues to lead, and moreover, it gains a little ground against Cope, which was dangerously catching up. Prisa's station marks 4,403,000 listeners, which is 148,000 fewer than it had a year ago. Meanwhile, the bishops' station loses 232,000 faithful and remains at 3,581,000. Third is Onda Cero, from the Atresmedia group, which is the only one growing, advancing from 2,231,000 followers to 2,265,000, and at a greater distance is RNE, which falls from 975,000 to 895,000.

Regarding the morning shows of Spanish radios, Carlos Herrera sees Àngels Barceló leave without being able to achieve the sorpasso that seemed feasible in the previous wave, when they were separated by just 107,000 listeners. SER achieves 3,095,000 listeners with the program Hoy por hoy, which is 527,000 more than the 2,568,000 Cope has at those times. Of course, both have fallen compared to a year ago, when they had 3,247,000 and 2,763,000 followers. The third in contention is Carlos Alsina, the only one improving by advancing from 1,638,000 listeners in July 2025 to the current 1,747,000. The announcer, however, has said that he will not continue presenting the informative part of the program because he considers himself "worn out". Meanwhile, Juan Ramón Lucas achieves 705,000 listeners with his morning show on the public broadcaster RNE, which is a lower figure than the 734,000 the program obtained a year ago, when Josep Cuní was still presenting it.