Catalan radio audiences They are extraordinary. According to the General Study of Media published yesterday, the fourth most-listened-to radio station (the focus is Spain) is RAC1, with one million listeners, more than Radio Nacional in all of Spain, and the seventh is Catalunya Ràdio, with 777,000. To understand the strength of Catalan-language radio in Catalonia, these figures can help: the two Basque channels combined make up 270,000 listeners, Canal Sur reaches 239,000, and Radio Galega 118,000. Anyone who wants to reach Catalan society must go through Catalan channels.
Certainly, language and local issues are decisive in this medium, but these factors alone don't explain all its success. Because, to begin with, local radio explains the world in Catalan to Catalans, just as the world's leading networks do in their respective countries. You don't have to go to Madrid, London, or Washington to know what's happening in the world. And Catalonia has always produced very good radio. The seed was planted by those who revived the language on the air, the adaptors of classic formats, and the creators of their own formats, who have been doing great work for decades, continuing the excellence of what was called "the Barcelona school," which was considered more modern, less pro-government, and more European, and which has been more modern, less pro-government, and more European.
The dominance of radio in Catalan is not new, therefore, nor did it begin with the Process, and it is a sign of general information sovereignty, of sports and entertainment, with its ownstar system.If you want to explain the Catalan cultural difference in the world, show them the audience figures, they speak for themselves.
