One in five watch no TV

More than one fifth of the population do not watch television and almost half do not listen to radio, according to a quarterly audience survey by the Broadcasting Authority.

Covering the first three months of the year, the survey found that television viewing fell by almost seven per cent from last October, November and December but rose by almost two per cent from January, February and March last year.

TVM was the most popular station, followed by One TV, Net TV and Smash TV. Family TV and Favourite TV, the two most recent stations, were more or less equally popular.

More than one tenth of respondents also said they regularly watched teleshopping programmes, mostly on Smash TV, followed by TVM, One TV, ITV, Family TV and Net TV.

Radio listening was more or less constant with previous figures. The most popular was Bay Radio, followed by Super One Radio, Calypso Radio, RTK, Radju Marija, Radju Malta, Radio 101, XFM, Magic Radio, Capital Radio, Smash Radio and Radju Parlament 106.6.

www.ba-malta.org/audience.