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\"TelegraphUK radio audience data was recently released and indicates that more people than ever are listening to radio. Why is that?\u00a0 Kate Chisholm from the Telegraph<\/a> has some thoughts:<\/p>\n

Click here to read the article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UK radio audience data was recently released and indicates that more people than ever are listening to radio. Why is that?\u00a0 Kate Chisholm from the Telegraph has some thoughts: Click here to read the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[100,98,18,101,99,102],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-audience-figures","tag-kate-chisholm","tag-radio","tag-radio-popularity","tag-telegraph","tag-why-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-43","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6783,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/bbc-world-service-audience-increase\/","url_meta":{"origin":251,"position":0},"title":"BBC World Service audience increase","author":"Thomas","date":"June 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Richard Cuff shares this information regarding the BBC World Service: Shared link: http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/bbc\/10139865\/World-Service-triumphs-in-the-face-of-adversity.html An article in the Daily Telegraph reflecting on the BBC's\u00a0recently-released audience figures, showing a year-over-year increase-- attributed to Persian and Arabic TV. 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