Radio Audience Drops 14%, College Graduates Tuning Out 8 Times Faster Than Nongrads

Radio Audience Drops 14%, College Graduates Tuning Out 8 Times Faster Than Nongrads

Over the last 10 years, the average share of Americans listening to radio at any given time has shrunk about 14 percent, or 2.3 percentage points. Teenagers account for a well-recognized chunk of that decline. But Larry Rosin, a radio consultant with Edison Media Research in Somerville, N.J., points out that college graduates are also far less likely to listen to radio than nongraduates, a gap that has widened with time.

Over the last decade, college graduates ages 25-54, who make up an increasingly large portion of the population, have abandoned radio eight times faster than nongraduates.

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