Set your 2026 radio survey calendars
Commercial Radio & Audio (CRA) and market research organisation GfK have released the metro and provincial radio survey schedule for 2026 with the additional note that GfK Radio 360 Survey 8 2025 will be released at 9:30am on Tuesday January 20.
This will mean that newly launched shows for networks may see dramatic swings between Survey 8 and Survey 1, 2026 on Thursday March 19. It also means that those shows that have or will depart at the end of the year will not experience their final surveys until 2026.
Additionally Newcastle’s three surveys next year will be conducted ‘blind’, that means that where markets generally have a fixed and known survey period, of the 12 weeks of placement only eight of them will be selected randomly and the networks, and participants will not know which they are.