RNS Number:8664K
UBC Media Group PLC
08 May 2003


UBC Media Group reports RAJAR figures for Classic Gold Digital have held firm,
and the inaugural RAJAR audience survey for Oneword Radio



Thursday 8 May 2003

UBC Media Group reports listening to Classic Gold Digital has held firm in the
latest RAJAR report (Quarter 1, 2003), despite this being a traditionally poor
reporting period for AM radio listening.

Average listening hours and market share across Classic Gold Digital's analogue
network held firm, with reach of 7%, average listening hours at 10.3 and market
share of 3%. During the period, Tony Blackburn's Saturday and Sunday Weekend
Show showed significant increases, building on the success of the previous
quarter. This gives us encouragement that the recently launched Tony Blackburn
weekday Breakfast Show, which will be reflected in next quarter's RAJAR survey,
will deliver audience growth.

Classic Gold Digital broadcasts on 18 AM stations, plus a network of digital
multiplexes, which gives the format a potential audience of 29 million people -
making it the third largest on local digital multiplexes. GWR Group is
responsible for advertising sales and Classic Gold Digital receives a payment
for its programming from GWR, directly related to the number of listening hours
as measured by RAJAR.

Oneword Radio reported very encouraging inaugural RAJAR numbers, in the first
survey to include digital-only radio stations, reporting a weekly adult audience
for the station of 50,000 and weekly listening hours of 138,000.

UBC Media Group has a 50% shareholding in Oneword Radio, which is the only
national commercial digital station dedicated to the spoken word. Oneword Radio
is broadcast on the national digital multiplex, Digital One, and across several
digital television platforms, including Sky and Freeview.

Commenting on the RAJAR numbers, Simon Cole, Chief Executive of UBC Media Group,
said, "this is great day for digital radio. We have waited three years for
concrete evidence that digital radio is being embraced by the British people.
Nobody can now doubt that digital listening will be a significant and growing
part of the radio landscape over the next two years and will effectively deliver
audiences to advertisers".



For further information, please contact:

Simon Cole, CEO, UBC Media Group plc                        Tel: 020 7453 1600
Tim Allan, Portland, for UBC Media Group plc                Tel: 020 7404 5344



Notes to Editors

UBC Media Group plc is a UK public company quoted on the London Stock Exchange's
AIM market. The group is a market leader in the supply of content to the radio,
Internet and digital television industries in the UK.  In addition to the
entertainment and financial news services provided to commercial radio, the
Group produces the network Chart Show and is the largest independent producer of
radio programming for the BBC.  The Group also has significant digital radio
interests including Oneword, the Sony Digital Radio Station of the Year and the
Classic Gold Digital network of stations.  It is also part of the MXR
consortium.



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