{"id":103014,"date":"2025-10-04T17:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/103014\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T17:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:19:10","slug":"contemporary-christian-grows-with-monthly-station-additions-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/103014\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Christian Grows With Monthly Station Additions. | Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only one radio format ranked in the top 10 of <strong>Inside Radio<\/strong>\/PrecisionTrak\u2019s monthly counts can boast that it has welcomed new stations into the format every month since September 2024.<\/p>\n<p>That format? Contemporary Christian, ranked fourth overall, which over the past 12 months has added an even 50 stations for a 3.5% year-over-year increase, leading all other formats in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>While contemporary Christian has made its steady gains from a year ago in dramatic fashion, second-ranked religion-formatted stations (including religious teaching, hymns, and other related content) basically achieved the same goal, even while losing a few outlets along the way, adding 58 year-over-year, more than any other top 10-listed format, for a 2.7% boost.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish-language formats, which place fifth, have also seen significant growth, adding 30 stations since last September, up 2.3%. Three other formats have brought in new stations from a year ago: third-ranked news\/talk (+12), sixth-ranked classic hits (+3), and eighth-ranked classic rock (+2), with the latter two also up in total stations year-to-date.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: auto; max-width: 100%; border: none; display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.insideradio.com\/app\/Images2025\/Chart-9-30.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>While contemporary Christian added stations every month for the past year, the 10th-ranked top 40 has trimmed its roster, down 23 stations without a gain during any of the past 12 months, with its total off by 4.2% year-over-year and 3.1% for 2025-to-date.<\/p>\n<p>Two other formats have experienced double-digit losses, including the format with the most stations, country, shedding 18 from a year ago and 14 since January. Seventh-ranked variety (including stations with three or more distinct formats, either block-programmed or simultaneously) has lost 13 from last September and 10 so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>This leaves ninth-ranked sports, which has shed just a few stations either way, but there\u2019s good news for the format, as it\u2019s added seven stations since May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only one radio format ranked in the top 10 of Inside Radio\/PrecisionTrak\u2019s monthly counts can boast that it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,6282,19,17,337,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-103014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-free","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}