Over the course of 2025, Denver radio ratings have been on the move. The latest audience survey shows that Christmas remains king on the local airwaves at this time of year, but the results as a whole have proven to be much more fluid.
The Nielsen ratings service tracks numbers for radio outlets in the U.S., including Denver, the nation’s eighteenth-largest market based on a population estimate of 2,853,400, with 174,300 of those residents identified as Black and 602,600 classified as Hispanic (the company lists no other demographic categories). All three sums are up substantially since 2023, but remain unchanged from January 2025.
As for listenership data, Nielsen only shares one number publicly: total listeners aged six and older who tune in to local stations from 6 a.m. to midnight…