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Average hours per week of radio listening, by province, age and sex groups, fall 2007 
  Canada N.L. P.E.I. N.S. N.B. Que. Ont. Man. Sask. Alta. B.C.
            English French Total          
Males                          
18 years and over 19.6 19.9 23.1 19.0 19.9 19.5 19.6 19.5 19.9 20.1 19.4 20.9 18.2
18 to 24 years 12.9 10.6 17.1 9.5 12.2 11.8 13.1 12.8 13.3 14.1 13.0 14.2 12.0
25 to 34 years 18.6 14.0 33.4 19.0 24.9 15.8 19.0 18.4 18.4 20.6 18.0 19.8 16.5
35 to 49 years 21.0 20.8 22.4 21.5 21.2 21.8 21.6 21.5 20.6 20.8 21.0 22.4 19.8
50 to 64 years 21.5 22.0 26.4 19.8 19.5 22.4 21.0 21.1 22.0 21.6 22.6 23.2 19.8
65 years and over 20.3 25.5 15.1 20.3 17.5 21.0 18.5 18.7 21.9 20.3 18.0 21.3 19.0
Females                          
18 years and over 19.2 19.5 21.9 20.0 18.6 21.8 19.6 19.7 19.6 19.9 19.8 18.2 17.0
18 to 24 years 13.7 12.7 16.1 14.5 11.5 16.0 12.3 12.8 14.2 15.1 19.3 13.0 12.7
25 to 34 years 16.2 14.7 25.6 18.1 17.7 17.5 16.6 16.7 16.3 16.6 19.3 14.6 14.5
35 to 49 years 19.4 18.7 19.3 21.6 19.9 21.7 21.0 20.8 19.7 19.8 18.6 19.0 16.3
50 to 64 years 20.8 21.6 25.3 20.2 18.4 23.4 21.5 21.6 21.2 21.2 19.8 20.2 18.9
65 years and over 22.4 25.4 20.8 20.8 21.0 26.0 21.2 21.7 23.6 23.7 22.3 22.3 20.2
Teens                          
12 to 17 years 7.2 6.4 6.0 5.9 6.4 7.5 5.9 6.1 7.8 8.3 7.1 9.0 6.2
Total population 18.3 18.6 20.9 18.4 18.2 19.6 18.4 18.5 18.6 18.8 18.3 18.6 16.6
Note:For Quebec, the language classification is based on the language spoken at home. The total column includes those respondents who did not reply to this question or who indicated a language other than English or French.


Percentage share of radio listening, by province and format, fall 2007 
  Canada N.L. P.E.I. N.S. N.B. Que. Ont. Man. Sask. Alta. B.C.
  %
Adult contemporary 22.7 6.2 14.1 13.8 37.3 27.8 27.0 9.5 20.7 11.1 14.4
Album oriented rock 5.3 2.7 20.8 7.7 2.7 2.8 5.3 6.6 12.3 9.2 4.7
CBC/Radio-Canada 12.4 11.6 17.4 14.1 13.5 14.5 10.8 11.6 9.6 8.0 17.1
Contemporary 8.9 17.9 0.6 20.9 0.3 16.5 5.4 11.3 0.2 6.9 5.9
Country 9.5 16.8 24.8 24.0 18.5 0.3 7.1 17.4 35.9 23.1 8.9
Dance 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 1.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Easy listening 3.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.8 4.8 1.5 0.0 1.9 4.7
Gold/oldies/rock 14.3 10.3 21.0 13.5 8.6 11.9 14.6 15.5 7.9 20.5 15.8
Middle-of-the-road 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 3.8 3.5 0.0 0.4 1.9
Other 6.7 7.5 1.2 4.2 13.4 5.4 4.8 9.3 6.8 6.7 13.7
Sports 1.5 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 1.9 1.6 0.0 0.0 1.7 2.1
Talk 9.8 26.9 0.1 1.4 2.0 13.3 9.3 12.8 6.4 10.3 6.0
US stations 2.7 0.1 0.0 0.2 3.7 1.6 4.1 0.8 0.1 0.3 4.6
Total listening 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0