AM and non-commercial radio saw their audience levels decline in the first half of 2025.

Mexico City radio, across the AM and FM bands, had a combined reach of 62,405,598 listeners in the first half of 2025.

The figure represents an overall decrease of 2.22% compared to the listening level for the same half of 2024, when 63,828,129 listeners were reached, in the Valley of Mexico market alone.

This decrease in the number of people reached was even more pronounced for AM stations and non-commercial radio, such as public or community radio, which lost 11.37% of their audience during the period, this for AM radio as a whole, and 25.25% for the public radio segment as a whole, both in AM and FM.

It is still too early to know why radio in general saw a 2.22% drop in audience share in the first half of the year, and AM radio in particular, a 11.37% drop, due to factors such as the poor performance of the economy in the first half of 2025 or some other seasonal factor.

Records from the measurement firm INRA also indicate that radio as a whole lost momentum among listeners under the age of 18, while also concentrating among the economically active population, where it even experienced growth.

In terms of volume, the AM band lost 1,241,270 listeners between the first half of 2024 and the first half of 2025; from the 10,916,438 listeners reached to 9,675,168 listeners.

Thus, AM's share of the total radio audience in Mexico City has now dropped to 15.5%, with the remainder on FM. A year ago, AM's share was 17.1%.

The non-commercial, public, indigenous, and social radio station lost 1,321,517 listeners during the first half of 2025, which, compared to its own brand, represents a 25.25% drop in audience.

In the first half of 2024, INRA recorded 16 radio stations of this type in the city, with an audience record of over 5,232,855 listeners. However, a year later, the level stood at 3,911,338 people reached, with 15 stations operating during the semester, as one of them went off the air in the second half of 2024.

It is still unclear whether the decline in public radio is due to a lack of operating resources, programming changes, or audience preference for other content. It is recorded that "Tropicalísima" was the only station that increased its audience by double digits, while Radio Ibero lost 5.42% of its listeners; the station that lost the least. The rest fell significantly by double digits.

The FM band was in contradiction, especially in the niche of music and entertainment radio, which was later followed by news and talk radio.

Music and entertainment radio provided a surprise in the first half of the year, combining 10 stations for the first time with more than half a million people reached each month during the period, compared to only eight stations a year ago.

These ten stations alone reached 33,578,157 listeners in the first half of the year, a 20% increase compared to the first half of 2024. Stereo Joya, Alfa 91.3, La Mejor, and Los 40 led their segment, followed by Ke-Buena, La Z, Exa FM, Amor, Mix 106.5, and Radio Disney.

Talk and news radio reached 17,809,851 people throughout the first half of 2025, with Grupo Radio Fórmula leading the segment, reaching 6,596,128 people through its stations. This broadcaster was joined on the list of most-listened-to stations by W Radio, Imagen Radio, Heraldo Radio, 88.9 Noticias, Stereo Cien, and MVS Noticias.