Denver’s Most and Least Popular Radio Stations in 2023

There have been plenty of shifts among the most and least popular radio stations in Denver during 2023, with the listenership at some signals sliding even as it’s risen substantially at others. But separating winners from losers can be a complicated game — and much of the competition takes place behind a veil of carefully maintained secrecy.

The Nielsen ratings service tracks the numbers for radio outlets in the U.S., including Denver, the nation’s eighteenth-largest market based on a population estimate of 2,796,400, with 161,400 of those residents identified as Black and 582,500 classified as Hispanic. But the firm only shares one number publicly: total listeners ages six and older who tune in local stations from 6 a.m. to midnight Mondays through Sundays.

By that measure, the…