The first ever set of audience figures for CN's Lakeland Radio in Kendal shows the station reaching 30 per cent of its area, with 16,000 listeners and 8.2 average hours.
Elsewhere within CN Group, the Touch Radio network, The Bay, Citybeat and Abbey FM remain stable.
Lakeland Radio launched in 2001 and was bought by CN Group a few years later. It has a TSA of just 50,000 in Kendal, Windermere and South Lakes.
Abbey FM, which is part owned by CN Group, saw its reach drop slightly in this, its third set of results, from 16 to 13 per cent.