The home nations' failure to qualify for Euro 2008 has hit the listening figures for commercial speech station TalkSport, but BBC Radio Five Live appears to have been unaffected.

Newly released data from audience measurement body Rajar has revealed today that TalkSport shed 86,000 listeners in the three months to 22 June – a period which includes most of the Euro 2008 tournament but does not include the Wimbledon tennis championships.

TalkSport, which is owned by Ulster Television, posted a weekly audience of 2.38m, down 3.5 per cent on the quarter but up 0.5 per cent on the same period last year.