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gfloyd · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:28 am Post subject: Rajar Q3

Terry Wogan maintained his title as the most popular breakfast show presenter, despite his audience dropping by 240,000 to 7.68 million.

Fellow BBC DJ Chris Moyles lost 280,000 listeners to 7.26 million.

Radio 4's morning Today programme also suffered a slide as thejazz and classic fm increased audience share.

Breakfast:

http://www.rajar.co.uk/docs/2007_09/2007_Q3_Breakfast.pdf

London Stations:

http://www.rajar.co.uk/docs/2007_09/2007_Q3_London.pdf

National Stations:

http://www.rajar.co.uk/docs/2007_09/2007_Q3_National.pdf
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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:29 am Post subject:

How many did Evans drop?
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gfloyd · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:33 am Post subject:

Scott_Nelson · Guest

Chris Evans' audience was something like 4.88m last time. That is just a guess.

Ian Robinson · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 11:07 am Post subject:

And I expect it's about the same this time. But seeing as people were crowing about Evans 150,000 loss after JW will the same people crow about Wogan's 240,000 loss?

iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Thanks for the info. Is there a way to find out whether audiences for individual programmes are going up or down? I'd particularly like to know this in respect of some of the specialist programmes.

Ian.

gfloyd · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:37 pm Post subject:

Not as such. Its up to the stations to announce individual programme audiences, if they choose to.

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Classic fm has some information on some of their programmes:

Every single weekday programme on Classic FM has grown its audience over the past three months, with morning show presenter Simon Bates the most powerful man on commercial radio. His show now attracts 3.062 million listeners, a rise of 146,000 people on the quarter.

Classic FM’s evening chillout show Smooth Classics At Seven, presented by John Brunning has also seen a surge in listeners, with its audience up by 114,000 people to 1.643 million over the last three months.

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The Alan Titchmarsh show is an obvious rip off copy of Classic fm's Smooth Classics at Seven.
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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Rajars
Magic's Fox seizes London crown
John Plunkett Guardian Unlimited Thursday October 25 2007
Fox: has increased Magic's breakfast audience by 50% since he took over the slot two years ago

Magic's Neil Fox has leapfrogged Capital rival Johnny Vaughan and Heart's Jamie Theakston and Harriet Scott to become the number one commercial breakfast show in London.

The Magic breakfast DJ helped take Emap's "more music, less talk" station through the barrier of reaching 2 million listeners a week for the first time, and cemented its position as the number one station in the capital, a title it has held for the past three quarters in a row.

Fox had 885,000 listeners each week in the third quarter of this year, 5,000 more than Vaughan and 75,000 more than Theakston and Scott between the hours of 6am and 9am, according to Rajar figures released today.

The victory would have been all the sweeter for the Magic DJ, who lost out in the race to succeed his former colleague Chris Tarrant in the breakfast hot seat at Capital three years ago.

It is the first time Fox has taken the London breakfast show crown. He has increased Magic's breakfast audience by 50% since he took over the slot two years ago.

However, Capital claimed Vaughan remained the number one breakfast host when his show's new slot, between 6.30am and 10am, was taken into account.

Overall, Magic had 2.03m listeners in the capital, up from 1.96m in the previous quarter and 1.64m in the same period last year.

Global Radio's Heart remains in second place among the commercial stations in terms of reach, with 1.95m listeners, up from 1.81m in the previous quarter and 1.71m in 2006.

In terms of audience share in London, Magic and Heart are neck and neck with 6.2% each, unchanged from the previous quarter.

Capital also put on listeners, up to 1.71m from 1.52m the previous quarter and 1.46m the same time last year.

The GCap station reclaimed third place in London in terms of market share from Emap's dance station Kiss, with a 4.7% share of the audience, up from 4.1% the previous quarter but flat year on year.

Kiss had 1.59 million listeners, a 4.3% share of the market. It was up from 1.51m listeners the previous quarter and 1.32m the same time last year.

GCap's Xfm had 557,000 listeners, down 50,000 from the previous quarter but up slightly year on year.

However, the new music station - which has axed DJs from its daytime schedule - saw its share of the audience slump by nearly half, from 2% the previous quarter to just 1.2% in the space of three months.

Global's London talk station, LBC, was also down around 50,000 listeners on the quarter to 586,000. Year on year it was down marginally from 594,000, a 3.1% share.

LBC's talk rival, BBC London, had 518,000 listeners, up 70,000 on the previous quarter, a 1.4% share of the market.

GCap's Choice had 611,000 listeners, up from 500,000 the previous quarter, a 2% share.

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Smooth London Breakfast is really down, but once Graham Dene arrives there will be a battle with four London stations. Still if you were to put likes of Neil Fox or Johnny Vaughan up against Moyles on a national scale they would blast him off the dial.

I would think those loses with Wogan are due to the fact the time he has off, and would say listeners tune out when he's away? I still enjoy Johnnie at breakfast and only can take Wogan as a pinch of salt.

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firewirefred · Guest

But is it a GCap station?

gfloyd · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:44 pm Post subject:

nod · Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558

excellent, more people realising he's good Very Happy

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gfloyd · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:44 am Post subject:

Jonathan Ross, the BBC's highest-paid presenter, lost 200,000 listeners from his Radio 2 radio show this summer as people tuned in to rival stations, according to official figures.

Ross, who earns £6 million a year, pulled in 3.05 million listeners to his Saturday morning programme between July and September.

This compared to 3.25 million in the previous three months and 3.16 million during the same period last year, according to figures from Radio Joint Audience Research (Rajar).

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So everybody is down except Chris. Chris for breakfast is the only conclusion to draw.
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gfloyd · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:20 am Post subject:

Who's listening to what? *

Terry Wogan, Radio 2 - 7.68m

Chris Moyles, Radio 1 - 6.98m

Today, Radio 4 - 5.91m

Chris Evans, Radio 2 - 5.08m

The Archers, Radio 4 - 4.51m

Simon Bates, Classic FM - 3.06m

Jonathan Ross, Radio 2 - 3.05m

Woman's Hour, Radio 4 - 2.68m

Breakfast, Radio Five Live - 2.29m

Christian O'Connell, Virgin - 1.15m

* Three months to end of September; source, Rajar

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Evens breaks the 5m mark for the first time adding about 200,000 since Q2. Chris Evans had 4.85 million listeners to Drivetime in Q2; Q1 was 4.81m.
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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:35 am Post subject:

Simon Bates for Radio 2? Embarassed

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You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil

gfloyd · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:38 am Post subject:

Ian Robinson · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:53 am Post subject:

Bates is a pompous ass who's ruined Classic FM. Luckily for Radio 2 he's on such a cushy number he's likely to stay there.

Anyway... interesting figures. Do "listen again" figures count towards RAJAR? It's perfectly possible that the 200,000 not listening live to Wogan or Ross are listening later online - after all Radio 2's promotion of it, somebody had better be doing that!

firewirefred · Guest

If Bates walked through the doors of radio 2 there'd be a mass walk-out by staff (if you want to know why ask some of the production and tech staff who had to work with him at Radio 1 in the days immediately before the infamous Bannister clearout).

nod · Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558

Thats assuming they have a mass of staff by then Crying or Very sad

Briant · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:20 am Post subject:

'Chris for breakfast?' Thank goodness I listen to Today on Radio 4, then! Very Happy

Ian Robinson · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:25 am Post subject:

Scott_Nelson · Guest

Interesting to learn that Terry Wogan's audiences have nosedived further yet Chris Evans' leaps to 5.08m. Maybe people are getting pissed off with Wogan's tiresome format and inane drivel?

Wake Up to Wogan has never been the same since the late Paul Walters stepped down.

Scott_Nelson · Guest

And I am glad the smug, pompous, slimy Simon Bates is doing so well on Classic FM. He's one old dinosaur Radio 2 can do without. Might I suggest Steve Wright moves his afternoon show to Classic FM?

Bates and Wright. Two slimy slugs on the same schedule once again.

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

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Scott_Nelson · Guest

Mark, if Chris Evans does succeed Wogan on breakfast then my guess is the whole weekday breakfast schedule will be revised. Chris will probably go out from 6.30 - 9.30am. There's no way the dire and outdated Sarah Kennedy will remain on her stagnated slot once Wogan goes. Keeping her there would be like putting David Jacobs back on weekdays at 1pm! Shocked

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gfloyd · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:19 pm Post subject:

Scott_Nelson · Guest

Ernie, what were Chris' audience figures last time? Were they 4.88m? I guess some people are a but riled he's managed to exceed their expectations!

gfloyd · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:32 pm Post subject:

Scott_Nelson · Guest

Well, I'm not going to display contempt and nastiness against Chris Evans being a SUCCESS on Drivetime. Congratulations to him, I say. Like I said, Wogan's listening figures are probably down because of the boring clap trap we get every single day.

Ian Robinson · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:28 pm Post subject:

gfloyd · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:33 pm Post subject: