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Ian Robinson
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 Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 11:05 am Post subject: RAJARS (May 2012) |
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Not quite as meaningless as the Sony Awards, but the new RAJAR figures are out today and show a predictable surge in listening figures.
Overall the station gets 14.56m listeners a week (just 9000 short of it's highest-ever - but surely that's within the margin of error?)
Chris Evans: 9.23m
Ken Bruce: 7.72m (more than Chris Moyles who's on 7.1m)
Jeremy Vine: 6.72m
Steve Wright: dunno
Simon Mayo: up 200,000 on last figures
Brian Matthews has 3.7m on Saturday morning, which probably means Graham Norton's doing very well too.
All good stuff in theory, but with those figures I can't see much changing in the near-future despite what many of us here might think needs doing. |
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Good to see a few different shows having their listening figures listed.
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 2:35 pm Post subject: Re: RAJARS (May 2012) |
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| Ian Robinson wrote: | Not quite as meaningless as the Sony Awards, but the new RAJAR figures are out today and show a predictable surge in listening figures.
Overall the station gets 14.56m listeners a week (just 9000 short of it's highest-ever - but surely that's within the margin of error?)
Chris Evans: 9.23m
Ken Bruce: 7.72m (more than Chris Moyles who's on 7.1m)
Jeremy Vine: 6.72m
Steve Wright: dunno
Simon Mayo: up 200,000 on last figures
Brian Matthews has 3.7m on Saturday morning, which probably means Graham Norton's doing very well too.
All good stuff in theory, but with those figures I can't see much changing in the near-future despite what many of us here might think needs doing. |
If it ain't broke, don't fix it (not that that has stopped them in the past).
My only worry is that SOTS gets less than half the audience of the Monday-Friday shows at that time, and that Bright Spark might be tempted to put a more general weekend show in there.
Actually, since it's doing so well, now might be a good time to privatise it, or sell it off. The Chinese might be interested - they've already bought the Weetabix to go with the Breakfast Show.
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ColinB
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I wouldn't say the Sony Awards are as meaningless as are suggested above. I have a very good friend who won a Sony (in the regional documentary category) and he's immensely proud of it - not least because it involved a lot of hard work.
The Radio 2 RAJARs, on the other hand, show that people's expectations of "network radio" aren't very high, but my reckoning at least. |
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Ian Robinson
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| ColinB wrote: | | I wouldn't say the Sony Awards are as meaningless as are suggested above. I have a very good friend who won a Sony (in the regional documentary category) and he's immensely proud of it - not least because it involved a lot of hard work. |
Well, maybe the regional awards have some value but with the national categories it just seems a case of knowing the right people and waiting your turn for a win. |
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| Ian Robinson wrote: | | Well, maybe the regional awards have some value but with the national categories it just seems a case of knowing the right people and waiting your turn for a win. |
But where is the line drawn between "deserving" and "the product of back-scratching"? What about national specialist programmes? |
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Ian Robinson
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| ColinB wrote: | | Ian Robinson wrote: | | Well, maybe the regional awards have some value but with the national categories it just seems a case of knowing the right people and waiting your turn for a win. |
But where is the line drawn between "deserving" and "the product of back-scratching"? What about national specialist programmes? |
I don't know. It's just the way I perceive it. Like the reggae guy who won for Radio 2 - I'd never heard of him three weeks ago, now he's done an hour on 2Day and won a Sony. I find it hard to believe that's a coincidence. |
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Helen May
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| Ian Robinson wrote: | | Like the reggae guy who won for Radio 2 - I'd never heard of him three weeks ago, now he's done an hour on 2Day and won a Sony. I find it hard to believe that's a coincidence. |
I'd never heard of him either Ian so that makes 2 of us! Also I can't believe I didn't hear a single trailer for the series that he won with. I was away for 2 weeks last autumn when it apparently aired, but heck that's no time compared with the length of a series!
Re the Sony's, I felt the same when Evans won one after being at R2 for barely 6 months............. 
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Ian Robinson
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| Helen May wrote: | | Also I can't believe I didn't hear a single trailer for the series that he won with. I was away for 2 weeks last autumn when it apparently aired, but heck that's no time compared with the length of a series! |
Yes, considering the policy is to trail a show for weeks before and then, because of iPlayer, for weeks afterwards it's very odd that I didn't hear any trails either.
(But then, I'm one of the few listeners to Radio 3 so what do I know...?  ) |
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| Steve Wright has 7.3 Million. |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | Steve Wright has 7.3 Million. |
Wow. Imagine what the figures could be if there was a decent afternoon presenter on? |
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You don't have to... it's 7.3 million... 
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