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Clive55 · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1336

Both Chris Moyles and Chris Evans have taken a drop in listening figures this quarter, with Moyles losing half a million on Radio 1 since three months ago.

At Radio 2, Evans lost 240,000 listeners this quarter but at 8.14m, he's still got more listeners than the breakfast slot 12 months ago, which had 7.76m.

Over all, Radio 1 reported 11.65 million listeners per week in the quarter, up from the 11.11m last year and slightly down its record high of 11.81 million in the previous quarter. Radio 2 has a reach of 13.68 million – up on last year’s 13.62m and down on last quarter’s 13.73m.

The success story for the BBC this quarter is Radio 3 which attracted nearly 300,000 additional listeners, up from 1.86m last quarter to 2.15 million people every week. Quarter 3 was a period when Radio 3 broadcast every single Prom live from the Royal Albert Hall.

Tim Davie, Director BBC Audio and Music, said: “These are strong figures for the industry, with BBC networks posting solid year-on-year performances after a quarter that saw records broken across the portfolio. Radio 3’s commitment to bring the BBC Proms to a wider audience has been rewarded as the network bounces back above the two million mark.”

Radio 4 has also gone down this quarter but still pulls in 10.37 million listeners.

In digital-only services, Radio 1Xtra posted a record 806,000 weekly listeners – up on last quarter’s 600,000 and last year’s 547,000, and an increase of 47.3 per cent year-on-year. BBC 6 Music attracted 1.20 million weekly listeners in the period – from 624,000 last year and 1.19m last quarter. Radio 7 has a weekly reach of 1.05 million - up both on last quarter (949,000) and last year (884,000) and the BBC Asian Network’s weekly reach is 462,000 listeners, from 437,000 last quarter and 357,000 last year.

http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.6399
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So, not too bad for Evans, but a bit of a disaster for Moyles.
This will give Capital an edge in negotiating down his potential salary if they do take him on. Then again, why would Capital want a demonstrably failing dj?

ColinB · Guest

The conclusion to be drawn from all this is that an increasing number of British people are disillusioned - not to say fed up - with radio in the UK in its current form. It's possible that, like me, people are also increasingly fed up with the BBC's two largest radio networks competing with each other by offering up content of equal banality at given times of the day - breakfast in particular.

I know several people who simply don't bother with radio at all these days - not just people of "a certain age" (like me) but also people in their 20s and 30s who are sick to the back teeth of the dumbed-down music-based formats presented by egotists we now have on R1 and R2.

undiscovered · Joined: 15 Sep 2010 Posts: 650 Location: Peterborough

Me Colin, I fit into one of your age brackets I'm not saying which one though.
CD's for me these days or being one of those R3 listeners.

6music nearly doubling since last year, not bad for a station that was going to be closed, although the publicity certainly has helped.

1Xtra gets a bit of a slagging off on here,but it is for the kiddiwinks. It seems to be picking up where R1 is losing, digital seems to be where people are going

Radio and music has changed people are more into their own personal music digital caters more for that kind of listener, and ipods and their radio channels may have something to do with it
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kengeo · Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 278 Location: Gloucestershire

There are some great comments about the two Chris' on the Guardian article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/28/rajars-radio especially the ones at 9.36 and 10.28.....

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

Chris Evans show has pretty much levelled out to what most insiders had predicted. Moyles keeps ranting on will turn listeners away. At the end of the day the BBC will continue to say they are winning over everyone else.