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Rajars

May 2022

  • Ken Bruce in studio

    Ken Bruce remains most popular UK radio host as mid-morning trend prevails

    Rajar figures reveal changing listening habits as people move from breakfast to pre-lunchtime shows

October 2019

  • Zoe Ball presenting her Radio 2 breakfast show

    Radio 2 breakfast show audience falls to lowest level in a decade

    Zoe Ball programme sheds a million listeners as Rajar data shows podcasts are on the rise

May 2019

  • Chris Evans left the BBC for Virgin after a row over equal pay

    Chris Evans' Virgin Radio breakfast show hits 1m listeners a week

    Presenter’s audience is huge drop on 9m who tuned in to his BBC Radio 2 programme

February 2019

  • BBC Broadcasting House in London

    BBC Radio 4 sheds 750,000 listeners in year

    Flagship news and current affairs station’s Rajar figures hit hard by commercial rivals

October 2018

  • Chris Evans

    Chris Evans's Radio 2 audience slumps in run-up to his move to Virgin

    Ratings for breakfast show of under 9 million a week will ease pressure on new host Zoë Ball

August 2018

  • John Humphrys

    BBC's Today programme sheds 800,000 listeners

    Decline in numbers comes amid criticism of the flagship Radio 4 show

August 2017

  • Peter Preston

    Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
    If market forces dictate BBC pay, what price Grimshaw and Evans now?

    Peter Preston
  • Chris Evans leaves BBC Wogan House after presenting his Radio 2 Breakfast Show

    Chris Evans lost almost half a million listeners in past year

October 2016

  • BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans: quit Top Gear in July.

    Chris Evans’ breakfast show loses 400,000 listeners after Top Gear exit

    BBC Radio 1’s Nick Grimshaw also sheds listeners – but 6 Music breaks its audience record again

August 2016

  • Peter Preston

    Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
    Radio is on the up, but not every station gets a good reception

    Peter Preston
  • Mishal Husain, co-presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

    BBC Radio 4's Today gets record ratings with Brexit coverage

May 2016

  • The Archers: drama around the storyline involving Helen Archer and Rob Titchener failed to lift the Radio 4 soap’s ratings.

    The Archers audience slips despite domestic abuse storyline

  • Nick Grimshaw, left, and his predecessor Chris Moyles – whose own audience at Radio X nearly halved in the year to March.

    Radio 1's Grimshaw hits new audience low, but Evans is sunny side up

February 2016

  • Chris Moyles’s return to radio after being ousted from BBC Radio 1 has given Radio X its biggest London audience in almost a decade.

    Chris Moyles comeback gives Radio X its biggest audience in a decade

    Former BBC Radio 1 DJ’s return to the airwaves sees commercial station’s breakfast show boost its London audience by 39% in final quarter of 2015

October 2015

  • The Kiss breakfast show with Rickie, Melvin and Charlie

    Kiss edges ahead of Capital as London radio stations face tough quarter

    Bauer station takes top spot despite reporting a 1.5% quarter-on-quarter fall, with its breakfast show losing 16% of its listeners
  • Tony Hancock in Hancock’s Half Hour

    BBC Radio 4 Extra passes 6 Music to become UK’s biggest digital-only station

    Station reports 12.6% rise as Radio 5 Live Sports Extra also posts record ratings
  • Nick Grimshaw

    Nick Grimshaw's X Factor role fails to boost BBC Radio 1 breakfast show

    DJ’s flagship programme continues to lose listeners despite presenter’s high-profile role as judge on ITV’s Simon Cowell talent show

August 2015

  • Capital's Dave Berry and Lisa Snowdon: top breakfast show in London

    Capital regains London radio crown

  • Nick Grimshaw

    BBC Radio 1 claws back listeners as Nick Grimshaw recovers from breakfast low

May 2015

  • Brian Epstein

    The week in radio: Frankly Speaking; International Waters; 99% Invisible

    Radio 4 Extra’s reruns can still give a thrill, while billiard balls make history elsewhere
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