LATEST RADIO NEWS
Chris Moyles sheds 400k listeners
RAJARs: BBC Radio 1 breakfast host Chris Moyles has lost 400,000 listeners over the past 12 months - but Radio 2’s Chris Evans has reported an upswing.
6 Music audience up 12%
RAJARs: BBC 6 Music, the digital station honoured at this week’s Sony Awards, has reported a 12% increase in listeners and hit a record high.
BBC local radio hits four-year high
RAJARs: BBC local radio, which has seen planned cuts reduced from £18m to £6m this week, recorded its biggest audience share since 2008.
BBC local radio cuts reduced; kids shows removed from BBC1/BBC2
The BBC Trust has given the green light to the corporation’s cost-cutting plans, which include revised plans to better protect local radio and the Asian Network - and the removal of children’s programming from BBC1 and BBC2.
RAJARs
6 Music audience up 12%
RAJARs: BBC 6 Music, the digital station honoured at this week’s Sony Awards, has reported a 12% increase in listeners and hit a record high.
Chris Moyles sheds 400k listeners
RAJARs: BBC Radio 1 breakfast host Chris Moyles has lost 400,000 listeners over the past 12 months - but Radio 2’s Chris Evans has reported an upswing.
COMMENT
Commercial radio has "suffered from its own bad decisions"
“Commercial radio leadership in the last ten years has not been good enough” says William Rogers, the boss of radio group UKRD that has won the Sunday Times best run company award for the second successive year. Paul Robinson reports.
