[Mr_H_Monster]

Chris got on in the radio ratings yesterday?

[Jonny Hoare]

Talksport are beating Virgin. R2 still top, coxy losing listeners still

[Funky Drummer]

Talksport are beating Virgin.

hmm...surprising

R2 still top

Not really any surprise there

coxy losing listeners still

Oooh..shock horror!

[Nablo.]

Sounds like an Uglybob question there.

[Mr Dion]

woohoo...talksport is a great station

[Uglybob]

well cant find anything about Moyles ratings but
Tarrant is down
Radio 1 down 300,000 as a whole

i found this article and i agree with everything they say

Writing on the wall for Cox
By Tim Cooper, Evening Standard

When they coined the word "ladette", Sara Cox was the blueprint. She drank, smoked, swore, had the right regional accent, clothes and the right job - waking up millions of young people every morning.
But the future of the style of broadcasting she pioneered hangs in the balance. The men's magazines that launched the Nineties' phenomenon of lads and ladettes - beer-swilling, footballloving, loudmouths of either gender - have long since lost their readership or folded and the writing is now on the wall for the geezerbird from Bolton.
Accusations of dumbing down have become increasingly hard to ignore and the public's appetite for in-yer-face "yoof " presenters, even married ones of 27, is beginning to wane. Cox's on-air blunders are many: in 2000 she made obscene (and unprintable) remarks about the Queen Mother on her birthday; months later, on the day after the first anniversary of the Paddington rail disaster, she described three journalists as "looking like burns victims". More recently came the lewd interview with Ali G.
Cox got her big break in broadcasting when she was picked to present TV's Girlie Show, which celebrated the ladette.
Now the whole phenomenon looks like old hat. Radio 1, once the bastion of youth broadcasting, has been usurped by Radio 2, which has successfully shed its cardiesandslippers image to become the country's most popular station. The plain truth behind the Rajar figures is that most people now prefer the cosy familiarity of Terry Wogan to the brash wake-up call of "Coxy" in the morning.

[Funky Drummer]

The Rajar homepage (under Quarterly Summary) gives you the information for sperate stations, etc.

Figures for seperate DJs and shows are only released to the stations and the press.

[Uglybob]

yeah which is a bugger


Email: mailto:[email protected]

adam could always use his fake email to better use and find out how much Moyles has got.

[Gigglyboots]

Just one snag, how can he get their reply when it will be directed at the proper Chris Moyles?

[Uglybob]

Radio 1's Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley - better known as the comedy DJ duo
Mark and Lard - have attracted 750,000 new listeners to their daytime show.

The pair, known for their mix of comic capers, Mancunian wit and musical
knowledge, have increased their audience to 4.96 million listeners a week
over the past three months to September 15.

One reason for the massive boost could be due to the amount of students
tuning in during the school holiday period, said a Radio 1 spokesman.

The station fared well across the whole of its daytime programming, stemming
fears that it was losing its way and its audience.

Radio 1's loud-mouthed breakfast host Sara Cox saw her audience remain
static compared to the previous year - but she still pulls in 5.9 million
listeners a week.

Jo Whiley, Chris Moyles and Dave Pearce all recorded stable audiences for
their shows according to the latest set of Rajar.

The station overall had an audience of 10.9 million listeners, which is down
just over 300,000 in a year.

But it has staged a recovery by picking up by more than 350,000 listeners
compared to the previous quarter

[Everlast]

Radio 1's Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley - better known as the comedy DJ duo
Mark and Lard - have attracted 750,000 new listeners to their daytime show.

The pair, known for their mix of comic capers, Mancunian wit and musical
knowledge, have increased their audience to 4.96 million listeners a week
over the past three months to September 15.

Deservedly so

[Uglybob]

That means they are next for the chop. Radio 1, do they listen to what the people want. Give the people what they want and dont spoonfeed us crap that snobby individuals think the kiddies will like.

[Matt]

Well while M&L are on holiday (again) I've defected to Virgin.

I must say the "No repeat 9-5" is a very very good idea. The fact that they don't play pop or R&B is also a big plus

[Uglybob]

yeah the 750,000 they got has now been taken away again now that Emma Blandy has taken over.

[Matt]

How the hell she makes one feature last the whole show I'll never know.

I know M&L do the SOC throughout the show, but they have many other features to go with.

All "MeEmmaB" seems to do is that bloody headliners thing. That's just an assumption, since I have never listened to her show all the way through.

[Uglybob]

shes done snakes and ladders all week that Chris has taking the piss out of

[Matt]

Aah right. Wondered what the hell that was all about.

Wow 2 features. She should have her own weekday, daytime show! Well, while Radio One are f*****g up the schedule, why not replace M&L with MeEmmaB for good, and put Sarah HB on for Moyles.

[Uglybob]

The Nemone and Jo Whiley Show

2 dullards try and whisper lower than each other.

[Matt]

Somone tell me when Radio One gets good again and I might come back.

I'm getting quite used to Terry Wogan on the way to work now though...

[Nor]

Terry is pretty good, keeps me amused, maybe its a sign we're getting old though

[Ickle Angel]

im going to ask aled

[Jonny Hoare]

Talksport beat virgin because Chris evans left, and was replaced with no marks (denham, penk?). They have one of the most listenable breakfast shows, and the line up is good. I listen to talksport more than than i do radio 1. I listen to radio 1 , 5 hours a day. Why is this. because their output during the morning and evenings is weak

[Uglybob]

Capital's loss looks likely to have been Heart FM's gain. The breakfast show, fronted by Jono Coleman and Emma Forbes, recorded a massive 26% quarter on quarter ratings increase.

Coleman's show gained an extra 176,000 listeners in the three months to September 15, with a total listenership of 862,000, significantly closing the gap with Tarrant's show.

from bad to worse. take it heart is london based then.

[Stevo_trash]

The fact that lots of youngsters are listening to the ditties of 50+ year old man rather than the morning performance of a dj supposedly catering for the 15-25 age group, 'Student Radio 1' appears to be in a right state.

I reckon one reason is down to the two dimensional creation of programming. It appears that you have to fit into one of two catergories to become a dj on radio 1 (barring some exceptions)

a) Originate from a northern town, talk in great depth about drink, birds/blokes and make generalisations about the south. Crude and abusive humour must be used on a consistent basis.

b) Have a great knowledge of some genre of music, berift of any type of charisma and drone between links instead of the traditional method of 'speaking'