[Misfit]

christ alive. this is all getting boring now.

[Chris]

So much for my whole post-approval thing. I think I've got it now.

[MadTheEddos]

Epic thread alert.

[bmstinton93]

Unfortunately the last set of figures is not as good as I would have expected.I'm afraid the last 3 months of the show averaged 6.73 million listeners and was beaten by the Today show. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/oc ... sfeed=true In retrospect maybe it would have been better if Chris had left breakfast a couple of years ago when the audience figures were at their peak..He would have been in a much stronger position to get another show. I'm afraid Ben Cooper is not going to offer him another prime time slot on the basis of these figures

What took you 31 minutes?

[GarethH]

Unfortunately the last set of figures is not as good as I would have expected.I'm afraid the last 3 months of the show averaged 6.73 million listeners and was beaten by the Today show. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/oc ... sfeed=true In retrospect maybe it would have been better if Chris had left breakfast a couple of years ago when the audience figures were at their peak..He would have been in a much stronger position to get another show. I'm afraid Ben Cooper is not going to offer him another prime time slot on the basis of these figures

The figures always go down in the summer though because of school/uni holidays, and it's exactly what Radio One wanted timings-wise since it means that Nick Grimshaw doesn't have to compete with the highest-quarter RAJARs.

And with the Olympics being so big over the summer, I'm not totally surprised that the BBC's main speech-based radio show picked up listeners over that period.

Also, good to see that the Guardian have gone back to using old photos of Chris...

[Yudster]

Never seen Merlin, not ever. Looks dreadful.

Its BRILLIANT!

[Latina]

Taken from the Grimmy article posted above:

That angle works because in the last few years as a radio broadcaster Grimshaw has developed an on-air persona that positions him not as a DJ but as a listener who somehow happened to end up on the radio.

Does anyone else see a problem with that sentence?

[neilt0]

http://www.rajarsmilies.com/station/bbc-radio-1/#all

[Tunster]

Taken from the Grimmy article posted above:

That angle works because in the last few years as a radio broadcaster Grimshaw has developed an on-air persona that positions him not as a DJ but as a listener who somehow happened to end up on the radio.

Does anyone else see a problem with that sentence?

Yes. The journalist is talking out of his nads.

Interesting DigitalSpy article here going from the Radio 4 beating Radio 1 angle - Linky Link

[dimtimjim]

How many times?

The RAJAR figures are made up! they are about as scientific as writing numbers on a sheet and spinning a coin, where the coin ends up is how many listeners you have.

Why don't we use the RAJDIMAR listening figures, they say that at the end, Moyles had 18.6 million listeners blowing all the competition outa the water... This figure is as likely to be accurate as the silly RAJAR ones.

Well done Mr Moyles on nearly 20M listeners.

[Tunster]

How many times?

The RAJAR figures are made up! they are about as scientific as writing numbers on a sheet and spinning a coin, where the coin ends up is how many listeners you have.

Why don't we use the RAJDIMAR listening figures, they say that at the end, Moyles had 18.6 million listeners blowing all the competition outa the water... This figure is as likely to be accurate as the silly RAJAR ones.

Well done Mr Moyles on nearly 20M listeners.

Wowza! Don't get your knickers in a twist! It's essentially a guide and the only one that's produced. Whether it's unreliable or not, at least it's based on some sort of survey data.

[chrysostom]

One that doesn't take into account iPlayer listeners either. As far as the Rajar figures are concerned, I'm not a listener.

[Tunster]

One that doesn't take into account iPlayer listeners either. As far as the Rajar figures are concerned, I'm not a listener.

Yes you areeeeeee (well not RAJAR related but they do some digital stats somewhere)...

Linky Link

[chrysostom]

Aren't they inadmissible when it comes to RAJAR's 'listener figures' on the virtue that other stations aren't capable of having the same technology (which would give the BBC an unfair advantage in listener figure charts).

[David]

Online live listening is accounted for in Rajar. But not on demand listening.

[hdsport82]

How many times?

The RAJAR figures are made up! they are about as scientific as writing numbers on a sheet and spinning a coin, where the coin ends up is how many listeners you have.

Why don't we use the RAJDIMAR listening figures, they say that at the end, Moyles had 18.6 million listeners blowing all the competition outa the water... This figure is as likely to be accurate as the silly RAJAR ones.

Well done Mr Moyles on nearly 20M listeners.

talkSPORT (under Kelvin McKenzie) actually did that when they got GFK to do their own survey using fancy wristwatches that I think recorded what you were listening to every so often. Suddenly (and purely coincidentally) talkSPORT had 7m listeners (instead of just over 2m) and were the biggest commercial station in the country .

Here's an article about the figures and Moyles...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/may/05/bbc.radio

[MK Chris]

Kelvin McKenzie probably massaged those figures massively the big scumbag.

[R94N]

One that doesn't take into account iPlayer listeners either. As far as the Rajar figures are concerned, I'm not a listener.

I actually posted a thread about September's iPlayer stats including the ones for the last show but I guess it wasn't interesting enough

[GarethH]

Of course, those figures don't really take into account that during that three month period, Chris was only on air for two of them!

[GWaites]

Think it's worth pointing out that the last show topped the iplayer download chart.

[chrysostom]

I only listened after the show was broadcast.

[Misfit]

how is RAJAR measured? sample audience?

[nade]

how is RAJAR measured? sample audience?

As far as I know, I think it is a sample taken from a relatively small number of people.

I might be totally wrong, but I also think using rajar is wrong and outdated.