Chappers new MOTD presenter

[Jono]

I find it impressive and fascinating that Vernon still has the biggest morning show on radio. 

Given the dire warnings about Ken Bruce leaving, Radio 2 have still done well to keep that show's audience growing. 

[onlyME]

Capital still winning over more under 25s than Radio 1. Always surprises me.

[R1Fan1]

Radio 1 staying at the same level with 8.1m listeners a week.

Capital Breakfast goes up marginally by 150,000 listeners to 2.96m.

[R1Fan1]

Radio 1 Breakfast up to 4.6m. Wasn’t it at 3.9m last quarter? That’s a pretty heavy increase although I suppose it goes up in September when schools go back.

[TheSaviourisHere]

Capital now has more listeners than Radio 1 🤯

 

[NathanS]

1 hour ago, TheSaviourisHere said:

Capital now has more listeners than Radio 1 🤯

 

Is that the main station itself? I know Global often like to spin it by mentioning the Heart and Capital 'brand' beating R1, but they lump in all the spin off stations into that figure.

 

[TheSaviourisHere]

Main station has over 9mil Radio 1 has just over 8mil

[R1 Insider]

The shrinking usage of BBC Sounds isn't good news. Down 3.7% a week to 4.7 million users.

[R1Fan1]

Matt and Mollie are now the 2nd biggest show on the station! 

[Deco36]

There’s no way capital fm has over 9 million listeners and radio 1 only 8 million 😂

[Radio_12]

4 minutes ago, R1Fan1 said:

Matt and Mollie are now the 2nd biggest show on the station! 

Incredible to think they only just started and are already 2nd best on the station. Goes to show how much people wanted them on weekdays.

[Ash101]

Superb for Matt & Mollie, it’s richly deserved as the show is so good.

I honestly think they’re in for a Scott & Chris style long stint on the afternoon slot.

They also appear in the Top 10 Programmes for Under 35’s on BBC Sounds latest data too. M&M are 9th, Going Home is 5th, Greg is 4th with 10s & 00s taking the top 2 spots.

Help I Sexted My Boss has also made it into the Top 10 U35 podcasts on BBC Sounds for the first time!

[callspy]

I believe it's the Capital Network or as they call it 'the Capital brand' that's got 9m not CapitalFM. CapitalFM is around 6m, I believe. Global tend to group stations as a network/brand as it makes it sound better.  It's like Heart's 12.99m figure is all of Heart's stations added together.  HeartFM on it's own is around 7m. Which is still a good figure.

Interestingly Bauer claim Greatest Hits Radio has 7.4m as a single station making it the UK's biggest commercial radio station.  That would beat HeartFM.  Global has always had the biggest commercial radio station with HeartFM so to lose it would be quiet a big thing.  

Radio 1 and Capital have likely done well thanks to the drops KissFM and Hits Radio. 

[coffeeandgin]

Very pleased for Matt & Mollie - the success is richly deserved! The show is excellent and they'd been weekday ready for some time. There's no reason they can't continue in that slot for years should they want to.

Have loved them covering Breakfast this week.

This set of Rajars seem to have been a successful one for quite a number of stations in general.

 

[coffeeandgin]

Given how quick Radio 1 and Jamie were to hype up Going Home's figures last time they are sort of conspicuous by their complete lack of mention and we know Matt & Mollie are the 2nd most popular Radio 1 show now (and presumably Breakfast is #1).

In unrelated news, strong set of RAJARs again for Jordan on that there Capital.

[R1 Insider]

10 hours ago, coffeeandgin said:

Given how quick Radio 1 and Jamie were to hype up Going Home's figures last time they are sort of conspicuous by their complete lack of mention and we know Matt & Mollie are the 2nd most popular Radio 1 show now (and presumably Breakfast is #1).

In unrelated news, strong set of RAJARs again for Jordan on that there Capital.

It's true to say there has been a drop off since Q2 2024 but Going Home is still tracking slightly higher than Q3 2023.

[Deco36]

Does anyone know why kiss fm has dropped in figures so much over the years I used to enjoy kiss years ago when I first heard RMC on at breakfast 

[Jono]

33 minutes ago, Deco36 said:

Does anyone know why kiss fm has dropped in figures so much over the years I used to enjoy kiss years ago when I first heard RMC on at breakfast 

It sounds like a combination of factors. Some say the playlist is too repetitive, they've moved away from a lot of dance, and the older audience enjoy Kisstory instead, and just the fact there are so many dance stations out there. With the station now moving off FM I'm guessing that slide will continue.

[Old Codger Fan]

On 10/24/2024 at 8:28 AM, onlyME said:

Capital still winning over more under 25s than Radio 1. Always surprises me.

Maybe they don't all want to be GANG-Stas, after all.

[DC]

On 10/25/2024 at 10:06 AM, Jono said:

It sounds like a combination of factors. Some say the playlist is too repetitive, they've moved away from a lot of dance, and the older audience enjoy Kisstory instead, and just the fact there are so many dance stations out there. With the station now moving off FM I'm guessing that slide will continue.

Kisstory is a mainstay on my presets these days. Back when I first passed my driving test in 2007 I had a dab unit installed in my Citroen Saxo (brap brap yo yo yo etc). At that time Kiss was always on in the car, I tried it again recently, without the Saxo. And I couldn't stay on it for more than 10 minutes. Kisstory will probably eventually end up the bigger station than the parent.

[Jono]

4 hours ago, DC said:

Kisstory is a mainstay on my presets these days. Back when I first passed my driving test in 2007 I had a dab unit installed in my Citroen Saxo (brap brap yo yo yo etc). At that time Kiss was always on in the car, I tried it again recently, without the Saxo. And I couldn't stay on it for more than 10 minutes. Kisstory will probably eventually end up the bigger station than the parent.

My sister had a Citroen Saxo back then too!

[DC]

On 11/7/2024 at 9:48 AM, Jono said:

My sister had a Citroen Saxo back then too!

I wanted to buy it back and paint some go faster stripes on it. But apparently it was last on the road in 2017.