[Vivienne]

Congrats. yet again to Moyles and hard-working team for adding still more listeners !!! Well done and very well deserved !!

[foot-loose]

I don't understand the listening figures. It seems that every three months or so, they get all worked up about how many listeners they have added, but its still seems to be the same figure as it was at a year ago?

[Vivienne]

You're a denso....

[claradooblue]

Do they publish the different listening figures for different regions also as they were making a song and dance about being number 1 in London, but whats the data on everywhere else?

[Vivienne]

no idea about data on everywhere else .... good they were making it clear about being number one in London, with so many different djs to listen to down there !!

[foot-loose]

You're a denso....

Well, go on then smart arse - explain it to me?

I know they were talking about london, but they were talking about london last time or the time before that?

Hence how they have those jingles made to take the piss outta capital etc.

[Vivienne]

oooh sensitive today!! I was only kidding you on, ya know !!

[claradooblue]

I wonder if so many people would listen to radio 1 if they had adverts, because thats what puts me off local commercial radio, rather than the djs themselves.

[Vivienne]

I'd listen throo' anything and everything personally !! Ads are annoying tho'!! Our local West FM (Ayr station) is choc-a-bloc with ads. !!

[Aled]

no no no, three quarters of a million more than a year ago i think you'll find!

[claradooblue]

Digital radio is bad for that. You find yourself listening to a London based station like XFM and suddenly, always during a decent song, xfm midlands will cut in to advertise themselves.

[foot-loose]

In the whole country - how many listeners are there now compared with when the breakfast show started?

[claradooblue]

Yes becaused concentrating on the london figures seems to suggest that the regional ones are a disappointment.

[Nicola_Red]

I was confused about this too cos the "7 million listeners" choral-style jingle is definitely not new. I'm 100% sure they've used it before.

Thus they must have announced at some point in the past that they had added new listeners and reached 7 million+, and then the figures have gone down in the interim, only to creep back up and pass the 7 million mark once more, allowing them to herald the milestone with the use of that jingle once again.

Perhaps this is incorrect and I too, am a denso.

[foot-loose]

this is what is throwing me.

I don't get how they can add 250,000 here and 140,000 there and still only have 7 million.*

*those numbers are made up.



Well done though.

[claradooblue]

Perhaps they change the way they work the figure out from time to time, like the governmnet do with the jobless figures; so the result can appear more positive than it actually is.

[Vivienne]

R1 at a basic level can simply do no wrong, and other stations can't hold a candle... that's the main thing !!

[Ballbag]

Perhaps in between they lose 250,000 here, and 140,000 there, but don't feel it right to publicise those figures? That would mean it all makes sense.

Aled the wise, bore da. If you're out there, just out of interest how far are you away from Wogan, is he your aim and has any radio 1 DJ ever eclipsed the Tog leader?

[Yudster]

There are two or three offices in London that I regularly work in, and unlike my office here, they have the radio on a lot of the time. All of them have digital radios, and none of them can receive Radio 1, so end up listening to Heart just because they can get a digital signal for that. They would definitely listen to Radio 1 if they could. Mr Yudster's office is in the same boat. I'm sure if anomalies like this were to be resolved, the London figures would increase again.

[Nicola_Red]

Perhaps. I'm always pleased to hear that they have new listeners (I have a mention of Moyles and a link to the radio 1 minisite on my myspace, so I do my bit to plug the show), but I definitely get the feeling the way the figures are worked out/anounced is being, shall we say, adjusted somewhere along the line.

[Vivienne]

"adjustments" are a piece of genius.... I've never listened to a better station full stop.... I spent ages one afternoon moving the dial of the radio about, to see what I could find, and wound up right back where I started ....

[claradooblue]

thats the thing with figures and stats; "lies, damn lies..." and all that. With the radio 1 figures, the aim is probably to make the target age audience feel as though they're part of a growing popular movement.
Re: digital radio. How come there isn't a digital radio signal in London?

[Vivienne]

you know, who cares about figs. and stats.... the main thing is.... you just simply won't find a better radio station.... It's really that simple.

can't think why there's no digital signal in London (!!).

[Yudster]

Re: digital radio. How come there isn't a digital radio signal in London?

I've no idea what the problem is - Mr Yudster's office is a largely metal building, and apparently thats why they can't get a good digital signal for anything, the only tolerable reception they get is for Heart, and sometimes Capital - but apparently all it takes is for a lorry to park outside the building and it disappears. I don't know what the issues are though. At one of my offices I assumed it was because it was a low floor in a building surrounded by lots of very tall structures - but in our Westminster office we are up on the 20th floor (gorgeous views), and still can't get a signal. I hope these issues are going to be sorted out before Digital is the only option. Most unfair otherwise.

[claradooblue]

That seems bizarre. Perhaps Heart is on a digital network that sends out a stronger signal. Apparently classical radio stations send out stronger signals (maybe because they feel the music has more to it). I still don't fully get it however. I havn't really met anyone who does.