[tizer]

Well tomorrow is RAJAR time yet again, whats everybodys predictions ?

[Ajescent]

Rajar...?

[mcmahonman]

If this is a quarter that normally goes up then. My guess is up QonQ but down YonY.

[chrisjames]

My prediction is that Evans will stil be ahead by about a million

[R94N]

Rajar...?

It's the listener figures thing they do every quarter.

[Ajescent]

Thanks for that, was completely baffled.

[dimtimjim]

Yeah, the completely scientific RAJAR listening figures...

Load of pish.

[R94N]

Yeah I think we had this discussion last time about how they are calculated/generated. It's not that accurate.

[slaphead1982]

Radio can't be an exact science when It comes to listener figures anyway as far as I know due to the nature of radio. I'm sure as digital becomes the overwhelming way to listen the figures will become more accurate.

[chrisjames]

The figures are in. Up 100,000 on the quarter to 7.2 million but down quarter of a million from this time last year,so a bit dissappointing.


The Suns making a big deal about how the Today show on radio 4 is threatening to overtake Moyles as the 2nd most listened to show . They're up 400,000 on the quarter to 7.1 million . Evans is still on 8.8 million. Damn and blast! Radio Ones audience is down 0.2 million from last quarter. Bit embarrassing for Ben Cooper as that was his first quarter officially in charge. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... dio-4.html

[dimtimjim]

The figures are in. Up 100,000 on the quarter to 7.2 million but down quarter of a million from this time last year,so a bit dissappointing.


The Suns making a big deal about how the Today show on radio 4 is threatening to overtake Moyles as the 2nd most listened to show . They're up 400,000 on the quarter to 7.1 million . Evans is still on 8.8 million. Damn and blast! Radio Ones audience is down 0.2 million from last quarter. Bit embarrassing for Ben Cooper as that was his first quarter officially in charge.

Lovely made up figures there. Crazy to get yourself worked up over such a non scientific report.

[the sniper]

Thanks for that, was completely baffled.

Didn't think to Google it...?

Lovely made up figures there. Crazy to get yourself worked up over such a non scientific report.

If Moyles was ahead of Evans though, no one would mention that, I bet.

Personally I think the music is the biggest thing to blame for the year on year fall, it seems to be more atrocious then ever before. Is some of this noise getting on the playlist up on to attract the so desired 'yoof' market? I'm target audience, but most of the stuff played is poor, some of it is just a mess of noise totally ill-suited to a mainstream radio channel, let alone a breakfast show.

[dimtimjim]

Personally I think the music is the biggest thing to blame for the year on year fall, it seems to be more atrocious then ever before. Is some of this noise getting on the playlist up on to attract the so desired 'yoof' market? I'm target audience, but most of the stuff played is poor, some of it is just a mess of noise totally ill-suited to a mainstream radio channel, let alone a breakfast show.

Couldn't disagree more. The music, as always, its whats currently popular, with a few 'up and comings' thrown in. Whilst I fully understand 'currently popular' will not suit everyones tastes, it is at the very least a sound basis (no pun intended) for choice.

Ergo, the simple fact that this is whats 'popular' at present, unfortunately seems to leave you in the minority. You like other music? Go buy it and 'poof' (no, not you Foots) as if by magic, it'll appear in charts and on R1.

I love most of the (current) R1 playlist, but then i'm way more 'ghetto' than most.

[R94N]

The music in the daytime is my least favourite thing about Radio 1.

[MrAndee]

This happens every year .
Newspaper says Moyles show is failing and sure to end soon.
Moyles blasts Newspaper, and rightly proclaims himself as the best thing on the radio.

But if it annoyed him that much , surely he wouldn't take any notice of said newspapers anymore ?

[a-moron]

You like other music? Go buy it and 'poof' (no, not you Foots) as if by magic, it'll appear in charts and on R1.

I'd have went more with 'pooft' than 'poof'. Sounds more magically.

The music in the daytime is my least favourite thing about Radio 1.

That's why I download stuff from here 'cause you lovely guys edit out all the shit that's in between. Crack wipers if you will.

[chrisjames]

Chris said he didnt care about what the Sun said about him..so why did he spend the whole of the first hour of the show going on and on about it!?

[Emmy]

I've been indulging in my guilty pleasure of reading the mad comments under some of the stories on the Daily Mail website this evening. As Richard Bacon mentioned on his show the other day, I particularly like the fact that the more banal the article is, the more vicious and hateful the comments tend to be. Out of the 152 comments under the RAJAR story on the Daily Mail website this evening (almost all of which were negative obviously) my favourite has to be;

'Sometimes, when feeling in need of a little self-flagellation, I do listen to Chris Moyles’s contribution to morning radio entertainment. How he and his team of self-indulgent, self-obsessed, puerile sycophants can justify broadcasting such drivel, let alone even, their very existence is beyond my comprehension'

Also, did this ever happen? I can't recall ever hearing it on the show.

'I used to listen to CM but one week he and his team played a disgusting trick on Scott Mills ( Offered him a TV job I think) and then played his desperate phone calls on the show and laughed at him. They made this cruel joke last all week and it made me feel absolutely sick. I am no Scott Mills fan but this was really neither called for nor necessary. I never listended to the show again....'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1lGUpDjZ6

I thought it seemed like Chris had taken The Sun's headline and story to heart a bit this morning. He did go on about it for quite a while, instead of just mentioning it briefly and laughing it off as not even worth bothering with like he usually does with these kind of nonsense stories.

[bmstinton93]

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-02- ... -challenge

[Travis Bickle]

Chris said he didnt care about what the Sun said about him..so why did he spend the whole of the first hour of the show going on and on about it!?

I was surprised he let it bother him so much. He made his point straight away really when he said that he and John Humphries aren't really direct rivals. To go on and use it as a reason to read out a load of sycophantic texts was a bit unnecessary really.

[Nicola_Red]

'Sometimes, when feeling in need of a little self-flagellation, I do listen to Chris Moyles’s contribution to morning radio entertainment. How he and his team of self-indulgent, self-obsessed, puerile sycophants can justify broadcasting such drivel, let alone even, their very existence is beyond my comprehension'.

That is hilarious. "I listen just to torture myself" - what is wrong with someone that they would feel the need to say that? What do they think would happen if they admitted to listening and enjoying the show? Sheesh.

[Bas]

I would have thought , that with the aging population & the different media for listening to music available. that todays audience figures , for both CMS ( which i love) & Radio1 in general (which i couldn't give a toss about) are as high as they're ever going to be. I can only see audiences shrinking from here on.

[MK Chris]

I've been indulging in my guilty pleasure of reading the mad comments under some of the stories on the Daily Mail website this evening.

I do that sometimes too, it usually makes me feel a bit violent towards the commenters. Occasionally they pleasantly surprise you, but not often. Particularly if it's a Littlejohn column.