stilover

Seems he has been losing listeners.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-Grimshaw.html

Jay m A

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550k drop from this time last year (pre Moyles leaving rumours)

250k brand new listeners 18-24 years old.

800k people have stopped listening to R1 in the mornings in the last year

urban

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Yeah,but thats the daily mail - **** all is true if they write about it

fivetide

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It is true. However, he's only 40,000 less than Moyles and as said, put on plenty in the 15 to 24 year old group.

Essentially, it's working, they don't want you oldies listening and you are turning off. The kids aren't though.

Admit you are old and get Evans on Radio 2 instead!

Boro

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It depends how you look at the figures.

Grimmys last quarter compared with the last quarter of Moyles he's only 40k down but if you compare Grimmys last quarter with the same quarter last year from Moyles its 1/2mil down!

I guess that means Moyles was losing listeners too. Ben Cooper of R1 seems happy enough but then, he's hardly gonna say he got it wrong, is he?

sovietspybob

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I really hate grimmys show on R1, so much so i can't listen to it in the mornings. I've never felt so bored listening to the radio its unreal! Same for everyone else i know so no idea how his numbers are still decent i guess lots of teens starting to listen? In our office we now sit in silence till 10AM then turn it back onto Sarah *** and happily chuckle through the day with Scott and Greg.

I just don't know why R1 is so obsessed about ditching anyone over 25? I'm 26 and am a LONG way from being able to put up with the middleage dribble of R2 so what am i suppose to listen to for the next 25 years!

Boro

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If you look at the numbers, he's struggling already! 40k down on already low figures is not a good start. It depends whether Ben Cooper will accept lower listener figures in return for higher 15-24yr old listeners.

SirFozzalot

I struggle with Radio1 at all. I only listen to it when I travel out of my usual coverage area and can't wait until I can get it off and back to my normal stations of Capital or Heart Essex.

Dr Hu

The music is too varied on R2 for me - 80% of the music they play is from before I was born!

The trouble with R2 is its HUGE demographic - due to R1 *forcing* older listeners away.

R2 now has to cater for 20 yr olds all the way to 70+... how can one station do that?

Personally I cannot see why R1 is SO determined to ostracise its older listeners.... I'm 43 and even I find the music on R2 mostly way out of my listener comfort zone...

Moyl;es literally made me laugh out loud pretty much every day on my long commute - grimmy makes me consider hari-kiri on the M6.... good call Ben Cooper

boxst

Yes, all of that. I'm 43 and R2 music makes me want to lose the will to live. I like Chris Evans even though he has lost his edge.

billyray911

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Used to be a regular radio 1 listener,but since they are leaning towards the much younger listener,I have moved over to radio 6.
I haven't really looked back and don't miss R1 at all.
Radio 2 still seems to have one foot in the over 60 camp and therefore doesn't really appeal.
Looking at the increase in figures for Radio 6,it seems that others are thinking the same...

ALi-B

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Radio is annoying me massively these days

Radio 1 ; far too much taletless crap. Its not about aiming for new /young listeners its just playing any old tosh that fits its genre. I like to hear new stuff thats edgy, but FFS if you are going to play something new or upcomming, play whats good. Not what you want to promote.

Radio 2: is far far too "safe" and has a massively over-repetetive playlist. FFS I swear one day if I hear them play another Emeli Sande song I'm going to flip out, OK she can sing (albeit through her nostrils), but for god sake stop playing her five times a day. To add teh icing we have the mid day completely killed by that over-pretentious sycophantic Steve Wright.

Local commercial radio: Makes me suicidal. Thats before I even hear any advert jingles. Free radio has tio be the worst and most innane radio station I have ever heard followed closely Heart. Kerrang is just about bearable, problem is I'm not alway into constant greebo music.

And I can't pick up anything else up as the workshop is like a faraday cage, so have little signal; including wifi so can't use internet radio. And my Golf has dire reception...despite having £1K of audio system; none of it is properly compatible with the diversity aerial system, tried every adapater/conversion unit under the sun, but all they do is take the one aerial feed from the main aerial and amplify it..which with a 6" long aerial is useless for weak stations, all it does is amplify the noise and worsen the SNR.

DAB I wish: can't find a decent double DIN head unit for the car with it. And teh work radio is a 1970's Bang and Olufsen which is the only radio that can actually pick up any reception.

So iPod playlists it is.