Zoe Ball leaves Radio 2 Breakfast Show with a boost of the audience – Irvine Times

The 54 -year -old DJ Radio, which presented the 2019 breakfast show, ended its household on the BBC’s leading program on December 20 with emotional goodbye to the listeners.

An average of 6.8 million listeners tuned to her program every week in the last quarter of last year, according to the research body Rajar.

This is 9% compared to the previous three months and is the highest figure for the show since the beginning of 2023.

Ball was absent from the airwaves for part of the summer of 2024, returning briefly on August 8, before returning full -time from September 23.

The Radio 2 Breakfast show remains the best-found programming in the UK at this time of the day before its BBC colleagues, as well as commercial rivals such as Chris Evans at Virgin Radio and Jamie Texton and Amanda Holdon on the heart.

The next set of Rajar figures, which is to be published in May and cover the first three months of this year, will give an early indication of whether the replacement of Ball Scott Mills kept its audience.

Mills took the breakfast show on January 27th.

The General Radio 2 audience saw a similar leap to the one who enjoyed the ball, an average of 13.6 million in the three months to December, which was 3% both in the previous quarter and year to year.

BBC Radio 2 Helen Helen Thomas said she was “excited that Radio 2 remains the most popular radio station in the UK” and is “extremely proud” from the station’s graphics.

She added: “Zoe Ball continued to host the most listened to breakfast show in the UK, and Vernon Kay celebrates fantastic figures that continue to grow.”

The Radio 4 audience fell to 9.0 million in October-December 2024, which decreased by 7% compared to the previous three months, but decreased by only 1% compared to the equivalent period in 2023.

Changes in Radio 5 Live’s Audience often Reflect The Impact of High-Profile Sporting Events and This is True of ITS LATEST FIGURES, WHICH SHOW OF THERE UDED The Olympics and the end of the euro – up to 5.3 million in the last quarter.

Rajar’s findings also show that:

-Radio 4 Today has an average of 5.7 million listeners in the last three months 2024, which is 2% compared to the previous quarter, but is 2% on an annual basis.

-Auditory for the Radio 3 Breakfast program is 18% at an annual base of 698,000 to 827,000, although it is 5% compared to the previous quarter.

-Greg James breakfast show on Radio 1 has increased by 4% on an annual base of 3.9 million to 4.1 million; No comparable figures are available for the previous quarter due to a change in the time of program transmission.

The biggest hits of the radio noticed a slight decline in listeners for the third quarter in a row, although its average audience of just under 7.4 million is still higher than 12 months ago when it amounts to 6.8 million.

The station has more than doubled the size of its audience in recent years, increasing from 3.0 million in late 2021 to nearly 7.7 million in early 2024, led by signatures with big names such as Ken Bruce and Simon Mayo S

However, his rapid growth seems to have stopped.

Among the smaller news-based stations, the Radio Times enjoyed its best numbers since its launch in 2020, with the average audience of 604,000 listeners in the three months to December, which is 8% compared to the previous quarter and A jump of 23% for the year.

GB News is an average of 468,000 listeners in the last quarter, which is 23% compared to the previous three months, but 9% upwards on an annual basis, while the Talk-before this is a colloquial radio, an average of 504 000 listeners, a 13% drop in the quarter and down 30% for the year.