[Ash101]

Haven’t GHR basically swallowed up a lot of local stations in the past few years? How could they not add listeners?

Also if they’re stealing audience from Radio 2, why does the BBC need to make Radio 2? Doesn’t this demonstrate audiences are well served elsewhere? I don’t agree with this btw but it’s an interesting point to consider.

The RAJAR for 'Greatest Hits Network' was always going to rise this quarter because they rebranded a set of Scottish stations the same day that Ken Bruce started - so there were more stations in the Network in April than ever before. All the other rebrands happened a few years ago.

As has been noted, it'll be a few more quarters until we know Ken's true number because of the way some of the smaller stations that are now Greatest Hits Radio record their RAJAR. It's not a great method of knowing data, but I guess it is OK to analyse because you're compared like-for-like data, so you can see trends even if the raw numbers might not be totally true.