[mrarg1393]

All a bit of a mess on day one. It'll be interesting to see how the ratings go, but as they're both networks the figures for the local versions will be a bit vague. I suspect the fuss will die down and people will forget Pirate in the long term as happens everywhere else

I should think Bauer will congratulate themselves on achieving their “best ever listening figures” for Hits Radio the next time RAJAR announce their quarterly listening figures.

I do truly find it hard to believe that millions of people listen to the same dross day in, day out. I only listen to Hits Tessside (TFM) for 20 mins in the morning on the way to work and the same on way back home, and can pretty much guarantee either Pink, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift or Beyonce or some obscure 90’s RnB track which is played every single day will be on during that time.

I know everyone bangs on saying there’s plenty of choice via Internet & Streaming, but in the car, when you just want to flick through the stations, they are all the same. Hardly any choice, especially in the North East. Apart from Sun FM, which is shortly due to change to Nation Radio, and the local BBC stations and a couple of smaller local community stations, we don’t have a local commercial station as such. Really poor going for such a large region. I don’t want to just listen to music from the last 10 years, or only songs from 70’s - 90’s. I like a mixture of all genres and decades. I don’t understand why radio groups do not understand there is a market for this? 🙄