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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? 🙄

Nation Radio is awful, we have it here in Suffolk. The choice of music on radio has certainly decreased since the quasi-nationalisation from Global & Bauer in particular.

Heart when it replaced The One Network didn't have a bad offering of music at the time, now it's the same music on rotation, I'm sure if I did listen I'll no doubt hear Flo Rida, Usher, Little Mix, CeCe Peniston and Candi Station (You've Got The Love).

GHR only plays music from three decades, so when it replaced the likes of Wave and Pirate on FM, it didn't match what listeners were used to. Have to say, the roll out of 'Hits' has been too long to say the least but can understand why they might've been reluctant to replace heritage names as quick as GHR did.