[Jon]

Stooky Bill

It does go to show again though that generally people are more loyal to stations than presenters, I know Steve didn't go to another station but there hasn't been a mass slump in audience as some predicted. The same when Simon Mayo and Chris Evans left - they didn't take their big audience figures with them and Radio 2 didn't see a big drop. 

Whether the same happens with Ken Bruce we'll see in 3 months, I suspect it'll be a similar story.

Simon Mayo is a bit bland so not surprising in that regard, and it probably didn’t help they stuck him on a station with a widely different format. Because even if listeners were prepared to go with Mayo unless you were in a the small percentage of the audience who was prepared to swap pop for classical, you were never going to make switch. 

As for Chris Evans, the fact when he started he had a million listeners I think was mightily impressive and you’d imagine beyond the expectations of the Virgin. I think he couldn’t have taken anymore.