There's been a sharp drop in the audiences for two of the BBC 's flagship radio stations since the start of the year, according to newly released figures on radio listenership.
Radio 1 and Radio 5 Live have seen their average weekly listeners drop by 8% and 13% respectively, with the latter losing more than three-quarters of a million in six months.
Other stations have held steady, according to data released by Radio Joint Audience Research ( Rajar ) - with the audience for Radio 6 Music said to have reached a record high.
The data by the research body shows that Radio 5 Live lost 436,000 listeners between the first and second quarter; which is the period between March and June 2022.
A half-year comparison of figures for the radio station - which includes shows by the likes of Nicky Campbell and Naga Munchetty - indicates a fall of 763,000 listeners.
Radio 1 - which features presenters such as Greg James - saw a quarter-on-quarter drop of 201,000, while its half year drop has been recorded as 692,000 listeners.
And the quarter-on-quarter fall for Radio 4 - excluding 4 Extra - was 308,000, whilst the new data suggests that the station experienced a half-year drop of 187,000 listeners.
However, Radio 2 - which features shows by the likes of Zoe Ball - and Radio 3 both held steady quarter-on-quarter, according to the newly-released on radio audiences.
Both Greg James' Radio 1 Breakfast Show and Zoe Ball's Radio 2 Breakfast Show generally held steady across the same time period, with James' show gaining 25,000 listeners.
Aled Haydn Jones, head of BBC Radio 1, said: "I'm so pleased to see an increase in listeners for the Breakfast Show with Greg James [and] it remaining number one for our audience."
"It's good to see the strategy we've developed at Radio 1 is working, indicating the strong connection the station has with young people across the UK on Radio, YouTube, iPlayer and socials."
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The data indicates that GB News radio - which launched in July last year - saw an quarter-on-quarter increase of 38,000, from a relatively low base of 239,000 in March this year.
Research body Rajar has cautioned against making comparisons with listening figures from before the Covid pandemic - as it's changed the way that it collects its data.
All figured had previously been complied using face-to-face market research, though this has now been replaced with a mixture of in-person survery and data collected via apps.
Results from the next quarter will mark one year since the change and therefore allow year-on-year analysis, which offers an insight into any long-term shifts in listen behaviour.
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