Virgin Radio
| Use attributes for filter ! | |
| Sister stations | Europe 1 |
|---|---|
| Motto | "Pop Rock Electro" (from 9/2013) |
| Owners | Lagardère Active |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Format | Rock/Pop/Dance |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 2299196 |
About Virgin Radio
Virgin Radio is a French network of FM radio stations dedicated to Rock and Pop music, operating on 250 different frequencies across France. Its musical programming is closely related to the American Hot Adult Contemporary format.
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Zoe Ball's Radio 2 show loses 364,000 listeners
Zoe Ball has lost 364,000 weekly listeners from her Radio 2 breakfast show, the latest industry figures reveal.
The presenter, after he left The Station to join Virgin Radio .
Ball lost 780,000 listeners in the second quarter of this year.
And new figures from industry body Rajar show that she dropped further in the third quarter - from 8. 27 million weekly listeners to 7. 90 million.
In the same period last year, when Chris Evans was presenting, the programme attracted an average weekly audience of 8. 82 million.
The latest figures mean the Radio 2 breakfast show has recorded its lowest listener numbers in a decade. The third quarter of 2009 saw Sir Terry Wogan attract 7. 76 million weekly listeners.
BBC Radio 4 's Today programme also recorded its lowest audience in 10 years. It attracted exactly the same audience - 6. 6 million listeners - Between July and September 2009 as it did in the latest quarter, which marked.
On Thursday, it was announced Humphrys will guest present The Classic FM breakfast show, normally hosted by Tim Lihoreau , next week.
Breakfast show figures often go down in the third quarter of every year, as audiences enjoy their summer holidays.
The Rajar figures showed Ball's programme remained The Nation 's most popular breakfast show, in spite of The Drop .
Evans boosted Virgin's breakfast audience to a million in The First quarter of this year, but his figures have stayed relatively flat since then. He added 3,000 new listeners this quarter.
Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden 's show launched in JuneHeart's new national breakfast radio show, fronted by Amanda Holden and Jamie Theakston , became The Most popular commercial radio breakfast programme.
The nationwide show was launched on 3 June, replacing The Network 's string of local breakfast broadcasts.
Its first full quarter of audience figures show Holden and Theakston's show drew an average of 4. 56 million weekly listeners in the third quarter.
The figures will have gone some way to help brighten Holden's mood. This Week she that she required Emergency Surgery to have a metal plate inserted into her leg, following an accident at an inflatable assault course in Europe.
Elsewhere, Kiss continued to lose listeners, after breakfast trio to take over the late evening show on Radio 1 . Kiss Breakfast has dropped from 1. 99m to 1. 56m in The Last year.
Roman Kemp 's Capital breakfast show also went down - losing 143,000 listeners nationally on the previous quarter.
Former Today host John Humphrys will guest present Classic Fm 's breakfast show next weekBut there were increases for Dave Berry 's breakfast show on Absolute and Ronan Keating and Harriett Scott On Magic .
Radio 5 Live Sports Extra reached record audiences of 2. 2 million weekly listeners during the summer months, as people tuned in in their droves to hear commentaries of England's successful Cricket World Cup campaign, and The Ashes .
There were also record highs for LBC (2. 6 million weekly listeners) and Radio X (1. 7 million).
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Source of news: bbc.com
