'Too old' Moyles loses 700,000 breakfast time listeners in three months
Chris Moyles, the self-styled saviour of Radio One, has lost close to 700,000 listeners in three months, industry figures revealed today.
The 35-year-old breakfast show host who was recently mocked for being too old for his slot by rival Chris Evans, reached 7.04 million listeners each week in the third quarter of the year - down from 7.72 million on the previous quarter.
In London, the Leeds-born DJ also continued to lose out to Capital's breakfast show hosts Johnny Vaughan and Lisa Snowdon.
Vaughan and Snowdon pulled in 1.03 million listeners each week during the same period compared to Moyles' 950,000 - down 30,000 on the last quarter.
This came despite Vaughan and Snowdon losing a tenth of their audience - 122,000 listeners - in three months.
The country's most popular breakfast show remains Wake Up to Wogan on BBC Radio Two, which has 7.76 million listeners tuning in each week.
Chris Evans, 43, will go head to head with Moyles when he takes over from Terry Wogan in the New Year.
The BBC was celebrating Radio 4's highest audience in 10 years, with station insiders putting the success down to heightened interest in news and current affairs during the recession.
The station is now listened to by 10.22 million people every week - up from 10million last quarter
Its flagship current affairs show, the Today Programme now reaches more than 6.6 million listeners a week - up nearly half a million on last year.
BBC Five Live Sports Extra - a digital-only service -- also reached a record 963,000 listeners this Summer, buoyed by its ball-by- ball Ashes coverage.
Radio 3 also fared well, recording its highest reach for five years with listeners tuning it to Proms concerts.
A BBC Radio One spokeswoman said today: "Radio 1 has had another strong performance with over 11 million listeners for the third consecutive quarter, and our reach among our younger audiences is up too. Chris Moyles is up year on year - and still pulling in over 7 million listeners."
