Radio 4 has more listeners then Moyles

[thebluebus]

Silent1 said:

I like moyles, plenty of talking and not too many records, the same with Scott mills, Fridays bugger it up though.

Completely agree. I always choose Radio 1 for my commute (don't really listen to the radio at other times) and really enjoy listening to Moyles in the morning and Scott Mills on the way home.

I also catch some Greg James on a Friday and like his show too.

I don't want to listen to the radio for current affairs though, I want to listen for some light-hearted banter and entertainment, which I get from those shows in abundance.

That Radio 4 has more listeners is utterly irrelevant, like saying Eastenders has more viewers than Question Time - it doesn't mean Eastenders is better than Question Time.

As an aside, I am not within the age demographic for Radio 1.

[Alex]

CommanderJameson said:

spud989 said:

thinfourth2 said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14389...

So Radio 4 gets 10.8 million listeners, the fat tt gets 7.4 million listeners

Maybe we aren't a nation of complete retards

Clearly the taste for Radio 4 inhibits some sort of spelling ability, though.

As an official representative of the PH Spelling and Grammar Police, I hereby award you two "failed pedant" points on your spelling licence, because there are no spelling errors in tf2's post.

There are no spelling errors, but I suggest that the comma in the first sentence should be a semi-colon. The first sentence requires a full stop and the second sentence a question mark.

[spitfire-ian]

A lot of the problem with DJs like Moyles is the fact they have a group of people with them in the studio.

With a single DJ they are talking only to the audience and they have to present a show like a one to one conversation. In Moyles' case, all he has to do is keep his studio chums amused. It no longer is about keeping the listener interested, more just providing noise to fill the time.

The fact it's also crap noise doesn't help.

[thebluebus]

spitfire-ian said:

A lot of the problem with DJs like Moyles is the fact they have a group of people with them in the studio.

With a single DJ they are talking only to the audience and they have to present a show like a one to one conversation. In Moyles' case, all he has to do is keep his studio chums amused. It no longer is about keeping the listener interested, more just providing noise to fill the time.

The fact it's also crap noise doesn't help.

But if it didn't keep people entertained, they would not listen. I listen, and enjoy it.

To refer back to my earlier example, I found I did not enjoy watching Eastenders, so now do not.

People vote with their feet, or ears in this case.

[Hooli]

CommanderJameson said:

CoolC said:

thinfourth2 said:

Hooli said:

I thought R4 was just talking? my ideal station would have almost zero talking & just good music.

6 music for you then

You can't get that in th ecar though, which is pretty much the only time I listen to the radio.

Time for a DAB head unit?

I can't get DAB at home either, unless I put the receiver in the loft. Still as the only time I really listen to the radio is when driving it's not a great loss because I use the bike to commute & refuse to drive the work vans because they are so crap.

[spud989]

CommanderJameson said:

doodlebug said:

CommanderJameson said:

spud989 said:

thinfourth2 said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14389...

So Radio 4 gets 10.8 million listeners, the fat tt gets 7.4 million listeners

Maybe we aren't a nation of complete retards

Clearly the taste for Radio 4 inhibits some sort of spelling ability, though.

As an official representative of the PH Spelling and Grammar Police, I hereby award you two "failed pedant" points on your spelling licence, because there are no spelling errors in tf2's post.

Ahem. Thread title?
Or is that a grammar fail?

Grammar fail, indeed. But that's not what our pedant attempted to point out.

Not quite. Yes, I was referring to the error in the title - something which, given the close proximity of the 'a' and 'e' keys on a keyboard, can be thought of as a typing error or a grammatical error. However, its status as a grammatical error is debatable because, really, it's word selection rather than an inflectional/derivational/syntactical error or anything like that; there are no components parts of 'then' other than its base which can contain the error.

Point of note: I'm rather good at stuff like this. Attempting to say I'm wrong is rather unwise

[CommanderJameson]

spud989 said:

Point of note: I'm rather good at stuff like this. Attempting to say I'm wrong is rather unwise

Well, that's one way to ensure that you fk up sooner rather than later.

[cazzer]

I would, given the assumption that the title should have read than, assume it means this...
Radio 2 has many listeners.
Radio 2 has less moyles.

[spud989]

CommanderJameson said:

spud989 said:

Point of note: I'm rather good at stuff like this. Attempting to say I'm wrong is rather unwise

Well, that's one way to ensure that you fk up sooner rather than later.

I know

I do like a challenge!

[cirvy]

Have a listen to Fearne Cotton if you haven't already!

You won't believe what you're hearing. I often tune in & time how long i can last before i have to scream. It's the most purile nonsense ever to be broadcast. She makes the likes of Moyles & Cox seem like broadcast legends.

Check it out, you wont believe your ears

[thebluebus]

cirvy said:

Have a listen to Fearne Cotton if you haven't already!

You won't believe what you're hearing. I often tune in & time how long i can last before i have to scream. It's the most purile nonsense ever to be broadcast. She makes the likes of Moyles & Cox seem like broadcast legends.

Check it out, you wont believe your ears

Even if she's bad, it's not relative, is it?

Her being worse won't make Moyles any less objectionable to the people who already don't like him.

I don't know why people don't simply avoid subjecting themselves to the things they don't like. To do otherwise seems a bit silly.


Edited for clarity.

[thinfourth2]

[doodlebug]

It's not clear from the article but are they saying that Radio 4 gets more listeners than than 10% of Radio 1's output?

[Maximum bobs]

Hooli said:

I thought R4 was just talking? my ideal station would have almost zero talking & just good music.

+1, that & traffic news is all I want. I've said it before, I wouldn't bat an eye if they sacked all these so called entertainers & their "teams". If the beeb are trying to cut costs then I would imagine that this would be a good place to start.

[Pesty]

I love radio 4.

My job involves a lot of driving I have radio 4 on almost constantly ( womens hour makes me laugh)

anyhow the other day something was boring me so I flicked about teh stations hit Radio one just as moyles and his team of fuuny side kicks were playing a game.

One of them was showing moyles pictures of football stadiums and he was guessing which ones they were.

Riveting it was riveting I tell thee. How people like that tt amazes me.

spud989 said:

Point of note: I'm rather good at stuff like this. Attempting to say I'm wrong is rather unwise

Are smiley faces acceptable as full stops these days?

PS no need to try and pick fault with me I can't spell or punctuate for st but you did put up the challenge

Edited by Pesty on Saturday 6th August 00:38

[fridaypassion]

I listen to moyles in the morning. It is what it is.its rarely belly laugh funny like Chris Evans radio one show was but then whe.re Moyles is a radio pro Evans is a genius.

I listen to radio 4 for most of the rest of the day but in the early morning a bit of light, quite brainless entertainment is just what you need

[HoHoHo]

I did loads of work in the R1 and R2 studios a couple of years ago.

Whilst everyone else working there appeared to be friendly and chatty (including Sir TW who shared his breakfast with me on two occasions), I was told not to make eye contact or try to engage CM. He is a fat arrogant bully who enjoys nothing more than trying to have a laugh by making people look small and embarrassed, and if he can do that on air, more the better. It's his way I suppose of moving the spotlight away from him, which would confirm he is a nasty little, sorry small fat man.

None of the staff I worked with had a good word to say about him (including some whom I'm sure he'd be surprised at) but put up with him because he's there because the idiots in the decision seats think he should be.

[fridaypassion]

No hes probably there because he's got 7 million listeners....

[HoHoHo]

fridaypassion said:

No hes probably there because he's got 7 million listeners....

You could put any old fat tt there and he'd get 7 million listeners!









Oh, hang on........they have!

I've just searched number of viewers for the fat tt, and all I can find is articles showing they are reducing, none showing the are increasing. I may be wrong, but I can't find any.

[fridaypassion]

I'm no moyles fanboy but they have increased listeners over the last few years I can assure you. He's just got a 3 year contract which is almost unprecedented.

The moyles hate always makes me laugh because somewhere there are an awful lot of people that do listen!