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Zoe Ball presenting her last show in December 2024.\u00a0BBC<\/p>\n
She was replaced by former Radio 1 favourite Scott Mills<\/a>, and was later announced to be taking over the Saturday afternoon slot<\/a> instead. <\/p>\n In contrast, while numbers have dwindled for Radio 2, a rival station has been enjoying a boom \u2013 which seems fitting considering the channel name.<\/p>\n Boom Radio, which is aimed at the “boomer” generation of ages 55+, launched in 2021 and has achieved record highs for the station to date. <\/p>\n Airing from the homes of the DJs, Boom Radio has proven to be a formidable rival for the attention of the older demographic \u2013 with former BBC DJs including David Hamilton and Simon Bates joining their ranks. <\/p>\n The station now has 711,000 weekly listeners, up a massive 14 per cent compared to last year\u2019s numbers. <\/p>\n Vernon Kay.\u00a0BBC\/Ray Burmiston<\/p>\n Bauer Media\u2019s music stations Hits Radio and Greatest Hits Radio are also seeing improvements, reaching a combined 12.9 mllion. <\/p>\n While numbers for BBC Radio 2 may be down, it still holds the title for the most listened to shows in the UK \u2013 with Vernon Kay\u2019s weekday show raking in 6.6 million people. <\/p>\n Scott Mills\u2019s Breakfast show, which airs weekdays from 6:30am, is not far behind, with 6.2 million people listening. <\/p>\n But Heart Radio, according to owner Global, has 415,000 more listeners than BBC Radio 2.<\/p>\n On the announcement of the figures, the BBC said in a statement: “Radio 2 firmly remains the UK\u2019s most listened to single radio station with an audience of 12.6 million listeners each week.”<\/p>\n Check out more of our Entertainment<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what’s on. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite 12.6 million still tuning in, the quarter period \u2013 which spanned 31st March to 22nd June 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-39139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Vernon](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/429956-8c0277a.jpg\" "\\"Vernon")
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