{"id":152703,"date":"2025-11-25T10:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/152703\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:10:12","slug":"ken-bruce-says-he-no-longer-listens-to-his-former-radio-2-slot-as-he-reflects-on-falling-audience-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/152703\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Bruce says he no longer listens to his former Radio 2 slot as he reflects on falling audience numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He acknowledged that some listeners have followed him to Greatest Hits Radio. \u201cAm I aware that audience figures for the Radio 2 show have fallen since I left? Yes. Did some follow me over\u2026? Yes,\u201d he said. \u201cYou won\u2019t hear me gloating or badmouthing the BBC, though. My new show\u2019s doing well \u2013 apparently the audience has doubled since I joined \u2013 and that\u2019s all that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He acknowledged that some listeners have followed him to Greatest Hits Radio. \u201cAm I aware that audience figures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2974,156,157,111,139,69,9528,19328,100859],"class_list":{"0":"post-152703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-radio-2","15":"tag-reach","16":"tag-vernon-kay"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}