{"id":282205,"date":"2025-11-25T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282205\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:27:08","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\/uk\/282205\/","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":282206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[243,96,128,115245,24435,56,54,55,50208],"class_list":["post-282205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bbc","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-radio-2","tag-reach","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vernon-kay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}