{"id":450176,"date":"2026-02-05T08:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/450176\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:39:09","slug":"bbc-radio-3-bounces-back-after-summer-dip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/450176\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio 3 bounces back after summer dip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>norman lebrecht<\/p>\n<p>February 04, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The Rajar figures are out for the last quarter of 2025 and it\u2019s good news for Radio 3, less so for Classic FM.<\/p>\n<p>After a mysterious dip in the summer quarter, down from around 1.95 million to 1.81, Radio 3 has risen again to 1.91 million, a quarterly increase of 106,000 listeners.<\/p>\n<p>Breakfast \u00a0presenter Tom McKinney has done particularly well, with the slot\u2019s highest reach in more than a year.<\/p>\n<p>Classic FM has continued its inexorable slide, down from 4.26 million to 4.2m.<\/p>\n<p>There is no measuring how much podcasts are eating into stable music stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"norman lebrecht February 04, 2026 The Rajar figures are out for the last quarter of 2025 and it\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-450176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}