First Name: Sara. Piers tweeted: "Congrats to Steve Wright on a dazzlingly successful 23-year run presenting his brilliant afternoon show on @BBCRadio2 - hes an absolute master of the broadcasting craft & such a great guy too. BBC Radio 2 - Sara Cox Sara Cox Home Episodes Half Wower on Sounds Totally Teavoted Contact Join Sara Cox for fantastic music, plenty of giggles, and lots of listener interaction. "Always loved doing his show, and seeing him work his magic. It felt like Id scrabbled over the years with bloodied hands to the top of a very scrabbly hill. She was so excited about the new show that for the first month she didnt sleep very well. I feel like partnerships can be risky and fail so having Sara Cox present it solo was a good move. Simon Mayo Drivetime, is the incarnation of the drivetime show on BBC Radio 2 between 11 January 2010 and 4 May 2018, being revived briefly for Mayo's final show with the station on 21 December that year, and then fully from 15 March 2021 on Greatest Hits Radio.It is broadcast on weekdays from 16:00 to 19:00 in the United Kingdom. Overview for BBC Radio 2 Survey period September 2021 to December 2021 Total population covered 55,675,000 adults (15+) Total listeners per week 14,866,000 (27.0%) adults (15+) Hours per listener 11.1 hours per week Total hours listened 164,463,000 hours per week Market share 16.4% Historical charts It means he's now in competition with his former drivetime slot on BBC Radio 2 (now occupied by Sara Cox). The radio golden girl - whose show was rapped for a smutty live interview with Ali G earlier this year - saw her audience slump as the station overall lost a million. Monday, 1st May 2023See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. GP appointments crisis laid bare as figures show family doctors are cramming in up to 60 patients per day. Zoe Ball and Sara Cox appear on the list of salaries for the first time, after taking over the Radio 2 breakfast and drivetime shows respectively. Detailed information on the survey process. This is useful to work out whether the audience likes what they hear: or the consistency of the station sound. Call for millions to take part in 'Homage of the People' to King Charles at the coronation sparks backlash NANA AKUA: Why I'm thrilled by the invitation to pledge my 'true allegiance' to King Charles III, MICK HUME: An oath of allegiance to the King? Assessing the final result of the shake-up at Radio 2, which has resulted in Zoe Ball hosting the breakfast show and Sara Cox hosting Drivetime, Mayo said: "It's not the way I'd have . When things are changed, people dont like it. It's tantamount to treason that she did it on Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" a few days ago! It's even worse when Liza Tarbuck replaces Simon Mayo for the Drive Time Show (the confession is the only thing I really listen to), it's two hours of Liza . Sara Joanne Cyzer (ne Cox; born 13 December 1974) is an English broadcaster. Thanks Steve!". This market overview is based on the first three waves of the Tracking Panel, comparing listening through April, May and June with pre-lockdown. The presenterAnd new figures from industry body Rajar show that she dropped further in the third quarter - from 8.27 million weekly listeners to 7.90 million.the final three months to feature John Humphrys as a hostThe Rajar figures showed Ball's programme . On Friday, fans of the station vented their anger as it was revealed that Steve's much-loved afternoon show was coming to an end this September. including Sara Cox taking over the drive-time slot. I was waking up at 4am with mad adrenaline, she says. Classic FM was another station to claim that the World Cup had helped to swell its audience. As Grimmy hangs up his headphones, the DJ reflects on Breakfast and Brits all-nighters and reveals why he's taking a break from radio. I really don't think so.Get this woman off. Height: 174 cm | 5'9" Search Tags. Not that gigs get much bigger for Cox. Since January 2019 she now hosts the BBC Radio 2 's drivetime show, Monday-Friday 5pm-7pm. On the 'teatime' show,How long before she lapses into urine territory again?? This show is the closest I am to me as when Im on the radio, she says, when we meet in her dressing room. Would Mayo,Walker or Dunn have gone there? Discover the history of the three RAJAR contracts, and understand the review of methods and sampling and fieldwork events timeline. She was offered the Radio 2 drive-time slot, taking over from Simon Mayo and Jo Whiley, in January. . . "Im trying not to say I dont care anymore, he told Radio Times. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. The latest listening figures revealed that the Radio 2 breakfast show . Radio 2 star Sara Cox, 47, was hosting Tuesday's show when she asked listeners to call in. said they will stop listening to the afternoon slot when he leaves. Cox, who had been standing in for Evans on the Breakfast Show, refuses point-blank to talk about whether she was disappointed to lose out to Ball. Ifall we ask of music, for example, is to provide us with what we already know and like, it deniesour imaginations the emotional and intellectual stimulation other realms of music can bring. Last Name: Cox. Sara Cox was unveiled as the new host of BBC Radio 2's drivetime programme as part of a new evening schedule. Despite her ordeal, Sara had the last laugh when years later, as a successful Radio 1 presenter, when one of her bullies got in touch for an on air . All Rights Reserved. Sara. Radio 2 underwent a number of line-up changes at the start of the year, including Sara Cox . Janice Long and Annie Nightingale should still be on the airwaves. I'm a fan of the Johnnie Walker / Simon Mayo laid back school of Drivetime broadcasting (hated Chris Evans in that slot) and that brief snippet of Sara Cox in the car wasn't to my liking. As Steve left Wogan House house on Friday to told waiting reporters ''That's the way it goes You know, sometimes people want you, sometimes they don't. I can't stand it when Evans is off. Sara Cox is an acclaimed English broadcaster. All Rights Reserved, We use cookies to enhance your experience while using our website. Documents to detail all the latest market information. The number of people tuning in weekly to Zoe Ball's BBC Radio 2 show has fallen by 780,000 since January. He quit the station after an unsuccessful pairing with Jo Whiley . We cant fib obviously. Yes, we know the problem. Listening to their prattle about formations, Sven, Sir Alex, running deep from midfield etc etc et . I feel like Im given free rein to just have fun, to just really be myself, she says. But with this; her radio show; her other TV work; and her childhood memoir, Till the Cows Come Home, that came out in March, is she not worried about becoming overexposed? Dates of the upcoming scheduled releases of RAJAR data. Lewis Carnie (pictured), who has been. FM Lover Posts: 45,971. Apparently theyseem happy to stoop lower and lower to achieve them believingtheyre too big and powerful to be constrained by petty irritations like the Royal Charter ortheir responsibilities as the UKsonlyPublic Sector Broadcaster. While her style style is quite different to that of Evans she has seemingly grown older gracefully and managed to successfully shed her 'ladette' label . . 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Trevatanus. Stylist: Sasha Barrie, assisted by Raphael Delbono. The presenter's figures fell from 9.05 million to 8.27 million in the second quarter . The BBC is supposed to provide content that the commercial sector cant do thats why we pay them the licence fee. Simon Mayo has said the decision to bring Jo Whiley in as a co-host on his BBC Radio 2 show was the result of "genuine pressure from the top about improving the number of women in daytime". There were some legal conversations that happened and we didnt do it again. Vanessa Feltz has been a welcome change over the last week. Female. The move comes after months of speculation that Cox was to be replaced following falling. Managing editor Darren Henley said: "At a time when sports stations such as Radio 5 Live have picked up listeners with their World Cup coverage, those who are not so interested in football have come to Classic FM for something a little different. Sudden changes to this figure normally represent a change in the survey area, which is requested by stations themselves, reflecting a change in transmission or programming, and will affect the above figures. Radio star She might be keen to push her TV credentials but Cox is still Queen of the airwaves. It seems I'm not alone, STEPHEN POLLARD: It's often the self-proclaimed anti-racists who are the foulest of the lot. Getting tea time in October, says Cox, was a momentous moment. The top of another scrabbly hill, perhaps? For me despite the self obcessed whinging and pouting of John Humphries on R4 Today (& anything else he's involved in) the most outrageously aggravating presenters are the holy trinity on Five Live (step forward Messers Saggers, Green and Ingham). From 1655 until 1918 it served as the residence town of the Princes of Waldeck-Pyrmont and then until 1929 as the capital of the Waldeck Free State.The International Tracing Service has its headquarters in Bad Arolsen. These seem to have done really badly-GHR West Sussex (formerly Spirit FM) down to 25,000 and 12% reach (used to be around 55,000) and GHR Salisbury which used to be a really high rating local now down to 17,000 and 13% reach (sure it used to be more like 40% reach),Swansea Bay Radio (Now Breezy) down again at only 14,000 (3%: reach . Asthe then chairman of the BBC, Gavyn Davies made clearin a speech in March 2002, [To] justify the licence fee we must first make sure that the public consumes our services in huge numbers. The extent to which this kind of populist thinking has become an ideology was revealed by the former Controller of BBC 1 Peter Fincham, when he gave the McTaggart Lecture at the Media Guardian Edinburgh TV Festival in 2007, claiming public sector broadcasting should mean mass medium broadcasting and that he was fighting to assert the importance of mass audiences.. Sara Cox is the new Drivetime host on Radio 2 (Ian West/PA) December 7 Fiona Bruce was confirmed as the new presenter of Question Time - saying she is "thrilled and not a little daunted". Currently, she hosts Drivetime on BBC Radio 2 Monday- Friday from 5 pm to 7 pm. All rights reserved. TalkSPORT saw its audience rise by 8% in a year to 2.4 million a week. My money's on Sara Cox for the drivetime show. But for the public to consume the BBCs services in huge numbers then programmesmust have characteristics that appeal to the majority, or to put it anotherway, they must appeal to the lowest common denominator sothere you have it, the Dumbers Down Charter. The result isan endless diet of populism reflectingageneral panic within the corporations corridors of power about connecting with younger audiences. She is the middle child of parents Jimmy Tarbuck and Pauline Tarbuck. No, she cackles. I'm an astrology expert and it's obvious why Meghan Markle is skipping King Charles' coronation. In truth, the show does feel scripted and therefore a tad stilted in a way that Coxs radio show absolutely doesnt. Radio 2 Live (formally known as Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park and Radio 2's Festival in a Day) is a British music festival that took place from 2011 to 2019 in Hyde Park in London, and it was due to be held in Leeds in September 2022, but it was cancelled due to the death of Elizabeth II.. The DJ will make the switch . Hair & Make-Up: Liz Beckett. However figures released today by research company Rajar (Radio Joint Audience Research Ltd) show that it went down from 7.8 million to 6.9 million in 12 months. Listening to their prattle about formations, Sven, Sir Alex, running deep from midfield etc etc et . How Sara Cox has re-branded BBC Radio 2 'Drive time' show and why she plans to build a fort . We use the largest available reported area for each station in RAJAR. She hopes it will run for a long time. Radio 2 drivetime - another show ruined . I love Liza Tarbuck and wish Sara Cox could replace Chris Evans. Rose Hill. Simon Mayo has said the decision to bring Jo Whiley in as a co-host on his BBC Radio 2 show was the result of "genuine pressure from the top about improving the number of women in daytime". Radio 5 Live enjoyed a record audience in the past year with 6.7 million tuning in each week - up almost a million compared to a year ago. Height: 174 cm | 5'9" Search Tags. But during the last few years I wonder if we love the idea of the BBC more than we do the institution itself. District Office 121 West Tabernacle St George Utah 4770 T 435 673-3553 F 435 673-3216 Monday Friday 730am 4pm Contact Us. But the year has been a tough one for 46-year-old . Youve got Jonathan Ross on ITV and then Graham Nortons massive on BBC1, she says, an idea clearly forming in her head. English broadcaster . Most of us love the BBC. Oh dear. . For years critics of the BBC have argued that in chasing ratings we are loosing alternatives to popular culturein the Corporations relentless pursuit of mass audiences. Louise Molony. He will go up against Sara Cox, DJ on his old Radio 2 show. Last Name: Cox. . 'I'm proud that the network keeps millions of people entertained each day and would like to thank everyone in Wogan House for their dedication and passion, which makes Radio 2 both a very special radio station and a fantastic place to work.'. More info: to find out more, including station addresses, people who work there, audience figures and how to listen, see BBC Radio 2s directory listing. The station broadcasts a wide range of content, the BBC Radio 2 about page stating: "With a repertoire covering more than 40 years, Radio 2 plays the widest . Director General Tony Hall has defended the right of his (highly paid) executives to have second jobs, such as hisController of Business, Knowledge and Daytime, who, according to Private Eye, had time to run a caf business in Berkhamstead called Here. Well, on the face of it, quite a lot. I am however glad to see that the recent announcements of Zoe Ball replacing Evans presenting the Breakfast Show, and Sara . Her husband, Ben Cyzer, had food poisoning and the pair of them were at the GP surgery when the call from Coxs agent came in. She has continued his All Request Friday feature, which he now plans to introduce himself at Greatest Hits Radio. The presenter, best known for her radio stints, fizzes with energy on screen every Saturday and Sunday morning, practically bouncing out of her chair as she interviews guests from the worlds of music, literature, arts and entertainment. Radio 2s audience and output has changed beyond all recognition over the past decade, said an independent report complied by the Radio Centre called Reach Not Reith,adding,This could have been a good thing, but it has not been., The report reminds us thatRadio 2 is licensed to serve all age groups over 35, but instead, a series of programming polices have driven its audience youngerthe strongest growth has come from the demographic outside the stations target audience. And dont we know it. First Name: Sara. Join Sara Cox for fantastic music, plenty of giggles, and lots of listener interaction Whiley will remain on the station but move to the 7-9pm slot, which means Drive will get . Birmingham. "Hopefully theyll come over and find us on Greatest Hits," he grinned, while talking to The Mirror. He hopes to lure his Radio 2 listeners from the "dark side" when he reunites with sports presenter Matt Williams and food guru Nigel Barden. Radio 5 Live benefited from throwing its weight behind the World Cup campaign, during which the network was based in Japan and South Korea. Since 1999, there have been many more radio stations launched, so total share will have decreased for most stations. If Radio 2 was a commercial channel they would have created a Ken Bruce spin off station by now, Kisstory now has more than the main station (2118k vs 2111k). As far as I know, nobody has any problems.". She's just done a particularly coarse and base link recalling how some bloke she knew could practically recite the alphabet whilst belching. Radio 2 led the decline, losing almost one million weekly listeners after promoting Zoe Balland Sara Cox to highprofile slots in a overhaul of schedules. Well done BBCRadio2. . BBC Radio 4 had 10.76m listeners with 6.71m tuning in for The Today programme (Monday to Saturday) BBC Radio 5 Live posted a reach of 5.91m listeners Radio 1Xtra had 880k listeners, BBC Radio 4. Im a big fan of Graham but if he does want to go and retire then Ill have his show if he wants to bequeath it to me.. Sara Cox is one of the most successful Radio hosts in England. "i'm on the m25 simon," "wow, where are you going?" This page has the latest official audience figures. If not replace. Where a station is surveyed across multiple areas, individual areas may achieve higher figures. However the World Cup coverage proved a boon for Radio 5 Live and talkSPORT. Discussing the final result of the shake-up at Radio 2 after he left, which resulted in Zoe Ball hosting the breakfast show and Sara Cox hosting Drivetime, Mayo said: "It's not the way I'd have . She makes corny quips between links; pulls funny faces; and, in her own words, generally dicks about. Leave Wright in his 2-5 slot - to me, he is Mr Afternoon and untouchable. Ex-Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills is already bedding in brilliantly in the 2-4pm . Copyright Rachel Rodgers Design 2021. bbc radio 2 presenters past and present. Somehow, the BBC simply dont get it when it comes to radio. 7,000 troops from 40 countries hold full-scale rehearsal as RAF base is Latin translation of 'long live Queen Camilla, long live King Charles' will greet royal couple as they enter Rare 12th century coin that depicts Malcolm IV of Scotland will go on show in Dunfermline to mark the King's Do not sell or share my personal information. "I can only apologise if you've got children listening in the car. It was an affair that has come to symbolise everything that an unquantifiable section of the public believe is wrong with the BBC, when, in an era of eye-watering amounts of Licence Payers money being trouseredby BBC executives and celebrity presenters, the only thing the Corporation appearsinterested in is chasing ratings. It's annoying having adverts but it still feels all warm and fuzzy and familiar. Sara Cox's drivetime afternoon show on BBC Radio 2 - suffused with her reassuring Bolton tones and warm sense of humour - has been ever present throughout this past year and all the fear, misery and lockdowns. contributing to a 33 . and simon mayo, on his weekday drivetime programme, came up with his "three word" slot, asking listeners to text in with gems like "toothache comes back" or "two soggy dogs," which was bad enough, but it's his phone-in that takes the biscuit: "hi peter, where are you?" 19:00 - Jo Whiley's Shiny Happy Playlist . ukraine russia border live camera /; June 24, 2022 Weve had Chris Evans asking listeners to text-in on his Dont Forget spot, as in Dont forget to pick up the children. Then weve had Lisa Tarbuck you cant make this up saying, We have a few men in the family called James and we call them Jimmy or Jim, and askinglisteners to text in with similar examples. Simon also gave his take on why Jo Whiley was brought in to co-host the Radio 2 Drivetime show, when he had given "Radio 2 the highest listening figures it ever had." Breakfast Show host Sara Cox has lost 900,000 listeners from her BBC Radio 1 audience in a year, figures showed today. Who RAJAR is owned by and what we do. I love his company. Disappointing results for Dee 106.3 (17,000) and Silk FM (8,000). The radio golden girl - whose show was rapped . 10,771 posts. Cox believes they add to its informality, putting guests at ease. This market overview is based on the first three waves of the Tracking Panel, comparing listening through April, May and June with pre-lockdown. I'm not a great radio listener but even I have stopped listening to Radio 2 of late because Chris Evans grates on me, and the new drivetime combo of Simon Mayo & Jo Whiley doesn't click with me. Indeed she was given a daily show as part of the May schedule reshuffle, albeit from 10pm to midnight. Scott Mills will host a brand new show on Radio 2 from 2-4pm with drivetime's Sara Cox being granted an extra hour of her show. First Name: Sara. Assessing the final result of the shake-up at Radio 2, which has resulted in Zoe Ball hosting the breakfast show and Sara Cox hosting Drivetime, Mayo said: "It's not the way I'd have designed it. 14. 51-year-old Zoe Ball (Image: BBC/Ray Burmiston) Listening figures for the BBC have dropped after older DJs were replaced with younger . 18:30 - Sara Cox's Half Wower . But that wasn't really the truth - I just didn't have a . 2021 Associated Newspapers Limited. . You definitely appreciate it second time round. Stein suggested Mayo could attract both former Radio 2 devotees and new listeners. But Jo Whiley is not in their league. . BBC Radio 1 DJ Sara Cox is to be replaced as host of the station's breakfast show by Chris Moyles. Castyour mind back to 2008 and the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross affair. Drivetime host says bosses were under 'genuine pressure from the top to improve the number of women'. Figures last week showed an improvement with 8.2 million weekly listeners, but is still a long way short of the 9.1 million listeners from a year earlier, when Evans was presenting. Last Name: Cox. , updated Listening to Radio 2 this morning, why hasn't Sara Cox been given the morning show permanently. But she still has the biggest youth show in Europe.". 13:50, 2 FEB 2023. Their firm beliefthat any music thats not pop or rock is out of touch with majority taste and thus irrelevant was epitomised inthe way they did away with the long standing distinction between Radio 1 (pop) and Radio 2 (easy listening) a few years ago by eliding Radio 1 into Radio 2 to produce two pop stations that aggressively compete with each other and the commercial sector for ratings. Hair & Make-Up: Liz Beckett. Mr Carnie, who will leave after this summer, was also at the helm for the ill-fated decision to team up Jo Whiley with Simon Mayo on the station's drive-time show in 2018. In a statement given by the BBC at the time Bob Shennan, former Radio 2 controller and now BBC's Director of Radio and Music, said: "I'm delighted that two of Radio 2's most popular. The total bill for the BBC's executive board, including non-executives, was 4.3m, which is a drop from 4.8m the year prior. Radio 2 listeners name U2's Joshua Tree the ultimate album of the 80s . Hannah Betts' Better Not Younger. Scott Mills, the presenter who took over her slot during her maternity leave, was given the drivetime slot permanently. Sara Cox is an English broadcaster known for presenting BBC Radio 1 Breakfast and currently hosting BBC Radio 2 drivetime show. With Face-to-Face recruitment being suspended at the end of March, RAJAR introduced a Tracking Panel to evaluate radio listening during our time in Lockdown. Starting out her radio career at Radio Nova Dublin presenting the overnight show . Breakfast Show host Sara Cox has lost 900,000 listeners from her BBC Radio 1 audience in a year, figures showed today. But parachuting Whiley into Drivetime has not proved a solution. Sara Cox. Assessing the final result of the shake-up at Radio 2, which resulted in Zoe Ball hosting the breakfast show and Sara Cox hosting Drivetime, Mr Mayo said: "It's not the way I'd have designed it. Cox probably had more hours on air at Radio 2 then either Evans or Mayo when they took over drive. Sarah Cox keeps fucking talking over the songs on Radio 2 every morning. 18/03/2021 17:36. Don't get done, get Joe Lycett! . Hes a nice guy and a complete one off. ! Come on Radio 2,You can do better than this. I'm a bit older and never listened to her in her 'ladette' days on Radio 1.But as she has been a regular stand in on 2 recently ,and did sounds of the 80s,I've really warmed to her quick and witty but not too in your face style.I'd hoped she would get the breakfast slot as I prefer her to Zoe Ball -but on reflection maybe this slot is ideal for her,and a great wind down to the . The DJ also confessed that he no longer listens to the BBC show, but wishes his friends and former colleagues all the best. Sara Cox is grieving the loss of her older brother David, who suddenly passed away on December 6. Well, sort of. While not directly related to the radio output, the survey area population shows how many people live in the survey area that the above figures are based on.
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