Have You Stopped Listening To R2/R4?

youngmafbog | 08:31 Thu 18th May 2023 | ChatterBank

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It appears that R4 has lost 1.2m listeners in 12 months.

I have never listened to R4, R2 sometimes but not for a few years so has it really changed that much so quickly?

I do listen to Boom, its very easy listening in the background without the inane chatter from the likes of Holden going on.

I know it CB (as I dont want it to be a political rant) but here's a link for some background https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12096309/BBC-Radio-4-seen-1-2million-people-stop-tuning-12-months-attempts-modernise.html

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douglas9401

Radio4 seems to have turned itself on it's head with male voices for continuity and female for content.

The gals all sound the same and I'm afraid I feel like I'm being nagged.

Radio2 is purely for Johnnie Walker these days.

david small

Radio 4 irregularly. Radio 2 never.

Old_Geezer

Not as such, but with so many stations any could be left tuned into for months or years at a time. Not had R2 or R4 on for ages, but not deliberately so.

barry1010

I only listen to Radio 2 and Radio 4 because I really cannot bear adverts. They send me in to a rage

david small

I loathe, detest, hate the perpetual bombardment of the advertising overkill. As my old gaffer used to say…let em rot…

Zacs-Master

Radio 2 has lost me completely. I used to be an avid listener 3/4 years ago.
Radio 4 I like when I'm driving or doing something else but Woman's hour drives me mad.

ToraToraTora

I still have R2 in the car.

douglas9401

I forgot the shipping forecast if I'm having a late night

Hopkirk

I quite often dip into Radio 4, but have all but given up on Radio 2.

Johnnie Walker's Sounds of the 70s is a must, and Jo Wiley plays some good music. I miss my fix of Paul O'Grady.

piggynose

I used to tune into R4 for 'just a minute' and 'a good read' .
Don't suppose they're still going.

ynnafymmi

I used to have R2 on all day.Now without Ken Bruce in the morning and Steve Wright in the afternoons, i dont bother anymore.Johnnie Walker is about the only good presenter they have left.

Rosie29

A Good Read is still on Piggy - it's usually on for about 6 weeks at a time.
I've stopped listening to the Today
programme - its too constrained by their timetable and interviews seem lifeless and are constantly interrupted.
I listen to LBC a lot now

roopower

I don't listen to the radio much, particularly as I'm not driving at the moment but I only listened to Ken Bruce on 2 anyway. I now listen to Boom if I do want the radio on.

vulcan42

I used to listen to Ken Bruce on Radio 2 but when he left the radio isn't on at all. I did try him on his new channel but found he'd joined the OTT, shouty brigade so he's not listened too now either. If I want background music there's always Spotify.

youngmafbog

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Boom does have adverts but not many. And no one shouts!

Most of the presenters work from their homes it seems, the other day one must have been playing vinyl as the song was jumping around old style :-)

wolf63

I have only ever listened to our local radio station which is now part of the Hits network (I think that is what it is called).

Ken Bruce is on it at one point during the morning. I don't like him or his voice/accent at all. He sounds smarmy and insincere.

lankeela

Only ever listen to the radio when driving - mostly radio 2 for the travel updates but turn to radio 4 when the northern accent women take over - they drive me mad as do most women presenters and the god botherers. Tony Blackburn and Rylan are the only ones I really enjoy and Johnny Walker for the music but not his monotone voice reading out a script as he tends to get to the end of a line then realise there is the rest of the sentence on the next line. I liked the Gold 50s 60s 70s station but can't seem to find that on my new car radio.