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Wogan Delivers Blow to Radio Scotland Irish Star Helps Win Listeners at Expense Ofrival BBC Station

Posted on: Thursday, 27 October 2005, 18:01 CDT

By BRIAN BEACOM

BBC RADIO Scotland has taken a bruising in the radio ratings war - and the blow has been delivered by another BBC station.

Listening figures released today show that Radio 2, whose big names include Terry Wogan, is now matching Radio Scotland in its weekly listening figures.

Over-50s radio station Saga 105.2fm has seen its figures rise and Real Radio's numbers have also increased.

Radio 2 has achieved the same numbers in Scotland as Radio Scotland - 966,000 listeners each week.

Radio Scotland's numbers dropped from 982,000.

Real Radio's total listening figures, however, increased from 693,000 last quarter to 733,000.

A Real Radio spokesmansaid: "Real Radio remains Scotland's number one commercial radio station in terms of actual listeners, adding an extra 40,000 to give it another all-time high of 733,000 listeners a week."

Meanwhile, Radio Clyde's figures have dropped from 733,000 to 696,000 for stations Clyde 1 and Clyde 2.

The station, however, still maintains its domination of the west of Scotland.

Radio Clyde's managing director Paul Cooney said:

''We have widened the gap on our commercial radio rivals and are well ahead of BBC radio."

Saga Radio has again enjoyed a slight increase going up 3000 to 185,000.

Saga managing director Norman Quirk said: "I'm delighted with the figures Across the nation, the rise of BBC Radio 1 star Chris Moyles continues.

Moyles has been hailed as the station's saviour attracting just over 6.5million listeners.

He replaced Sara Cox in January.

But Radio 2 still remains the most popular radio station across Britain with 12.86m listeners.

brian. beacom@ eveningtimes. co. uk

Source: Evening Times; Glasgow (UK)

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