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Times Radio and Boom Radio Record Gains as Radio 2 Hits Multi-Year Low

New RAJAR data highlight listener migration following BBC presenter reshuffles, with audiences shifting to digital, niche stations

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Former Radio 2 DJ David Hamilton is one of the stars of BBC rival, Boom Radio (Photo: George Wilkes/Hulton Archive/Getty)
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Overview

  • Times Radio’s weekly reach climbed 29% year-on-year to 616,000 listeners, cementing its status as the UK’s fastest-growing talk station
  • Boom Radio achieved a record 711,000 weekly listeners, up 14% on last year and its highest figure since launching in 2021
  • BBC Radio 2’s overall audience fell to 12.62 million in Q2 2025 and its breakfast show to 6.22 million, both the lowest figures since RAJAR’s current methodology began
  • Radio 3’s breakfast programme lost 20% of its audience, dropping to 639,000 weekly listeners after Tom McKinney replaced Petroc Trelawny in April
  • GB News Radio averaged 547,000 listeners (down 2% quarter-on-quarter, up 6% year-on-year) while Talk held 487,000 weekly listeners (flat quarter-on-quarter, down 29% year-on-year)