Chris Evans’ BBC Radio 2 breakfast show has dropped to its lowest listening figures in six years after losing more than half a million listeners over the past year.
Elsewhere at the corporation, BBC Radio 5 Live’s breakfast show has seen its largest quarter-on-quarter percentage rise in listeners since 2010.
Lewis Carnie, head of Radio 2, said: “I’m proud that BBC Radio 2 remains the most listened to radio station in the UK, with 14.64 million listeners each week.”
Evans – who has hosted the breakfast show since January 2010 – has consistently pulled in more than nine million listeners per week since September 2012.