There’s Good News And Bad News For Zoe Ball

There’s Good News And Bad News For Zoe Ball As New BBC Radio Figures Are Revealed
She took over the Radio 2 breakfast show from Chris Evans at the beginning of last year
New BBC Radio listening figures have been revealed, and there’s good news and bad news for Zoe Ball.
Zoe took over the Radio 2 breakfast show from Chris Evans at the beginning of 2019, after he took the much-publicised jump to Virgin Radio, where he continues to host the morning slot.
On Thursday, many outlets reported a decline in listening figures since Zoe began presenting the breakfast show on Radio 2, but that’s not actually the whole story.
Yes, the new data from the audience research body Rajar does show that listeners have dropped by almost a million in the space of 12 months, with 8.2 million tuning into Radio 2 in the morning in the last three months of 2019, compared to 9.1 million during Chris’ final quarter as host.