Moyles and Wogan lose listeners - Oct 25 2007
BBC breakfast rivals Chris Moyles and Terry Wogan have shed more than half a million radio listeners between them in the past three months, new figures reveal.

Chris, the self-styled "saviour of Radio 1", has 6.98 million listeners.

That is down 280,000 from the 7.26 million at the end of the previous quarter (April to June).

Terry presents the country's most popular breakfast show with 7.68 million listeners, but he is down 240,000 from the previous quarter.

Both DJs are attracting more listeners than they were at the same point last year - Moyles by 170,000 and Wogan by 30,000.

The dip is reflected nationally across radio listening as a whole.

The number of adults tuning into the radio each week is down 760,000 quarter-on-quarter to 44.9 million, according to figures from Rajar (Radio Joint Audience Research).

The summer is traditionally a quieter time for radio with people going on holiday, but during the same period last year it only fell by around 150,000.

A spokesman for Radio 1 said of the breakfast slot: "Moyles reached his own record listening figures in the previous quarter and the previous three quarters before that.

"When you have listeners of almost seven million, a dip like this is not a problem.

"With Radio 1 it's about long-term planning and that's why we're happy he's up year-on-year."

He said of the overall results: "People who are listening are listening for longer and are very loyal to the station."



Moyles ’embarrassed’ by fame - Oct 4 2007
He may be one of Britain’s best-loved DJs, but Chris Moyles admits that he finds fame difficult to cope with.

"It’s nice when people come up and say they love the show, but personally I can’t deal with it. Well, I can, but I get a bit embarrassed," he sighs.

"It’s just weird. It’s odd. I just find it very uncomfortable."

He’s also a little sick of the nicknames he can’t seem to shake.

"I haven’t called myself ’the saviour of Radio 1’ for about eight years," he sniffs.

"But I’d rather have that than ’motormouth DJ’. I don’t know what a ’motormouth’ is. I’m as irritated by ’motormouth’ as I am by shows in the afternoon being called ’drivetime’. What does ’drivetime’ mean? A time to drive?"

Chris also hates the subject of his weight and the "roly-poly" tag and has even invested in a treadmill. Unfortunately, his love of pizza and the pub keeps getting in the way.

"I’ll never be thin," he shrugs. "I’d like to lose weight, though it’s not going very well. The secret all us fatties know is that when we start to lose weight it falls off really quickly, so I could lose a stone in a month without trying that hard, but I’m just too easily distracted."



Moyles to audition for Tarantino role? - Sept 20 2007
Chris Moyles is said to be "seriously considering" forking out 800 US dollars to audition for a part in Quentin Tarantino’s next film.

The Kill Bill director was interviewed for the DJ’s Radio 1 breakfast show this week, and when Chris asked for a cameo role, Quentin answered: "If he comes in with 800 dollars I will see him and consider him for the role - 800 dollars is worth my time to see DJ Chris.

"Guys coming in with T-shirts three sizes too small, I like that," Tarantino joked. "It’s a good laugh, it breaks up my day."