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Capital Radio's Johnny Vaughan and Lisa Snowdon were celebrating today after their breakfast show was named London's most popular.
Official industry figures released today found that the duo are reaching 1.1 million Londoners, putting them ahead of their rivals - including Radio1's Chris Moyles who reaches 980,000 in the capital.
Johnny Vaughan said today: "We're delighted to be top in London. I put it down to the Lisa Snowdon effect. She is great to work with. Without Lisa I would just go on and on and on. When she stops laughing I know that I'm not being funny anymore and move on.
"It means so much for the team here. There have been major cutbacks. We haven't made an advert in years and there was hardly any marketing when Lisa joined."
Sir Terry Wogan still hosts the country's most popular breakfast show after pulling away from Moyles, who was almost neck and neck in the previous set of quarterly figures.
Today's figures show 7.93million people tuned in to Wake Up To Wogan on BBC Radio 2 each week, up from 7.77 million in the last quarter and well clear of the Chris Moyles show, which had 7.72 million listeners each week, up from 7.7 million last quarter.
Figures from Radio Joint Audience Research (Rajar), the UK radio body, showed listener numbers overall to be at an all-time high - 46.3 million people tuned in for at least five minutes in the course of a normal week, or 90.3per cent of the population.
Radio 3, named station of the year at the Sony Radio Awards, can celebrate again after breaking the two million listener mark. A total of 2.02 million people tuned in each week during the last quarter, Radio 3's biggest audience for more than two years. Audiences were boosted by Radio 3's showcasing of three of its four "composers of the year" - Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn - and a poetry season.
The figures also showed that listening to radio via a digital platform had risen by 14 per cent year on year. For the first time, more than one third of the population now tunes in to radio via DAB set each week.
Radio 4 is reaching more than 10 million people a week - after adding an extra 465,000 listeners - and Radio 1 put on 660,000 listeners to take its audience to 11.34 million.
The BBC's digital stations had differing results. Urban music station 1Xtra increased its year-on year listeners by 29.1 per cent to 634,000, but 5 Live Sports Extra dropped 9.6 per cent to 676,000, and the Asian Network fell 11 per cent to 421,000.
LBC's breakfast show host Nick Ferrari saw his listeners increase to more than half a million for the first time.
Battle of the breakfast shows
Listeners in London per week
Johnny Vaughan and Lisa Snowdon on Capital 95.8 1,155,000
Terry Wogan, Radio 2 1,114,000
Chris Moyles, Radio 1 980,000
Neil Fox's More Music Breakfast Show,
Magic 105.4 858,000
Jamie Theakston and Harriet Scott, Heart 106.2 818,000
Kiss 100 Breakfast with Rickie & Melvin 789,000
Reader views (5)
I remember Johnny Vaughan back in the day we all used to hang around in a bar called Chelsea Classics. He was really good looking in those days and had the most beautiful girlfriend called Trilby that we were all in love with.
- Pete Davis, Chelsea London, 13/12/2009 16:52
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I wish Vaughan would stop rambling so much and stop shaving his head, he looks like his head has shrunk...he used to be a good looking lad, I remember him before he was famous all the girls fancied him back then, and his girlfriend back then {not his wife} was the most fit girl I'd ever seen...she had a stupid name though, can't remember it anymore.
- Janey, London, Notting Hill, 07/10/2009 15:46
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Iused to lisen to capital in the morning but all you get from this couple is smutty induendos and silly jokes not worth lisening to
- Terry Chambers, London, 07/10/2009 14:46
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Sorry Capital but I too have converted to Radio 1. Lisa is a good side kick but you need an extra something or someone to make it more humourous. Its a little dull since Welshy left.
- Wayne, Bucks, 07/10/2009 14:46
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Well done Capital, Moyles uses cheap risque jokes to get through his morning, not funny.
I do notice, though, that Absolute (Virgin) Radio isn't mentioned. Christian O'Connell is extreamely funny and clever and deserves some recognition. I listen to him most mornings and find it most enjoyable (and the music is better too)!
- Rod, Epping, UK, 07/10/2009 14:46
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