Two timing

"Remarkable" says acting Director of Audio and Music Graham Ellis, of Radio 2's performance in the latest audience figures. It attracted over 15m listeners in the last quarter of 2012. The Trustees have been trying to make it duller more distinctive, by insisting on 50/50 speech/music balance during daytime, but the network now boasts an extraordinary dominance - 17.6% of all radio listening in the UK.  And little sister station 6Music is up over 31% year on year.

TalkSPORT, as it waves bye bye to programme controller Moz Dee, is down 5% year on year. This will be a disappointment, considering the investment in football commentary rights. The live shows are up - but not enough to drive audience to the rest of the output.

BBC London, which said farewell in an uncomfortable way to Danny Baker, is down 12% year on year.  The BBC Asian Network, which appointed Mark Strippel as Head of Programmes in September, is down 5% year on year.  Radio Wales and Radio Cymru both lost close to 7% year on year.