BBC Director of Conent Charlotte Moore, Director of Music Lorna Clarke and Head of Radio 2 Helen Thomas face a tricky call - how to replace Ken Bruce at Radio 2 in just over 70 days.
One hopes they've gamed this for some time. One suspects they didn't really think Ken, at 71, would take his complete show, including Popmaster, to Greatest Hits Radio. He'll have three hours there from April 1st, replacing Mark Goodier, in a schedule that includes others who made their name at the BBC including Simon Mayo, Jackie Brambles, Alex Lester and Andy Crane. Greatest Hits Radio UK reached 3.7m weekly in the latest published listening figures, but you can add Greatest Hits Network of close to 50 'local' stations, which carry much of the same weekday content, totalling 4.1m. Greatest Hits owners are Bauer, and Ben Cooper, a former Controller of Radio 1, runs their UK radio operations.
Since the departure of Chris Evans, Ken Bruce's mid-morning show has topped the Radio 2 listening figures, returning weekly reach figures up to 8.7m. You feel Ken will do more for Bauer's Greatest Hits than Evans has done for News UK's Virgin Radio....
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