{"id":79123,"date":"2019-02-07T01:01:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/02\/07\/bbc-radio-4-sheds-750000-listeners-in-year\/"},"modified":"2019-02-07T01:01:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T00:01:07","slug":"bbc-radio-4-sheds-750000-listeners-in-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=79123","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio 4 sheds 750,000 listeners in year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flagship news and current affairs station\u2019s Rajar figures hit hard by commercial rivalsBBC Radio 4 has lost three-quarters of a million listeners in the last year, according to official figures that show the challenge facing the corporation\u2019s speech radio stations from commercial rivals.Figures for the final three months of 2018 show the BBC\u2019s flagship news and current affairs station reached 10.5 million Britons a week, down 750,000 on the same period last year, while BBC 5 Live lost 10% of its audience in the last 12 months and is now listened to by fewer than 5 million people a week. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2019\/feb\/07\/bbc-radio-4-sheds-750000-listeners-in-year-rajar-figures-commercial-rivals\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio 4 sheds 750,000 listeners in year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flagship news and current affairs station\u2019s Rajar figures hit hard by commercial rivalsBBC Radio 4 has lost three-quarters of a million listeners in the last year, according to official figures that show the challenge facing the corporation\u2019s speech radio stations from commercial rivals.Figures for the final three months of 2018 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}