The legendary broadcaster, who now presents on Greatest Hits Radio<\/a> from Monday to Friday 10am-1pm, now has 3.8 million listeners tuning in each week, according to official data. He started at the station with 2.2 million listeners last April.<\/span><\/p>\n Bruce<\/a> spent over three decades presenting BBC Radio 2, where <\/span>his long-running PopMaster music radio quiz drew in a large audience, but made the decision to leave for the rival station<\/a> back in February 2023. He took his PopMaster quiz, to which he owns the rights, with him to his new home.<\/span><\/p>\n Charlotte Moore, BBC chief content officer, said: \u201cI\u2019m pleased that BBC Sounds continues to grow as audiences discover on-demand programming from us whenever they want to, and are able to choose from a wide range of high-quality BBC podcasts and music content to suit their moods.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, Bruce\u2019s former slot, now hosted by Vernon Kay, has lost 1.5 million listeners from the time slot since the broadcaster\u2019s departure, <\/span>according to analysis by radio consultancy Hallett Arendt, with just 6.8 million tuning in weekly over the past three weeks compared to 8.2 million in the same period last year.<\/span><\/p>\n However, the drop in listeners at BBC Radio 2<\/a> appears to be levelling off.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The station had an average weekly audience of 13.3 million people in October to December 2023, down 7% from 14.3 million in 2022, but a fall of just 1% in the previous three months, according to Rajar figures.<\/span><\/p>\n Greatest Hits Radio has seen a large jump in its audience over the last year, up 70 per cent from 4 million to 6.8 million.<\/span><\/p>\n Former Radio 2 presenter, host of the Greatest Hits Radio drive-time show, said he was \u201cdelighted\u201d at the station\u2019s success.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re hearing from more and more listeners who continue to find us on Greatest Hits Radio for Confessions, All-Request Friday and all the other fun stuff. What a very pleasant start to 2024,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n The 72-year-old finished two weeks before the end of his contract last March and later revealed that he<\/a> <\/span>disliked some of the music he was forced to play, admitting he had started to feel \u201cbitter and entrenched\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n Speaking to Gyles Brandreth for his podcast series Rosebud, the broadcaster said: \u201cThere was a point of saying that I can\u2019t enthuse over all the new music I\u2019m having to play as much as I could over the old music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAnd I didn\u2019t want to get to the stage where I was badmouthing some of the music [or] pretending to like it. I certainly did think I\u2019ve got a bit more to offer.\u201d<\/span><\/p> He continued: \u201cI didn\u2019t want to be declining over the next three or four years and still doing the same show, but everybody around me getting younger and thinking, \u2018Am I the old bloke in the corner here?\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI was the youngster on the station and then almost overnight I became the veteran, and I didn\u2019t want to become the old grump in the corner saying \u201cthings aren\u2019t what they used to be\u201d, or [to] any new idea say, \u2018No, we tried that, didn\u2019t work\u2019, which does happen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI just felt I would get more bitter and entrenched.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Visit our TV Guide<\/a>, Radio Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what\u2019s on.<\/strong><\/p>\n Try Radio Times magazine today and get 10 issues for only \u00a310 \u2013 <\/strong>subscribe now<\/a> and celebrate the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who with a special issue of Radio Times. 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