Worse news still?

[MickyD]

No news for a while about Catherine...has anyone been listening to her CFM programme recently? Any comments?

[Andrew Slater]

I listened the other week - see my post.

[french frank]

No news for a while about Catherine...has anyone been listening to her CFM programme recently? Any comments?

No, but CFM's listening figures were up 5% on last year!

[Zucchini]

No, but CFM's listening figures were up 5% on last year!

And the more useful measure, total hours spent listening to CFM is down by 2.5% - must be people switching off after a few minutes of her programme, don't you think? ;-)

[Black Swan]

And the more useful measure, total hours spent listening to CFM is down by 2.5% - must be people switching off after a few minutes of her programme, don't you think? ;-)

I haven't listened to her program, so I don't know if people are switching off after a few minutes of her program. I can say I do after several of R3's programmes.

:-)

[doversoul1]

Why do some people keep making derogatory comments about CFM? Does it make them feel somewhat superior? CFM does what it says it does. If it’s not something you chose to listen, that is no reason to sneer at it.

[french frank]

And the more useful measure, total hours spent listening to CFM is down by 2.5% - must be people switching off after a few minutes of her programme, don't you think? ;-)

The standard is now more demanding on its listeners, I suppose. Actually, listeners are on average listening to the station 30 mins less per week, so it would probably mean that those who listen to the programme conk out, mentally exhausted, just before the end

ds, I think Zucchini was getting one on me!

[Barbirollians]

Now Petroc Trelawny is smarming all over Music Matters another Radio 3 programme to stop listening to . I find his oleaginous presentation style quite insufferable and have done ever since he was first recruited from Classic FM and was presenting On Air .

[Serial_Apologist]

oleaginous.

I do love this word - it makes me think of the honey that dripped onto my carpet the other day, which then got stuck to the underside of my shoe.

[Stanfordian]

Why do some people keep making derogatory comments about CFM? Does it make them feel somewhat superior? CFM does what it says it does. If it’s not something you chose to listen, that is no reason to sneer at it.

I enjoy listening to Classic FM as well as Radio 3 at various times of the day. There are one or two presenters at Classic FM that I try to avoid equally there Radio 3 programmes that I pass up too. On the whole I can find a satisfying listening mix from both stations.

[Zucchini]

s, I think Zucchini was getting one on me!

I was no more serious than you were (I hope) in drawing attention to a 5% rise in listeners since the arrival of Catherine's programme.

[french frank]

I was no more serious than you were (I hope) in drawing attention to a 5% rise in listeners since the arrival of Catherine's programme.

Well spotted! Yes, it was tongue-in-cheek