The second, he said, is "radio's unwillingness to target listeners in the 12- to 24-year-old demographic.
✒Monkey's numbers of the week: 15-29 (age of Radio 1's target listeners, according to its service licence) and 28 (the birthday Nick Grimshaw will celebrate on 14 August).
Targeting listeners in the US, India, Indonesia and, ultimately, China, is a prospect far removed from the station's former heartland audience of white van drivers ringing up to be harangued by James Whale.
A month later, the American Energy Alliance took its argument to the airwaves of Internet radio service Pandora, where it purchased 45 million spots targeting listeners in the potential presidential battleground states of Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia.
Thus, more data are required, especially using different target and listener tone languages.
So I spent a week ignoring the rest of radioland and listened to nothing but Radio 3. The first target of listeners' unrest is softly spoken Breakfast host Petroc Trelawny, who has the kind of accentless accent and measured demeanour you might find reassuring if he were the captain of your EasyJet flight to Bodrum, or your gran's oncologist.
The north has as many of the target ABC1 listeners as England in general, and not a lot fewer than London.
Radio 2 is accused by the Radio Centre of changing its programming to target younger listeners over the past decade, a policy that had been "disastrous" for the commercial radio sector, which has seen its share of the market plummet in recent years.
Though artists such as Adele and Ed Sheeran have known to cross both stations, such duplication between the two stations is frowned upon by the BBC Trust, which instructed Radio 1 to target teenage listeners and has mandated Radio 2 to ensure that it offers a distinctive service that caters for an older audience.
