"We are number one at breakfast and are building a loyal audience base, with listeners listening longer.
"She helped to ensure the views of listeners and viewers were listened to by decision-makers across the industry," added Browne.
They said it would break the basic bond of accountability between the BBC and licence payers (the BBC may be not so good at listening to viewers and listeners concerns but at least you know what your getting for your money) and lead inexorably to the licence fee being used to pay for unpopular programmes unfundable by other means.
You always have to listen to the viewers or listeners.
"A major cultural force", was our panel's take on the DJ who has nearly 9 million listeners a week and also hosts the Friday edition of BBC1's The One Show.
It was repeated throughout the show's three hours as a constant reminder to listeners that – whatever Barclays' staggeringly broad sins of the past (mis-selling, rigging interest rates, violating sanctions) – it is now firmly on the side of the angels.
Cameron read out a number of text messages from listeners in the "listener breaking news" section of the show, which included "I let my new chickens out this morning" and "On my way to pick up my new Mini".
As other media audiences fragment, radio listeners seem as dedicated to their favourite stations – we each have 2.4 of those, according to recent research – as ever.
He defended the country's third nuclear test in February, which led to a new United Nations security council resolution tightening sanctions, telling listeners: "Our nuclear weapons have served as a strong war deterrent to defend our national security and sovereignty".
In an attempt to stamp out the digital radio divide between urban and rural areas, and to make sure listeners across the whole country can tune in to digital stations, Ofcom is also advertising a series of 12 local multiplex licences.
The US listeners are courting global financial disaster.
