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The station's bosses are focused on attracting a younger audience – but kids today have many more places to find music

Radio 1's breakfast show is no longer the most listened-to programme on British radio. That distinction belongs to Chris Evans on Radio 2. Nevertheless it's the show whose performance matters most to BBC bosses. They charged incoming Radio 1 controller Ben Cooper with lowering the station's age profile. Nothing is more important to the BBC's future than keeping a line open to the teenagers they hope will become licence fee payers. That's one of the...

The BBC inquisitor was honoured for his dissection of George Entwistle. But why do DGs put themselves through it?

John Humphrys wins the "radio journalism of the year" prize for, inter alia, his masterly dismemberment of George Entwistle on the morning before poor George and his director generalship disappeared into the long night of trust disavowal. Admirable, eh? No BBC mandarin too mighty to escape a Humphing good towsing. You don't get much more independent and award-worthy than that.

Which is what the judges obviously thought. Any alternative? Just, perhaps, that it's slightly odd to...

Danny Baker, Eddie Mair and Cerys Matthews were deserving winners at last week's Sony awards

The Sony Radio Academy awards

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Cerys on 6 (6 Music) | iPlayer

To the Sony Radio Academy awards last Monday, radio's annual big bash. The Sonys have improved over the past few years: slicker and (slightly) quicker, with host Chris Evans ditching his cringey comments on women's appearances and, instead, this time, putting his son Noah on stage, for the "Aw" factor....

Today is an exciting day for me and my team as we are launching the BBC iPlayer Radio app for Android devices.

Producer Andy West gives an overview of Radio 2's special week of programmes celebrating the majesty of the human voice.

When Radio 4’s Broadcasting House launched an appeal for lost recordings of Alistair Cooke’s Letter from America, last October, no one could have imagined that it would lead to over 620 missing programmes being restored to the BBC’s archive.

BBC Radio 2 listeners have voted Buck Fizz’s ‘Making Your Mind Up’ as their all-time favourite UK Eurovision song.

A team of employees from Real and Smooth Radio across the UK are walking up five mountains today to raise money for charity.

Kerrang! Radio’s Rockdog, which presents a weekly show on the Birmingham-based rock station – is to be temporarily replaced by a horse.