The summer is traditionally a quieter time for radio with people going on holiday, but during the same period last year it only fell by around 150,000.

A spokesman for Radio 1 said of the breakfast slot: "Moyles reached his own record listening figures in the previous quarter and the previous three quarters before that.

"When you have listeners of almost seven million, a dip like this is not a problem.

"With Radio 1 it’s about long-term planning and that’s why we’re happy he’s up year-on-year."

He said of the overall results: "People who are listening are listening for longer and are very loyal to the station."



Moyles ’embarrassed’ by fame - Oct 4 2007
He may be one of Britain’s best-loved DJs, but Chris Moyles admits that he finds fame difficult to cope with.

"It’s nice when people come up and say they love the show, but personally I can’t deal with it. Well, I can, but I get a bit embarrassed," he sighs.

"It’s just weird. It’s odd. I just find it very uncomfortable."

He’s also a little sick of the nicknames he can’t seem to shake.

"I haven’t called myself ’the saviour of Radio 1’ for about eight years," he sniffs.

"But I’d rather have that than ’motormouth DJ’. I don’t know what a ’motormouth’ is. I’m as irritated by ’motormouth’ as I am by shows in the afternoon being called ’drivetime’. What does ’drivetime’ mean? A time to drive?"

Chris also hates the subject of his weight and the "roly-poly" tag and has even invested in a treadmill. Unfortunately, his love of pizza and the pub keeps getting in the way.

"I’ll never be thin," he shrugs. "I’d like to lose weight, though it’s not going very well. The secret all us fatties know is that when we start to lose weight it falls off really quickly, so I could lose a stone in a month without trying that hard, but I’m just too easily distracted."



Moyles to audition for Tarantino role? - Sept 20 2007
Chris Moyles is said to be "seriously considering" forking out 800 US dollars to audition for a part in Quentin Tarantino’s next film.

The Kill Bill director was interviewed for the DJ’s Radio 1 breakfast show this week, and when Chris asked for a cameo role, Quentin answered: "If he comes in with 800 dollars I will see him and consider him for the role - 800 dollars is worth my time to see DJ Chris.

"Guys coming in with T-shirts three sizes too small, I like that," Tarantino joked. "It’s a good laugh, it breaks up my day."

As Chris, 33, earns £630,000 a year to front the BBC’s flagship morning show, the price tag seems unlikely to put him off.

A BBC spokesperson told the Mirror: "Following on from his appearances in Hotel Babylon and the hit movie Cars, we think Chris would be a natural in one of Quentin’s movies and totally support him with this new film career."


Record listeners for Moyles - Aug 16 2007
Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles has posted record ratings yet again.

The breakfast show host now has 7.26 million listeners - up 200,000 on the previous three months and 470,000 on this time last year.

And he is closing in on the nation’s favourite breakfast DJ Terry Wogan, who is now just 660,000 listeners ahead.

Chris’s unstoppable rise helped Radio 1 reach an audience of 10.87 million, a quarterly increase of 320,000 and a yearly increase of 450,000.