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Radio listeners in the UK continue to favour Chris Evans’ BBC Radio 2 breakfast show, which enjoyed a 3.3% YoY rise in weekly reach in Q2 2012. However, the show slipped below nine million listeners after a -3.0% QoQ decline. Evans picked up Music Radio Personality of the Year at the Sony awards in May.

In what was a poor set of results for London stations, only six stations in our analysis (out of 17) recorded a QoQ increase, while just three stations witnessed an uplift compared with the same period last year.

The latest RAJAR figures for Q2 2012 show that All Radio’s reach has dropped slightly compared with the same period last year, keeping it just below the 47 million listener mark, which it hit for the first time ever in Q1 2011. However, All Radio’s reach is up 0.2% QoQ.

Total Global Radio (UK) heads up the nationals and networks once again, though it recorded a -3.4% YoY decline in reach to 19.3 million. It was up 1.0% QoQ.

Freeview set to revamp programme guide and will bring in 20 HD channels along with more changes.

Raymond Snoddy says coverage of the Olympics has become the video and soundtrack to all our lives. Even those with zero interest in sport get sucked into the drama and sports such as the epee, dressage and single sculls that you normally wouldn’t cross the road to watch. It all adds up to one of the great shows on earth…

Sky’s Now TV has been launched on iPhone and iPad to compete against LoveFilm and Netflix’s iOS services.

Hotmail is to be dropped by Microsoft in an attempt to relaunch Outlook as their new webmail service.

BBC One’s coverage of the Olympics once again swept the board with total dominance, with the exception of ITV1’s Emmerdale at 7pm and BBC Two’s Eastenders on at 7.30pm.

Steve Smith, head of thought leadership at Starcom MediaVest London, says: The recommendation about preparing for all television to be broadcast via the internet is especially pertinent given a growing number of households are likely to watch TV via a broadband connection…