By Paul Revoir Tv Correspondent PUBLISHED: 19:27 EST, 15 May 2013 | UPDATED: 20:02 EST, 15 May 2013 Popular: Audience figures show Chris Evans has almost doubled his lead over Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw He was hired to win over a younger audience, but it seems Nick Grimshaw is having the opposite effect. Hundreds of thousands of listeners have been switching off his Radio 1 breakfast show – and turning over to Radio 2 rival Chris Evans instead. The latest audience figures show Evans has almost doubled his lead over the Radio 1 programme since this time last year.
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Evans posted record results of 9.8m in the three months to end of March
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It is up 600,000 from the 9.2m Radio 2 listeners in same period last year
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Grimshaw has lost more than a million of Chris Moyles' listeners
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