Several West Midland radio stations saw a slight dip in listeners in their target areas last quarter despite overall radio listening figures coming in at an all-time high.

Heart 100.7 FM retained its top spot in the region by a wide margin in the figures published by UK industry body RAJAR, despite a slight drop in people tuning in to the station.

Its weekly reach dipped by 3.5 per cent to 838,000 but the station was still up by 38,000 year-on-year.

Among its rivals, BRMB saw a 4.9 per cent drop to clock up a weekly reach of 409,000 listeners and Kerrang!, Galaxy and Smooth also recorded decreases.

BBC WM saw the biggest drop of 16 per cent within its target area in the three months to June 28.

Despite the Heart 100.7’s decrease, Paul Gerrard, programme controller for the station, said he was happy with the quarterly RAJAR figures.

“I’m delighted with our results this quarter, and combine this with the fact that Heart Breakfast with Ed and Rachel is pulling in over half a million listeners to the show between 6am and 10am, demonstrates just how much the team are outperforming the commercial marketplace,” he said.

“We are confident that the proposition between fun and entertaining content, great personalities and more music variety, is why regionally as a station, we remain over twice the size of our nearest commercial competitor.”

The latest three-month RAJAR period has been a defining time for radio stations in the region with the announcement of the sale of BRMB by Global Radio to former Chrysalis Radio chief executive Phil Riley and his private equity backers Lloyds TSB Development Capital.

Jewellery Quarter-based Kerrang! also shed jobs and announced sweeping changes to its presenter line-up during the period.

Meanwhile, on a national level, Sir Terry Wogan was reconfirmed as king of breakfast radio, pulling clear of rival Chris Moyles.

Moyles, the self-styled “saviour of Radio 1”, was almost neck and neck with Wogan for listeners in the last set of quarterly figures.

But data released today showed 7.93 million people tuned in to Wake Up To Wogan on BBC Radio 2 each week, up from 7.77 million in the last quarter and well clear of the Chris Moyles show, which had 7.72 million listeners each week, up slightly from 7.7 million last quarter.

The figures showed listener numbers overall to be at an all time high – 46.3 million people tuned in for at least five minutes in the course of a normal week, or 90.3 per cent of the population.

Radio 3 was given fresh cause for celebration by today’s figures after being named station of the year at the Sony Radio Awards. The channel broke the two million listener mark.

A total of 2.02 million people tuned in each week during the last quarter, Radio 3’s biggest audience for more than two years.

Audiences were boosted by Radio 3’s showcasing of three of its four “composers of the year” – Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn – and a poetry season which included a whole day celebrating Shakespeare’s sonnets, read by Sir Ian McKellen.

Tim Davie, the director of BBC Audio and Music, said: “Radio 3 is a unique radio station with an unrivalled role in supporting music and the arts in the UK. I am delighted to see it follow its Sony Award with a strong performance that illustrates the public’s enduring appetite for distinctive, high quality broadcasting.”

The Rajar data also showed that Radio 4’s reach broke 10 million after attracting around 465,000 new listeners in the past year, while Radio 1 added 660,000 listeners in the same period to take its audience to 11.34 million.

Radio 2 saw a slight fall in listeners from 13.46 million last quarter to 13.42 million, while Radio 5 Live and its digital sister station 5 Live Sports Extra had a combined weekly audience of 6.52 million.

In the commercial sector, Classic FM boosted its audience by more than 300,000 over the past three months to just over 5.7 million.

The station also reported a rise in the number of children tuning in - up 70 per cent to 573,000 a week.