I AM not in the least surprised that Radio York is fast losing listeners (Diary, May 10).

There is now no local input into this station and any chance of expanding discussions over one or two days has totally vanished.

At the risk of sounding like the male chauvinist pig I am, this station appears to have been hijacked by a bunch of women whose sole qualification is to scream, giggle and interrupt, push all the wrong buttons on their control desk and, when speaking, pepper their speech with an "um" or an "er" after every few words.

Mike Usherwood,

Mendip Close,

Huntington, York.

Updated: 10:42 Wednesday, May 18, 2005