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Interesting that Bank Holiday Monday has the usual schedule.

Saturday 29th May 11am-9pm Big Weekend (no presenters listed) 9pm-1am Big Weekend Headliners Sunday 30th May 11am-9pm Big Weekend (no presenters listed) 9pm-11pm Big Weekend Headliners Thursday 3rd June 8pm-10pm Melvin & Charlie

BBC or Commericial is there any other stations you may listen to or have done in past or see it would sound so good like people say on here if they did that that show and had that presenter sometimes flick over to stuff like Radio X, 6M, Capital Dance and wondered your thoughts

This looks peak naughties I do feel like when he does finally hang up the headphones on radio 1 for the final time the highlights show and clips are going to make him cringe with BBC Three moving to live terrestrial maybe there should be some original content of showing Livelounge and stuff that happens on Radio 1 think that if Radio 1s content from the IPlayer was under the BBC Three could be cost effective streamlined content. Suprising that they haven’t done more in video playback of podcast recordings on the IPlayer

Highlights of the Scott Mills drivetime show on BBC Three

Yea get what you mean now think there’s a chance happening of that happening maybe if Arielle scheduled to do weekend cover in more of middle of the day afternoon or late morning weekends can see their new and up and coming voices will be used more to cover slots like early breakfast and weekend breakfast depend on the state of the who’s booked holidays when think it’s case if it’s short noticed will br one of the current roster of presenters contracted,. But won’t surprise me if Jess Izsatt is presenting Jacks show in August and few of the presenters take hols maybe could see Jordan covering

Interesting to see Jax Jones covering I think he’s a good cover choice for that one off special as has a good show over on Apple Music

Annie Mac is off for a week from 31st May. Jack Saunders is covering Mon-Thur and Jax Jones is covering Fri. Jess Iszatt is covering Jack Mon-Wed and Nels Hylton is covering Thur.

Let’s not forget, they have all these cover presenters from Christmas and Friday early breakfast, so if Matt & Mollie and Jordan were to move to weekdays temporarily, then one of them could take their slot for a period of time.

I think with lockdowns and travel restrictions some are trying to bank their holidays as can see Grim getting a couple weeks of July and August and as people can have either local or international holidays think people have been holding on to them but I think sometimes Grimmy probably is in more of a comfortable position less commitments at the moment and things settled explaining little time of. I wonder who’s to do Annie’s shows in August before Clara and Sarah start but I know Grims definately not going to have time of for Annie’s last week or two think there maybe a cohost around then and

I think with lockdowns and travel restrictions some are trying to bank their holidays as can see Grim getting a couple weeks of July and August and as people can have either local or international holidays think people have been holding on to them but I think sometimes Grimmy probably is in more of a comfortable position less commitments at the moment and things settled explaining little time of. I wonder who’s to do Annie’s shows in August before Clara and Sarah start but I know Grims definately not going to have time of for Annie’s last week or two think there maybe a cohost around then and

I think if the lockdown loosening of restrictions do go as planned probably station may have some ideas to adjust to that to reflect the reverting back to listener habits think it will be refresh when Danny Howard and Sarah Storey start their shows as they may try to do some events around clubs reopening or reflect peiooe going out ago. It would not surprise me if Greg, RMC, Scott, Grimmy may have some sort of interactive special bits as have done with the find Greg and Grim at end of year begining of next. would be good if do bring more people into the studio do think they should’ve done

I kind of like it when the bbc announce changes to the schedule months in advance as it makes it seem like something more significant and something that the marketing and promotion team can build up any drive listeners to. Also think giving RMC and Clara Amfo time before starting their new shows gives them plenty of time with production team to refine trial and do some pre broadcast pilots and think by that time. If would sound like a project ready to broadcast

Yeah, maybe. Still a long wait though.

There is probably contractual reasons why Septembers chosen plus the fact a number of presenters will be off for 2 weeks or so or more across the summer means September is probably a good time to launch a new schedule.

The ones already announced.

What changes do you want them to make though?

I think Radio 1 will start to sound fresher as lockdown restrictions lift, guests start to visit presenters, teams can get out of the studio for broadcasts...

Anyone else feeling that September is quite a long wait for the major schedule changes, and that they should crack on with as many as possible sooner?

It's nice to get Jordan on weekdays !

I’m glad that there’s more cover - hope when Grimmy inevitably has some time off it goes to Jordan.

Notable too that Rickie, Melvin and Charlie aren't covering for Clara this week for the same reason (that they are moving to that slot later in the year).

Arielle seems to be busy with the Brits from her Insta feed.

I would be a little surprised to see Jordan back on Drive this year... Just a hunch that he won't present that show again until he gets it permanently (hopefully in January). Of course I could be wrong!

Surprised they didn’t give it to one of the Friday presenters, isn’t Katie higher in the pecking order than early breakfast cover?