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This makes complete sense and I’m glad they’re doing it.

Go on, pigs!

Push ‘em along tony!

Here is a summary of all the schedule changes from Now till December 21st Fri 5th Dec - Conor Knight sits in for Sam Mcgregor Sun 7th Dec - Calum Leslie joins Lauren L to host R1 Life Hacks Wed 10th Dec - Nat & Vicky sit in for Matt & Mollie Wed 10th Dec - Maia Beth hosts R1 Future Pop Thur 11th Dec - Joel Mitchell sits in for Dean McCullough Thur 11th Dec - Nat & Vicky sit in for Matt & Mollie Fri 12th Dec - Emma Millen host R1 Friday EB Sun 14th Dec - Lauren Redfern sits in for Nat O'Leary Sun 14th Dec - Calum Leslie joins Lauren L to host R1 Life Hacks Wed 17th Dec - Jodie Bryant hosts R1 Future Pop Thur 18th Dec - Joel Mitchell sits in for Dean McCullough Fri 19th Dec - Emma Millen host R1 Friday EB Fri 19th Dec - Dean McCullough sits in for Greg James Fri 19th Dec - Jaguar in for Sarah Sun 21st Dec - Calum Leslie joins Lauren L to host R1 Life Hacks Sun 21st Dec - Casskidd sits in for Sian Eleri

For the total chaos I nominate Greg James for the next DG!

Better than when on Radio 1, Moyles would joke he was Vern-off 🤣

Rylan mentioned yesterday that next week is his last show of the year before he does panto. Breakfast starts at 7am on NYD, due to the first few editions of Tony Blackburn's Sounds Of Soul series going out between 4 and 7am. There's also a Sounds Of Soul between 12 and 2pm on Friday 2nd January. NYD afternoon is Pick Of The Pops between 12 and 3pm, 'Your Ultimate Stevie Wonder Song' with Trevor Nelson between 3 and 5pm, then 'The Wonder Of Stevie' with DJ Spoony between 5 and 6pm.

Annoys me when I hear people say that, I've heard it before. It's not Radio 1's area anymore to sound like 20 years before, it's Radio 2's now. Their argument is invalid as 20 years ago in 2005 Steve Wright was on afternoons on Radio 2, and 20 years before that he was on Radio 1 in 1985.

Radio 1 Anthems station will be completely Christmas Anthems from the 11th December at 12pm. They are starting slightly later this year as going back to last year's schedule, it was totally Christmas Anthems from 11am on the 3rd December. From the 26th December, it's Radio 1 Anthems by year starting at midnight with 2006 anthems. Given these slots are supposed to be for the new presenters, I think a key change will be these shows will be voice-tracked or pre-recorded rather than live.

I'm actually really liking the schedule after Christmas. Feels really fresh but also good to see a mix of new pairings, a few new cover presenters and familiar faces.

Since the original press release says it's across the 3 stations (Radio 1, Radio 1 Anthems, Radio 1 Dance) I'm guessing there will be some specialist shows on Radio 1 taken by the 'Up and Coming' presenters, then some daytime stuff on Radio 1 Anthems since the schedule from 26 Dec - 31 Dec is the yearly based anthems scheduling with no named mentioned yet. Since Radio 1 Anthems is on DAB it makes sense to put the constant anthems programming on there instead of on Radio 1, so anyone wanting to listen to the new presenters can. Plus anyone wanting to hear a relatively consistent schedule can tune into Radio 1.

The problem is. Ken is in the frame of mind still that playing something from say 2001, is still music for kids and too new for Radio 2. The thing is, that year for example is almost 25 years ago. Time has moved on. Even 2011 now isn't Radio 1's job anymore. I was 13 in 2001 and I'll be 38 next year. I'm middle aged now and I'm well into Radio 2's demographic. But at the same time I don't want to hear Scott or Sara playing lots of Dr Hook and Cliff Richard, which is what Radio 2 would of been playing 25 years ago. It's too old for me, and I'll turn off. Radio 2 when picking brand new music have always gone for the "overall" type artists anyway. For example you could hear Rag n Bone mon and Sabrina Carpenter on both Radio 1 and 2. But Dave's new track will only be a Radio 1 song.

Great to see Mylo and Rosie covering Breakfast. It was great to see new talent given a chance but it was obvious that only the specialist presenters had a chance to shine. The yearly Anthems slots were pretty unlistenable after a while. Back when Radio 1 was my permanent station of choice, it was the only time of the year I switched off.

Forget Scott, Aled’s Q&A with Unofficial Mills is at the top of my list! whoooooooo?!

Scott & Vernon are both showing right up to Christmas Eve, but then so is Owain and the press release said Steffan Powell will be on early breakfast on Christmas Eve/Boxing Day. I'd assume Gary Davies is in for Vernon for a few weeks from Boxing Day at least. OJ is listed on Christmas Day and Boxing Day overnights still which i can't see being the case. He usually covers for Sara Cox over the Christmas period, but obviously that's Spoony's job this time around

Lauren on with Mollie again today.

This is now firmly set in Tina’s best bits. The whole 2026 segment was very funny, and this made it all the more memorable!

Nice bunch of weiners Neil!

Spoony was always a diamond. 💎 Interesting to hear he used to work in a job centre once.

Yep the whole Breakfast jingles get stuck in my head daily 😂

I feel like the Blame Me jingle is going to live with me too...

"LMF" from Laura's Diary. I can half guess but I never found out what that actually stood for. Lloyd on the show, the 10 year old football expert for the 2006 World Cup. "Brokeback Westwood" trailer. I couldn't contain my laughter on the bus. Before I drove. Shows how long ago that was.

The Perfect Christmas Single gets played in my house every year! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIFdJsLRkRM

How could I possibly forget What Day is Father's Day! "You're 90% there" is something that I say often, in a terrible Australian accent.

Read Barry is back in Eastenders, didn't he decide to make a commercial venture out of Barryoke 😂 Also can't hear 212 without thinking of Beccy raps. Fortunately it doesn't come up on the radio much!

For more chaos I nominate Chris Moyles

When do we find out who the new DJs are for Crimbo Limbo Week? WHOOOOOO?

Looking forward to finding out the 22-25 schedule, three full weekdays of “Christmas week” to fill.

7th December Shanequa Paris is listed to return to Life Hacks and the Charts First Look (Not sure if this will stick) W/C 8th December Jerry in for Jamie with Katie I wonder if Jamie is done for the year when it gets to the end of November? I know Sophie is pregnant so maybe she's expecting soon? We shouldn't be too far away from getting the schedule up until Christmas. It's where this thread gets exciting!

I think a 4h Christmas Day Rave-Up with Arielle, Danny & Charlie T would be great