Leaderboard

That's honestly probably true, it does seem you can be a lot more new or unknown for specialist shows. I recently remembered how Sian only got on the station as a Christmas presenter and then ended up replacing Phil as the main presenter of Chillest not long after. Same with Gemma and Introducing. Its probably happened before, like you said evening or specialist shows have more change. Tho bear in mind with Jack while he was new to R1 he had come straight from a daytime show on Radio X and has a student radio background which is something that has been important before with Greg etc. Its weird to think that in the space of 2018-2020 R1 poached multiple presenters from either somewhat high profile or very high profile commercial competitors, which is iirc when Ben Cooper was still in charge of the station as a whole but Aled was head of programmes because they're not doing that much. Now it feels all about new talent with the likes of your Dean, Vicky, Nat where there are some very new people being put on weekday and weekend daytime.