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  1. Matt Edmondson really is an underrated gem of a broadcaster. Outstanding radio all week, but particularly a few minutes ago.
    7 points
  2. I'm sure both would find this funny.
    7 points
  3. Ah you cynics. If it was that orchestrated they'd not have stood at a finish line waiting for her last night only for her to arrive just as Newsbeat started.
    5 points
  4. Considering nothing else changed with the show yesterday - it’ll probably be Judge Jamie
    5 points
  5. Either this is James or you need to start Unofficial Cusack
    5 points
  6. 5 points
  7. Think we are all gutted, but it's genuinely really exciting for him and a big scoop for Capital. I couldn't quite get into Roman's show, but I feel I'd be more tempted to listen to Jordan with Chris and Sian. Will have split loyalty with Greg!
    5 points
  8. J_B

    Jordan North to leave Radio 1

    Another aside - I think Sam and Danni are outstanding with a wide appeal demographically. Hope this gives them a chance for a big promotion.
    5 points
  9. or rather very Jordan South...
    5 points
  10. Think that Radio 1 really needed this week, charity aside, to come together again. I don’t think they ever diverged, but the Jordan news I think was challenging and as a listener this week has secured that perception of the family again.
    4 points
  11. It's been a great week of radio. Radio 1 at its best - promoting a great cause and all the DJs on air together and shows how much they all get along. This week has highlighted too just how great the likes of Greg, Matt and Katie are as broadcasters - they have been superb covering the challenge and in their genuine love and support for Mollie (who has been doing so well and is giving it her all). Lovely too to see Matt & Mollie get their flowers so much in the past month - both thoroughly deserve it and their kindness and good spirit has really shone through these last few days even more than usual. Matt's link yesterday about how Mollie has been a support to him and him to her at around 4.45pm yesterday was just so wonderful and heartfelt and what Radio is all about.
    4 points
  12. The more I think about this, the less I understand it. Vick and Katie would be a good Going Home show without Jamie. What did happen in the aftermath of Jordan leaving. Did Katie initially turn it down and they persuaded her to change her mind? Did they see the reaction to Jamie and see that they needed Katie to balance out the loss of Jordan? Some odd chain of events has happened
    4 points
  13. After last Friday the one thing we have learnt is that all our speculation means nothing
    4 points
  14. This made me laugh: “Getting to host Capital Breakfast has always been a dream of mine”. Are you sure it wasn't Radio 1 breakfast?
    4 points
  15. GeekTalk51

    Greg's new contract

    I wonder if this was always on the cards and is why Jordan has jumped - 2-3 more years of Greg and he’d be in Scott Mills territory of being passed over for Breakfast in favour of a younger DJ.
    4 points
  16. I know it's a different kettle of fishh because Roman isn't moving to a rival station, but the contrast between Roman announcing he is leaving and the outpouring of love, and the BBC cancelling Jordan I find really jarring.
    4 points
  17. This is the first time since I started listening to Radio 1 (2016) that I’ve been genuinely floored by an announcement. There have been a lot of changes and I’ve raised by eyebrows a few times but everything had some element of logic to it even if I wouldn’t have made the exact same choice. With regards to Jordan I would have bet a lot of money on him being a shoe in for R1 Breakfast next, the succession plan seemed very clear - Greg could go this year or next if he wanted to, after a good run, and you have a ready made Breakfast star in Jordan and the likes of Katie/Sam and Danni/Dean all capable of stepping in on Going Home at that stage. Jordan at Breakfast and Vick and Katie on Going Home wouldn’t feel like a downgrade from now! Now Radio 1 seems in a real pickle in terms of succession planning for Breakfast. I can only assume Jordan was given an offer he couldn’t refuse - if it’s him and Chris Stark for Capital Breakfast it’s a coup for Global, a truly national sounding breakfast offering, and something Radio 1 must have been unwilling to give him right now, more power to him! As for Jamie Lang - I won’t be harsh because these are real people and you never know how it pans out, but it’s completely inexplicable to me. From a show that deliberately pitched itself (they did an interview about this a year ago) as a show aimed at young people outside London to someone from Made in Chelsea, I just don’t know what they’re doing and I have to wonder if it’s a Matt Goodier-style stopgap (he was given Radio 1 Breakfast for a few months in the 90s as the “permanent” host even though it was always a temp holding position), because I can’t see Vick or Jamie committing to a daily show in the long term (I had suspected Vick might not last the year; she’s brilliant but she has so much else going on, hope I’m wrong). Anyway… let’s see what happens! All seems a bit of a panic and Radio 1 in a bit of a tailspin this week, suspect Aled will do some serious thinking about the 12-18 month direction the schedule takes from here, suspect it may look quite different. Edit: If I was R1 management I would cling to Greg James like a life raft right now! Without him the entire house of cards looks weak. You need a few years to build up a future Jordan-like “heir” to be the main star on the station. Shoehorning in the likes of Dean would be calamitous.
    4 points
  18. What I can't understand is why they've replaced their biggest Northern presenter with a southerner who's incredibly posh and probably a multi millionaire? He's just not relatable. Jordan was the down to earth relatable guy. The lack of northern presenters on this station isn't good.
    4 points
  19. Let’s maybe not speculate about Jordan’s sexuality…
    3 points
  20. Vick isn't Jordans type. There's a reason he doesn't talk about those things.
    3 points
  21. I think Matt works well with anyone or on his own. A multi purpose presenter.
    3 points
  22. "I only have famous friends" - if he is trying to prove "he isn't just a posh idiot" this is probably not a wise start.
    3 points
  23. Jono

    Celebs off the menu?

    What a difference six weeks make...
    3 points
  24. Hard to see it as anything but a demotion - going from the Afternoon slot succeeding Scott Mills and recently doing a fair bit of Breakfast cover to now Early Breakfast which is deemed a more off-peak slot. Though it may work out better in the long run for Dean. He seemed to draw a lot of the ire with criticism of Radio 1 recently and with his fast-track to weekday afternoons and then covering Greg recently there was the risk of him being seen as a bit of a 'golden child' fuelling even more backlash especially when popular DJs like Matt & Mollie and Katie were overlooked Whereas now he has a chance to make a slot his own and build a little community with the Early Breakfat crew. Plus with Matt & Mollie and Katie on daytimes now it's less likely to be viewed as him getting slots over them.
    3 points
  25. Big shout out to you for saying this 20 hours ago - looks like the bosses agree
    3 points
  26. I believe most of the changes were for good during Aled's tenure. I saw someone accuse Aled of letting Jordan go, but I think that's highly untrue. He was already doing the second biggest R1 show, and putting him on breakfast would also be a bad choice because it would mean letting Greg go. All in all, I think Aled's working with what's available money and people-wise. I'm just not sure about recurring features such as missions for the presenters and the overuse of the Anthems format.
    3 points
  27. Such mixed emotions. Sad about him appearing on Capital after being so integral to Radio 1, but happy that he's got the job too. Moreover, fantastic that he's keeping his current team, think they'll be great together.
    3 points
  28. I do think this is worrying times for radio 1. As an old head I recall Moyles leaving but you felt there was a solid guaranteed future for the station. Scott still there, big experienced names to sort stuff out when it got tough. It was the same when Mark and Lard went, Simon Mayo, Chris Evans etc years and years back. But now it feels like with Jordan North going it's going to sound like a load of teenagers giggling amongst themselves. And I point to mid mornings on that imo. Radio 1 need a big young star who can present, and who's already popular to come in and create a fuss. And I mean someone who can be relevant for the next gen, not radio 1s current target audience. Aim for 2030.
    3 points
  29. Exactly - I love Jordan lots - easily my favourite radio presenter of recent years but I 100% get the BBC's position which has been dramatically affected by what Greatest Hits Radio did with Ken Bruce. They are bound to be mighty p'd off that one of their biggest talents is leaving them. I think Aled's words were respectful but low-key. You start to wonder if this is why Jordan didn't cover Breakfast at the start of the year as all this was starting. This won't have started this week but been an ongoing dialogue. I just hope the move to Capital works for Jordan. I get the impression the big commercial stations have a more liberal attitude to how their Breakfast presenter behaves versus the rest of the schedule.
    3 points
  30. I can’t see it been so late When sonny left it was almost instant i think we can expect an announcement Monday morning with Jordan been brought into the studio and perhaps romans last week Reading between the lines on global marketing of the show from capital breakfast with Roman Kemp to “with Roman , Chris and Sian “ was a subtle hint to less focus on all been about Roman when a bbc show changes it gets a whole new feel, capital seem to like a gradual approach to keep listeners already established global seems a more long term plan for presenters now, nothing to say he couldn’t go to radio x in a few years to succeed moyles after the capital breakfast gig Ironic that commercial radio was just a few years ago awash with celebs without a radio career crowbarred into one, now it seems a little of the opposite
    3 points
  31. Radio 1's treatment does have a feeling of the scene in Succession where Connor gives a funeral speech about Mo (Lester): 'Jordan North was a man. He worked on Radio 1 for a decade. Listeners enjoyed his shows on Radio 1. When a DJ leaves it is sad'.
    3 points
  32. Annie Mac in the evenings. Dev, Alice, Jordan, Matt & laterly Mollie on the weekends. We didn’t realise how good we had it until it’s now gone.
    3 points
  33. Not posted here today but I am genuinely a little bit stunned by this news. Jordan has been a firm favourite of mine since he started covering shows & was delighted when he got the bump up to “Going Home”. Wasn’t sold on the Vick partnership to begin with (and I think I do personally prefer the dynamic with Katie) but the show has turned into a solid 2 hours and 15 minutes every single day! It’s got a great pace, with plenty of features & 2/3 people with great humour. It’s a sad day, because as much as I now like Vick - I just didn’t enjoy Jamie when he covered with Matt last year. So I don’t think I’ll regularly catch the new show (I’ll give it a go out of curiosity, as surely they’ll want to reboot “Going Home” to some degree?). There are only a handful of people I’ve felt genuinely gutted about leaving Radio 1: Scott & Chris, Alice Levine & now Jordan!
    3 points
  34. Do you know - that's a really valid point. I never listen closely to Dean and Vicky but I get the impression that little or nothing has really stuck. Compare to Vick and Jordan where many features have stuck over two years.
    3 points
  35. AndyK77

    Jordan and Mollie

    Many of the presenters are perfectly good on their own - Jordan a clear example. Though Jordan's style lends itself to having somebody to bounce off.
    3 points
  36. It is a bit of a bizarre one. I couldn't imagine back 20 years ago Judge Jules doing a live Radio 1 show and Dave Pearce turning up wasted saying your tunes are pish. Usually all the dance jocks teamed up back then, and told Westwood he was shite.
    3 points
  37. Will you please give it a rest. You’ve totally bombarded this site with your opinion over the last few days. You’ve got a point of view, we get it. Now please let people get back to enjoying the forum.
    3 points
  38. I think it has been a better game to the past few years after the first one it feels a bit more relaxed, simplified and haven’t over complicated things. As always with these things it seems very orchestrated and easy to see that the production team has thought of what goes where. What it can be said that unlike previous editions of a summer game it has been more calculated marketing that considers the whole stations brand of featuring presenters of all its programming and reminds people of the good specialist programme the station has off-peak times.
    3 points
  39. I'd say it was an integral and iconic part of BBC Radio's offerings ... But then, I used to think that of the Classified Football Results.
    3 points
  40. Anecdotally I've seen some Ken Bruce listeners returning, saying he's a safe pair of hands and doesn't have the adverts like GHR (unless you pay). Given no mass exodus when Steve Wright left, and some green shoots under Vernon Kay, hopefully R2 can stabIlise things. The station also sounds great with the new jingles.
    3 points
  41. Can we all just take a moment to acknowledge what a superb job Vernon Kay has made of the 'new' slot - Far exceeded my expectations. Also very wisely 'feature'-heavy - I don't think there's any other light-entertainment show elsewhere on the radio which can hold a candle to this ...
    3 points
  42. I did say that Radio 1 has this habit of throwing curveballs. If you spoke to anyone on here a week ago Matt and Mollie were destined for the exit...! It seems big that they've managed to get them both to commit to daytimes. I feel sorry for Dean and Vicky, they've been quite a good listen, and I assumed they were brought in to offer something different to what Scott offers on Radio 2. M&M feel more competitive for older listeners than Dean and Vicky. Like others say, perhaps they're destined for bigger things further down the line. Also where does this leave the broadcasts from Salford?
    2 points
  43. I’d give Matt and Moll the Friday too and just have Dean & Vicky weekends (or ideally split them up)
    2 points
  44. +1 on this too, radio in general is entering unchartered waters. I have Apple Music, but I would never trust it's algorithms to recommend me new music. I don't want to live in a reality where that is a thing. I like tuning in to Future Sounds and finding a new song that slaps, then adding it to my playlist. I'm sure most kids are probably used to the algorithms choosing everything for them, but I think it's terrible and goes against everything of what music is about. I want to decide for myself whether I like a song, not to have an AI recommend to me what it thinks I will like.
    2 points
  45. Also note on socials etc it is almost nobody that is delighting in Jordan leaving. That's always a good barometer. Still I am delighted for Jordan if he is getting a huge paycheque for this move - broadcasting is a fickle professional - make the dough when you can.
    2 points
  46. Is it weird I genuinely feel a bit sad today. Jordan and whoever he was with or alone often made me feel happier with whatever was happening in my life/the world. When you hear the tributes rightly paid to Steve Wright this week, you realise that's what broadcasting is all about. Not saying Jordan is necessarily in Steve's class but he is certainly well above average and a huge loss. When Scott left I think I only stayed with Radio 1 as I like Greg and loved Jordan... now I see no reason to stay especially as if Jordan is doing breakfast on Capital and I prefer him to Greg.
    2 points
  47. Likewise in agreement. He really let down a totally untarnished image with some of that behaviour. You can guarantee next time something like this happens the BBC will axe them immediately with no goodbye or at least put firm restrictions in place for them staying on air.
    2 points
  48. Yep to be honest whether Jordan is straight or not is his own business at the end of the day. Plus it's clear Vick & him keep some parts of their private lives off the radio - many a time you'll hear the phrase 'Jordan/Vick doesn't talk about those things' when it comes to their relationships and there's only ever passing comments about Vick's relationship to Calvin Harris that you wouldn't catch unless you knew about it. I don't listen to it too regularly but when I'm heard him on 'Help I'm Sexted My Boss' he does come across as accepting and open-minded with William Hanson being a big friend of his.
    2 points
  49. ... Soddit, reading back through this, it occurs to me I've been persisting with the show for 2 years now - That's long enough - I'm sticking with Huw, on Radio Wales (Mollie's 'Future Pop' on Thurs still a good listen, though ...)
    2 points
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