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Has this been resolved yet, as its been keeping me awake at night.

Superb for Matt & Mollie, it’s richly deserved as the show is so good. I honestly think they’re in for a Scott & Chris style long stint on the afternoon slot. They also appear in the Top 10 Programmes for Under 35’s on BBC Sounds latest data too. M&M are 9th, Going Home is 5th, Greg is 4th with 10s & 00s taking the top 2 spots. Help I Sexted My Boss has also made it into the Top 10 U35 podcasts on BBC Sounds for the first time!

Incredible to think they only just started and are already 2nd best on the station. Goes to show how much people wanted them on weekdays.

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Have to say am really enjoying Emil on the show on the occasions he gets to cover. He & Vick seem to have that Vick & Jordan spark which is impressive given they've only done a handful of shows together. Between Going Home or covering Matt Edmondson you end up hearing Emil at some point most weeks at the moment.

I thought Jamie did really well for himself with his Comic Relief challenge. Hard for the haters to complain about him during that week! And he managed a full week of radio 🤣

Hi Tom. Thank you for your email – I really appreciate the passion you bring to being a fan of Radio 1. We never take it for granted. We do SO much throughout the year, we’re in a situation where the Radio 1 presenters and production staff almost face a project or priority every week. If I therefore have an opportunity to give the team some downtime I’m going to take it. Radio is such a habitual medium that numbers drop quite quickly when routines are disrupted – so much so RAJAR stops counting listeners by these dates. I’d therefore prefer, if we were going to give people a break that we chose the period of lower listenership to do it and by changing the formats of the show it encourages presenters and production teams to suspend normal features and take a fresh approach to the new listeners they might be catching us while they travel home for Christmas. Your second question is closely related. Tomorrow we’re announcing the 27 new presenters who will take over Radio 1 between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. No other radio station does this and it requires a lot of production resource to train up brand new presenters – some of whom have only known broadcasting on student radio – and get them ready for national broadcasting. The Anthems format provides those presenters space to learn, make mistakes and cope with the pressures of live broadcasting to a large audience while giving them space to reminisce about the music. The audience feedback to us playing a nostalgic playlist for this week is incredibly positive (so much so it’s spawned its own stream on Sounds). This format is perfect for people drifting between radio stations while in the car as they travel around the UK visiting family. Whereas the critical mass of Radio 1’s habitual audience are having their routines disrupted and likely won’t return in full numbers until the 6th of January. Specialist shows remain during the week as they are pre-recorded so we can manage those pressures in other ways whereas keeping daytime Radio 1 live and reactive is important to us and the audience consuming the station. I hope this helps. We appreciate the passion to Radio 1 – and hope you enjoy the station in 2025, we have some epic things planned that we can’t wait for you to hear. Nadolig Llawen. Aled

It took them bloody long enough to announce! 😂 All jokes aside, great changes. Jerry feels an inspired shout to put alongside Matt while Mollie is on leave, those of us who banged the James Cusack drum feel justified and Sam & Danni will fill that M&M hole on weekend afternoons perfectly. Do slightly wonder how necessary a weekend Early Breakfast show is (especially at just an hour) but I guess it's a way to get Ore and Swarzy's foot in the door permanently. And best of all no influencers or Danny Beard in sight. Danny's spell hopefully now being assigned to the Lisa L'Anson section of the Radio 1 history book.

I find it impressive and fascinating that Vernon still has the biggest morning show on radio. Given the dire warnings about Ken Bruce leaving, Radio 2 have still done well to keep that show's audience growing.

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It sounds like a combination of factors. Some say the playlist is too repetitive, they've moved away from a lot of dance, and the older audience enjoy Kisstory instead, and just the fact there are so many dance stations out there. With the station now moving off FM I'm guessing that slide will continue.

Matt and Mollie are now the 2nd biggest show on the station!

Grimmy is getting loads of cover at the moment! It's great having him back on the radio

Strange that Arielle is doing New Music Show and Rave Up back to back

I suspect budgets have a lot to do with this. The audience figures just don't justify the spend, even though clearly it'd be better to have live shows later in the evenings. Given the choice between quality presenters during the day and live shows in the evening, it's not really much of an option!

Personally, I wouldn’t be surprised if we get more than a weekend afternoon host announced in the next schedule changes and they are potentially waiting for everything to fall into place to then make a big announcement and launch a new schedule in November or January for example. Because not only will the weekend slot need filling, there is the new R1 spin off station being launched ‘this autumn’, which I can see the likes of Ore, Nat, James etc being part of and I wonder if any of those shows will be simulcasted on the main station. There is then Mollie’s maternity leave which I can see them wanting to cover, and then there’s questions about whether they do something with the Power Down Playlist now that there’s no R1 Relax anymore, could they put something different in that slot? So I think management might be waiting to be able to sort a few things out at the same time.

It’s easy for us to complain about this kind of thing but shippp you correctly mention all the really strong presenters at the moment who have worked their way up. There’s loads of them, so I think the odd personality hire is not the end of the world. Aled’s thought process on this will be the following: 1) Jamie has a huge social media following which will draw listeners 2) 6 Degrees with Jamie & Spencer was consistently near the top of the under 35 bbc sounds listenership - so clearly (although I don’t get it myself) he really appeals to the target age demographic 3) I understand Newlyweds is super popular and so cross-listenership will be hoped for I agree Jamie (and that whole show now) is not my cup of tea but it’s appealing well to a demographic and to be honest us radio nerds are well catered for elsewhere on the schedule ie Greg, M&M, Sam & Danni, James, etc

😂 oh my days Jordan come back all.is forgiven

I almost feel like he should just be there as Katie’s cover, it will make the show a whole lot more consistent with Vick, Jamie and him presenting all the Going Home shows between them, and as you say, he sounds very good with Vick. (And as tomorrow shows, they don’t mind putting him on alone either!)

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Yep the Jamie Laing and Danny Beard changes have meant that recently when you the words 'Changes at Radio 1' you do sometimes fear the worst. While I applaud Aled for making the move to put Matt & Mollie on weekdays, their show on weekends was so strong it sort of made the decision for him. If they'd never reached weekdays it would've probably been one of the strongest shows to never make weekdays.

Agree with all the above, and let's also take a moment to remember it's less than a year since Danny Beard was on every weekend while James (and others) sat on the sidelines. Thankfully the right decisions were made in the end!

Think they are focusing on the programme for now. I am sure a podcast will come in time.

The Radio 1 schedule.

It won't be the first week of new shows. Pretty sure I read that Trevor Nelson has specifically said now about starting 'late Jan' which ties in with several comments about w/c 27 Jan being the launch week. After panto, Scott will need a break and prep time, in order to then have a decent run of the new show before any breaks.

3rd January 4pm-5:45pm: James Cusack in for Jack Saunders on the Official Chart. He is also doing a normal show from 2pm-4pm. Jess Iszatt is doing the Power Down Playlist show at 10pm from the 6th January onwards according the schedules, Not sure that is permanent or just covering for Sian.

The article sounds like a load of nonsense. Isn't that how Radio 1 has always been to an extent? The likes of Moyles and Mills were hardly big names when they joined and same more recently was probably true for the like of Clara and Greg - though of course he's still on Radio 1. Over time they then become big names themselves. Plus if Radio 1 had kept the 'big names' you'd no doubt have the opposite article by the Daily Mail criticizing them for paying big money and not giving opportunities to newer presenters. And shock horror presenters leave stations over time - says it all that 2 of the examples in the graphic they gave of the 'exodus' are from 2021. And of the more recent ones you can hardly blame Jordan and Scott for going for the opportunities that were offered to them. And it's not like the station is 'full of nobodies'. Vick & RMC were big hires from commercial radio, Jack Saunders has fronted Glastonbury coverage, Greg is one of the most well-known radio names, Pete Tong is well-respected in the dance world and the likes of Danny Howard, Charlie Hedges and Arielle Free are also quite well known names in the dance world.

29th December Radio 1 Life Hacks extended to 7pm, no Official Charts First Look 30th December Radio 1 Future Pop from 6pm-8pm instead of Future Sounds 31st December 2pm-6pm: Radio 1 Party Anthems with James Cusack 6pm-10pm: Radio 1 Party Anthems with Connor Coates 10pm-1am: Radio 1 Party Anthems with Charlie Hedges 1st January 6am-2pm: Radio 1 Workout Anthems (Presenters TBA) 2pm-6pm: Radio 1 Workout Anthems with Emma Millen 6pm-10pm: Pete Tong's Essential History Of Dance (Already on Radio 1 Dance)

Great announcement. Some excellent changes and additions to the Radio 1 family. About time Jerry had more exposure during the day!

First Christmas 2024 shows are in the schedule! 3rd December - 2am-4am: Christmas Anthems with Greg James 5th December - 5am-7am: Radio 1 Happy Christmas Anthems with Maia Beth They might appear earlier on Radio 1 Anthems but those schedules don't go as far for now.

It's become a running discussion point on here and elsewhere how ever since Matt & Mollie stopped doing the 1-4pm slot on Friday to Sunday it's become a bit of a lucky dip with no permanent replacement for Matt & Mollie yet selected or any indication of when or if there'll be a permanent replacement. In a way I'd rather they take their time and select a good replacement rather than Danny Beard it (in fact I wish they'd done this strategy with Going Home after Jordan's exit until Katie agreed to do the show from LONDON?!) . Who's impressed so far of those you've heard? Probably stating the obvious but IMO James Cusack and Emil Franchi have been standouts and could easily if they wanted to do the slot full-time from tomorrow. Both strong listens and had good features. Can't help both were slightly overlooked in the 2022 changes.

James has been the strongest by far. It'll be a shame if he's overlooked. Emil has been a decent listen these past few weeks too. They're the two that have stood out for me. I do think the best idea would be to move Sam & Danni to Friday-Sunday afternoon with a new solo presenter on weekend breakfast. I wonder what the deal was with that Jack Remington, who popped up during the summer detention thing? Wasn't it mentioned that they referred to a new presenter then he walked in?

Given how quick Radio 1 and Jamie were to hype up Going Home's figures last time they are sort of conspicuous by their complete lack of mention and we know Matt & Mollie are the 2nd most popular Radio 1 show now (and presumably Breakfast is #1). In unrelated news, strong set of RAJARs again for Jordan on that there Capital.

Very pleased for Matt & Mollie - the success is richly deserved! The show is excellent and they'd been weekday ready for some time. There's no reason they can't continue in that slot for years should they want to. Have loved them covering Breakfast this week. This set of Rajars seem to have been a successful one for quite a number of stations in general.

I believe it's the Capital Network or as they call it 'the Capital brand' that's got 9m not CapitalFM. CapitalFM is around 6m, I believe. Global tend to group stations as a network/brand as it makes it sound better. It's like Heart's 12.99m figure is all of Heart's stations added together. HeartFM on it's own is around 7m. Which is still a good figure. Interestingly Bauer claim Greatest Hits Radio has 7.4m as a single station making it the UK's biggest commercial radio station. That would beat HeartFM. Global has always had the biggest commercial radio station with HeartFM so to lose it would be quiet a big thing. Radio 1 and Capital have likely done well thanks to the drops KissFM and Hits Radio.

There’s no way capital fm has over 9 million listeners and radio 1 only 8 million 😂

The press are saying he’s radio 1 up and coming star

They would’ve moved him straight there when Dean & Vicky ended and picked someone new for EB if that was going to happen.

Just to say once again i found the radio really moving and powerful yesterday. Greg is the best with these events, Matt&Mollie was a tough listen bless them. Scott had some of the most moving radio i have ever heard. Jordan,Chris and Sian did a great job on Capital too. Vick and Katie also

I'm sure there will be people moaning. If anyone leaves radio 2 to retire or simply die whilst still there, it's usually someone's fault. That said, happy retirement to him!

It’ll launch as Sounds only, but the BBC wants to place this, R1 Dance, R2 spin off & R3 Relax onto DAB - but they need to get additional approval for that to happen

Honestly same, its strange how many of these spinoff stations both Bauer and global just start every so often while keeping the vast majority of the existing ones going. Partially it's a thing where they own the multiplexes so they do what the hell they like with them. And what they seem to do is just downgrade the Bitrate so more space on the multiplexes and they audience probably doesn't notice or care the drop in sound quality

Radio1 Schedule -Alex Mansuroglo is hosting the Weekend Afternoon Slot from 1pm - 4pm over the month of November Thursday 7th November Nat O'Leary sits in for Rickie & Charlie 10:30am - 12:45pm Friday 8th November 9am - 10am Radio1 Anthems the Launch 10am - 11am Radio1's Dance Anthems with Charlie Hedges 11am - 12pm Radio1 Anthems with Nat O'Leary & Vicky Hawksworth 12pm - 12:45pm Radio1's Pop Anthems with Dean Mcullough 6pm - 8pm Sarah Story sits in for Danny Howard on Radio1's Dance Party 8pm - 10pm Martha sits in for Sarah Story on R1's Future Dance Monday - 11th November 12am - 2am Nadia Jae sits in for Victoria Jane on Radio1's Future Soul

Norman Jay used to be the main man of this back in the day.

It’s unusual but it’s the only thing that makes sense. The only other presenters that do cover are Sam and Danni but if they were available they would be covering breakfast. Shame they don’t bring some of the specialist presenters in for cover, they’ve done well on normal shows during events like the DJ Hunt etc.

It was the same the other month when he sat in on a Saturday for Rylan, he had Sally Traffic and Lottie to bounce off. He is a brilliant solo presenter, and I actually do like his afternoon show, it's just missing 'something' that the R1 show had. But I think that is in part down to the slick music heavy format and the type of show management are asking him to do. Great to hear Scott on breakfast though. He now joins the list of people that have hosted both the Radio 1 and Radio 2 breakfast show. On another note, hopefully everything is okay with Zoe Ball, she's only recently returned from holiday and was suddenly off on Friday.

Despite what they say that's a bit of a low number for Capital Breakfast. With all the press of Jordan leaving R1 for Capital, all the billboards across the UK and the availability of Capital and all the money they paid Jordan, to only grow the show by 0.25m is not great. That means over 95% of his audience is inherited from Roman. The first two quarters are always difficult because people are interested in the new show. The likelihood is there might be a drop in time. Going to be interesting to see how this goes. Greg got an extra 0.1m and he was expected to drop because everyone was switching to Capital, That clearly did not happen. Radio 1 being up as a station is good news as well especially with the youth. Heart it a totally different market but they like to say Heart is beating Radio 1 but it's the Heart brand that beats Radio 1. You can't compare six stations to one. So I do wonder how Heart fm on it's own did for a fairer comparison?

Impressive that somehow everybody has come out of it a winner. Greg's audience grew, Jordan's brought new fans, and Going Home is picking up younger audiences. An exciting time for radio - which seems to be a big winner.

The Going Home figures demonstrate that some of us on this forum are no measure of the wider audience. It baffles me that the show has gained listeners but proves I know nothing 😛

A bit more from an embargoed email that Jamie Laing’s shared on Instagram, with the Going Home show reaching 3.3m. Capital breakfast was also up to 2.8m, with a 261,000 increase the majority of whom are probably Jordan fans from Radio 1.