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I know where he is. Bolton.

(Weirdly double posted from earlier when I refreshed my phone)

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.

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.

"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.

Mark and Lard were in their mid 40's when they left Radio 1, Scott was about 50, Moyles in his late 30's. Simon Mayo was 44. I don't think the listeners really care as much as the papers do. If they make good radio and don't sound like a grandparent to anyone under 30, then it works.

Wonder they haven't added Outkast Hey Ya for a laugh. Years ago you knew when Radio 1 was off air simply by hearing that alone.

Bloody hell. Glad he's on the mend, thats pretty serious stuff.

I still miss Chappers.

Thing is I won't get to hear Scott much now he's moved. Except every once in a while. The same thing happened years ago when Chris Moyles moved from afternoons to breakfast on Radio 1. Reason being if I'm not at work, I'll be asleep. And if I am at work, I'm on afternoons and evenings.

Jamsey P - Nookie

Thrilled for Chopper. Feels like yesterday since it was 2000 and he was just doing the sports bits on Newsbeat. It's naturally the right move as he's been doing MOTD 2 anyway.

Dark days for radio. We are now a far cry away of the days what inspired me, in the late 90s and early 00s. I know things move on but this also lessens the chance for the next gen of radio superstars to work their way up. Ofcom are taking the shackles off. Well let's say they were basically tied to the wall beforehand. From stations running a community licence. Hopefully the talent can shine and develop there.

The usual "bring back Steve Wright" window lickers all over the place again with Scott's last afternoon show. Will be a good job when the day comes that they end up in a home and have their phones taken away. Won't be long now, graveyard is to your left I hope Scott smashes breakfast and puts the ratings through the roof. Good luck to him, I'll listen when I'm on earlies! On the radio 2 moanagram. I actually tried to organise a seance to bring back Steve Wright and also Desmond Carrington who died in 2017. To do the breakfast show instead of Scott as a double act.

Don't think Radio 2 could handle Moyles tbh even these days

This has been coming for a long time with Scott on breakfast. Although I will miss him on afternoons, I won't hear much of him that time of the morning sadly.

I wanted to buy it back and paint some go faster stripes on it. But apparently it was last on the road in 2017.

Kisstory is a mainstay on my presets these days. Back when I first passed my driving test in 2007 I had a dab unit installed in my Citroen Saxo (brap brap yo yo yo etc). At that time Kiss was always on in the car, I tried it again recently, without the Saxo. And I couldn't stay on it for more than 10 minutes. Kisstory will probably eventually end up the bigger station than the parent.

Listen lad, do you have any Viagra to sell or not? I'm 36 now and time is moving quick.

I agree with the Russian spammer who just posted. You remove background noise by invading another country.

Mollie King and Maya Jama I simply connect with Radio 1 and nothing else. I know of nothing they did beforehand frankly. Maybe it's because I don't follow what they may have been involved in beforehand. Or a generational thing. It's a small career risk if your already a celeb doing a radio 1 show, if it doesn't work out it's all forgotten in month nowdays. Hence why the likes of Kelly Osbourne couldn't of cared less if she turned up or not in the late 00s. You end up back on TV or something. Your not going to end up on hospital radio (nothing wrong there btw), if it doesn't work. The thing is where does this all leave the next generation of wannabe Radio 1 DJ's who don't have that TV platform, or even social media platform? That avenue is an overcrowded house anyway. Maybe, like Steve Wright was, they aren't into being on camera but come alive behind a radio mic. In 1997 an overweight 20 something year old bloke made his way to early breakfast on radio 1, and got promoted from within. Seems like now the likes of him, and even a raw circa 2007/8 Greg James would have a harder time to get to the top. You could even put Annie Mac into that convo. She was a producer in 2001/2, that ended up taking over from Zane Lowe a decade on when he left. Without going on, let me ask you this simply. If a circa 1998 Scott Mills went for a job at Radio 1, today. As good as he was even then. Do you think he would even get a look in?

Thing is with TV presenters they have already halfway worked their way there in a very similar industry. I mean times where celebs are just bought in because of their name and it's a kick in the balls to very good presenters already out there. Some examples do deserve a chance, Jarvis Cocker with 6 Music for example. But picking the ones who just sit there and giggle at stupid jokes with no proper content, I've found there's been way too much of over the past 2 decades or so.

You know what. He's absolutely spot on, I couldn't agree more. First thing I thought of was about 15 years ago when Kelly Osbourne was handed a Radio 1 show, I mean come on. She never turned up half the time anyway. Radio people need to be like him, Scott, Chris Moyles and Greg James for the more recent generations. You need to have a passion for radio, work your way up and gain experience.

Awful, you don't know whats going on in peoples minds sometimes. Not saying what he did was intentional. But it's emerged with the state of the room he was in and what the staff were saying, that something was seriously going wrong.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/UQ5AUhrinNZWMJDg/ On a station I do some bits for in wolves. A presenter dug out his old chat with Liam from 2010 and we replayed it earlier. Just as he was setting out on the x factor