the_grove
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uuh, okay, I totally forgot that there is another baby coxy on the way.
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I would not think he would go back to it. Why didn't he when D and D left if he was going too?
Probably he wasn't even asked because they needed a place for Edith after her maternity leave.
But why should anyone take over from Coxy? She's not going anywhere soon...
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Is that Rihanna? Seriously...
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There is a thread for this already
Is there?
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Anyone listening? Scott started with a weird choice. I don't even know the title...
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Where do we know that from? Do you really think he is doing a weekday morning show (aka breakfast)? Heaven forbid!We all know in 2010 Vernon is unlikely to be doing a Saturday morning show.I am with the telegraph-blogger when it comes to Vernon:
I’d sooner see Strictly presented by his corpse than by Kay. -
I hate that. The actual page for the review show is http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/review/ - it is still the old design with free space on the left. The other page looks nice, but who is supposed to remember that weird /programmes/b00mkb6t. And why do they have to seperate designs. Or indeed to seperate pages. Why is there no link from the /programmes site to the actual show page? usability-catastrophe! They need to change that.
(is one of the Internet-Sams reading here?)
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The conspiracy theory answer would be: they are giving him more breakfast-appearances to find out how listeners react to him doing breakfast - and thus prepare putting him there permanently (that is, for a year or two...but we had that discussion in another thread...).
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Thing is: it is a bit suspicious that Vernon is in for Moyles more often than Scott is, recently...
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In the end, he dealt quite well with it. He is a good presenter, and he can easily handle a situation like that in a way that doesn't make it too embarassing.
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Only part of today's show was the request show. The last hour or something was more like the Floor Fillers. Dance tunes. No requests. The weird thing was, Reggie was still asking for requests at half past six, without playing any more... he will have to get used to this new format
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What I know for sure is: as long as she is not on parallel to Mills or Moyles (which is unlikely anyway), I'll listen to her. Regularly.
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Excuse me, but that is exactly what Radio 1 is doing. The songs on hot rotation are played every three or four ours. And the playlist is rather small. The difference between BBC and commercial Radio is the speech. There's quite a lot of speech on Radio 1. On commercial radio, there is rarely more than a 30 second speech part between every three tracks...Playing the same songs over and over again - no matter how good they are - is amateur and one of the differences between BBC and commerical radio -
True.To be honest, the songs mentioned in the first post aren't THAT bad...The Killers are not indie, by the way.
Some time ago, there was Jo Whiley who could easily smuggle some indie tracks into her show. Now, there's Fearne. I doubt she has as much influence on the music played on her show as Jo had.
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Dilemma of a small playlist. What's worse is, there are not enough rock/indie-tracks being played. Too much Gaga and stuff.
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Moyles will leave. Sooner rather than later might be a correct way to put it as it is unlikely that he will do another 5 years.
But Vernon is not the future of the Radio 1 breakfast show. He is dull. His saturday show is an easy listen, but it's not professional entertaining radio as Moyles does it. So if Vernon was to take over, he would probably not stay there for longer than 2 years.
The really interesting question is not when Moyles leaves, or who replaces him. It is who will be the next breakfast presenter who stays in the job for three, four, five years. That's definitely not Vernon. And it's probably not Greg James either. Unless he growths with the job.
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According to this blog post on the Guardian, Lauren Laverne will get the 10 to 1 slot on 6music. She is definitely an alternative for everyone who can't really get used to Fearne Cotton. I'll give her a listen. And hope, she does well.
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I like that Jo is in the Guardian, while Fearne ends up in Daily-Mail-like papers. Says loads. And they both deserve it. Jo is one of the best broadcasters in the country. Fact.
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I don't think that will happen. If they replace Moyles, they will do a completely new show, new features and a new on-air team. Everything else would just be a "Moyles, you were not that bad, just too long in the job, go but we keep your team".thing. Not professional.I think Vernon would be the best bet. He could keep Chris's team.
So is Moyles. But the show is not political, so that doesn't matter.Having said that Vernon is old before his time and very right wing in his views.If Mills took over, that would be a short-term solution. One, maybe two years. Next on the list is Greg, who I think is not big enough fot the job (yet?).
In the Sun article about Moyles being sacked half a year or so ago, they said Reggie was on the list. I don't know what to think about that. I like him. Since he is doing his shows without Fearne, he is sounding much better. but breakfast? Depends on the format.
They could try and get someone from outside Radio 1. But I would not do that because you never now how listeners will react. I would want to have someone from inside if I was in their position.
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Afternoon.
I would like to have more Maida Vale Live tracks. And less Black Eyed Peas. Please.
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If Greg took over breakfast naxt year, and if he performed as he does now, he will not last long on breakfast. He is a nice guy and a good DJ, but it takes more to survive on the breakfast show. I would even say that he still has to improve a bit to be a decent lunchtime presenter.
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Impossible to know.
But I would argue the rise last quarter was the artificial one. This loss is right as it puts us level with last year.
but we wouldn't know until you saw the trend.
There he is
Aled, what will you do in the near future? Just go on as usual and wait for the next figures, and hope that there won't be a loss, maybe even a gain of new listeners? Or is the team on red alert now, and thinking of new features and changes to the show in order to get new listeners?
Also, what's bothering me all day is: this is not the best prerequisite for another contract extension, is it?
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No because this doesn't count the new daytime line-up. Must be the old line-up...
You mean the next figures will be even worse?
(only half of that is irony...)
Would Aled maybe like to come round here and explain to us why there was a bigger loss a year ago? Come on, Aled, I know you are reading this
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I doubt that they lost more than 700000 last year. That's a huge amount of listeners. But I also doubt that Aled would publish wrong fact all over the internet.
Still, that's not a good sign...
Radio 1: Drowning kids in blandness?
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I absolutely agree with that Pbserver article. Greg is pale. There's not much more than reading out listener's texts and saying some pointless things about the music he plays. In terms of speech, Edith was way better. And there's nothing better than Jo Whiley on Radio 1 these days (don't compare her to Moyles/Mills, they have a team on air. On Jo's shows, it's just her).
In his defence, maybe that is what the management expect him to do. Maybe (and that is not even unlikely) they gave him guidelines to which he has to stick. That is, no personal things that might irritate, offend, or be disliked by anyone. Be characterless so that no-one can have anything against you...
What I don't like about the Observer-article is the way they write about Scott. He is indeed not characterless. And his show has a completely different format, so you can't really compare.