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Ant L

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  1. 6 hours ago, TMD_24 said:

    If it sounded like that all the time then I would have accepted the current set longer!

    I think Dev might be in trouble with someone who has produced the new ID's and someone at R1 overall. He had a bit of a moment this morning when he played a new ID with a dubstep music background and described it as, 'A bit pissy' so stopped and switched to an old ID halfway thorough. If you want to hear the incident again then listen to this mornings show and skip to 47:12.

    I'm sure he said "busy" not "pissy".

    The bed was pretty aggressive in fairness.

  2. So here's an observation... Having listened to Scott's show over the past few days there's been a few occasions where it sounds like Scott (or maybe one of his team) effectively played out makeshift power intros of songs where normal ones already exist.

    I have a feeling it's because the power intro versions are at least a minute shorter than the full length tracks and it's to fill time?

    I feel like some of the intros heard on Greg's show aren't IMGR productions either - they don't sound as highly-produced.

  3. 17 minutes ago, TMD_24 said:

    Think this might help me with my montage project! I don't think I originally heard the 'Sorry' power intro on-air before they released this demo so it's good to see unreleased intro in this.

    Most of these intros heard have already gone out on air and heard regularly although it's good to see some power intros which was originally made with the new voiceovers yet got a edit with old voiceovers, the 'Side By Side' one springs to mind. :beuj:  

    I've heard the Sorry intro before - that's actually the second incarnation.

    I did wonder how the station would sound when these took over. On Greg's show they try to add his name either before or during some of the intros.

  4. The production is fairly epic on this package. I agree with the above - the previous breakfast show imaging was lacklustre to say the least, especially when the Wise Buddah orchestral theme was dropped (perhaps the contract to use it expired...?).

    In the best possible way it is all a bit KISS or Capital but for a while they've sounded much slicker than R1 so it's no bad thing. Excellent effort.

  5. Interesting that the emergency "tape" is at least two years old. The fact that we've (probably) never heard it before just goes to show how rare technical breakdowns are these days (of course this was human error rather than a fault).

    Here's a fun emergency tape incident from back in '09 with some '06 imaging shoved in for old time's sake.

     

  6. I think the issue I have with Radio 1 is the desire to bring down the listening age so much. I don't see why Radio 1 shouldn't be appealing to listeners aged 25+ when the official remit is 16-29. Radio 2 serves those 35+, so what about us in the 25-35 category?

    Also it's all very well saying that RAJARs don't mean much and that YouTube views are so important, but the clue is in the name - Radio 1. Radio first, everything else should be second. RAJARs not including listeners under 15 is irrelevant - they aren't in the remit.

  7. Have you noticed for a number of songs you'll hear a highly-produced intro,  and a few days later it gets dropped for a boring version? Ellie Goulding's new song for example - the original had an auto-tuned Ellie saying her name but it's since been replaced with a generic voiceover. Alice Levine mentioned on air she wasn't happy about that one actually.

    It seems they're testing new sounds and voices out, dropping parts that don't work along the way. Perhaps when a sound is settled on we'll hear things on a more permanent basis.

    Also heard an intro yesterday that had 'Where It Begins' mixed in. I sort of figured that slogan was getting phased out but maybe not.

  8. I fully agree with the above, Alice is a star and is surely a frontrunner for a daytime slot. I always thought it was a strange decision to put Clara over Alice in the mid-morning show but I suppose it would make sense to leave her open to maybe take over Greg one day.

    Saying that Dev is fantastic so I'd be happy with either.

    In terms of breakfast I kitted out the car with DAB radio so Moyles has taken over Grimmy for me.

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