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Ant L

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  1. Well, nobody's confirmed whether Aled is staying or not, although there's nothing to say he's going either. I like hearing Aled on the Surgery though, as a surviving Moyles team member. I like hearing Tina on the news as well for the same reason. I think he's a great host, and at the moment I don't think there's anybody else who could do it.

    He's said on Twitter that "Wednesday is the new Sunday". So he should still be hosting it.

    Aside from that I'm not sure The Rock Show on a Sunday is a good idea. I can't imagine putting a niche, specialist show on so early will get many listeners.

    Not surprised at the leavers really. Glad Alice Levine is getting a promotion - hopefully a stepping stone for taking over Fearne's slot one day.

  2. Looks like they've started to use the new imaging! Heard one of the cuts on Dev's show today!

    Just listened on the iPlayer. Sounds like a new voiceover at the very end? She seems to be used in conjunction with the current female.

    Scott played a whole load of new idents earlier too I notice.

  3. Isn't this 'one' just an edited version of Holly? It sounds similar to her, they are using editied versions of old voiceovers now and again. Louis Mellis is constantly used as a 'one' voice

    I did wonder if it was the pre-Holly voiceover.

    Saying that, recent imaging hasn't contained much of the current female voiceover. The Weekend Breakfast Show's jingles are all voiced by the male.

  4. Still not heard them on-air. That's two updates that have effectively been a waste of time.

    Even the older idents aren't getting played as often during the day as they used to. On Fearne's show there's an ident at the beginning followed by the same ID which gets used exclusively afterwards. It's all sounding very stale.

    Scott's show is the only daytime show that has a bit of variation with IDs.

    I know this all ultra-geeky and all, but imaging makes a big difference to the sound of a station.

  5. Normally it'll revert to 'BBC R1' or 'BBC.R1' on the RDS feed if there's an issue at the transmitter and a backup has kicked in. You see it every so often, and I'm pretty sure my car said 'Radio 1' when I was out earlier so it's probably just a mistake.

    It used to be 'BBC R1' permanently but changed in the late 90s/early 2000s, so I'm presuming the backup name wasn't changed back then.

  6. The last update from Pure Tonic Media was January 2011. Nothing more after that. Basically they created updates in August/Sep/Oct/Nov/Dec 2010 and January 2011, then it all suddenly stopped....

    Pure Tonic got swallowed up by Reelworld in summer last year so perhaps that had something to do with the lack of updates from then on, and the introduction of a new package.

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