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Looks like Monday 6th September for the schedule refresh now

I said he’d leave in 2022, turns out it was much sooner, but it’s not really a surprise. He’s been a good laugh and it’ll be a shame to see him go. Vick and Jordan presenting as a duo is an interesting choice but I think it’ll work well

Thought I’d put my twopence worth in, as I realise I haven’t posted on here too much since Greg took over breakfast. Greg’s incarnation of the Radio 1 Breakfast Show is by far my favourite in my time listening to the station (since the last few years of Moyles’ tenure on breakfast), as I much prefer the comedic, listener centric format to the more “showbiz”, celebrity focused formats used elsewhere on other youth-targeted breakfast shows (naming no names) Radio 1 has to be different to commercial competitors, and I truly believe they currently have the most distinctive breakfast show in the market. It is also one that is easily distilled into short social media snippets, which allow storylines (such as the recent “Tom the Young Farmer” saga) to play out to wider audiences away from linear radio, to hopefully hook new listeners into the show and keep them listening regularly. As others have said, the recent awards for Greg, Scott, and the station itself at the ARIAs prove that Radio 1 are getting it right, especially on weekday daytime. I can definitely see Jordan getting drive when Grimmy moves on, but that doesn’t seem likely until at least 2022, given the refreshed schedule published in April that is due in September. RMC getting mid-mornings does seem a smart move given Clara’s promotion to Future Sounds, as they always provide an entertaining listen. I hope Scott will continue on afternoons, as his show is still one of the best on the station, although I can see him doing more Radio 2 cover shifts alongside it.

Appears they are using R1 Dance for the Scotland opt-out, with Danny on R1 I assume the format will be similar to Rock and Roll Football on Absolute, with match updates between the usual music

It's sounding great so far, I feel like this is the BBC at their best: catering for audiences not well served by commercial competitors, and it's exactly what they should be doing in my opinion

What a brilliant idea, I'll definitely be tuning in

It’s going to be sad to Annie leave after so many years at Radio 1, but it definitely feels like she wasn’t pushed and that it was her own decision. Clara getting Future Sounds is a promotion for her though, and I for one can’t wait to hear the new show, as she definitely has a talent for new music radio.

This is a slightly leftfield and eccentric question (I hope), but seeing as Scott's interest in her was the main reason why I started to love Taylor Swift, I think it's a good idea to ask this: what made Scott become interested and/or obsessed with her and her music to the extent that he started the whole "our leader"/"leader of the pop illuminati" schtick back in late 2014? An additional question on the same subject would be: what is Scott's favourite Taylor Swift song of all time? I hope these fit with the non serious vibe you were wanting Jono!

I think they should bring back Game of Phones at some point, but I bet the issue is lack of decent celebs to do it. The breakfast show is definitely a lot more PG than the drivetime show used to be but I'm glad there is very little showbiz focus in the content as that was the main issue with Grimmy's tenure IMO. Greg is definitely the best presenter to do that slot who fits the criteria they have for it (enough experience, which would rule out Adele who would do a good job IMO, and a desire to do it, which rules out Scott as he has publicly said he doesn't want to do it)

Definitely Real or No Real, especially with Greg and Charlie when they came in for it! Was gutted when they dropped it, they should bring it back one day

I paid circa £60 including fees to see the 1975 and Pale Waves (and others) at Glasgow Summer Sessions, so yeah dead cheap in comparison to seeing the same acts elsewhere

Oh and by the way Scott liked my tweet, feel sooo happy

I think if you can somehow access the 'Watch Live' page, you can watch the feed that is being used to record the Twitter clips. Not sure how you can do that though, I did try earlier on

They are videoing the show, and uploading segments of the lolathon to twitter, e.g.: https:/twitter.com/BBCR1/status/841743548949135360/video/1

I'll grab it all off iPlayer and stick it on archive.org, so it can sit with the 52 hour Moyles show!

Scott's podcast is only around 25-35 minutes a day for a three hour show these days, whereas it was verging on an hour two or three years ago.

As I mentioned in the chatbox, Bauer stations are broadcasting the brits this year, between 7 and 11pm, I believe they may have snagged exclusive radio rights to it for the next few years. As I type this, Alice and Clara from R1 are on ITV2 doing the red carpet show, which I think is just pre recorded interviews and some montages. Update: Tried to listen to the networked Bauer show, gave up after 5 minutes, truly awful, even by Bauer standards

A generic R1 mug wouldn't go amiss, if I ever visit London, thanks for the info!

On a slightly related note, would anyone know where you can obtain a Moyles mug from, either Radio X or Radio 1 branded? I want one to add to my (very) small collection of TV/ Radio Merchandise? If anyone happens to know or possibly have one they wouldn't mind sending , drop me a line.

Ahh okay, I thought Music4 still had an involvement with the Paul Turner V/O. The TOTH's though seem to be new each day/few days though

I was aware of that news story, which I think is why that there's been no new imaging for a while, Moyles mentioned earlier in the week that they do need to get the Out of Ad Break jingles updated, the same ones air every single show pretty much.

I just remembered that I used to go on this site a lot, 2/3 years ago maybe, and since then, Chris Moyles has returned to the radio, on a rebranded version of XFM, Radio X. When the show launched in September 2015, Chris got together with Sandy Beech, the head of Music4, the company that produced his Radio 1 Imaging for many years, to create a new audio imaging package for the show. This has never appeared online in a clean form, would anyone be able to send me this? Here's an example of what I'm on about:

Thanks! How about sticking anything worth uploading on a usb stick or sd card and posting it to one of us (whooooooo!) to upload it for you?

The BBC said in a blog post that this was to unify the BBC stations under the same look, which hasn't fully happened before this AFAIK.