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I wondered that too, but when it came on again before the start of Phil's show, it seemed to start from the beginning with Clean Bandit and an ident. To be honest, I'm just surprised (and slighyly disappointed) that it's not Hey Ya by OutKast anymore.
It was also weird how as soon as the studio was taken off air a trail played, before the silence - I'm trying to work out how that happened. Anyone who knows more about radio engineering than me got any suggestions?

Not that great to be fair, I'm an Electrician but soon to be promoted to Test Engineer... yay!

Greg James' Dance Anthems show is actually pre mixed by station sound/music teams and split into sections a few songs long which give Greg (or Dev when he's in) spaces to talk, so i would assume it's probably making those pre mixes!

Greg James' Dance Anthems show is actually pre mixed by station sound/music teams and split into sections a few songs long which give Greg (or Dev when he's in) spaces to talk, so i would assume it's probably making those pre mixes!

I've had a listen through Friday's shows and it's not Holly Meyrick on the vocals, so it must be someone new!

I made a montage of the different Chart Show Imaging from 2003 with Wes through to 2015 with Greg, thought you guys might like it.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y63v4fnoljo0i5u/BBC Radio 1 Chart Montage 2003-2015_mixdown.mp3?dl=0
2003 - Not sure who made this, could be Vibe/Music 4?
2005 - Music 4
2006 - Music 4
2007 - iQ Beats
2010 - EPM
2012 - Music 4
2015 - Delicious Digital

Speaking of the Teen Awards, Delicious Digital have produced the new package for the Teen Awards this year. There's a few highlights on their website including a few on air clips from Scott and Clara!

I've been watching this thread for the past few days and have decided to throw my 2cents in! 
And I'm going to start with a curve ball, I don't think 'Pure Jingles' are behind these new Power Intros and Idents that we are hearing. They do the "Where It Begins" TOHs and that's it.
Lets bring 'On The Sly' to the table for a second. They already produce the Summer Mixes (this years and last years) as well as The Live Lounge imaging. They create a lot of power intros for other stations and in general, which is why I think they (and the R1 station sound team) are behind them.
Another reason why I think this? Mike Wooller, male voice from 2012 and these new Power Intros, is one of On The Sly's voice over artists, and I'm sure I've heard this new female voice on one of their demos before.
As far as the old Pure Jingles package above goes, if you check out their soundcloud page you'll find that demo listed 2/3 years ago, proving that it is an old package and not a new one.
Newsbeat have been known to use an old voiced bed every now and again, so there's nothing new there.
Have I missed anything?

I listened to Early Breakfast with Adele this morning, and the vocals for My Tune Monday on the Resident Dj feature have been voiced by someone new, not one of the current 4. I'm waiting to see if tomorrows has been voiced by them too! This makes me think we're due a change soon, maybe!

I'm not a fan of the current idents. They're so slow and plodding, four voices is too many, one of the voices is godawful and the sound effects don't sound fresh in the slightest. As much as I hate to say this, Capital is sounding a lot slicker at the moment - some fast paced, slick idents (like the New Music Friday ones) would do it a lot of good.