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He has covered the 10am show before so no suprise maybe Adele is being lined up for nights Scott to weekends, RMC to afternoons and Adele to Night time

They have studios in the Cardiff area according to WIKI but yes - one of my local community stations has a VT'd show once a week that is done by a guy from Plymouth who moved there for BBC local radio work, and voice tracks his show from there remotely, so he must have to log in remotely to the stations playout system (can't see the BBC allowing him to do that in their studios?) and do the links I have a recorded show on a community station as it's a Saturday late overnight, however I have done it live a few times, generally recorded but the way the station works is I have to record the whole thing as if I were there live so listen to all the music as well, where as I have worked at another community station where you could voice track and just record the links into the system Sam's socials seem to point to him being in wales at the weekends though On a side note... I went to Vegas in March and was served on the BA flight by Charlotte sister of Sam and sometimes stays at Scott's place, you often see her socials of her with Scott so Imagine she uses his to crash when she's flying early I was so star stuck that I didn't have guts to ask her about Scott lol I think this is in preperation to drop Scott from 1-4 weekdays.... or could we see Dev and Alice go 1-4 Mon-Thu then Scott still dot he chart on a Friday R5L Sat and 1-4 on R1 Sunday leaving Friday and Saturday 1-4 open for a new presenter/Adele maybe??? she has been covering that slot a bit recently so maybe it will be hers?? leaving weekday early breakfast open to Arielle and then weekend earlies to someone new??

I think it would suit the 1-4 slot - many community stations have their sports shows in that slot on a Saturday (2-6 alot of them)

It seems a strange move and could be spelling the end of the 1-4 show on R1 meaning he'll just do Friday chart, Saturday on 5 and maybe weekday cover on R2? although the article clearly says no plan to bin the weekday R1 show off yet Funny enough Moyles was a whoooo today in the whoo game He may well be steering towards only working Fri/Sat/Sun and this is a step towards it as his partner Sam is on Nation Radio Saturdays in Cardiff so probably has to travel down Friday night therefore it may suit Scott personally to be doing weekends and have Monday to Thursday off to be with Sam who has just moved to London

Greg is only off Monday and Tuesday

Still seems wrong it's not Scott in for Greg

If you know the day of the show listen back on BBC sounds on your computer and it will have a track listing for the show

Add to that, RMC also take turns doing the desk over the week

Yeah defo says Chris is with It's weird I wonder why Chris just doesn't do the show solo? I mean he's been there long enough to operate the equipment and all and he knows the show it's well known he operates the desk when Scott pops out for his coffee and fag at 1430 before bangers Seems weird someone of Chris' experience and knowledge of the show and studios he doesn't do it on his own Something else - I notice that Dev and Alice take turns in doing the desk, as do Matt & Mollie why don't Scott and Chris? probably a good reason

Seems he is having most Friday/Saturdays off and Adele covers Dev does Sunday to give Adele a day off herself Just happens Alice is off too, so maybe she'll be back in the next few weeks solo Fri/Sat Also noticed Greg has some more time off coming up and Matt is in for him solo, no Mollie

Another geeky question has Scott ever covered an evening show on radio 1? I mean past 7pm? apart from the lolothon of course when he's on 24hrs, or is the new Radio 2 gig the latest regular slot he's had time wise

I wonder why Wisebuddah produce it? and not Radio 2? is it because of the time it's on and day of week easier to contract it out Also noticed he has his own jingle package for Radio 2 as well Your right about the being comfortable on R1 I mean so would you be comfortable with something your doing daily as opposed to weekly and that was the first show I bet he sounds like part of the radio 2 family by January and I bet he gets more work off the back of it

Thought i'd start a thread on this as he's covering for 12/15 weeks Listened back to the show this morning sounded good, Scott is really able to adapt to the Radio 2 style and audience it's really good to hear him doing long links and letting his personality come out as opposed to three back to back songs, a 30 sec speed link followed by two more songs which was more how he used to be on drive on Radio 1 Couple of bits I noticed When he interviewed Tom Hardy he paused and said "Edit" may mean it was a pre recorded interview ? or just a saying At the end he said in his seg into the 9pm news "this is a wisebuddah production for radio 2" so is he working for Wisebuddah then?

Yes he seems to be easier to listen to not so blazae and in your face, but still the old Chris in as much as the style of the show and format etc I think because it felt like three of your mates having a few pints and a good chat, they were brilliant as a team and for someone listening to Radio 1 back in the day every other show was pretty music heavy as you'd expect so this show was something different from the "norm" and the epic jingles as well made it a radio geeks heaven (Greg James admits he has them at home and used to play them alot back in the day)

I really agree with these points I think you've nailed it It is what radio is all about it was a brilliant show and I was heartbroken the day Grimmy started because it had been the breakfast show of my 20s into my 30s Although I was kinda heartbroken in a weird way when Grimmy finished but he finished in a very different way in as much as he was moving to another daytime slot not forever And I was mega pleased for Greg because he is the radio nerd and deserved that slot although us die hard Mills fans will say Scott should have had it when Moyles left we always will but then that would have killed Scott off of R1 by now Say he'd took breakfast in 2012, then he would have lasted to 2017/8 probably? maybe moved to weekends after or off completely by swapping to 1-4 with Greg it's been his saviour and lengevity and there is no sign of him leaving yet

Towards the end he was very up his own arse but the audience liked this I think so he played up to it He doesn't seem as much like that now but at the end of the day he was out of touch with the Radio 1 audience and it needed a refresh You have to remember Scott is less than a month younger than Chris Moyles and he's still going strong becuase he is in touch and embraces the changes, like being moved slot, yes afternoons were a demotion from drive but it's given him a new lease of life which has led to him doing the chart - he is the only R1 presenter on all 5 weekdays, get's the most on air time of all (15hrs) that's one hour more a week than Greg is getting and hes now got two more hours on Sunday nights until Christmas on Radio 2 Sara Cox survived at R1 two more years than Moyles as well remember that

I wonder what the CM show would have looked like coming from Studio 82A in NBH and what would have happened to CM had he not been "removed" and who would have replaced him in 2014, maybe Greg would have been put in place then and Grimmy would have never polluted daytime ?? It's clear that the NBH Studios were in the construction stage when CM was finished (opened December 2012) so I assume 82A was made as a bigger studio with all the cameras and all so it could take the whole CM team and have them web streaming

I Miss Coxy actually, I listened to a few CM Breakfast shows from 2010 the other day where she covered, and she was really quite good and had honed her act then, just too late for the breakfast bus She worked well with Comedy Dave and the team I miss Moyles and Dave I loved Greg and Chris Smith - can anyone remember if Scott had as good banter with Chris Smith in the evenings when he was on drive? he used to with Tulip a bit

I think the schedule itself will be the same as in the slots - the people will be different Early breakfast someone totally new Weekday Breakfast Jordan or Jack Saunders 10-1 Arielle 1-4 Matt and Mollie Drive RMC 7-9pm Annie still 9-11 either someone new or Dev and Alice 11-1 Someone new Weekend early breakfast someone new Weekend breakfast someone new Friday/Saturday 10-1 Greg James Sunday 10-1 someone new Weekend 1-4 someone new Friday 4-7 chart and party Katie and Cel Saturday Dance Anthems Mistajam still - he'll be an institution like Dave Pearce was Sunday 4-6 life hacks Adele Roberts and doctor Rada and 6-7 chart first look Mollie King Sunday nights god knows What happens to Scott - radio 2 in the SWITA slot or taken over from Zoe on breakfast, or Sara on drive who has gone to breakfast to take over from Zoe Greg covering bits on radio 2 and 5 live and two weekend shows on R1 still Grimmy - going into TV producing on reality shows Clara - back at a commercial rival Heart Dance or something along those lines Adele still on weekends maybe being used as the odd weekday cover

And on the first year of breakfast - here is Greg's first drive show and the end of Mills first 1-4 show when they swapped, and what song was Mills playing at the end and into Greg's show - you guessed it https://ia801209.us.archive.org/33/items/20120301/20120301.mp3

I wonder what will happen to Ben Cooper?

So it's a year since Greg opened with a TMTO what do we all think one year into his tenure on breakfast? I think he's making a good job of it and has turned it round from the stale old show with Grimmy, also he has made it him and you, 1 on 1 not Tina, not Sinade not Fiona, just you and Greg, its a complete contract to what was before I think he is a stayer, and as a geek he will definitely want to beat Moyles' record Very sad that Scott is not Dep anymore though as it was always great Should Greg have taken over from CM in 2012? IMO NO because it was a massive institution to follow and I think biding his time has paid off

Yeah they don't sound right dong them

Yes that was good - wouldn't have been right with him trying to do car park catchphrase and all Liked when he covered for Grimmy when he used to bring Innuendo Bingo and RONR over I used to like the first package Grimmy had with that theme and all, where as the later package was just poppy with Grimmy talking to Rita Ora and all his celeb mates I notice when he has covered for Greg he does do all of his features like Yesterdays Quiz and TMTO etc Also.... did Scott ever do a Moyles show with the Moyles team like Dave and Dom and Tina ? I know he did with Tina under Grimmy's tenure a few times specially when Grimmy went sick at the last minute

I Know when Greg was in the week before he took over breakfast at least one of the days Scott said when he was covering it that they were on one studio doing the breakfast show live Greg was next door doing a pilot show to time and Vanessa was there too doing her show on radio 2 Talking of which - during the week between Grimmy and Greg Scott used his breakfast package with all the Grimmy themes and all where as when he covered between Moyles and Grimmy he didn't is that because his Moyles package was the cheesy song and all which said "The Chris Moyles show with Scott Mills" where as Grimmys era ones were the same jingles and themes but sounded like to the causal listener it was Scott's show