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Can't really see these as trials - each of them have done enough in the past for them to make a choice, and we all know James is by far the best! I suspect there's more to it and a good reason why we don't know yet...

The more I think about it the more I think Sam and dani are getting weekend afternoons soon with James doing weekend breakfast 
 

Surprised to see Vicky back on afternoons full stop, let alone paired with someone who isn’t Nat. Will just feel like Dean is away!
It’s a real shame Sam & Danni aren’t being given a run out on afternoons when both Matt & Mollie are away. 

It’s unusual but it’s the only thing that makes sense. The only other presenters that do cover are Sam and Danni but if they were available they would be covering breakfast. Shame they don’t bring some of the specialist presenters in for cover, they’ve done well on normal shows during events like the DJ Hunt etc. 

I bet they have seen each other in the kitchen when songs are playing
Althogh Greg is on until 11 at the moment and Scott is on until 0930 so he will be home before Greg finishes
Interesting they have only now let him cover, I can only imagine that this is trying Scott out as permenent cover or Gabby Roslin and Gary Davies are not about
Maybe they will now use Scott (hoping so) going forward for breakfast cover ala R1 and someone else like Gary or OJ or Spoony covers 2-4 all the time, which would make sense going back to the Evans era for the first time when Sara was the permenent cover
Something tells me that Sara will get breakfast next because she hasn't covered in Zoe's time at all

Scott is doing R2 Breakfast today😊

First time Chris and Scott have gone head-to-head on the radio?

It was the same the other month when he sat in on a Saturday for Rylan, he had Sally Traffic and Lottie to bounce off. He is a brilliant solo presenter, and I actually do like his afternoon show, it's just missing 'something' that the R1 show had.  
But I think that is in part down to the slick music heavy format and the type of show management are asking him to do. Great to hear Scott on breakfast though. He now joins the list of people that have hosted both the Radio 1 and Radio 2 breakfast show.
On another note, hopefully everything is okay with Zoe Ball, she's only recently returned from holiday and was suddenly off on Friday.

Scott just works better with more people around him.

Yeah, it feels more ad-lib and fewer prerecords. Bit of Brucie too...!

He’s sounding superb. This is the “something” that his 2-4 show is missing!

Impressive that somehow everybody has come out of it a winner. Greg's audience grew, Jordan's brought new fans, and Going Home is picking up younger audiences. An exciting time for radio - which seems to be a big winner.

The Going Home figures demonstrate that some of us on this forum are no measure of the wider audience.
It baffles me that the show has gained listeners but proves I know nothing 😛 

Very possible.  The language does feel a bit more personal than you normally expect in writing in a business email.  In my work world, what we'd say on a call and what we put in writing is quite different!
Katie is incredibly loyal to Jordan so I am sure she privately felt embarrassed by what Jamie had done and this was a very public way of doing something about it.  Vick also re-shared Katie's post highlighting that bit.
Which for me is even more baffling than the Going Home situation as even though I can't stand Jamie Laing, I recognise some people do like him but I can't say the same of Danny Beard.
Which begs a bigger question - it feels like this goes beyond specific shows so what has brought people to Radio 1 as a station.
Are we aware of any (mainstream) shows that lost listeners?

Jamie didn't even know what RAJAR was six months ago!

A bit more from an embargoed email that Jamie Laing’s shared on Instagram, with the Going Home show reaching 3.3m.

 
Capital breakfast was also up to 2.8m, with a 261,000 increase the majority of whom are probably Jordan fans from Radio 1.

Nicki Chapman in for Romesh Ranganathan on Saturday 10th, 17th and 24th August
Tina Daheley in for Jeremy Vine for two weeks starting Monday 12th August 
OJ Borg in for Sara Cox on Wednesday 14th August
Scott Mills in for Fearne Cotton on Sounds Of The 90's on Saturday 17th August and 24th August.
 

Alyx is in for Daniel on Monday 15th July.

OJ would be more popular on daytime. He's brilliant but wasted on nights

WOW Sam&Danni huge for them

WOW Sam&Danni huge for them

Connor Coates is in for Charlie Hedges on Saturday 15th June.

Ore Olukoga is in for Arielle on Tuesday 11th & Tuesday 18th June.

Maia is also doing Early Breakfast on 21st June and covering Mollie King on Future Pop on both 12th and 19th June.

Looks like there’s gonna be no interim between Dean and Vicky and Matt and Mollie as the former are still there on the 27th June. 
 
We know that’s also the date of Arielle’s last EB, so I wonder if there’ll be an interim between her and Dean taking over. I suspect there’ll be at least a week with Ore.