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That will be because of the bitrate that they’ve launched these stations at… they try and squeeze too many stations on one multiplex. I think Capital Anthems is as low as 32 kbit/s, whereas Radio 1 is broadcast at 128 kbit/s.

It’s all three of them today?

Since they added Greg James in on a Friday, I have thought it would make sense to have RMC then too. Previously I thought it’d make sense to have “the weekend start” at 1pm with Matt & Mollie, whereas now I’d rather the weekday schedule continued up till 4pm so we have 5 days of M&M. Although if this was going to happen, surely they’d have changed it in July.

Maybe. They’re obviously updating it as they go/hear from Zoe. they added in this week previously & halve just added on next week. Not guarantee it’ll be the 16th

Maybe Matt is doing something with his family before the school year starts next week? Maybe Mollie then decided to take it off too? It’s a pretty good week to have, as they’d have only been on 3 days anyway. Then it means they’re both back together for September onwards

And there was me wondering why they weren’t covering for Matt & Mollie 😆 They are on every day next week anyway!

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.

I assume most people think Greg James is good value for the money he earns vs Zoe Ball… so it’s not as widely discussed.

Evening Standard have a quote from the BBC that Zoe Ball won’t be back until September

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

Sounds like it’s for a few weeks too, looking forward to catching up in a bit

I think we'll see a bigger growth for Capital Breakfast over the next 1-3 RAJARs. It's all to do with the way some of the smaller Capital FM stations across England are measured with the RAJAR system, they end up averaging out the last 6 or 12 months worth of data because the area is so small. See the RAJAR website here and for example Capital London is Q, Capital Liverpool/Birmingham/South is H & Capital Brighton/Mid Counties is Y. Q = new data every quarter H = the data is averaged over a 6 month period Y = the data is averaged over a 12 month period So a fair chunk of this data still includes January to March when Roman was on (and for the Y stations it included last July through to March).

I guess the difference is that the show titles include all 3, so doesn’t need to be edited to include anyone? Whereas Going Home V1 had to add Katie in whenever someone was off? Agree on the features, I really like the “Airing Your Dirty Laundry” as that results in some really funny stories. I think it’s probably time to end Something Songs, it just sticks out a little bit now as they don’t do features at 4pm on the other days… Personally think they could do with something like “Musical Mindreader” everyday around 5:30pm. A shorter feature which means they can still talk to Jack afterwards. Some days he’s too busy & others they’re filling for them, so it is a bit messy.

It's been a few months now and I listen most days while working, overall it's definitely not as good as Going Home V1. But, I do still enjoy the format...I like the way it moves onto something else every half an hour & that there's plenty of listener interaction with the questions etc. For me, the biggest issue with the show is Jamie. He seems like a nice enough chap, and I've even found him to be quite amusing/endearing at times. But I think his personality is much better suited to a podcast environment, because he says things which are too random, veering off course & he doesn't really respect the tight format of a show like this. Aled has clearly tried to make him 'work', as he has been paired with Matt, done some shows with Spencer Matthews & now apart of the Going Home trio, but I don't think he ever really will 'work'...for a whole host of reasons like I said above & the un-relatability factor. Just Vick & Katie together are superior, and it really shows up the fact that Jamie isn't needed - which doesn't help of course that he is off quite a bit, so you regularly get to hear this version of the show anyway. Ranking the pairings we have: 1st = Vick & Katie 2nd = Katie & Jamie 3rd = Vick & Jamie Katie is the glue that holds the show together & is the real reason I persist with it. She's much better at keeping Jamie in check & that is obvious during shows when it's just Vick & Jamie. They're virtually unlistenable imo.

I’ve used this before - https://podcast.adobe.com/enhance Adobe uses AI technology to enhance the audio (and in turn gets rid of background noise). Might be worth a go, but you’d need to extract the audio as it’s an audio only feature.

I do wonder if Matt & Mollie will be overall, but it's just too soon to take them off the new show. Needs a good run to settle them into the timeslot. But then I'd be putting Sam & Danni in to cover afternoon, so I guess its much of a muchnesses in what slot each is.

The press release says that the rotation will return in January 2025 - so it makes the whole thing a bit random? Are they struggling to find talent to do it? This news probably means we won’t see Sam & Danni swapping onto weekend afternoons which I think is a massive shame. They have talent in abundance and could easily do a Matt & Mollie style show, especially if they’re stepping up to do weekday cover. On that note, I’d like to see RMC, Matt & Mollie or Going Home take a whole week off together at some points during the year… means Sam & Danni could cover and you also break up the whole “double the time the show isn’t normal” situation.

The BBC commissioning brief mentions it is a 'mid morning show' for Radio 1 Dance https://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/radio/documents/comm_brief_r1_dance_morning_show.pdf

It’s on Saturday and Friday that week too. I guess this would make sense, as it gives them roughly 6 weeks off weekends until they start the new show?

Was the same vibe on the Easter Monday show they did too. Just random questions and the like…. Katie is definitely the glue around making the show listenable.

Lauren was always down to cover Thursday but the Wednesday addition was quite late? So I guess Jamie really is poorly sick

Will these be normal shows though? As it’s Easter weekend.

I guess this is because they have no one else to cover on 6 Music? Huw had to double shift it today.

I do wonder what the 4 month hold up is? Are they doing it out of respect for Dean, Vicky or Arielle to remain in their current slot? Are Matt & Mollie not available till then?

Can't recall him covering on Radio 2 before? Is this his first time? I am guessing this is more to do with the fact the show comes from Cardiff so has limited choice in last minute cover?