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Is this actually true? I am not sure I have ever heard/read about Greg talking of beating Moyles's record? Doesn't mean I don't think he could do it... I think Radio 1 will be desperate to keep his stability for a while yet, and with the news of his new contract he'll definitely beat Grimmy into second longest.

Well no, Jordan did drop Radio 1. They probably wanted to announce someone at the same time so the headlines were 50/50 across Jordan leaving but also who’s replacing him.

I truly believe this show only came about because of the pressures on BBC management to have a daytime show from outside of London. They’ve done it for a bit, increased the weekend quota and are still retaining another slot on weekdays. But the pressure is no longer there & now they can make a programming decision based on Matt & Mollie bringing a better show along. That podcast from the start of the year told us everything we needed to know about Vicky only being asked 2 days before the show was announced. Agree it’s not a disaster as such, but this is the only time in recent memory that management have ended a show without talent calling time.

From the way Katie has spoken about the opportunity on air and on her Instagram, I find it hard to believe she ever turned it down. It really does feel to me like it was a decision after the backlash of Jamie. But this then raises questions about why they made that decision originally? I agree though, I am baffled by all of this!

Considering nothing else changed with the show yesterday - it’ll probably be Judge Jamie 😆

Yeah I agree. I wasn’t expecting the Tea roll call to remain. Could they have also changed Something Songs into something else? As like you say, it just feels like it’s a poorer product of the show with Jordan

First thoughts: playing into Jamie too much, as above, the famous friends bit wasn’t great. The messages should’ve been to all 3 of them

I’m under the impression that this does happen with smaller local stations. Because the RAJAR area for them is so small, they usually weight certain demographics to ensure it’s an even spread. If you can only speak to a handful of Men aged 25 but needed more, they’d just double the data they gave back. I’m not sure this would necessarily be the case for a national station. As they will receive the data from every single diary handed out across the UK.

The Celebrity series last year was only 4 weeks long, so this does seem possible!

At Home episode has dropped in the last hour. Katie confirms she was asked to join the show while on her holiday the week before last (so after Jamie was announced). Jamie also didn’t know the show was the second biggest on the station, what time it started or the concept of RAJAR….

From the BBC Press Release: "....and an announcement will be made soon with details of Matt and Mollie’s current schedule time (13:00 – 16:00, Friday-Sunday)"

Moving Sam & Danni to weekend afternoons and replacing them on weekend breakfast with a solo presenter does feel like the more natural move. They've doubled up the presenters on Katie's old slot, so they may need to make a saving there. I don't really think 3 duos in a row is necessary. They only started in September 2023, but I think that is largely irrelevant. These things change for the greater good. Dev & Alice only did 6 months before they were swapped with Matt & Mollie back in 2018. Grimmy only did it for 9 months before they moved him to the evening slot.

Agree, I do think there's 2 options when it comes to Greg's Breakfast cover going forward.... 1) Matt & Mollie (with Sam & Danni probably covering them in the afternoons) 2) Dean I do think Katie would also be great, but do you let her go solo with the other 2 remaining on drive? As it's obvious Vick has no interest in Breakfast, cover or otherwise. Funny to think Greg has had so many people cover him on Breakfast (Scott & Chris, Matt & Mollie, Jordan & Katie, Dean) when Grimmy basically only ever had Scott & Chris.

Agree, The Sun are usually pretty well connected in Showbiz stories. That was my first thought too? If Dean & Vicky did a straight swap, we’d be very “out of London” heavy on a Friday-Sunday but none during the week

Apparently Matt & Mollie are going to replace Dean & Vicky on the weekday afternoon show. The Sun reporting, nothing official anywhere. https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/26220485/radio-1-mollie-king-matt-edmonson-jordan-north-exit/

Well no, but he is probably only on a 6 month contract to meet up with Vick Hope’s renewal being in September. She wouldn’t be able to leave before hand without repercussions for herself Maybe they’ll click and the show will get extended by another 12 months, but I really can’t see either being there in September 2025.

Have they stopped the comments on the Instagram post? Doesn’t seem to be any recent ones. I presume the other presenters have been asked not to make their own grid or story posts about Jordan? I guess the Capital move will significantly increase his pay. He nor Vick made it onto the higher earners list & I can imagine Capital have the cash to go wayyyyy up on where he might be right now. Is it worth the money/profile for the next few years? Or is the better long game to stay at the BBC and end up over on Radio 2, like Scott?

Not posted here today but I am genuinely a little bit stunned by this news. Jordan has been a firm favourite of mine since he started covering shows & was delighted when he got the bump up to “Going Home”. Wasn’t sold on the Vick partnership to begin with (and I think I do personally prefer the dynamic with Katie) but the show has turned into a solid 2 hours and 15 minutes every single day! It’s got a great pace, with plenty of features & 2/3 people with great humour. It’s a sad day, because as much as I now like Vick - I just didn’t enjoy Jamie when he covered with Matt last year. So I don’t think I’ll regularly catch the new show (I’ll give it a go out of curiosity, as surely they’ll want to reboot “Going Home” to some degree?). There are only a handful of people I’ve felt genuinely gutted about leaving Radio 1: Scott & Chris, Alice Levine & now Jordan!

Obviously it never happened before Covid, and it’s only been a handful of times since. Was never explained that random one with Matt at the end of 2023. I do agree about Vick no longer going to Manchester, it definitely takes something away from the show. It’s okay on a temporary measure but not permanently (and surely takes away from having the show made there!) On a side note - must be more production staff who work from home? Considering they’re building new Radio 2 studios in old office space.

Yeah definitely got to be option 3… they sound too good to be covers! Just look up karaoke instrumentals on YouTube to see how bad they can be

Can’t be many more weeks left for Claudia? I do enjoy Emma Willis as a presenter though. That shows going to have a bit of a gear change from Romesh takes over

Indeed, makes you wonder if it was planted by his agent to increase his pay at a contract renewal or something!

I see the schedule has been updated for this week's show and is now listed under 'Martha'... Does anyone know much about her? What's her surname? How did she become associated with the show? I'm a bit naive on the specialist output at these sort of hours!

What a bizarre take. I think Greg and Scott are pretty similar in style because they both have listener based shows? The average listener numbers have fallen overall, I don’t think that’s enough to attribute to one presenter. They’ll go down even further with whoever is next because that’s just how youth radio RAJARs are going…

Right around Christmas, Greg was making comments about doing stuff again next year. The Gregg Wallace tree call, getting Harry Styles up a Cherry Picker, Jona Lewie Time. Obviously it’s not solely up to him, but it would not surprise me if he has at least another full year in him on Breakfast. There’s been so much change across Radio 1 under Aled —compared to what we had previously — I don’t think a consistent 12 months for the daytime line up is a bad thing