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Bizarre how the wheels have fallen off Going Home always being a duo in recent months? The show was basically always covered by someone to keep a duo for the first 18 months, but since about Easter there’s been plenty of solo days now?

I’m pretty sure all the shows on the Absolute decade stations are voice tracked.. Apart from Breakfast/Drive which are simulcast of course.

First time in a while that the Friday presenter has covered Arielle mid week? It’s been Sam & Danni more and more recently?

What hours are missing? I have a full archive of this one!

That’s not real? Not sure what the point of the photoshop is… someone we’ve never heard of?

Always fascinating to take a look at the charts included with the BBC Sounds data. Released at midnight was the Q4 2022 data which you can see here. Radio 1's Murder Mystery seems to have done good business at attracting Under 35's with that and the 'Afterlife' podcast taking places in the top 4. Greg James is the most listened to Radio 1 show on demand via BBC Sounds, with Vick and Jordan also in the top 10. BUT... the one that really caught my attention is the Scott Mills Daily Podcast still being in 4th place on the 'Top Podcasts % U35 Skew' - which is significant as this period is October to December, meaning there were zero new episodes but clearly lots of people still catching up....

Taken from Matt Deegan's brilliant RAJAR blog: https://onaudio.mattdeegan.com/p/rajar-q42022 Which gives us some fascinating insight. Basically Scott has sat around 2.6m on Radio 1 Afternoons and that figure has only dipped ever so slightly in the first quarter without him. Whereas, Radio 2 Afternoons sit around 7.3m and again, his arrival/Steve's departure has had little impact.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d8ml7b/episodes/guide I wonder why the Taylor Swift one has been pulled? do you think they’ve had some backlash as that album isn’t available as Taylor’s Version yet?

I’m not sure if they would ever move the Breakfast show out of London. It was made clear when the BBC bosses outlined the plans for R1/2 to move a daytime show outside of London that it “excludes Breakfast”. I also do think the cost cutting point is an interesting one. Arguably we’ve seen them pairing up presenters at a time BBC wages have come under more scrutiny, so I am not sure that argument holds much weight now.

I do wonder if Vick has been put on Drivetime because she was promised “something more” when she was bought in for the Life Hacks slot. I could see the same sort of promise with RMC really. But timings just meant that Drive came up first… as I think you could use the same talent in a much better way on daytimes: Greg, Vick, RMC, Jordan & Katie. Vick would sound much better solo-ing the Live Lounge, with RMC taking on more of a Scott & Chris style (plus they could’ve stayed there a while as it’s a good non-peak slot for older DJs). In terms of next Breakfast, Jordan has got to be a shoe in, presumably with Katie because of Vick’s very strong objections. But if so, I don’t know why they haven’t shuffled them together on Drive already.

I'd be shocked if there's much more to it than just someone on the web team creating the 'Sam & Danni' page when they needed it. (I believe it first appeared when they covered the weekend slot vacated by Dean, not yet occupied by Katie... so they weren't technically covering for anyone) This is interesting... I was looking forward to 2 weeks of Jordan & Katie as they're a great pairing. But certainly not mad at either of them getting some solo time either. Clearly Matt Edmondson is not around that week, as he'd have surely been perfect for either the Breakfast cover or to do a week on afternoons (with Katie remaining on Drive).

Scott & Chris played on average 34-38 songs. Today Dean and Vicky got 42 away, So about 1 more every half hour?

Radio 1 haven’t really had any “misses” when it comes to daytimes over the last decade or so. When you think they bought Grimmy straight in to breakfast and he then did a stint on drive. Greg moved up to afternoons, drive and then breakfast. RMC and Dean & Vicky feel like real risks in terms of, I can’t see them travelling around the daytime schedule. If D&V really don’t work out, it wouldn’t be a bad thing to admit it and try a new show there in a year or so. With RMC, they’re just wasted on that slot. I did enjoy the banter and games on their evening slot, it’s just lacking so much right now. It feels overstaffed and there’s not really any point having them do such a music heavy, features limited show. Scott & Chris always managed to get away a lot of music, but also squeeze in a lot of content.

Yes, I remember thinking that at the time the Stats came out. Interesting to see Early Breakfast on there & also the generic R1 Breakfast, which is the title used when Greg is off.

No Greg is off for 2 weeks,then he’s back for the final week of Scott & Chris then he’s just got a few days after the following Monday (which is a bank holiday) he’s back mid week

I wonder if Rickie’s partner is due soon and he’ll take a few weeks paternity in August, hence why they’ve got Vicky in?

Yeah, if anything the regular cover of Breakfast and afternoons/drive if both are away would probably be a bit of a sweetener for Matt & Mollie remaining on weekends.

That’s interesting, as July is his Early Breakfast month? Is that the first time someone’s covered a show (not EB) during their month?

Wow! Was not excepting that news. There’s a quote from Roman welcoming him alongside Sonny & Sian, so appears no one is leaving that show

I think Bluestraw meant Katie and Dean, because they’ve listed who’d replace Dean

Glad I wasn’t the only one who was confused by Aled’s quote about lockdown. Maybe a mistake? I don’t think this is such bad news for Radio 1 - or Greg on Breakfast - because all youth stations are down. If you look at Matt Deegan’s blog, he states it’s higher % of older listeners who are going. There is just not enough younger people coming in to replace them. This is kinda good news for the Radio 1 team as it means the content is on target. There’s just a wider issue that the target audience doesn’t listen to radio overall as much. Adam Bowie’s blog states the % for which each show is down. We don’t know the numbers, so it’s hard to gauge too much. But it’s the first time we’ve had a breakdown of any sort: Greg is down 7.9% RM&C 12.4% Scott & Chris 4.5% Vick & Jordan 7.5% The BBC Sounds data out today also shows Under 35’s listening and RM&C are the only daytime show not to make the Top 10, plus losing the highest %. Does not look great for them.

Should Vick & Jordan take some holiday coordinated together? Easier said than done, I know, but that’s another week with the drive show not quite being “normal”. They’ve not had a long run together in a few months now? (Including by this time next month!)

Not sure if it’s been noted here that next Monday, is Katie & Vicky on for Scott and Dean is in for Jordan with Vick. Then it’s Katie & Dean on 1pm for the rest of the week.

It’s going to expose newer presenters or people who mess it up. As the clean “Newsbeat” stab into the bed after the headline kind of forgave any mess

Not sure I agree with that comment from Moyles. He did not want to adapt his style (he's still doing the same type of show on Radio X!) - whereas I see Greg as much more of a Scott style presenter. He adapts, changes to suit the 'current' sound of Radio 1 and more importantly keeping the listener as the star of the show means he could easily go on for 6+ years. (Whereas Grimmy had the celebrity culture that was getting a little bit boring towards the end of his time).