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    Ash101 reacted to Sarah Johnson in Dean and Vicky - what happened?   
    I think it was more of a ‘let’s do shows from Salford’ decision. Rather than a talent led decision 
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    Ash101 got a reaction from HumphreyAppleby in Going Home with Vick, Katie and Jamie   
    Considering nothing else changed with the show yesterday - it’ll probably be Judge Jamie 😆
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    Ash101 got a reaction from ianwilk1999 in Going Home with Vick, Katie and Jamie   
    Considering nothing else changed with the show yesterday - it’ll probably be Judge Jamie 😆
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    Ash101 got a reaction from coffeeandgin in Going Home with Vick, Katie and Jamie   
    Considering nothing else changed with the show yesterday - it’ll probably be Judge Jamie 😆
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    Ash101 got a reaction from xxladybarefootxx in Going Home with Vick, Katie and Jamie   
    Considering nothing else changed with the show yesterday - it’ll probably be Judge Jamie 😆
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    Ash101 got a reaction from AndyK77 in Going Home with Vick, Katie and Jamie   
    Considering nothing else changed with the show yesterday - it’ll probably be Judge Jamie 😆
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    Ash101 got a reaction from TheSaviourisHere in Going Home with Vick, Katie and Jamie   
    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
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    Ash101 got a reaction from BBCAaron in Going Home with Vick, Katie and Jamie   
    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
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    Ash101 got a reaction from IamNotFromUK in Weekend afternoons   
    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.
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    Ash101 got a reaction from IamNotFromUK in Dean new presenter of early breakfast   
    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.
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    Ash101 reacted to IamNotFromUK in Matt and Mollie to replace Dean and Vicky   
    Dean and Vicky's example serves as a reminder that duos should have some sort of connection and not just be thrown together randomly. When you look at other successful Radio 1 duos, you see that either it happened naturally over time (Scott and Chris, Matt and Molle) or they're really good mates (Sam and Danni, RMC). The only recent exception I would say is Vick and Jordan, who were thrown together randomly but managed to make it work.
    Btw, I believe Dean and Vicky would be perfectly fine for commercial radio, where the links are more scripted. However, on the BBC, you must have a real connection to make it work.
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    Ash101 got a reaction from Helen.a12 in Matt and Mollie to replace Dean and Vicky   
    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/
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    Ash101 got a reaction from Greg20 in Matt and Mollie to replace Dean and Vicky   
    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/
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    Ash101 got a reaction from ianwilk1999 in Jordan North and Chris Stark   
    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.
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    Ash101 reacted to AndyK77 in Jordan North to leave Radio 1   
    Exactly - I love Jordan lots - easily my favourite radio presenter of recent years but I 100% get the BBC's position which has been dramatically affected by what Greatest Hits Radio did with Ken Bruce.
    They are bound to be mighty p'd off that one of their biggest talents is leaving them.  I think Aled's words were respectful but low-key.
    You start to wonder if this is why Jordan didn't cover Breakfast at the start of the year as all this was starting.  This won't have started this week but been an ongoing dialogue.
    I just hope the move to Capital works for Jordan.  I get the impression the big commercial stations have a more liberal attitude to how their Breakfast presenter behaves versus the rest of the schedule.
     
     
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    Ash101 reacted to coffeeandgin in Jordan North to leave Radio 1   
    Since the obvious option of Jordan moving to Breakfast post-Greg is now out the window, it does throw the cat amongst the pigeons about who comes after Greg. You do wonder if Radio 1 will try and keep Greg around for a little longer while they figure it out.
    1) If Greg were to go shortly, Matt & Mollie would be the ready-made fit. Consistently passed over for daytime and one of the more popular pairings remaining. Though the obvious issue is Matt in particular feels very much near the end of his time at Radio 1 now (despite sounding as good as ever) so it's not an option for the future.
    2) Katie Thistleton. Ideally you'd maybe want her with Vick but Vick seems a firm no on Breakfast. Radio 1 haven't had a female breakfast DJ for years and Katie is very popular with the audience. She's been 'supply teacher' for years and been the go-to cover so much on Going Home that she's no doubt familiar to most Radio 1 listeners. There is the London issue - she seems to be pretty happy based in Manchester - but Radio 1 already do daily shows from Manchester and what better way to show the BBC broadcasts from 'across the UK' then doing the Breakfast show outside London.
    3) Dean McCollough. He seems to be a bit of a 'golden child' at the minute and he's already covered Breakfast. Wouldn't shock me if he gets the gig next. That said is he high profile enough for such a big role and reaction to him seems mixed at best and there's already a feeling he's been promoted too far too soon. Plus if Manchester is a reason to not choose Katie the same applies for Dean surely.
    4)RMC. They have experiencing hosting Breakfast from Kiss so would do a capable job no doubt. But also much like Matt & Mollie not exactly ones for the future and would be a stopgap surely.
    5) Sam & Danni - in a few years probably great choices for Breakfast. But they're barely started on Weekend Breakfast and probably need a little time to develop and are they high profile enough again with the weekday audience
    6) Somebody else. Let's face it not many of us would've seen Jamie Laing getting a big role like Drive a few years ago - or even a few days ago - and certainly his previous Radio 1 appearances don't merit it. So anybody could be on the table now whether it's a hire from commercial radio or just a 'celeb' (see some of the Global & Bauer stations for example). While I don't want to put this energy out there, Scarlett Moffat like Jamie did a Radio 1 podcast once upon a time so who's to say she won't follow the Jamie Laing path and get a massive role out of nowhere (goodness I hope I'm wrong though).
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    Ash101 got a reaction from Tea20 in Jordan North to leave Radio 1   
    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!
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    Ash101 got a reaction from J_B in Jordan North to leave Radio 1   
    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!
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    Ash101 reacted to BBCAaron in Jordan North to leave Radio 1   
    Also he was one of the ones that do something that is hard to do make the mundane entertaining he has quite a charming and amusing delivery. I can’t imagine many presenters making ‘’picky teas’ or what you having for your tea, something so basic quite amusing that listeners interact with and the listeners really managed to convince and prove to him that this is good radio that they enjoy. He has that mates in the pub casual conversation that made it work and it’s all how you talk to a listener and he has many good stories to tell them. Really liked the stories he had to tell when he was on sunday mid mornings.
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    Ash101 got a reaction from AndyK77 in Jordan North to leave Radio 1   
    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!
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    Ash101 reacted to AndyK77 in Jordan North to leave Radio 1   
    Is it weird I genuinely feel a bit sad today.
    Jordan and whoever he was with or alone often made me feel happier with whatever was happening in my life/the world.  When you hear the tributes rightly paid to Steve Wright this week, you realise that's what broadcasting is all about.  Not saying Jordan is necessarily in Steve's class but he is certainly well above average and a huge loss.
     
    When Scott left I think I only stayed with Radio 1 as I like Greg and loved Jordan... now I see no reason to stay especially as if Jordan is doing breakfast on Capital and I prefer him to Greg.
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    Ash101 got a reaction from NathanS in Best daytime show of 2023   
    There are 3 shows I always try and catch up on: Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James, Going Home with Vick & Jordan and Matt & Mollie.
    They cannot be beaten in terms of content vs quality vs time listened. All 3 of those shows make me feel like I am missing out if I'm not across what has happened in any given week.
    Greg is still sounding as fresh as ever and is the best communicator on the station by far.
    Vick & Jordan are a very relevant listen and always seem to push the boundary a little bit.
    Matt & Mollie are packed with good features and quality content.
    Honourable mentions for Katie Thistleton (both on her weekend show and when she joins the Going Home throuple), and Sam & Danni who are really finding their feet this year having done a great run on Summer EB & now Weekend Breakfast.
    Interesting comments above about Rickie, Melvin & Charlie - I loved their evening show, but gave up catching up on any of the current show about 18 months ago because it was just too music heavy and not worth the skimming time. May try and dip back in.
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    Ash101 got a reaction from ianwilk1999 in Best daytime show of 2023   
    There are 3 shows I always try and catch up on: Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James, Going Home with Vick & Jordan and Matt & Mollie.
    They cannot be beaten in terms of content vs quality vs time listened. All 3 of those shows make me feel like I am missing out if I'm not across what has happened in any given week.
    Greg is still sounding as fresh as ever and is the best communicator on the station by far.
    Vick & Jordan are a very relevant listen and always seem to push the boundary a little bit.
    Matt & Mollie are packed with good features and quality content.
    Honourable mentions for Katie Thistleton (both on her weekend show and when she joins the Going Home throuple), and Sam & Danni who are really finding their feet this year having done a great run on Summer EB & now Weekend Breakfast.
    Interesting comments above about Rickie, Melvin & Charlie - I loved their evening show, but gave up catching up on any of the current show about 18 months ago because it was just too music heavy and not worth the skimming time. May try and dip back in.
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    Ash101 got a reaction from Jono in BBC Sounds Data   
    Here we go again.... another RAJAR day so more BBC Sounds Data. Full PDF is here.
    Scott Mills Daily continues to be the 4th biggest 'OD Programme - U35 Skew'... but it is also the BIGGEST 'Under 35 Skew Podcast':
    1 = Scott Mills Daily
    2 = At Home With Vick & Jordan
    3 = 6 Degrees from Jamie & Spencer
    4 = All Day Breakfast with Greg James
    I think Greg James falls below Vick & Jordan for podcasts because he has the 2nd biggest show on listen backs, just behind Radio 1 00s.
    1 = Radio 1 00s
    2 = Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James
    3 = Radio 1 DJ Hunt
    4 = Radio 1's Scott Mills Daily
    5 = Radio 1's At Home With Vick & Jordan
    8 = Going Home with Vick & Jordan
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    Ash101 reacted to Old Codger Fan in My radio day   
    Roughly speaking ~
    MON-WED
    6am Breakfast, 5Live
    7am Chris Evans, Virgin
    9am Greg James, R1
    10am Vernon Kay, R2
    11am James O'Brien, LBC
    12noon Jeremy Vine, R2 (breaking for Newsbeat, R1, 12.45pm - and 5Live at 12noon if there are PMQs)
    2pm Dean & Vicky, R1
    3pm Fi Glover & Jane Garvey, Times
    5pm Bush & Richie, Absolute (breaking for Newsbeat, R1 5.45pm)
    6.30pm  Comedy Show, R4 (occasionally R4 Extra)
    7pm Through The Decades, Absolute
    7.30pm Huw Stephens, Radio Wales
    9pm Specialist Show, R2
    10pm Riley & Coe, 6Music
    11.30pm Comedy Show, R4 Extra (occasionally R4)
    12midnight Night Tracks, R3
    12.30am ASLEEP.
    THURS
    As Mon-Wed, except:
    7pm Jo Whiley, R2
    8pm Mollie King Future Pop, R1
    FRI
    As Mon-Wed, except:
    2pm Ellis & John, 5Live
    4pm Official Chart, R1
    6pm Sara Cox, R2
    7pm Majestic, Kiss
    (Sometimes a music feature on R4 Extra at 8.30pm)
    9pm Martin Kemp, Greatest Hits
    10pm Nick Abbot, LBC
    12midnight John Kennedy, Radio X
    SAT
    7am Sounds Of The 60's, R2
    8am Radcliffe & Maconie, 6Music
    10am Graham Norton, Virgin
    12.30pm Comedy Show + News, R4
    1.10pm Mark Kermode Film Music, Scala
    2pm Pick Of The Pops, R2
    3pm Matt & Mollie, R1
    4pm Music Planet, R3
    5pm Sportsworld, World Service
    6pm Stateside (Americana), PlanetRock
    7pm Craig Charles Funk & Soul, 6Music
    9pm Sounds Of The 80's, R2
    10pm Nick Abbot, LBC
    12midnight John Kennedy, Radio X
    SUN
    7am Aled Jones, Classic FM
    8am Radcliffe & Maconie, 6Music
    10am Graham Norton, Virgin
    12.30pm Food Programme, R4
    1pm Guy Garvey Finest Hour, 6Music
    2pm David Rodigan, Radio 1Xtra
    3pm Matt & Mollie, R1
    4pm Sounds Of The 70's, R2
    5pm UK Charts, Capital
    7pm 'My Planet Rocks' Feature, PlanetRock
    8pm Chillest Show, R1
    9pm Desert Island Discs (+ David Attenborough Stories), Radio 4 Extra
    10pm Indie Show, R1
    11pm Cillian Murphy Limited Edition, 6Music
    12midnight Classical Fix, R3
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