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  1. 12 hours ago, BBCAaron said:

    I think those radio player/ tune-in apps are missing out on a tool where you can create your own radio calendar if I had set radio routine that is station hopping it would be good to create your own schedule so it switches seamlessly without going into different apps or opening app and jumping to different service...

    That's an excellent idea. So excellent, that it will probably never happen ...

  2. 7 minutes ago, Jono said:

    Blimey, how do you keep up with all that? 

    The Radio Times, plus trial-and-error dial-twiddling over the years! ?

    Obviously not everything gets my undivided attention, according to whether I'm at work, out & about etc. But aim for an overall sense of quality and variety...

  3. 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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  4. 16 hours ago, DC said:

    I can see that, but it depends if there's anyone left alive to moan. People are living longer now. It won't happen but there needs to be a 'Radio 3' that rivals smooth, playing everything pre 1990. Radio 2 has too much of an age range on it's plate.

    Even so, I'd also happily listen to Mark Lamarr doing 'Sounds Of The 50's' in some graveyard hour .. 

  5. On 9/6/2023 at 2:34 AM, DC said:

    If Ken regards new music as something from 2002 then his time had come I'm afraid. A lot of Radio 2's new music on their playlist is from established artists like Bev Knight, Keane, Simply Red etc. They are even playing a new song from Dolly Parton at the moment. 

    Not that it makes the slightest dent in his handsome pay check, but I think KB has managed to make a right tit of himself, over the whole course of his move to GHR. And to think that, last year, he was the un-disputed king of mid-mornings ...

  6. 1 hour ago, riksweeney said:

     

    Vick is certainly worse than Dean and this was more apparent when she was paired with other DJs when Dean was away.

     

    Funny how we experience things in different ways. To my ears, Dean cramps Vicky's style, more so than any of the substitutes.

    Agreed overall it's a big step down from Scott & Chris - But then, it was bound to be.

  7. 3 hours ago, AndyK77 said:

    ...Few presenters have ever got Radio 1 breakfast aged over mid-30s.  Mark and Lard are about the only ones that spring to mind and that was the shortest ever full-time stint at breakfast.

    Even Greg at 33 was at the higher end.

    It shouldn't be about age but about connecting with audience but the figures speak for themselves.

     

    I think Steve Wright tops the list, at 39.

  8. I usually enjoy the Jeremy Vine Show (switching over to R1 after 2pm news, as - whisper it - Scott isn't doing it for, on R2). He handles the mixture of light and serious talking points (plus musical interludes) skilfully enough.

    Vine also has a while to go before he matches Jimmy Young's tenure (and not everyone was too keen on him - but that's another story).

    If he absolutely had to be replaced, then someone should twist Nicky Campbell's arm .....

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