NathanS

Will they be simulcasting the launch on the main station?

He's in for Rylan on Saturday 9th November as well. Romesh is still off on the 9th, so Alex Jones sits in again.

They're often spot on with stuff like Strictly and I'm A Celeb. It would be a good profile boost for him, like it was for Jordan North. A few weeks of cover on early breakfast shouldn't cause much disruption to the schedule

Really is a shame. I remember when they did the homecoming gig in Queen Square over Christmas 2010 when they were on the X Factor

Same here. Terribly sad news indeed. Condolences to his family

Nick Grimshaw is in for Rylan on Saturday 2nd November.

Anita Rani in for Romesh Ranganathan on Saturday 26th October Shaun Keaveny in for Rob Beckett on Sunday 27th October W/C 28th October Tina Daheley in for Jeremy Vine for two weeks Spoony in for Scott (except Thursday 31st October when OJ Borg sits in)

Alex Jones in for Romesh Ranganathan on Saturday 5th, 12th and 19th October. Shaun Keaveny in for Liza Tarbuck on Saturday 5th October. W/C Monday 21st October Gary Davies in for Vernon Kay, OJ Borg in for Sara Cox and Phill Williams on overnights all week. Jason Mohammed is on early breakfast in for Owain on Monday 7th, Thursday 10th and Monday 21st October.

Gaby Roslin in for Vernon tomorrow.

It's being updated week by week. It was showing Zoe on the schedule for this week until they updated it part way through last week.

I highly doubt it to be fair. Like Gary Davies, he's a safe pair of hands. I'd assume Gary is unavailable on Monday. He covered the same slot quite regularly when he was last at Radio 2 and Ken Bruce was at the helm. If (and that's a big if) there ends up being changes at breakfast, i'd like to think OJ Borg will finally be given the chance to get a daytime slot. He will be the first person to have hosted Popmaster (on both R2 and Greatest Hits Radio) and Ten To The Top.

Mark Goodier is in for Vernon Kay next Monday (16th September). It will be the first time he's covered a show since returning to Radio 2.

Scott is now on breakfast for another week, with Spoony on the afternoon show. OJ Borg is on the afternoon show tomorrow and next Thursday. Emma Willis is in for Dermot O'Leary on Saturday 21st September Paddy O'Connell is in for Rob Beckett on Sunday 22nd September.

I don't think even they know who's going to turn up for the show!

Interesting if they're reverting back to 5 performances a week during Live Lounge month. In recent years, it's had been cut back to 4 performances each week. I might be misremembering but... When live lounge month first started, they did it every day in September including weekends (the weekend performances were on Alice Levine's show iirc)

If they put RMC to 5 days, surely they would do the same with Matt & Mollie?

Shame (but no surprise) if they've overlooked James Cusack. I don't know of Jack, so I'll reserve judgement if he is announced as the new weekend afternoon presenter, but if he's anything like Danny Beard, then it's not for me, I'll stick with Radio 2 in the afternoon. If he is the new weekend presenter, seems a bit odd that they didn't use the opportunity to officially introduce his appointment on air. Did they just refer to him as a 'new presenter'?

The schedule on the website has been updated to show Scott on breakfast. https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl8v/2024/09/09

The schedules have updated to show Scott is on breakfast still next week, with Spoony on afternoons (apart from Thursday, when OJ Borg sits it).

Dunno where you're getting this from. The 10:30 and 15:30 bullitens were 2 minutes in length as normal... Edit: Apologies, you're right. I wonder why they've changed it?

Emma Willis is in for Sara Cox tomorrow. Richie Anderson in for Dermot O'Leary on Saturday 24th August Paddy O'Connell in for Rob Beckett on Sunday 25th August OJ Borg is in for Sara Cox next week (Tuesday-Friday). Scott is still on breakfast w/c Mon 2nd September, same with Spoony on Scott's afternoon show, apart from Friday 6th when OJ Borg sits in

They already introduced an early breakfast show on a weekend a few years ago, hosted by Arielle Free prior to her moving to the weekday early breakfast show. It didn't last that long. It was given up presumably due to low ratings not justifying the cost of a live presenter/production costs etc.

I can only assume they're genuinely undecided who's taking over, these month long rotations are presumably trials to see who's best. If it was Danny Beard, even if they couldn't take over till a later date, they'd still be able to announce it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/radio-2-programme-highlights Bank Holiday afternoon is now: 12-2pm Tony Blackburn's Sounds Of Soul 2-4pm Steve Wright Remembered with Vernon Kay 4-6pm What Steve Wright meant to me with Liza Tarbuck 6-8pm Steve Wright in his own words, introduced by Paul Gambacinni

Soundsystem Party, Rap Show and Drum & Bass show are off this Saturday as Radio 1 is coming live from Malta with Danny Howard, Charlie Hedges and Jeremiah Asiamah from 7pm onwards.