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Unless possibly if they had presenter like Fearne Cotton, Angela Griffin or Michelle Visage leave the station and their shows she may be a shoe horn there if they were to focus on other projects.

I cant see any vacancies at 5Live at the minute. They said months back that they were to be starting a new series with Gordon Smart. Adele could be staying on at the BBC within the BBC Sport team as she has present coverage of certain marathons and could be quite good to have apart of the Paris team next year.

Wonder if Adele Roberts has been poached for a commercial rival like Heart FM

I get why he’s headlining a festival like Glastonbury and still doing events as his final UK date siad to be culturally historic and has a five decade songbook. It however does feel odd for the station to have Elton John do a big interview over having it on Radio 2 where they still play his music on regular basis and his fan base are more of their target listeners. With the whole talk about radio 1 and ageism in the media. I kind of wonder whether they would do something for an older female artist like would they feature Kylie or Madonna in such way?

Don’t see any changes for Dean & Vicky I assume they will try to keep that programme for a couple more years to have some stability in that time slot. I don’t she Annie voluntarily departing and will broadcast until she is physically capable to broadcast on radio.

Permanent early breakfast presenter for Fridays would be the only logical answer of change. Though I think if any changes could be announced for around December time that could be introduced in early 2024. As I see for the station that that will be the time that they could make changes.

As she is a mental health councillor and has interests in stuff like this I would like to see her doing podcast series under the lifehacks brand potentially bringing back the lifehacks podcast as a series not necessarily a weekly instalment. I think she would, be good for hosting specials around mental health awareness week or neurodiversity celebration week. But I don’t see this changing this year.

I’ll say that maybe when the next rejig of breakfast and the daytime schedule happens. I think trying to make some tweaks and adjustments to the feel of the breakfast show would need to happen. As I think recent clips of Greg’s post Radio 1 Big Weekend interview in the studio with Royal Blood looked cringy and mostly taking the show and the big weekend moment too much seriously and didn’t seem to make fun radio and seen on social media comparisons of Greg sounding like a dad telling of a child for a seven minute interview. I think Scott Mills had manage to make his features seem original and fresh and over his time tried to re-invent the programme to grow an audience and feel that Greg James doesn’t seem to be enjoying himself and having as much fun on the radio as he did before when he was several years ago.

I think totally different era theres a different ethos and he wouldn’t be as popular and get away with saying the stuff he did when he was on radio 1 now that’s for sure

I agree that when it comes to our own identities whatever language you use is fine and I don’t have the right to tell you words to use. So I respect that.

Exactly, this says it perfectly.

He can say or not say it but agree with @R1Fan1 that its doesn’t deserve its own gossip topic. We should be passed the point and move on from sexuality gossip and poking noses in peoples private lives. @AndyK77 If you are bisexual its not ‘mostly gay’.

I think more broadcasters should explore merchandise MistaJam selling his own jam, Charlie Tee selling her range of T-shirts, Scott Mills with his own mills and boon books, Greg James with his own signature Gregg’s pastry or roll, Charlie Hedges with her own hedge trimmer

Good thing about Jordan I feel he’s decent to tell a joke in a respectful and non-offensive way. I think it doesn’t matter to the listener his sexuality is. I don’t expect presenters to divulge their personal relationships not unless they want to. If Jordan says he’s bisexual, he’s bisexual. The only one that knows Jordan North’s sexuality is Jordan. I take his or anyones word on their personal life as its no one else’s He might not talk about having a girlfriend boyfriend as he may not be in a committed relationship at the minute. That said I know that sharing something as personal will gain much respect and the listeners would find it may help them to hear. But he shares what he likes.

I found it was interesting that both of names Kylie Minogue and Adam Lambert not the obvious names you’d go for a young peoples event with Capital. But must say Kylie has seemed to have made one of the most impressive pop careers that she is still able to dominate the charts and be able to have her new songs played in clubs and not just asked to play her hits when she has a stack of them. To go from Ledgends slot at Glastonbury to the mystery surprise slot at capital’s ball is something. It seems with radio stations are trying to have events that come a staple live interactive experience for their listeners to engage with the station with Capital, Hits, 6 Music, Radio 1, Radio 3, Kiss and now Radio 2 having events apart of the brand and is a means of gaining for commercial outlets different outlet of revenue as Capital Dance announced their first Ibiza weekender to rival Radio 1’s. I wonder if stations like Heart, Radio X, Absolute would look to do similar.

Thanks for that piece of information so just leaves the BBC it cover the costs and just give a brief to festival republic and corporate with them on just working out what they want for that festival this year and the size and scale depending on how much they are budgeting and allocating and how FR report back on the contracted agreements. Whilst the BBC aren’t organising all the micro-details of the festival but rather the decisive power over locations and probably what acts and bands they would like to feature and have booked for that year. It still is more the BBC would have to organise than would with hosting Glastonbury and think that the BBC can get to cover and produce more content, have more talent on-air and have it as a cross network affair much easy than their own events. As I could imagine that when the tried to make as much content available for those who listen and watch the BBC for the Biggest Weekend sorting out the plan of what they want contracted festival companies to work with before the BBC’s idea could happen. Probably is so much harder to work out than Glastonbury itself as they don’t have to have the idea but just only doing the outside broadcasting which is working with allocated areas with festival organisers.

I think with BBC Three, I’m still struggling with the purpose of why they brought it back as a live terrestrial channel when so far it doesn’t seem to be doing more original programmes and live content that makes sense of it being back on television. But seems like a lot of Top Gear and Two Pints of Larger and a Packet of Crisps which if they trying to go for younger audience it doesn’t make sense. I haven’t seen any of the broadcast plans for BBC Radio 2’s festival which seems like a lot bigger of a event and its listeners are more likely to when at home watch live BBC channels than Radio 1 listeners and highlights and their headline acts would work on BBC Two or later on BBC One. I personally would like BBC One taking more of the big sporting and cultural highlights to have the unique highlights on BBC One. If they didn’t bring BBC Three back to air last year and decisively focused on more of the unique things like BBC Music events does and giving live experiences on it’s major channels would’ve been more sensible. in terms of Radio 1 I can see why the BBC would push for the iPlayer over BBC Three for youth audience I knew that they did go for 1975 and Lewis Capaldi to have been shown late on One the nights they headline because of their lack of commitment and to push BBC Three shows by choosing the iPlayer to promote first is why I still wonder why they brought it back to the TV channel format.

It’s understandable as the amount of stages and areas Glastonbury is larger than any weekend events that the BBC does by some miles. No festival or events BBC covers has that amount of stages and areas so it makes sense. That said I would love to be able to watch events and coverage of other stages maybe with other broadcasters and media outlets in addition to the BBC. I don’t see it as surprising as Glastonbury is one of the worlds biggest festival and Big Weekend whilst considerably big festival isn’t seen as big in terms of public interests. It’s probably a lot cheaper for BBC to cover Glastonbury as you are only planning and organising outside broadcasting and only organise one tent. But with Big Weekend, The Proms, 6 Music Festival its the BBC have to book and organise the lineup work out all the contracting for security, toilets and setting up all the things on the fields and work with councils to work out the permissions etc and work out the costs. But all the festival contracts the practicalities to making the festival happen thats down to the organisers of the festival and the BBC just has the thing of working with Glastonbury and working out how to get it on radio and on peoples television. Considering the amount of people who either watch on BBC Two and Four, watch the livestreams of the festival or catch up on iPlayer and it does deliver more clicks and views a than other events the BBC does. For the reception the audience given over the years has shown theres reason to scale up. I find there’s so much more to cover.

I think the past incarnations had license to play older music or more mainstream that isn’t futuristic as think with the ‘Future Sounds’ name it bounds them play new music, new artist and more left field experimental stuff but incomparision to before the future sounds name it felt that they were playing music a lot more that wasn’t yet on the playlist and a show you can find new music from. If say Clara Amfo were to present the programme on say something like Capital FM it would stand out and have different edge and cut to the rest of the programme and would be more competitive. I think they could easily bring the Future Sounds and Artists shows together if Jack Saunders were to take over the programme.

I know that last year they did their event outside its usual one day festival concert in Hyde Park as previously thought. It does feel perplexing if they scaling up their live event as 6 Music scales theirs down. In interest of event sustainability whether eventually go for a rebrand of the festivals and launch it as a BBC Sounds Fest given the overlap of artists sometimes featured across stations like whether its Arlo Parks to Lewis Capaldi wonder if it will be a more cross-network vibe to events

I think that at times Jack can be bit too hard with the enthusiasm in some of his lines and phrasings get repetitive in the bursting of excitement for the show itself. It’s not a bad thing, I feel like within time throughout his career his tone and style will soften and change as he matures into his career. I do think he’d do a fine job in the hot seat of Future Sounds. Potentially theres room for a soft re-jig of some of the Future Sounds shows next year.

It’s something that feel I’ve not been one to actually want to and enjoy the casual drop and listen to now and then. I would listen more regularly before to that show inparticular whether it was Zane Lowe and Annie Mac they did good in having the exclusives to feel more exclusive and not picking so many tracks that are in the charts or on the stations playlist but could in a few weeks time. I’m only 22 and do hope that when next generation have their chances at specialist programmes it can feel less background

Think nothing against her personally she is competent and a capable broadcaster. I think that maybe she’d been better of being able to have a lot of television work and big television job as think she can develop and have a successful career. Think there maybe more the consensus of a neutral vibe

I agree with your point think in terms of what she does that may have tempted radio 1 at the time I’m clueless of the rationale about having her to take on the show that people don’t tune in because the presenter is on but because its Radio 1 and set features or such. I find with no insult a lot of stations have presenters that you tune in because you like the station and just stably occupying the airwaves and having a voice on the station

@Old Codger Fan I sure at the time was the lone wolf that thought she wasn’t going to get the show. Whilst she was ok and fine enough replacement for when Annie Mac was on holiday or was feeling ill. But she didn’t seem to be someone that anchored the authority the show needs. But think she from few times have tuned in hasn’t been a presenter that made sure that I didn’t turn off and hasn’t been a presenter that has felt that I should want to keep listening. I get the tone of voice as if you are talking about a new song, album, band or artists as Future Sounds requires need to be able to sell it and get people to be looking up said album or artist. Think having her continue on mid mornings would’ve given the daytime bit more stability and I think is one of the prestigious slots on any station. Don’t know whether the curation has changed but doesn’t feel too much like most streaming playlists.