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Sorry I meant the week James is covering Greg, not next week.

I think it’ll be Emil or Lauren Layfield filling in when one presenter is off on daytime, if a whole team is off (or Greg), it’ll be Sam and Danni.

I notice Nat and Vicky are doing anthems from 10am on Fridays, which was something mentioned in the summer press release. I wonder if Greg is off that week then, and Sam and Danni are in for them.

Danny Mylo has said in an instagram comment their show is 4-7 so more to suggest they’re doing the full three hours live.

In the first half an hour

Yep, in Going Home.

Surprised Swarzy has gone as well, given they’ve been seemingly quite cutthroat with departures it’s weird you wouldn’t get rid of Shanequa over her as she rarely does cover in the daytimes, which means you’d then get a formal partnership of Ore and Swarzy to use for cover.

I wonder if James, Nat, Vicky, Dean etc were all told that there wasn’t a pathway to daytime for them and so all of them apart from Vicky chose to go. I’m taking that Reddit post with a pinch of salt but they will all probably be popping up on commercial radio in the near future (unless Nat has a TV gig). This GK Barry thing is so weird, especially given she seems to be doing it solo. Couldn’t she have just done Going Home with Katie on a Thursday for six weeks?

“In addition, further details on a brand-new show on Radio 1 Dance, fronted by Martha, will be announced in due course.” No mention of the news in RMC’s first half an hour. Surprised they didn’t let Rickie and Melvin announce the news themselves.

Obviously the presenters are going to make their posts as positive as possible but it sounds like Nat has been poached as well as Dean.

Radio 1 are probably decidedly less bothered about Dean going than they were about Jordan, plus it’d be coming up to the end of Dean’s contract.

Positives: - Jerry gets a daytime slot. - Mylo & Rosie and Emil get permanent slots. - The press release seems to suggest EB now starts at 4am, which means there’s an extra hour of live content for the station (would’ve thought that would be better in the evening, but still positive). - Sunday schedule makes more sense having Chillest Show later. Negatives: - Does Lauren’s show need Chart branding? - GK Barry on a Thursday is random, surely it’d be better to have her doing Going Home for 6 weeks over Matt and Mollie. - Upset to see Nat and James go. Can imagine it wasn’t entirely their decision either. I also would’ve rather Lauren Redfern or Lauren Shannon got that slot. I wonder if Dean’s been poached? His is the only quote which seems to suggest he’s decided to leave the station. Nat and James would fit in quite well on commercial radio as well. Rickie and Melvin to Radio 2 then? Maybe they take overnights if OJ gets drive there. Guessing Vick is back permanently on Going Home from September so no need for changes there as there’ll be less cover. No mention of Martha’s show in the press release, but as the Indie Show is moving to that slot I wonder if she’s also going. I’m surprised there’s been no changes to the specialist shows as most of them haven’t changed presenters in years now.

Melvin solo today, surprised they’ve not got somebody in with him.

Melvin is off today but he’s still scheduled for Radio 2 tonight.

Nothing to say there won’t be yet, given the schedule has been updated to ‘Radio 1 Dance Weekend’ the entire day on Friday. Given the ‘Matt and Jerry’ show page has returned for W/c 27th July, I wonder if Mollie is taking a break over the summer holidays, Jerry is joining Matt, and then Emil will fill in when necessary on Going Home.