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Just Vick and Katie on Wednesday (and presumably Thursday as well).

Wow, surprised he signed a new contract in September but it says a lot about Jordan that he continued to a very high standard throughout last summer/autumn if this was all going on in the background.

I doubt he wanted to go to Global if a slot before he found out kemp was leaving.

What a nightmare link at 11.15am this morning. Spent 30 seconds waffling about the name of The Last Dinner Party as if he’d never heard it before, then started mentioning Capital and the license fee, and how it’s been used to pay for him to be there, and was then cut off by the start of the next song.

The playlist has definitely got a bit narrower this year, it feels like. Artists like Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, Drake and Doja Cat seem to be played in every show, even when they’re not on the playlist. Other artists who get a few plays a week, such as Niall Horan, always seem to have the same song played, in his case, Heaven. Whenever they dive into Calvin Harris’ backlog it always seems to be Slide and Promises pulled out, even though they’re two of his least upbeat songs. Most songs they play seem to have been from the 2020s, instead of throwing in a few older hits like Capital does, which is something I think they could do.

Hi to both, miss you loads on radio 1 and hope that you’re doing good at capital What was the background to your exits from Radio 1? Do you have any regrets from how it ended? This one’s more to Jordan, but do you enjoy TV presenting more than radio? What are your targets in TV?

Fair play to Jordan north who’s got himself to 5th least distracting, but Greg has managed 8th MOST distracting, and Rickie who is 12th most distracting.

Danny beard might be available. They might just tell Jamie not to come in and give it to Sam and Danni instead tbf. Arielle’s off Early Breakfast all week but is doing her new show on Thursday so she may be about as well.

Ideally it would make sense to line the radio numbers up with the channel numbers; so Radio 1 becomes Radio 3, Radio 2 becomes Radio 1, Radio 3 becomes Radio 4, etc, but obviously this is all quite unlikely.

No, he’ll be joining them on Thursdays ‘soon.’

https://deadline.com/2024/04/bbc-butchers-radio-1-breakfast-news-bulletins-greg-james-1235882812/ The BBC refused to comment on the lack of news over the past week.

Should’ve got yourself to Tesco Extra Watford last Friday for a free Calgone sample…

It’s a mix of factors; Chris talked about playing the ‘lad’ role on Radio 1 and how he had continued doing so in the last few years despite being a father and sort of growing up himself, so it makes sense that he’d reinvent himself here. Also unfortunately Capital is quite ‘slick.’ They’ve been given some leeway with the Breakfast show but they still have strict timings and lengths to keep to unlike at Radio 1.

Lauren Layfield now in for Arielle next Monday and Tuesday. Sam and Danni for the rest of the week as planned.

That was because early breakfast was cancelled for that week. Its interesting that they’ve been able to take that time off, unless they’re planning to put it back on at some stage; they missed 2 bulletins in 2021 (because of the death of Prince Philip and technical issues) and they were under their quota.

The James Cusack situation is weird; came through at the same time as Dean McCullough, was arguably stronger than him, yet one is two years into a daytime stint and one is still getting a small amount of cover shifts. It’s a wonder Global haven’t swooped in here.

Judging by the description of the show on Monday, looks like it’s just Vick and Katie.

Todays show with Vick and Katie was excellent, just like the old days. It felt like Jamie is at the centre of the show when he’s on. Typically every show always started with something going on in Vick or Jordan’s lives. Now it feels like it’s Jamie every day: (Jamie’s got a nighttime routine, Jamie’s sad, Jamie calls his parents mummy and daddy, etc.) It feels like Vick and Katie are his side pieces when arguably it should be the other way round. This might not even be a production decision; Vick said yesterday that it feels like Jamie is the bosses’ favourite, so anyone hoping this is a short term engagement for him may be disappointed…

The show also feels like it doesn’t have many, if any, regular features. The previous occupants of that slot (Katie, Dean, Jordan) all had regular weekly features, whereas Danny just seems to be reading shoutouts and messages all show.

Quite a clickbait headline from the BBC here:

Mine was Grimmy, on his drivetime show in 2020. I’d passively listened for about a year prior to this, mainly Greg on breakfast and Scott on the chart, and then sometimes Dev and Alice on the weekend as well, but this was my first use of the BBC Sounds app: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mqz0 At the end of that week, I heard Jordan for the first time when he covered Grimmy. I’d heard him a few times before and thought he was alright but really enjoyed that, so started listening to him as well just before he went on I’m a Celeb. So it was Grimmy and Jordan at first!

It’s not necessarily the fact that Jamie is posh. It’s that the show seems to be really keen to play on it. Within 10 minutes of their first show they were playing voice notes from his Celeb mates. Compare that to Vick and Jordan’s first week in September 2021; their first links were about Jordan’s awkward encounter with his plumber and Vick slapping a roast chicken. And then on Monday this week, Jamie is sulking (exaggerated sulking admittedly) about something, this ultimately being that another of his celeb mates has cancelled his appearance on their show, and they’re literally reading out texts such as ‘I’m sure this is going to be relatable to the entire population.’

Dean in for Greg on Tuesday.

big dilemma incoming about which breakfast show to listen to then…