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Arielle in for Danny on Easter Friday.

Another example of a celebrity hire when they’ve got plenty of presenters knocking on the door.

She’s joining Vick and Jamie on drive.

For whatever reason, Danny Beard will be looking after the slot until July.

James Cusack is my guess.

Presumably she’ll be double shifting.

Her last show is 27th June.

Gutted to see her go from early breakfast and alarm will probably change to Capital Breakfast when Dean takes over.

If they were lining up Matt and Mollie for drive once Vick and Jamie’s contracts are up they wouldn’t be putting them on afternoons now.

James now in for Matt and Mollie on Saturday as well as Sunday.

The article does say that Dean and Vicky will be remaining on the station, so I’m wondering if this is perhaps a change being scheduled for a few months down the line, when Jamie has done his contract on drive and Katie joins Vick (and then James or someone else takes M&M’s current slot and D&V take Katie’s slot).

The Friday day is going to be very similar to the other two days, apart from starting a couple of hours later. apparently, there will be a main stage as with the other days, whilst the second stage will be based around dance.

And of course there has also been budget cuts during his time as well.

Given that we are almost four years into Aled Haydn Jones’ tenure, and it has been packed full of schedule changes, it’s worth looking back at this point and seeing how well he has succeeded. For reference, some of his big decisions: 1. Moving specialist programmes to start an hour earlier at 6pm, and moving Early Breakfast and Breakfast to start 1 hour and 30 minutes later respectively. 2. Removing Clara from daytime and putting her on Future Sounds. 3. Ending the evening entertainment show and moving RMC to daytime. 4. Letting Dev go. 5. Giving Arielle early breakfast. 6. Changing the Friday schedule so that Greg hosts breakfast five days a week and introducing a Friday EB residency. 7. Putting Vick and Jordan together. 8. Putting Dean and Vicky together 9. Replacing Jordan with Jamie Laing (presumably under timed conditions). 10. Letting Chris Stark go? obviously some decisions have presumably been made over him, E.g. Grimmy, Annie, Scott and Jordan leaving of their own accord. so what do we think, has he made these decisions too quickly. Are there too many duos now? What’s everyone’s thoughts?

She will of course be promoted in April when she replaces Jack in his evening slot (as he moves to future artists).

Interesting as he mentioned in November/December that he’d renewed it just before they did that week in Dundee. Wonder if it was only confirmed now and this has been going on in the background since then, which is why Jordan hasn’t covered breakfast recently.

This secret missions thing is a good idea but as they’re just doing their normal show aside from a 15 minute ‘accusation’ segment it sounded a bit overcrowded

The obvious thing to do would have been to announce he was going last Wednesday and then have a last show on Thursday, before kemp announced he was leaving, but we don’t know if he had even confirmed he was leaving by that point.

His replacement will be on the show on Wednesday

Apparently he’s successful with younger audiences, although I imagine Matt and Mollie’s show, where he presented, probably skews younger (I.E. a lot of kids listen) because of the family timeslot.

For what it’s worth the tour is five dates long, two are on the weekend and one is on a Wednesday, so he’ll probably only miss two shows.

For now. The good thing is that most of the features of the show, and the general style should remain, especially as Vick is staying on.

Would they have the capacity to have a live show in the afternoon? I wonder if capital approached Scott then before Jordan

Interesting… according to this clip, Radio 2 asked Steve Wright if he’d consider bringing back his afternoon show a few days before he passed away https://twitter.com/StalledMovie/status/1758977108288667960