BraveInstance
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People have commented on the shakeup being very London-centric, and this is doing nothing to quell those fears 🤣
It's pretty common for London office workers to go out on Thursday night, work from home on the Friday so they can recover in time to not ruin their weekend with a hangover. A Thursday night dance show sounds heavily aimed at that demographic.
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This is a great decision. Mollie is a bit marmite but Matt deserves the opportunity to make a weekday slot his own.
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22 minutes ago, Jbb said:
Same as you, I’m a long term lurker and made my first post here today! 😆 I would agree this is some of the biggest news to hit the station since I’ve been listening as a teen (well over 10 years ago now). With Scott it was a real shame, but I do think we all expected it at some point.
Interesting point about the ages of the presenters. I mentioned this earlier, but I do think there needs to be an honest conversation about the demographic/age of who is actually listening to radio in general (and Radio 1 currently) and the target audience currently set by the trust. In 2012 bringing in Grimmy to the Breakfast show worked - I was 17 at the time and loved the evening show he did and I know a lot of my peers loved his breakfast show too.
However, I think making a similar move now would do very little in bringing in younger listeners - if anything I think it would make things worse. Young people just aren’t consuming music/content in the same way they used to. I’m at the higher end of the target demographic but even I’m in a minority amongst my peers. I’ve noticed that Capital has changed its approach recently to playlist typically Radio 2-ish bands (Take That, Alicia Keys, S club, Busted etc.) as well as chart music. It makes you wonder if the BBC just need to take a step back and reassess how they’re targeting their music stations. I’m not saying anything needs to change content-wise/music-wise but I really struggle to see how they’re going to bring in a younger generation who just aren’t interested in the radio format full stop.
By desperately trying to bring in younger listeners, they risk losing their existing listeners whilst also not bringing in any new, younger listeners at all - leaving very few listeners altogether. Simply because they have different ways of music/media consumption now. Maybe they will have more success with the remit of a “new music station” and not just the 16-29 year old demographic that they have historically fixated on. After all, that demographic was outlined at a completely different time, when the music industry was also in a completely different place. Is it still relevant now?
+1 on this too, radio in general is entering unchartered waters. I have Apple Music, but I would never trust it's algorithms to recommend me new music. I don't want to live in a reality where that is a thing. I like tuning in to Future Sounds and finding a new song that slaps, then adding it to my playlist.
I'm sure most kids are probably used to the algorithms choosing everything for them, but I think it's terrible and goes against everything of what music is about. I want to decide for myself whether I like a song, not to have an AI recommend to me what it thinks I will like.
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3 minutes ago, BBCAaron said:
Personally have found Greg James’ breakfast show not listenable for me and couldn’t enjoy it as much as his drive time. Think James needs to leave on his own terms and it should be when he thinks it’s best for his own career to go and that this news doesn’t mean that Greg wont go. It shouldn’t be seen as that as he hasn’t done any damage to the station and is a presenter who turns up for his three hours and half an hour weekdays and presents his show it would be wrong to suggest it would be him leaving it in worse shape. He doesn’t get to make the decisions.
I'm not saying it's his fault, it's obviously not. But the optics of leaving shortly after this hammer blow to the stations reputation would be terrible. I would't expect anything else than for him to be very motivated to see the station through this difficult period.
To each their own I guess. I love the man, drivetime, breakfast, whatever. Do miss the Going Home Song though. -
12 minutes ago, BBCAaron said:
It would’ve been nice to hear Alice on the radio again. I also miss having Phil Taggart on the radio he’s a superb presenter and hope he returns with something big on radio in the future.
They were both great, and to be honest the whole mid to late 2010s lineup of djs was excellent.
I remember when Scott left and there was a shakeup of the schedule, I said at the time it felt very slapdash and some promotions felt like they were too soon. Looking back I think that was just because the roster had slowly weakened over time. The drive to recruit celebrity presenters has been a disaster and might have blocked the progression of others. No sign of that stopping now with Jamie Laing getting the nod for drivetime...
Now I won't be all doom and gloom. I think this news means Greg won't be going anywhere for a while. He loves Radio 1 too much to be seen as abandoning the ship, leaving it in worse shape than it was when he joined. Sam and Danni are also excellent and need to be given a prime slot as soon as possible.
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2 minutes ago, 1_tw said:
Annie Mac in the evenings. Dev, Alice, Jordan, Matt & laterly Mollie on the weekends. We didn’t realise how good we had it until it’s now gone.
I was devasted when Dev and Alice left. Now I'm just numb to it 🤣
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4 minutes ago, BBCAaron said:
Oddly, I think that might be the place where it could keep some of its older listeners whilst keeping bringing new ones in it’s a slightly more mainstream 6 Music in terms of programming. I as a listener would be interested to hear what Jack Saunders sounds like full time with Future Sounds and the stuff tributing Annie Nightingale reminded me how good the stations specialist programming is Indie Show, Benji B, Future Soul and Future Pop even is very good. And is where presenters tend to last longer and build audiences and hope that more overnight stuff eventually goes back of having that more specialist stuff as that would bring me back to the station.
Jack is fantastic with new music. He makes it feel like a cool club that only a few people are in on. Annie Mac had the same gift, probably why she ended up working on 6.
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6 minutes ago, BBCAaron said:
Yes, think that Jordan North would ever it to happen could fit in right in to Radio X if years down the line he were to join that station. I think that eventually that potentially that the names that they could have to introduce is James Cusack, Lauren Layfield, Yinka Bokinni and Oré Olukoga as been used more than once for cover as of recently but think definitely there could be some couples split up and introduction of Maia Beth and Nels Hylton doing more music programmes. But, I feel that come this summer there maybe a shuffle of presenters being announced for the autumn and if there are presenters getting better offers and feel like not getting best deal maybe departures.
I know with the Radio 1 Relax stream being decommissioned they will also have to look at how they fill the hours overnight that the programming for that service filled on the schedule.
Is Relax really going? That's a real shame, it's fantastic when you're working or going for an early morning jog and need something calming to put on.
I still miss Phil Taggart doing the chill show...
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6 minutes ago, ianwilk1999 said:
"Absolute cheeks" omg @BraveInstance hahaha
Am I lying though lol? One thing you can always say about R1 is that they don't go overboard with one genre. That said there was a period a couple of years back where every other song was grime or rap, thought I was listening to 1 Xtra by mistake.
I might end up finding myself just listening to the new music shows in the evening on BBC Sounds when Greg leaves. I thought I could follow Scott to R2 but realised I'm ride or die with R1.
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I must admit I've barely listened to the radio since Scott left. Pretty much exclusively Greg, with Sam and Danni occassionally who I admit are pretty good.
This is a big yikes for the BBC. In the last 5 years they've lost so much talent and not replaced them properly. The R1 'B team' were full of presenters you could listen to all day long. Now the star boy is heading out the door... it feels like a jenga tower where the last supporting piece has been taken out.
Don't think I'll be listening to Capital anytime soon though, the playlist is absolute cheeks. You would probably get fired for attempting to play an indie track over there.
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I think the R1 playlist is more skippable than it's ever been, but maybe that's just me getting older. I generally like to listen to shows 15 minutes late so I can skip the news and a couple of awful songs.
Would echo the sentiment about grime, although for me I've heard enough of it to conclude that there are only a couple of unique grime artists like Skepta and Stormzy. The rest are completely interchangable and they all seem to use the same heavy bass backing track.
Dance music is very strong at the moment and has been for 3/4 years now. Pop is pretty middling, Anti Hero is probably the best pop song of the year, but then you have other stuff like Raye, who I'm convinved must have a family member in control of the R1 playlists.
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My go to after Greg is either Radio 1 Relax or Jack Saunders' show from the previous night, before Scott came on. I might be extending that though ?
Started looking for some podcasts to get into. Peter Crouch is an obvious choice because of Chris.
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1 hour ago, NathanS said:
Age shouldn't always be a factor. Ricky, Melvin & Charlie are all in their late 30's/early 40's and they've progressed to daytime. The Salford thing does add an issue, but yeah it did feel like Matt missed the boat for daytime a while.
There was a time a few years back when the 'B' team (Adele, Dev, Alice and Matt) were just as strong as the 'A' team imo, all missed out on major daytime slots with the longevity of Greg, Scott and Grimmy (which is testement to how good they are/were). The current crop of presenters that have come through in the past 5 years through till recently are having the opposite happen due to how many presenters have left/shuffled around the schedule since Aled took charge, where they're gaining slots and progressing up the schedule quite quickly.
I said it the other day but I do miss Dev and Alice on the weekends. They weren't must listen shows but when you had them on, there was no noticeable drop in quality from the A team.
I barely listen to the radio on weekends anymore, apart from when Charlie is on Dance Anthems. Phil Taggart's chill podcast is a good listen on a Sunday (Spotify).
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3 hours ago, AndyK77 said:
RMC - I like them but feel show is a bit subdued compared to what it could be.
Vick and Jordan - on the whole really enjoy, though at times feels a little overproduced. They are at their best when they go "off script".
Clara - I thought she sounded great at first, but show seems to lack some energy and it also feels like Clara isn't involved much in cross-station activity in the way that say Jack is.
Powerdown playlist - bit of a switch off for me.
Dean - never really got into his show. You can't like everything.
Danny - I actually really like him in that slot.
Sarah - Great show.
Jordan is definitely at his best off script and when he's just talking to the listeners.
Dean is like the radio equivalent of Love Island for me. It's never appealed to me and I don't think I'll ever get it.
Funnily enough there was a couple of years a while back where every daytime presenter would talk about what happened on Love Island last night. Would drive me mad ?
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I always felt like Phil Taggart was overlooked for a bigger show. Just his luck that a whole station based around his show launched shortly after he left. Sian has done pretty well taking over from him.
Biggest miss in Annie on a Friday night. Danny Howard was the natural choice to fit into the role and he does it well, but he doesn't have the same energy that she did.
RMC doesn't work on daytime radio. They were brought in to take over from Charlie Sloth. Charlie is great on Dance Anthems, and seems a lovely person.
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I wasn't a radio listener until I stumbled across Innuendo Bingo at uni, since then I've been glued to Radio 1 for 7 years. You two got me through my masters degree, 2 years of post-uni unemployment and finally lockdown. Not only that, but there's so many great presenters and fantastic music I've been introduced to because of that moment. So many of them have moved on in the past couple of years, but those memories are priceless.
Thanks for everything Scott and Chris, love you bye,
Alex
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Don't think there's some huge conspiracy going on, but I share your sentiment. Before the announcement I would've snapped your hand off for Matt and Mollie.
I've made my peace that the radio will be going off when Greg signs off in the mornings. I liked Rickie, Melvin and Charlie in the evening but their PG daytime show doesn't work for me. Can't stand Dean and I think Jordan is far better solo.
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True, is that strategy working for them though? I'm 28, and I don't know anyone even my age who listens to the radio. All my friends use Spotify, and I'd imagine teenagers even more so. I'm certainly not Radio 2's target demographic (yet) but even I'm starting to feel unwanted here.
Besides that, Steve Wright's listeners seem even more distraught with the news than I am ?
I guess it will take next year's listening figures to find out.
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Underwhelmed to be honest, and signed up here just to vent my frustration. This time 2 years ago I could listen to Radio 1 for 12 hours straight, now all I have left is Greg in the mornings and Danny Howard on Friday night.
Maybe the pandemic changed a lot of the presenters' perspectives, but just feels like the BBC have been caught short and they've been replaced with a mediocre lineup. Only presenters I like who've come through recently are Katie, Jordan and Jack Saunders.
I hope Jordan gets his own afternoon show sharpish, he's much better when it's just him interacting with listeners.
Also a bit gutted for Matt. Think he'll be the next to announce his departure.
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Annie did the Friday night dance show as well so I think that made her more prominent. She's an excellent presenter at new music and I think Jack is the perfect successor for this show.
Clara was always in the 'good' category for me. She's been around since I started listening to R1 so feels a bit weird she's leaving. Think it's only Greg, Matt, Danny Howard and Pete Tong left now!