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I was actually planning in messaging in to a something songs but I guess that's not happening. I would do it with Vick or Katie or Jordan but not Jamie

the fact that from Monday (19/02) the show has been renamed to Going Home on Radio 1 instead of Going Home with Vick and Jordan I feel like says a lot. potentially about the nature of the split and that the Vick & Jamie pairing is planned to be that long

Yeah it does feel that a radio station that exists as a youth outlet is having trouble finding a purpose and identity when most young people don't and will not want to listen to radio

Though it would be big for capital, they could finally actually have something to back up them being a national and not just London and South east station. Having the relatable Northern guy on their Breakfast show to make a point that its not just a London station that's been forcibly expanded by buying up other local stations. Its actually national, Vick being on it and being Northern would have helped but (most of the time) she doesn't have a noticeable Geordie accent so you wouldn't know

I know, who green lit this without realising how bad it looks. Its like they are asking for the articles in the tabloids about "BBC London media bubble"

yeah that's what I think it has to be real unless they are really trying to mess with people. Which I think is unlikely. So assumption its that Jordan wanted to go and its either Capital Breakfast, a big job at Bauer and/or something big on TV that would require a big commitment

Radiocentre object to anything like this, its their job to do this. But Radiocentre needing to exist as an advocacy organisation for commercial radio when they were small and local but that ship has long since sailed and the need has long since sailed. Commercial radio as a term almost always means something owned by Global, Bauer or Murdoch's Wireless Group who are all big enough and rich enough to look after themselves and Radiocentre only seems to exist for this continual get the knife in at the BBC.

It would be better responded if they replacing him with anyone else. Katie obviously but there is a huge list of the "newer voices" like James, Emil, Ore, Sam and Danni etc who would be SO MUCH better than Jamie Laing

yeah it is a shock but it makes sense with the Capital Job. It is unlikely to be a prank now but all I hope is that it is his choice. It would be insane to get rid of him when they know Greg and Matt are going to be going soon and Jordan would be the right person to anchor the station through that period

Yeah even if he wasn't your exact preference its just sad anyway And had a big impact especially with brining zoo format to the UK in the 80s

Essentially they are bringing back a combination of the Summer/covid/"Iconic 2-6 show" type schedule for that week then?

It would be good but there will be some reason, my theory is that Global or Bauer would see it as a way to avoid ads indirectly without paying. But also you would not kept in a captive environment to just leave it on which is what wallpaper radio stations lives on

I get why Maida Vale and Wogan House are being sold and it makes sense but it feels like there is somewhat of a endings to things both because of the history particularly with Maida Vale where R1, 1Xtra and Asian Network felt like their own thing together and likewise with 2 and 6M. But it is more possible with 1X and AN having many shows from Birmingham, and the others split between London, Salford and Cardiff. Presumably unless they are planning to move even more and Breakfast seems to be the one thing they would keep in London at some point very soon you will have Greg, Nadia, Zoe, Lauren and Nikita all broadcasting in Studios on the 8th floor. And of course with their successors, whoever they will be. But its also curious about where they will do the live sessions, because the 2nd not live live lounge in Maida Vale as well as all the other studios there where most sessions on 6 Music or 2 or Radio 1 Specialist and evening show sessions being there. So I assume the Live Lounge on the 8th Floor might be used for sessions for R2 and 6M, or they will use other stuff in NBH like Radio Theatre. Salford is of course an option because on 6 Music it all seemed to be from Maida Vale whereas now NMF or Riley and Coe will have sessions in Salford. And I assume sessions on Huw Stephens show could be from Cardiff

Seconded on that, even Boom plays 21st Century Music! Boom! From when it has been on when at older relatives the adverts are a dead giveaway who it is for as they are all targeted at 65+ people. But the fact that a station that entirely exists for pensioners has a more current music policy than what is supposed to be a station with a large audience across a reasonably wide age range. Boom doesn't play much "current music" but George Ezra and stuff like that iirc from what I know but the fact it plays any is sort of damning on the entire format of GHR. I wouldn't voluntarily listen to any commercial radio but Virgin is definitely one of the better options

Also they would be accused of copying Capital with Summertime/Jingle Bell Ball while not necessarily true it does hit that Radio 1 going to all these different cities and towns across the country is something cannot or at least will not do. It would just be more boring to make it one place. The 6 Music festival Greater Manchester feels the same, a decision that is obviously for cost savings and feels exactly like that