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Its clear to see how much he loves radio so I can totally believe this

agree. lots on here and ds said the same about james after his month of cover so its great they took him on board and we get to have him reguarly plus a deserved continuation of 3 days for sam and danni. both seem popular, very good changes and hires and might this be the first time forums have been fairly happy ? 😂 jerry has also been very strong when given exposure on daytime, that will be brilliant cover

agree I still think James cusack is by far the strongest from his month in june and its easy to see why he came out on top by a long way of the favourite r1 cover presenter poll. Dont get me wrong I think some of the others have come on but you would expect them to with lots of shows. If james did end up with the 1-4 weekend slot they would need the next crop to cover plus any other weekend shows therefore its important that most have sounded good. I've said this before when he was paired with vicky, I've listened to emil on absolute and he is good on there but find him to skew a bit old in terms of content and talking points on r1

thats got the potential to turn the schedule upside down with mollie also off soon, but isn't the sun known for bs

radio 1 overall is the leader at getting the tone right and handling news like this we had oj on overnight and thought he also did a really good job of it

is the r1 anthems station going to be on dab? someone said on here it was sounds only

it could be that the summer on radio 1 thinking has been finished because its october and theres another presenter but under a different show title. weekend afternoons on radio 1? lol how do you mean probably wasted space saying james?

will it be on proper radio or app only like the dance is. does it say anywhere

Its difficult to figure what the hold up has been wit h this show. I think we can all safely say this is the last of the summer on radio 1 rotation. Its clearly autumn outside and to call it autumn on radio 1 may be seen as silly. Swarzy was ok with vicky but they could have just been giving 1xtra presenters a chance when cover work comes up like they have nikita from time to time. Maybe Im remembering how busy and fun matt and mollies weekend shows were but being totally honest james was the standout for me, its felt theres been a lacking on other shows so for my money its him or like was said above the wildcard or poaching

Agree a full time move for rmc to Fridays could be a potential. So could Nat and vicky into the 1-4 show 3 days and then James cusack in weekends 1030-1 saturday and sunday. Someone has just text r1 saying can you do 2 hour siesta and joel read it out. That is one of james's features lol

It was a really good first show from them. Whilst in the end we did listen to d&v at work, I'm much happier that its matt and mollie now and its good to see a bit of natural balance happening and presenters being where they should be on r1. The choice of first song which they must have picked was also funny

I hope its James cusack and he's certainly on plenty at the moment. Lets be honest does the station need another weekend duo or is it refreshing to have a singular presenter every now and again? I think we can all agree Katie was more than capable of doing the weekend shows by herself and you only have to listen to one show from james to work out he is. Weekends are already duo heavy with Sam and danni followed by Vicky and Nat, plus Lauren and shenqua on Sundays. Does it need to be james and another presenter (??) on top of that. Imo he more than keeps up the quality of shows by himself. Around a year ago wasn't it singular presenter Adele followed by singular presenter Katie so the presenter load has doubled in them 2 shows alone, plus the additional presenter on the noughties show when Nat has actually been fine by herself for a long time. I dont think my theory of him being held up with other work is correct anymore, but I do hope its james. His shows far overtake other covers in terms of entertainment

What stuck out to me is there's no mention of danny beard anywhere after next weekend, so maybe they have heard enough from him now

I often see jerry pushing his club nights, they look fun. Also katie does some other bbc tv work, so it seems to be the norm. Isn't it our version of a side hustle

It's not just us geeks in the chat box, because over on the Greg James radio 1 breakfast show fb page I see there's plenty of listeners who rate James after this weekend. Comments saying the same

It did look so incredible with the rainbow colours in the background on the photo scott posted. Congratulations to them both

Someone in fact posted about it on digital spy and its still on his instagram. James put up a story his dad was in hospital this weekend but it sounds like it's gone ok. That explains that

"Grandad Nelson" lolllll 😂

I remember hearing Amy first on Scotts show and she was great on that, the daft quiz questions always made me smile. It's really nice to see the hard work has paid off for them all.

I think connor always sounds good when he covers

That's so quirky it's a guitar pedal, I thought it was going to be some sort of button, love that

Does anyone know how jack makes those funny noises on his voice?

Agree, all I'd see on x was medical professionals from other health trusts having a very carefully worded pop at each other, mixed in with a clip of jeremy vine with a camera on his helmet, a very strange place indeed! I imagine they have some data to back it up, but is the r2 audience really using tiktok?

On the weekends theme @Bluestraw said this in the chatbox but I was listening live to James cusack's show yesterday and agree it would be a travesty if he doesn't feature in the weekend plans. Both the greg james fb page and users on digital spy are saying similar. Imagine that, being both part of the LGBTQ+ community but able to appreciate good presenters in 2024.

Oh boy, if that's the case above then what are they trying to do at r1? If Danny was put into weekend afternoons that's one hell of a faux par and a big nail in the coffin. While ok, Nat and Vicky aren't about to blow the doors off and are only there as the fallout of d&v, but to then follow that up with Danny for 3 days a week. Come on. To go from a place where we had Katie followed by M&M to that. What happened to the prestigiousness of r1? Do they need reminding they've just lost Jordan? It's getting embarrassing. Like I said before, when I had people with 0 interest in radio whatsoever and it was in the background telling me to turn it off, you know it's bad. I saw a random friend from years ago even posting on fb with how has someone like Danny ended up on r1. Everywhere you turn its negative. Doesn't that multiply across the uk in what the r1 audience actually think of this presenter? I'm in the LGBTQ+ community and also r1 target audience but I don't feel I want to listen to this presenter because of that fact. Has some policy actually overtaken the true risk of driving audiences away? The fact is just how @coffeeandgin said, Danny has had chance since March with 2 shows a week and is still not up to the job. The odd podcast yes but certainly not to replace m&m! I've skipped through 10 minutes of this week to make sure I wasn't basing opinions on how it was before and yes it is the same level. When you had presenters like Scott who could keep it fresh despite how many years it had been, but then Danny sounds so out of date already, saying you could tune over to Rylan on r2... but then with a topic of "I want to know what have you missed out on?" I'm sorry?! What kind of local radio is that... it's meant to be radio 1 ffs. Terrible talking points, cringe, unfunny, and so bad on the radio it actually makes it jarring and makes people switch over.