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I believe it's the Capital Network or as they call it 'the Capital brand' that's got 9m not CapitalFM. CapitalFM is around 6m, I believe. Global tend to group stations as a network/brand as it makes it sound better.  It's like Heart's 12.99m figure is all of Heart's stations added together.  HeartFM on it's own is around 7m. Which is still a good figure.
Interestingly Bauer claim Greatest Hits Radio has 7.4m as a single station making it the UK's biggest commercial radio station.  That would beat HeartFM.  Global has always had the biggest commercial radio station with HeartFM so to lose it would be quiet a big thing.  
Radio 1 and Capital have likely done well thanks to the drops KissFM and Hits Radio. 

I believe it's the Capital Network or as they call it 'the Capital brand' that's got 9m not CapitalFM. CapitalFM is around 6m, I believe. Global tend to group stations as a network/brand as it makes it sound better.  It's like Heart's 12.99m figure is all of Heart's stations added together.  HeartFM on it's own is around 7m. Which is still a good figure.
Interestingly Bauer claim Greatest Hits Radio has 7.4m as a single station making it the UK's biggest commercial radio station.  That would beat HeartFM.  Global has always had the biggest commercial radio station with HeartFM so to lose it would be quiet a big thing.  
Radio 1 and Capital have likely done well thanks to the drops KissFM and Hits Radio. 

There’s no way capital fm has over 9 million listeners and radio 1 only 8 million 😂

Is that the main station itself? I know Global often like to spin it by mentioning the Heart and Capital 'brand' beating R1, but they lump in all the spin off stations into that figure.
 

Despite what they say that's a bit of a low number for Capital Breakfast.  With all the press of Jordan leaving R1 for Capital, all the billboards across the UK and the availability of Capital and all the money they paid Jordan, to only grow the show by 0.25m is not great. That means over 95% of his audience is inherited from Roman.  The first two quarters are always difficult because people are interested in the new show.  The likelihood is there might be a drop in time. Going to be interesting to see how this goes.  Greg got an extra 0.1m and he was expected to drop because everyone was switching to Capital, That clearly did not happen.  
Radio 1 being up as a station is good news as well especially with the youth.  Heart it a totally different market but they like to say Heart is beating Radio 1 but it's the Heart brand that beats Radio 1.  You can't compare six stations to one. So I do wonder how Heart fm on it's own did for a fairer comparison? 

Despite what they say that's a bit of a low number for Capital Breakfast.  With all the press of Jordan leaving R1 for Capital, all the billboards across the UK and the availability of Capital and all the money they paid Jordan, to only grow the show by 0.25m is not great. That means over 95% of his audience is inherited from Roman.  The first two quarters are always difficult because people are interested in the new show.  The likelihood is there might be a drop in time. Going to be interesting to see how this goes.  Greg got an extra 0.1m and he was expected to drop because everyone was switching to Capital, That clearly did not happen.  
Radio 1 being up as a station is good news as well especially with the youth.  Heart it a totally different market but they like to say Heart is beating Radio 1 but it's the Heart brand that beats Radio 1.  You can't compare six stations to one. So I do wonder how Heart fm on it's own did for a fairer comparison? 

Hi everyone I really can’t listen to capital fm anymore I have tried so hard to like this station due to Jordan north moving there but it’s so repetitive and boring the same songs gets played over and over again this is why radio 1 is the best station in the uk does anyone else agree with me 

Unless people can provide a source for this information then it should be treated as false.
 
Why would Jordan sign a contract with the BBC in the autumn when he agreed a deal with Global?  He could have left in August and not had to deal with the BBC.  Vick who doesn't really like Global why would she recommend him to go there and then warn him in her post to be careful?   It's been whispered from October that Roman was thinking of going.  Roman and Jordan have the same management team.  Why would they put Jordan in a place where he would have to battle with the BBC.  They could have agreed a deal with Global for Jordan in the summer.  They might have had to pay first couple months but they would do they to secure him.  If they had known about Roman wanting to leave they could have paid Roman off to get Jordan on air quicker.  Global would also not had legal around BBC contract to deal with and would not have had to pay the BBC to release Jordan. 
None of what people say makes sense and if it did happen the way people say then BBC are not the stupid ones. 
It really is not a good look to be talking with Global for 6 months, to then sign a contract with a the BBC, continue to talk to Global behind BBC's back after signing and then couple of months later want to leave and to throw a hissy fit as the BBC are not giving you what you want when you want it. That not a good light for Jordan or his management. 
 

Unless people can provide a source for this information then it should be treated as false.
 
Why would Jordan sign a contract with the BBC in the autumn when he agreed a deal with Global?  He could have left in August and not had to deal with the BBC.  Vick who doesn't really like Global why would she recommend him to go there and then warn him in her post to be careful?   It's been whispered from October that Roman was thinking of going.  Roman and Jordan have the same management team.  Why would they put Jordan in a place where he would have to battle with the BBC.  They could have agreed a deal with Global for Jordan in the summer.  They might have had to pay first couple months but they would do they to secure him.  If they had known about Roman wanting to leave they could have paid Roman off to get Jordan on air quicker.  Global would also not had legal around BBC contract to deal with and would not have had to pay the BBC to release Jordan. 
None of what people say makes sense and if it did happen the way people say then BBC are not the stupid ones. 
It really is not a good look to be talking with Global for 6 months, to then sign a contract with a the BBC, continue to talk to Global behind BBC's back after signing and then couple of months later want to leave and to throw a hissy fit as the BBC are not giving you what you want when you want it. That not a good light for Jordan or his management. 
 

Unless people can provide a source for this information then it should be treated as false.
 
Why would Jordan sign a contract with the BBC in the autumn when he agreed a deal with Global?  He could have left in August and not had to deal with the BBC.  Vick who doesn't really like Global why would she recommend him to go there and then warn him in her post to be careful?   It's been whispered from October that Roman was thinking of going.  Roman and Jordan have the same management team.  Why would they put Jordan in a place where he would have to battle with the BBC.  They could have agreed a deal with Global for Jordan in the summer.  They might have had to pay first couple months but they would do they to secure him.  If they had known about Roman wanting to leave they could have paid Roman off to get Jordan on air quicker.  Global would also not had legal around BBC contract to deal with and would not have had to pay the BBC to release Jordan. 
None of what people say makes sense and if it did happen the way people say then BBC are not the stupid ones. 
It really is not a good look to be talking with Global for 6 months, to then sign a contract with a the BBC, continue to talk to Global behind BBC's back after signing and then couple of months later want to leave and to throw a hissy fit as the BBC are not giving you what you want when you want it. That not a good light for Jordan or his management. 
 

There a reason commercial radio don't want the BBC to launch new stations.  It would allow Radio 2 to split making a older station and develop the current Radio 2 more for our generation. It would make Radio 2 very appealing which is not what they want.  I hope the BBC wins because we need more radio for us.

I hate to be that guy but we all know the Greggs thing was pre arranged days if not weeks in advance? It wasn't a spare of the moment thing by Chris and the convo about it was pre panned and not in the moment thing.  It was an ad deal. One big ad for Greggs which they paid Capital for. This is why radio should state Product Placement just like TV.  Radio 1 can't do these things for a reason.  For me this what makes the show sound fake because it's a false thing pretending it all happened over night. Greggs would have to order on extra stuff to make it happen. You can't do that in 24 hrs.  There will be more of these deals.  I bet there will be a few Gregg "surprise" things happen over time. Other brands as well. 
 

Do you mean they have a long into like Greg or that actual jingles sounds very much like Greg jingles? 

The point I was making is this is not content made for entertainment it was a product placement.  There is a difference between the two.  It not a fun idea that people have brought to air for a laugh.  It was designed to look like mates having fun and come up with this idea but it was just a advert. That why I say it feel false. 

The point I was making is this is not content made for entertainment it was a product placement.  There is a difference between the two.  It not a fun idea that people have brought to air for a laugh.  It was designed to look like mates having fun and come up with this idea but it was just a advert. That why I say it feel false. 

Global IS an advertising business - the radio shows just fit around the commercials. 

For me it’s not the same Jordan but it might better as time goes on. I think I will go back to Greg tomorrow 🤣

Roman Kemp 😜
I think Will was at radio 1 at one point wasn't he? 

Hats off to Chris for leaving a challenge for Greg.  To plan that out was great detailing and proves what a talented guy he is.  The post he posted on Instagram also links into it which is great to.  There is loyalty to Greg there so I don't think he's joining Capital.  Persephonica was looking for an 'experienced entertainment producer' a few months ago. I wonder if this is where Chris might be heading? 

Hats off to Chris for leaving a challenge for Greg.  To plan that out was great detailing and proves what a talented guy he is.  The post he posted on Instagram also links into it which is great to.  There is loyalty to Greg there so I don't think he's joining Capital.  Persephonica was looking for an 'experienced entertainment producer' a few months ago. I wonder if this is where Chris might be heading? 

There a reason commercial radio don't want the BBC to launch new stations.  It would allow Radio 2 to split making a older station and develop the current Radio 2 more for our generation. It would make Radio 2 very appealing which is not what they want.  I hope the BBC wins because we need more radio for us.

I believe most of the changes were for good during Aled's tenure. I saw someone accuse Aled of letting Jordan go, but I think that's highly untrue. He was already doing the second biggest R1 show, and putting him on breakfast would also be a bad choice because it would mean letting Greg go. All in all, I think Aled's working with what's available money and people-wise. I'm just not sure about recurring features such as missions for the presenters and the overuse of the Anthems format.

I think there is a lof of truth here.  Jordan's decision will no doubt be partly money-driven (as is his right and all our rights to go somewhere for more money) and the BBC gets lambasted when it tries to compete for wages.

This made me laugh: “Getting to host Capital Breakfast has always been a dream of mine”.
Are you sure it wasn't Radio 1 breakfast?

I wonder if this was always on the cards and is why Jordan has jumped - 2-3 more years of Greg and he’d be in Scott Mills territory of being passed over for Breakfast in favour of a younger DJ.