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[Viv]

A lad I follow on Twitter @oliverdean21 has been exclusively down to Radio 1 to meet actual BEN COOPER. He has been to grill him about all things Radio 1, including changes us listeners would like... !!

This programme is called "Feedback with Roger Bolton", and will be broadcast on Radio 4, this Friday, June 22nd 2012, at 4:30 p.m.

Think this could be well interesting !! Really, really interesting !! I am wondering just how he will come across, and how willing he would be to actually take on board some of the listeners' comments/ideas for the future.

Don't miss this !! :hahaha:

www.oliverdean.net

www.twitter.com/oliverdean21

[Harkinson]

Wonder if Moyles will be brought up as well! It appears to only be 25 minutes long! Was hoping for a much longer convo about Radio 1 stuff.

[Viv]

Oliver dean says moyles WAS brought up, but cooper didn't reveal stuff about him. no surprises there then! Ha. twenty five mins... Should be able to listen to all of it hopefully! for peeps who don't like greg james, this has gotta be a worthwhile listen.

[Harkinson]

Don't forget this is on at 4:30pm on Radio 4!!

[Viv]

This was good towards the end. One of the younger listeners did not like presenters like fearne cotton coming in, as she felt she could not relate to tv personalities winding up on the radio. also, ben cooper said mills was a brilliant broadcaster but he felt james was for the younger generation. he would not be drawn on moyles future.

[oli]

I thought Cooper was a bit pathetic tbh

They asked him about Mills and James he said he thinks James 'represents the younger generation' and Scott's funny features and stories are best suited to afternoon.

1. So what does he want from Drive stories which are not funny, if so James is a good choice

2. The reason why they moved is because he thinks Mills is too old why not say that rather than the exscuse he thinks he is better on afternoons

3. The assumption that James is for a 'younger generation' as he is younger baffles me. If you listen to Scott's show with features like Innuendo Bingo you realise his show is more silly, immature and young than Greg's

[Harkinson]

Yeah, cos the young people hate innuendos..

[Viv]

I thought he was patronising saying something like "Mills had built up his career on the funny stuff and innuendos" (something like that). It was like he was saying that was ALL he had, and nothing new to offer?!

Oliver Dean tells me it was VERY HEAVILY edited. I think that came across really. I felt Roger Bolton was quite cheeky with Cooper at one point, but he STILL could not get any real information out of him.

What came across was listeners will always prefer DJs who come in via Student Radio, or are very talented, compared with "celeb" types, like Fearne, who are too far away from their own lifestyles.

[Harkinson]

I think Radio 1 won't let him have any good new features as they don't want him getting 'too popular' with younger listeners as they clearly think he's too old.

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

Again the point has to be made, they moved Mills and used that excuse re: Greg and age, but Moyles remains in his slot? Highly questionable.

Would NOT be surprised if there was something else entirely behind all this.

[Harkinson]

Yeah. Moyles is clearly bringing in the older listeners. They should have moved him if they really wanted younger listeners..

[Viv]

Would NOT be surprised if there was something else entirely behind all this.

Yup. Cynical, but I agree. The presenter even seemed to emphasise Moyles' age at one point, saying Moyles at THIRTY EIGHT. Every where you turn, Moyles seems to have a different age !! :hahaha:

www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ - go to Feedback - it's still there for another 6 days.

BTW, that makes Chris the SAME AGE as Scott. *ahem*

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

Radio1 obviously forget how popular John Peel was ACROSS the age ranges within and outside the target audience if they make age a factor... even as a smokescreen.

[Viv]

God, he certainly was. Sadly missed to this day.

[Harkinson]

Scott is 39* and just under a year older than Chris.

*He's also a week and a half older than my mum..

[Viv]

So, same ages pretty much. Yet ... one survives, another doesn't.

Interesting Cooper says in interview that Chris is OK for just now where he is. Ha! Try and move him, and he is gonna go elsewhere. And anybody would have him.

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

You'd also think the fact that Moyles gets best ratings of all of Radio 1 AND 2nd best of all BBC stations would give them a clue the audience doesn't care too much about age of DJs.

[Viv]

Who is first if moyles is second in the bbc?

[GoOnPigs]

No one of my age I knows really cares how old presenters and DJ's are, its just about what theyre like. For example I dont care that Westwood is 50-odd I just dont like him cos I find him annoying and the way he speaks annoying.

Although since Britain Unzipped Greg has earned himself a lot of new teenage girl fans which may help with his ratings (probably wont though. I know very few who still voluntarily listen to radio)

[Viv]

I have never liked westwood either. Drove me mad on r1. dunno about radio popularity going down. jeremy vine had a bit on his twitter about radio remaining popular because everything is FRESH. you listen to songs on your ipod, well, you put them there. whereas radio is choosing stuff for you, and you can randomly hear stuff you have not heard before.

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

Who is first if moyles is second in the bbc?

R2 Brekkie? Thought Moyles usually second to whoever does that each time ratings published (be it Wogan, Evans etc)