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thought open a new topic thread on Chris joining Roman Kemp’s Capital Breakfast show. Cant help but to think it looks very over staffed don’t recall a radio show that has four presenters. I know some shows will have contributing voices of one producer may pop and say something on air nw and then person doing sports, traffic and travel, the main news reading. But not known any station to have a live music entertainment show permanently as day to day voice. It could be hard one to time who speaks when and find each others role especially with Roman Kemp the ring leader and Chris now in charge creatively. Think like with any four member pop group but harder making sure too many cooks in the kitchen doesn’t spoil the broth. 

But wouldn’t be surprised if they relaunch their breakfast podcast with bit extra behind the scenes bits and debriefs and any extra bits from interviews. But think Capital and Global hopefully use Chris’ eye for funny and entertaining radio across its schedule. Eventually down the ,line a creative team that could come up with ideas for segments and features could gel well for the sta

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4 hours ago, Darren m said:

Moyles has 4 people on air him Dom pippa and James seems to work well 

True but he also talks an awful lot so there is time for those 3 to contribute fully! Same as the old R1 Moyles show with Dom, Tina and Aled. Then again I'm sure Global have a plan for how it will work...

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2 hours ago, Bluestraw said:

True but he also talks an awful lot so there is time for those 3 to contribute fully! Same as the old R1 Moyles show with Dom, Tina and Aled. Then again I'm sure Global have a plan for how it will work...

Think with Tina and Dom they are the more news readers and Aled would have been the producer chirping in and adding to the chat without being seen as a ‘presenter’ on the show when had comedy Dave would have been the entertainment contributing guy for comedy Where as James and Pippa are other producers.

Given that they are all effectively presenters on Capital Breakfast with credits and included in the promotional pictures and thumbnails of the programme. 

Think the dynamic of a team of four maybe very different and something that hasn’t been done to my memory on UK radio in-terms of the zoo format.

It’s something think Capital maybe bravely experimental with think these days Global maybe at the point of being confident to take risks. I hope that Chris Stark may breathe new life to Capital Breakfast. Think they may end up with more on air moments and attempts to make listeners laugh and not turn the radio off.

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Oops how could I miss Dave off the list from Moyles at R1! I get your point about the credits but really the labels are just how they are positioned. No doubt Dave at R1, and Dom at RX, contribute significantly more than the additional presenters will at Capital. Same with Scott and Chris at R1, it was always Scott's name above the door (as they used to say!), though Chris was never co-presenting in terms of announcing songs.

I am not a Capital listener so how does it work so far - do the 3 of them contribute to all parts, including announcing songs like RMC on R1? Or is it really the main presenter plus two adding bits here and there?

 

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4 hours ago, vorti said:

Does anyone have a recording of him appearing for the first time, or is it available somewhere on demand? I'm not really famailiar with Capital. Thanks in advance!

On demand for Capital and Global Player is 7 days rather than BBC Sounds 30 days. For many reasons it’s time that they relaunched the podcast for their breakfast show. One thing with how things are done on Vick and Jordan’s show get decisive time stamp on the description of the episodes.

 

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The Elvis Duran show on Z100 in New York City (and syndicated around the USA) has about eleventy million "presenters".  Similarly, it is only Elvis who ever announces the songs.  I have not listened since I moved to the UK three years ago but it seemed to work well.  

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