Capital Summertime Ball 2024

[AndyK77]

Hitting the news is a bit of an artform but the bit I find odd is that most of these people will be used to doing this on an existing station.

[IamNotFromUK]

It seems the case Lee. Basically you play a mixed segment, talk for a little bit and play other segment. I understand that you don’t have to play next segment on exact time as you can make next link shorter/longer

[Lee E]

if you look at insta stories when Charlie is on or Matt on Party Anthems, it shows "anthems block 54A" on the screen then the sheet on the desk says you must hit xx.xx

[GeekTalk51]

Yeah - exactly, they don’t let you on hospital radio before you can get basics like that right. And indeed, these folks must have prior radio experience so makes no sense to me. That being said with a couple of notable exceptions the standard of presentation has been very listenable this year IMO which is a relief.

[Bluestraw]

I've found today's bunch overall more professional-sounding! And yes that includes decent news junctions! Conor especially seemed very comfortable to me

[TMD_24]

Conor Knight has quite a bit of presenting from Radio Essex for a few years so he is probably more adaptable and more experienced with links and the format.

[murste]

Have heard quite a bit of Evana and Conor and been quite impressed. They managed to get some personality into the short links, which isn't easy. And big forum brownie points for pretty faultless Newsbeat intros!

[Jono]

It's really difficult to judge a presenter from these shows, I feel I only started to understand previous years of talent from when they've covered other shows.

[Bluestraw]

Agree mostly @Jono though I think it's easier to see which ones are NOT good enough. Then there's quite a few who are decent but impossible to really assess how good

[TheSaviourisHere]

This Conor Knight on now sounds alright. Could see him fitting in at somewhere like Capital or Kiss

[abertom]

Next year I’d prob have someone like Arielle doing a breakfast show on Christmas limbo week if she’s still on early’s and Nat doing drive time and the other 2 could be anthem type shows or slots for potential presenters

[GeekTalk51]

I hope next year for limbo week we get Jordan on breakfast - 100% something he’d agree to do.

[abertom]

I disagree having Jordan on doing Christmas limbo week. It should be presenters who are either upcoming, on unsociable hours (like Arielle) or only on once or twice a week or even like a radio/celeb host who doesn’t want a full time gig but has a radio background and is a treat to listen too. problem with Jordan doing Christmas limbo week is that would take him off probably later in January when you want a settled line up.

[BBCAaron]

I think if they arent confirmed to be starting shows on the station or havent by next December. Sam & Danni, Emil Franci, Robyn Richford, James Cuscack could be figures over the festive period. With mix of having some bits of At Home with Vick and Jordan having one special featuring bits from podcast. And maybe return to have a day of best of Live Lounge/Sessions. Would like in the crimbo limbo next year if not doing a Next Gen Takeover do maybe a slot of original comedy hours in the evening like when did Kench for one week.

[TheSaviourisHere]

Ditch the Takeovers. Which i think they are. They have enough talent to chose from now. Use them all in various slots. Arielle would be good as well. Sam and Danni would be great on Breakfast or even afternoons. Nat doing mid mornings. Sian would sound good during the day also.

[AndyK77]

We could have had Sam & Danni, Emil Franchi and James Cusack on daytime and Nels Hylton & Kerri Cosh covering Future shows. Weekends could have had Elliot Derby, Seb Bailey and Connor Coates. No end of great talent that are suitably experienced to be trusted with more then anthems.

I love how Radio 1 is helping to develop the next generation of talent and not just taking celebrities to fill slots but it is now beginning to feel like overkill and I'd like to hear more of some of the names I mentioned.

By contrast, Radio 2's B-Team this week has been just great. Gary Davies, Spoony, Tina Dahely, Anita Rani and OJ Borg has been a great listen. I actually prefer Gary and Tina in those slots to the regular hosts.

[GeekTalk51]

the pair doing the chart today are *awful*. Unlistenable links.

[TheSaviourisHere]

Christmas songs again on chart. Shoulld go back to Chart of the year so stupid

[Bluestraw]

On 12/30/2022 at 12:04 PM, GeekTalk51 said:

I hope next year for limbo week we get Jordan on breakfast - 100% something he’d agree to do.

Why do you think Jordan would want limbo-week breakfast? It's like a run of weekend breakfasts, completely different from the live Xmas Day show that he always wanted to do. Pretty certain he wouldn't want it, and anyway it won't happen!!

On 12/30/2022 at 8:20 PM, TheSaviourisHere said:

Christmas songs again on chart. Shoulld go back to Chart of the year so stupid

 It was a relief to hear a non-anthems show tbh! Agree though should be chart of the year with just the top 40 countdown and number 1 perhaps

[BBCAaron]

Yes prefer a chart of the year than a Christmassy chart post Christmas I think a quick chart of week summery bedded into a chart of the year programme like how Jack would run down the album chart in a quick and pacy manner so the top 20 with movers and shakers announced.

[AndyK77]

Charlie Tee was great tonight - it was only after looking online I realised she had done quite a lot of mainstream radio in the past.

[radio1fan]

On 12/31/2022 at 9:55 PM, AndyK77 said:

Charlie Tee was great tonight - it was only after looking online I realised she had done quite a lot of mainstream radio in the past.

I agree, she is a great talent and is perfect for that show

[BBCAaron]

Heard her presenting on Kiss FM before felt it was a big loss for them as she was one of the finest that fit their station very well in slot with much more airtime than radio 1. @AndyK77

With the Party Anthems playlist with Charlie Tee and Hedges. One thing to dance anthems would like to see change is the dropping of what is ‘classic dance anthems’ and go back to a 3 hour full show of not being split across three one hour segments. Its better if going to ave song from five, ten or anything older coupled up and mixed with a new track and something that is fresh next because if going to get old Desciples track like to serve with a Nia Archives track as tonight has done

[radio1fan]

On 1/1/2023 at 12:45 AM, BBCAaron said:

Heard her presenting on Kiss FM before felt it was a big loss for them as she was one of the finest that fit their station very well in slot with much more airtime than radio 1. @AndyK77

With the Party Anthems playlist with Charlie Tee and Hedges. One thing to dance anthems would like to see change is the dropping of what is ‘classic dance anthems’ and go back to a 3 hour full show of not being split across three one hour segments. Its better if going to ave song from five, ten or anything older coupled up and mixed with a new track and something that is fresh next because if going to get old Desciples track like to serve with a Nia Archives track as tonight has done

isn’t part of the reason for the current dance anthems format due to the whole R1 dance stream situation as they need to have a legally different format to the competition, or am I just making that up?

[Jono]

Yes enjoyed Charlie Tee last night, was listening in before going out.