Capital Summertime Ball 2024

[BBCAaron]

2 minutes ago, Jbb said:

Another aside - I think Sam and Danni are outstanding with a wide appeal demographically. Hope this gives them a chance for a big promotion.

Think when next chance anything opens up it would be good move and would be good to have a daytime radio 1 national show to ne out of England permanently for the first time. I think they are more keen to use Cardiff studios for stuff. 

[J_B]

1 minute ago, BBCAaron said:

Think when next chance anything opens up it would be good move and would be good to have a daytime radio 1 national show to ne out of England permanently for the first time. I think they are more keen to use Cardiff studios for stuff. 

Absolutely. In the absence of Jordan, I see them as next in line for the Breakfast Show now - assuming that Vick is on her way out and Matt/Mollie don’t get it.

[Darren m]

I wonder if after all this Jordan is leaving to focus on his podcast touring etc 

 

[AndyK77]

14 minutes ago, Jbb said:

Absolutely. In the absence of Jordan, I see them as next in line for the Breakfast Show now - assuming that Vick is on her way out and Matt/Mollie don’t get it.

Aside from Katie - I think Sam and Danni would be the best choice now.

Though hey - for Radio 1 fans of recent years, Jordan North and Chris Stark at Breakfast on Capital is a hard one to pass by..

[radio247]

Is there a way to listen to Capital without the adverts like GHR? 

[J_B]

4 minutes ago, AndyK77 said:

Aside from Katie - I think Sam and Danni would be the best choice now.

Though hey - for Radio 1 fans of recent years, Jordan North and Chris Stark at Breakfast on Capital is a hard one to pass by..

Yeah Jordan had a lot of appeal with the younger audience as well following I’m a Celeb and the podcast. Part of the reason that this makes this an even bigger blow to R1

[Harkinson]

Really sad about this.

Jamie Laing is a bad choice for a replacement..

[Greg20]

I relate

[Dan18F1]

I wonder if they might be giving Jordan a goodbye show on Monday, it’s the only day that still has the Vick and Jordan picture, why would they have changed all the others and left that one? 

[Sara97]

Jordan is the new host of Capital Breakfast, he was not going to get the gig at R1 so he left for more money. His contract has come to an end and he decided to move asap. 

Katie has a husband and a life in Manchester, it’ll be selfish of her to leave all that behind. She’s happy being a substitute and working with the others. 
 

For all the northerners complaining, R1 is national radio not a northern radio station. You barely get good reception up north anyway (I’ve driven to Sheffield and I felt so bad that the quality suffers the further north you go). The vast majority of listeners are southern. Jamie is a temp solution whilst they figure out what to do. 

Personally, I’d want Matt and Mollie in drive or breakfast. Vick can do the live lounge show, RMC can do drive and get rid of Dean. Vicky and Katie can do the lunchtime show or give it to the siblings Sam and Dani. 

[xxladybarefootxx]

5 minutes ago, Dan18F1 said:

I wonder if they might be giving Jordan a goodbye show on Monday, it’s the only day that still has the Vick and Jordan picture, why would they have changed all the others and left that one? 

Ooh that's interesting that they left the pic up for Monday... I hope he gets a final show. Even if he is moving to a rival show, it really would seem like more has gone on if he doesn't get to say goodbye, and Jordan doesn't strike me as the type to burn his bridges

[R1Fan1]

7 minutes ago, Dan18F1 said:

I wonder if they might be giving Jordan a goodbye show on Monday, it’s the only day that still has the Vick and Jordan picture, why would they have changed all the others and left that one? 

Suspect they’ve just done that to have the Mega Massive Mondays image.

[J_B]

1 minute ago, xxladybarefootxx said:

Ooh that's interesting that they left the pic up for Monday... I hope he gets a final show. Even if he is moving to a rival show, it really would seem like more has gone on if he doesn't get to say goodbye, and Jordan doesn't strike me as the type to burn his bridges

I feel like they would definitely have mentioned him having a last show in the press release if that was the case. Suspect it’s just the Mega Massive Mondays image and they haven’t edited it yet. Title just saying “Going Home”.

[Wandering Belle]

Yeah, I thought this was a wind up to begin with. With Greg being off with Covid, I thought it a coincidence. I genuinely don’t think this is a prank anymore tho - it has been a total shock though.

 

Jordan has made no secret that he wanted Breakfast and I thought that was where he’d end up. But as others have pointed out, if Greg stays on for another few years, then there’s a chance that the opportunity will pass for Jordan completely and he’s as well to seize the opportunity now if he can. Capital does make sense - Roman Kemp seems to be getting more presenting right now. 

 

I’m not keen on Jamie hosting - I do think it’s temporary until they work out their next steps. I was never too sure of Vick but after reading her recent interview, I actually don’t mind her now.  I think Vick presented with Jamie last year and they didn’t sound too bad together. 

 

I am gutted Jordan is leaving tho. 

[Jono]

Think we are all gutted, but it's genuinely really exciting for him and a big scoop for Capital. I couldn't quite get into Roman's show, but I feel I'd be more tempted to listen to Jordan with Chris and Sian. Will have split loyalty with Greg! 

[BBCAaron]

27 minutes ago, Jbb said:

Yeah Jordan had a lot of appeal with the younger audience as well following I’m a Celeb and the podcast. Part of the reason that this makes this an even bigger blow to R1

He mst certainly could appeal to a young audience but he had multi-generational reach as his 

 

42 minutes ago, Greg20 said:

I relate

She can be right on many of things and this is most certainly one of them this isn’t go down well. It seems to be. I don’t think Aled Haydn Jones’s era hasn’’t been a success it could’ve been the Christmas new talent take overs has proven strongly worked and so does the introduction of the ‘Future’ brand of programmes. But I do feel that the station needs a change of director.

[Greg20]

Jordan is such a big talent and a massive loss to Radio 1 and to replace him with Jamie Lang..

[Greg20]

What I find ironic is Vick used to be in Capital Breakfast. I wonder if Capital tried to take them both but Vick didn’t want to.

[coffeeandgin]

51 minutes ago, Jono said:

Think we are all gutted, but it's genuinely really exciting for him and a big scoop for Capital. I couldn't quite get into Roman's show, but I feel I'd be more tempted to listen to Jordan with Chris and Sian. Will have split loyalty with Greg! 

Got to be honest I'll probably be heading over to Jordan, Chris & Sian at Capital if that's the case.

I like Greg a lot but I've also heard him on Breakfast for 6 years whereas Jordan, Chris & Sian would be something fresh and includes two DJs I really loved at Radio 1 in Jordan & Chris. 

At times too I've been listening to Radio 1 at times despite some of the artists and music played and comparing the two side-by-side the Capital playlist feels slightly more to my taste and certainly has a lot less of the 'urban' stuff.

[TheSaviourisHere]

Imagine how gutted Jordan will be if Greg leaves this year

[TheSaviourisHere]

You would think with the black logo for Going Home next week that he was dead or something

I do wonder if Greg was told to stay home today?

[Greg20]

12 minutes ago, TheSaviourisHere said:

You would think with the black logo for Going Home next week that he was dead or something

I do wonder if Greg was told to stay home today?

No, I think Greg was genuinely ill

[ianwilk1999]

2 hours ago, Sara97 said:

Jordan is the new host of Capital Breakfast, he was not going to get the gig at R1 so he left for more money. His contract has come to an end and he decided to move asap. 

Katie has a husband and a life in Manchester, it’ll be selfish of her to leave all that behind. She’s happy being a substitute and working with the others. 
 

For all the northerners complaining, R1 is national radio not a northern radio station. You barely get good reception up north anyway (I’ve driven to Sheffield and I felt so bad that the quality suffers the further north you go). The vast majority of listeners are southern. Jamie is a temp solution whilst they figure out what to do. 

Personally, I’d want Matt and Mollie in drive or breakfast. Vick can do the live lounge show, RMC can do drive and get rid of Dean. Vicky and Katie can do the lunchtime show or give it to the siblings Sam and Dani. 

I usually agree with pretty much all you say so fair play, but to say there's no reception up north, I'm about as far north as you'd imagine and inside a hospital building most of the time with my work, some parts with actual lead walls. We get full reception inside so I'm not sure how you figure that the reception is bad, it's perfect? There's 16 million people in northern england alone. Not including the west midlands or anywhere south of Nottingham.

The issue comes that a chunk or vast majority may be southern, so let's say you've lost pretty much all of your northern audience instantly by putting him on, your southern audience aren't worth multi millions each. He's simply not relatable or like the average Radio 1 listener.

I fully agree with what you say on M&M on though, so we agree there

 

[1_tw]

I can’t see Greg going for a few years now, Jordan leaving will have sealed the deal. There’s no one there at all to replace him which wouldn’t cause a mass exodus in the next couple of years. The R1 bosses will be clinging onto him.

[BBCAaron]

17 minutes ago, 1_tw said:

I can’t see Greg going for a few years now, Jordan leaving will have sealed the deal. There’s no one there at all to replace him which wouldn’t cause a mass exodus in the next couple of years. The R1 bosses will be clinging onto him.

Think the radio 1 bosses will be only able to do so much. He seems to be working on other works of podcasting, broadcasting and after six years he may fancy a change and go out in a high and not stay through a rough patch for the station. 

One thing I’m still baffled at is that the BBC are expected to have to make more cuts this year yet they are promising new stations. 

I kind of wonder how long that Greg can sort of assimilate to an audience of in the flagship show on the national youth station can credibly relate and discuss things to the 18 and under demographic any college sixth formers or GCSEs students who Greg could be the father of. 

I know it’s something that Scott Mills managed to do for decades on the station and could’ve kept going through to the point where he would be getting leaflets through the door for life insurance. It’s good he defied ageism. It helped that he never wore the crown of the breakfast show permanently. Youth stations like Radio 1, Kiss and Capital FM are unlike any others when at a point of time where you expect to step down after a couple of years as hogging the slot and think Greg may have sense with that.