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[Greg20]

11 hours ago, AndyK77 said:

Is it weird I genuinely feel a bit sad today.

Jordan and whoever he was with or alone often made me feel happier with whatever was happening in my life/the world.  When you hear the tributes rightly paid to Steve Wright this week, you realise that's what broadcasting is all about.  Not saying Jordan is necessarily in Steve's class but he is certainly well above average and a huge loss.

 

When Scott left I think I only stayed with Radio 1 as I like Greg and loved Jordan... now I see no reason to stay especially as if Jordan is doing breakfast on Capital and I prefer him to Greg.

Jordan is such a natural presenter, he was born to do this

[Jono]

29 minutes ago, ianwilk1999 said:

Jamie Laing is Maya Jama all over again. And we know how that went. Has anyone ever said, "omg, I miss Maya Jama on R1"? No.

 

I mean my girlfriend said she really enjoyed her shows! 

I think that's sometimes the issues with celebrity signings. They become a bit like Kelly Osborne. Off the airwaves more than on. 

Annie Nightingale said in her book there's always someone waiting in the wings if you miss too many shows due to illness or whatever. I think there's always an authentic replacement ready and waiting for those celebrities. 

[GeekTalk51]

This is the first time since I started listening to Radio 1 (2016) that I’ve been genuinely floored by an announcement. There have been a lot of changes and I’ve raised by eyebrows a few times but everything had some element of logic to it even if I wouldn’t have made the exact same choice.  
With regards to Jordan I would have bet a lot of money on him being a shoe in for R1 Breakfast next, the succession plan seemed very clear - Greg could go this year or next if he wanted to, after a good run, and you have a ready made Breakfast star in Jordan and the likes of Katie/Sam and Danni/Dean all capable of stepping in on Going Home at that stage.  Jordan at Breakfast and Vick and Katie on Going Home wouldn’t feel like a downgrade from now!  Now Radio 1 seems in a real pickle in terms of succession planning for Breakfast. I can only assume Jordan was given an offer he couldn’t refuse - if it’s him and Chris Stark for Capital Breakfast it’s a coup for Global, a truly national sounding breakfast offering, and something Radio 1 must have been unwilling to give him right now, more power to him! As for Jamie Lang - I won’t be harsh because these are real people and you never know how it pans out, but it’s completely inexplicable to me.  From a show that deliberately pitched itself (they did an interview about this a year ago) as a show aimed at young people outside London to someone from Made in Chelsea, I just don’t know what they’re doing and I have to wonder if it’s a Matt Goodier-style stopgap (he was given Radio 1 Breakfast for a few months in the 90s as the “permanent” host even though it was always a temp holding position), because I can’t see Vick or Jamie committing to a daily show in the long term (I had suspected Vick might not last the year; she’s brilliant but she has so much else going on, hope I’m wrong).  Anyway… let’s see what happens!  All seems a bit of a panic and Radio 1 in a bit of a tailspin this week, suspect Aled will do some serious thinking about the 12-18 month direction the schedule takes from here, suspect it may look quite different.

Edit: If I was R1 management I would cling to Greg James like a life raft right now!  Without him the entire house of cards looks weak.  You need a few years to build up a future Jordan-like “heir” to be the main star on the station.  Shoehorning in the likes of Dean would be calamitous.

[Greg20]

Referring to my earlier comment has anyone noticed how ironic this is, Vick came from Capital Breakfast and Jordan is going to Capital Breakfast 

[Jono]

Jordan has just posted on Instagram. He's certainly come a long way since he turned up at the station looking fresh faced!

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3ciIrhIauv/?igsh=cjV4MWF3NzRibjYz

[Dan18F1]

Yeah I thought it was very strange how he missed Greg off his goodbye post. He seems a very obvious one to have accidentally missed off.

Edit: He’s added Greg to his post now! Drama over haha

[Greg20]

Knowing Jordan he’s probably forgotten to add Greg 🤣 but I still can’t believe wee not going to get one last show. Wtf

[ianwilk1999]

16 minutes ago, GeekTalk51 said:

From a show that deliberately pitched itself (they did an interview about this a year ago) as a show aimed at young people outside London to someone from Made in Chelsea, I just don’t know what they’re doing

This exactly.

It's got to be a stop gap like you say. It's turned from being a show for the north of the country to a show for Londoners, that can't be the full time solution.

[Greg20]

I can’t believe it’s been 10 years 

[coffeeandgin]

6 minutes ago, Dan18F1 said:

Yeah I thought it was very strange how he missed Greg off his goodbye post. He seems a very obvious one to have accidentally missed off.

Edit: He’s added Greg to his post now! Drama over haha

Yep I don't think there was any beef between them. There was a clip on Instagram a week or two back of the two catching up outside of work and the sense you get is that Greg gets on fairly well with everybody.

[Darren m]

 But what I don’t understand is that Jordan has a contract until September seems a long time to be off the air 

[R1Fan1]

1 minute ago, Darren m said:

 But what I don’t understand is that Jordan has a contract until September seems a long time to be off the air 

I suspect Global have paid to release him from it.

[Darren m]

I don’t know how these things work but Moyles had to wait 3 years before joining radio x 

[AndyK77]

Contracts often have break points so even though it seems his contract runs until September he may be able to go with 3 months notice or something.

 

And he will still be paid as it is the BBC's decision not to have him on air.

Sad he didn't get a farewell show tho.

[GeekTalk51]

Jordan and Greg have always seemed to get along I don’t think there’s anything to read into there - if anything Greg is probably gutted Jordan won’t be his successor.  

[Greg20]

Dean McCullough will be the next Radio 1  Breakfast presenter 🤣

[AndyK77]

2 minutes ago, GeekTalk51 said:

Jordan and Greg have always seemed to get along I don’t think there’s anything to read into there - if anything Greg is probably gutted Jordan won’t be his successor.  

They are actually friends as far as we know.

Mind you the pics of Jordan with Sian Welby this week start to take on a new context.

[AndyK77]

2 minutes ago, Greg20 said:

Dean McCullough will be the next Radio 1  Breakfast presenter 🤣

He has probably been his least annoying on his Breakfast stand-ins but for sure it's not a show I'll be listening to.

[Jack H]

I noticed that on his last show they were talking about the Friday podcast and mentioned recording it, shame that we'll probably never hear it

[R1Fan1]

Lol Greg said he’s going to Asda FM and Vick said she’ll vote for him every night on Celebrity Big Brother

[Greg20]

4 minutes ago, Jack H said:

I noticed that on his last show they were talking about the Friday podcast and mentioned recording it, shame that we'll probably never hear it

This is what I don’t get, did they not know this was going to be announced, surely Jordan did?

[Mercede5]

22 minutes ago, Greg20 said:

This is what I don’t get, did they not know this was going to be announced, surely Jordan did?

Maybe Jordan didn’t know at the time how quickly Radio 1 would erase him

[Jono]

I feel some of the DJs seemed a bit shell shocked by the announcement too. I dare say they knew he was going, but perhaps expected a farewell celebration on air first. 

[Mercede5]

I do understand the reasoning to put him on Garden leave if he is going to Capital. But it’s like they’re trying to pretend he never existed! 

[AndyK77]

13 minutes ago, Jono said:

I feel some of the DJs seemed a bit shell shocked by the announcement too. I dare say they knew he was going, but perhaps expected a farewell celebration on air first. 

I suspect it was an open secret but then BBC management decided to axe him when it was all confirmed.

 

After the Ken Bruce debacle I don’t blame them but very hard for the listeners.  
 

Funny how Chris Stark is giving subtle hints.