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Chris Moyles just referenced it on air - a producer pointed out that he flubbed a line in a competition read-out and he went “I didn’t, I’m not Jordan North!”.

Seems telling that he’s on people’s minds at Global. 

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4 minutes ago, UnofficialStark said:

If Chris and Sian stay on

It sounded like they would. Otherwise you’d have thought that they would all have announced that they were leaving the show together. 

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7 hours ago, DC said:

I do think this is worrying times for radio 1. As an old head I recall Moyles leaving but you felt there was a solid guaranteed future for the station. Scott still there, big experienced names to sort stuff out when it got tough. It was the same when Mark and Lard went, Simon Mayo, Chris Evans etc years and years back. But now it feels like with Jordan North going it's going to sound like a load of teenagers giggling amongst themselves. And I point to mid mornings on that imo. Radio 1 need a big young star who can present, and who's already popular to come in and create a fuss. And I mean someone who can be relevant for the next gen, not radio 1s current target audience. Aim for 2030.

As one of the others on here with slightly more Radio 1 hours behind us - I would agree completely here.

I think what Jordan was, was the bridge between older and new.  I think Greg, RMC and Matt leaving would have been smoother with Jordan there.   They really need Greg to stay for at least 2 years now.

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Well no one of Jordans level has ever gone from mainstream Radio 1 to the main competitor. It's a bit of a disaster really. 

I'm not sure Greg will stay, the reason being Jordan North is up against him with a brand new fresh breakfast show with Chris Stark. That's a big offering. Greg meanwhile is however many years in and it's not fresh. You can see listeners flooding over to Capital

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15 minutes ago, ianwilk1999 said:

I'm not sure Greg will stay, the reason being Jordan North is up against him with a brand new fresh breakfast show with Chris Stark. That's a big offering. Greg meanwhile is however many years in and it's not fresh. You can see listeners flooding over to Capital

Disagree. I think Greg is top of his game, the listening figures reflect how well he's still doing. There's nobody more obvious who can bring in those numbers.

Radio 1 will be keen to keep hold of him for stability right now.

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11 minutes ago, GrimsbyGal said:

Disagree. I think Greg is top of his game, the listening figures reflect how well he's still doing. There's nobody more obvious who can bring in those numbers.

Radio 1 will be keen to keep hold of him for stability right now.

Spot on Greg is on fine form lately

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13 minutes ago, GrimsbyGal said:

Disagree. I think Greg is top of his game, the listening figures reflect how well he's still doing. There's nobody more obvious who can bring in those numbers.

Radio 1 will be keen to keep hold of him for stability right now.

I'd agree with that if you had a strong game to offer instead of Greg but right now stability is key - losing him would be incredibly dangerous.

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I think that was read as the BBC won't let him stay. What was meant was absolutely they'll be keen to keep hold of him, they've just lost one of their biggest presenters. It's more about if he wants to stay, or if he's thinking it's time. Look at how R1 used to be when he started vs. how it is now

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2 hours ago, ianwilk1999 said:

Well no one of Jordans level has ever gone from mainstream Radio 1 to the main competitor. It's a bit of a disaster really. 

I'm not sure Greg will stay, the reason being Jordan North is up against him with a brand new fresh breakfast show with Chris Stark. That's a big offering. Greg meanwhile is however many years in and it's not fresh. You can see listeners flooding over to Capital

I see that’ and have to sense when time is Jordan leaving was a shock to this group but think Greg is capable of shocking some in this group with a near exit. With some of the features Greg has been doing for six years where unlike Grimmy he had switched things up continually in his tenure. The repetitive features for one could get boring for some may like the familiarity.

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"Jordan North will be saying goodbye".  I can't shake the thought that something happened specifically around the time the press release went out.  The language they used implied he would be given the chance to do that.  Well I guess we'll find out when Aled or Jordan or someone involved puts out a memoir someday.

 

The silver lining to this departure though is that I won't have to hear that heyyyyyyyyyy anymore.  Hopefully it will not continue with Jamie.

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11 hours ago, stuartt said:

Roman Kemp has said that this will be his “final 6 weeks or so” on Capital Breakfast. No mention of a replacement yet. 

My money is on a random Northern bloke -  let's call him for the sake of argument Jordan N or maybe even J North.

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@R1Fan1 You're fully correct, I've watched back Sunday brunch. He seemed very flustered when they asked him about it as they referred to it as, "you got Jordan North sacked so you could get his job" then replied with

"I did a stint with Matt Edmondson and they said would you like to do this one. I said that would be amazing and hopefully I do a good job"

He accidentally said Jordan has huge shoes to fill, rather than I have huge shoes to fill. Face palm.

Then got the show time wrong too saying 3-6pm drivetime. So it looks like he's doing half an hour of dean and vickys show and then newsbeat lol

Kinda makes the whole thing a bit of a joke but most importantly seems to suggest it's a "stint"

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2 hours ago, ianwilk1999 said:

@R1Fan1 You're fully correct, I've watched back Sunday brunch. He seemed very flustered when they asked him about it as they referred to it as, "you got Jordan North sacked so you could get his job" then replied with

"I did a stint with Matt Edmondson and they said would you like to do this one. I said that would be amazing and hopefully I do a good job"

He accidentally said Jordan has huge shoes to fill, rather than I have huge shoes to fill. Face palm.

Then got the show time wrong too saying 3-6pm drivetime. So it looks like he's doing half an hour of dean and vickys show and then newsbeat lol

Kinda makes the whole thing a bit of a joke but most importantly seems to suggest it's a "stint"

Unless he hasn’t looked at the contract and know what he signed up for. At least he should be a whole half an hour earlier.

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1 hour ago, ianwilk1999 said:

If they're really keen and dead set on having Dean for breakfast that might have been the reason, or one of the reasons. I think he'll thrive at Capital but there's no getting away from the loss for r1 is huge. 

You do wonder what went on with Dean covering Breakfast in the first week of the new year now.

When Vick returned from her honeymoon she asked on-air to Jordan "why weren't you doing breakfast?" and he gave some weird reply about Katie being busy but Dean did it alone so easily Jordan could have.  The question was probably staged.

These big moves don't happen overnight so there is one of two things here, either the discussions were already starting and Radio 1 didn't want him on Breakfast or Dean covering Breakfast sent a very negative signal to Jordan and he was more open to an offer to Capital.  Jordan probably didn't want to leave but career wise he has had to make the jump.  (No doubt a bigger salary figured too).

No doubt either Aled or Jordan will spill the beans sometime...but I sniff a story here.

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22 hours ago, lochnessa said:

"Jordan North will be saying goodbye".  I can't shake the thought that something happened specifically around the time the press release went out.  The language they used implied he would be given the chance to do that.  Well I guess we'll find out when Aled or Jordan or someone involved puts out a memoir someday.

 

The silver lining to this departure though is that I won't have to hear that heyyyyyyyyyy anymore.  Hopefully it will not continue with Jamie.

I do hope there is a memoir from either of them. It’s always good to get the inside story of the station.

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