Radio 1 Anthems Scheduling

[GrimsbyGal]

What other fan groups and sites exist for radio presenters? Is Unofficial Mills one of the biggest?

[Jono]

I mean back in the day it was chrismoyles.net and Unofficial Mills (I remember a JK and Joel fansite but it seemed to be shortlived). The internet has changed since.

I'm in a Greg James Whatsapp channel, for instance, and there are Facebook groups for him. Not sure if there are rival groups, seems a different bunch of people to the young farmers et al that we often hear on air.

[radio247]

You can sort of have your views by replying to the DJ's posts and following them, I don't suppose you have to be part of a fandom anymore.

[J_B]

7 hours ago, Jono said:

I mean back in the day it was chrismoyles.net and Unofficial Mills (I remember a JK and Joel fansite but it seemed to be shortlived). The internet has changed since.

I'm in a Greg James Whatsapp channel, for instance, and there are Facebook groups for him. Not sure if there are rival groups, seems a different bunch of people to the young farmers et al that we often hear on air.

How do we join the Greg James WhatsApp channel out of interest? Or is it just a private group?

[DC]

This place has done well over the last 20 years, a big part of that is that Scott has been so relevant since 1998 up till now. But I do feel this place is now more of a radio 1 forum than Scott Mills fansite these days. It's a combination of the youngest of his listeners from his last days at Radio 1, and the fact that his radio 2 show is a bit of a culture shock to that same age group. It's very play-it-safe in comparison to all of his radio 1 work. For us older crew we've naturally transitioned over to Radio 2 with Scott. But for those who are only still young and have only heard him from about 2018ish, then I do understand it's a jump too soon.

chrismoyles.net is a treasure trove to his radio 1 days. Which of course are his best. But considering he's been back on the air on a major commercial radio station for a number of years now. It's very very quiet. Granted his listeners back then are the generation after Scott's mostly. So probably just don't do forums anymore.

For the past DJ's there is a Mark and Lard Facebook group, which is members only sorta thing. I'm in there and we got a massive hint that they would be getting back together near the back end of last year. Someone who's obviously connected with them posted a photo shoot they did together in there last year. When they left in 2004 biggedybong.com was started up but dried up about 2007ish. The fb group nowdays though is very active.

For radio 1 jocks to have their own fansite back in the day, they would have to be pretty special and top of their game.

[Jono]

It's a fair analysis @DC Also before social media people would literally discuss their lives on this forum. These days people just come here for the radio chatter. 

Also long live the purple emojis, that existed long before phones did them as default