Radio 1 Anthems Scheduling

[UnofficialStark]

That Radio 1 spin off station has been confirmed as Radio 1 Anthems launching Friday 8th Nov

[ianwilk1999]

will it be on proper radio or app only like the dance is. does it say anywhere

[Jono]

15 hours ago, ianwilk1999 said:

will it be on proper radio or app only like the dance is. does it say anywhere

Think it's just Sounds but both are intended for DAB, I believe. 

[TMD_24]

Looking at the press release for Radio 1 Anthems, it seems they are going to be doing something similar to their previous Christmas efforts by putting in new names to present some shows.

[Dan18F1]

I wonder if that means that the Anthems shows might not be on the main station this Christmas? Or maybe they’ll just simulcast with the R1 Anthems station?

[Bluestraw]

Suspect they will simulcast. Personally am completely fed-up with the lazy anthems programming through the Christmas period but no signs that that will change! I know they do it to go light on production needs, but surely with some good prework we could have a bit of something else!

[Jono]

It seems Global are launching Capital Anthems this week. It's a bit exhausting how everyone's chasing the same audiences.

[DC]

5 hours ago, Jono said:

It seems Global are launching Capital Anthems this week. It's a bit exhausting how everyone's chasing the same audiences.

I find it amazing how they just whack out these national DAB slots left right and center for these spin off stations that seem to have a short shelf life.

[Jono]

Capital Anthems is going on DAB. So it will presumably have the upper hand for getting audience until Radio 1 know what's happening with its Anthems stream.

[shippp]

On 9/10/2024 at 2:00 PM, DC said:

I find it amazing how they just whack out these national DAB slots left right and center for these spin off stations that seem to have a short shelf life.

Honestly same, its strange how many of these spinoff stations both Bauer and global just start every so often while keeping the vast majority of the existing ones going. Partially it's a thing where they own the multiplexes so they do what the hell they like with them. And what they seem to do is just downgrade the Bitrate so more space on the multiplexes and they audience probably doesn't notice or care the drop in sound quality 

[shippp]

Plus the fact I think they're at three national commercial multiplezes (D1, D2, Sound Digital) plus all the regional and local commercial owned ones so it's probably a situation of just filling the space because they can. 

[shippp]

Pretty niche and radio geeky even for this site but it felt relevant haha 

[Jono]

The multiplex Capital Anthems is on sounds so terribly and tinny in my car, I can barely listen. Suspect it's my radio being quite old and not very DAB+ friendly, but the sooner the BBC launch this station there the better. 

[Ash101]

10 minutes ago, Jono said:

The multiplex Capital Anthems is on sounds so terribly and tinny in my car, I can barely listen. Suspect it's my radio being quite old and not very DAB+ friendly, but the sooner the BBC launch this station there the better. 

That will be because of the bitrate that they’ve launched these stations at… they try and squeeze too many stations on one multiplex.

I think Capital Anthems is as low as 32 kbit/s, whereas Radio 1 is broadcast at 128 kbit/s.

 

[ianwilk1999]

is the r1 anthems station going to be on dab? someone said on here it was sounds only

[Ash101]

2 hours ago, ianwilk1999 said:

is the r1 anthems station going to be on dab? someone said on here it was sounds only

It’ll launch as Sounds only, but the BBC wants to place this, R1 Dance, R2 spin off & R3 Relax onto DAB - but they need to get additional approval for that to happen 

[Jono]

Some sort of placeholder here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024pw8

[NathanS]

17 minutes ago, Jono said:

Some sort of placeholder here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024pw8

Will they be simulcasting the launch on the main station?

[TheSaviourisHere]

2 hours ago, NathanS said:

Will they be simulcasting the launch on the main station?

Would imagine so they did for R1Dance and R1Relax

[Radio_12]

I'm guessing that the launch will be on radio 1 since the schedule says this for Anthems with Greg James

[Radio_12]

'The Songs Radio 1 Played First' appears to be the tagline for Anthems

 

[Radio_12]

There's now a LIVE feed on BBC Sounds that just plays the promo

[UnofficialStark]

The schedule for the Friday launch is now up and there's a simulcast with Radio 1 from 10am-1pm with shows from Greg, Charlie Hedges, Dean and Nat + Vicky.

[Radio_12]

I hope eventually we'll see some proper shows for Radio 1 Anthems with some actual new presenters, instead of having random prerecorded anthems programming. It seems like a really great opportunity for some new presenters to have proper shows on a slightly smaller scale Radio 1 station with older, but still modern and relevent music. Almost like a Radio 1 mini, however the budget may not allow for so much.