Capital Summertime Ball 2024

[Jono]

Johnny Vaughan is to team up with Denise Van Outen again this month as part of Capital Radio's "new look" breakfast show. Both presenters will be paid £1 million and hope this will gain the listeners lost when Chris Tarrant stepped down from breakfast.

The pair were quite good on the Big Breakfast but will they be strong enough to take on Moyles in London? Or will she be the final nail in the coffin for the show?

[E*F*4L]

Crapital are getting desperate now. They were good, but they won't beat Moyles

[tamba]

They have had their day. Moyles and the team will beat them without a doubt. And I thought the BBC had no money!

[bolinbenny]

I don't know, I'm at least going to try their podcast once Denise gets on it

[Kelly]

Moyles will still beat them, yes, but they are a good double act. There's chemistry there, and you can't deny it.

[Andy B]

When you're on a national radio station with a listenership of 8 million people you don't need to worry about some local radio station dj and his sidekick.

Moyles' biggest compettition comes from Christian O'Connel on Virgin which is why he never gets mentioned. People outside the M25 (crazy I know but there are places) don't care about Johnny Vaughn or Crapital.

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Its actually a good station, and Johnny is doing okay as a presenter. Why do you kids give other stations such a hard time? The chemistry between them hopefully is still there.

[Jono]

I think the trouble with Capital these days is it doesn't have a unique sound. It no longer plays the songs that it used to that made it stand out from Radio 1. Now local stations just seem to morph into playing whatever 'the greatest radio station in the world' plays.

The only songs that differ on their playlist to Radio 1 is Enrique Iglesias, Janet Jackson, and Joss Stone.

They had it right, now too many want to be Radio 1 these days.

[Frenchie]

Browsing Capital's website etc. I Can't find ANY info on this? What is the source?

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Browsing Capital's website etc. I Can't find ANY info on this? What is the source?

Daily Mail.

They dont usually put their own news on their website until its done and dusted, but its been all over the newspapers today. It seems 95.8 are after the chemistry they created on the telly. Should be good, and well done to Van Outen!

[Andy B]

Its actually a good station, and Johnny is doing okay as a presenter. Why do you kids give other stations such a hard time? The chemistry between them hopefully is still there.

Kids?

I have listened to Vaughn occasionally and found him to be very boring, he doesn't actually seem to say anything that interests me. It's all banal waffle, I like my morning show to be a bit more random and a lot less "nice"

I give other stations a hard time because I love radio and most other stations exist purely to make money for the investors rather than seeing the adverts as a way to finance the station. All GWR stations sound the same, they are the McDonalds of Radio and every presenter/ station is indistinguishable from another. The same can generally be said of Capital stations as well although they do allow slightly more personality.

Scott's original station (PowerFM) was my local station and I couldn't stand it. It played the most mundane middle of the road tripe and seemed to have an ad break every 5 minutes that lasted for 10 minutes and it was the same adverts in the same order over and over again.

I could go on but fear of using Jono's yearly bandwith allowance prevents me.

[Hammer]

This time last year I was listening to O'Connell on Virgin. It's not a bad show at all, though still not in Moyles' league.

Agree with Andy about Johnny Vaughan. His show is fairly uneventful. It just plods along, planned out in advance and not very spontaneous.

[DC]

they can have their little shows on capital and virgin. but what people fail to realise is that everyone dosent live in london. not everybody can be arsed to fork out for a dab radio everywhere they need to listen, or put up with virgins signal on medium wave. thats where radio 1 will always hold an advantage, through fm.

[Andy B]

I can't believe there is a world outside the M25! Surely everyone has access to some of the finest galleries, museums, live shows, art, culture, restaurants, bars, clubs and public transport system in the world!

Hehehehe I've become a proper london Tw@t

[Jono]

Van Outen, who last appeared with Vaughan on the Channel 4 breakfast show in 2001, will make her Capital presenting debut on Monday February 4.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/10/gcapmedia.commercialradio

[DC]

we're away now, they might match the dizzy hights of their appearance on top gear that time.

[Jono]

I'd rather hear Chas and Dave. That's real London radio.

[tamba]

Remember Vaughan's tv show a few year's back. That was a flop.

[Timsk]

They were good together on the breakfast TV thing they did years ago, but I think it's now time to put them out to pasture.

[Jono]

Maybe Denise should have the show, and Johnny should go. I think she's more talented judging by her theatrical work.

[Grace]

They were good together on the breakfast TV thing they did years ago, but I think it's now time to put them out to pasture.

Or even better, make them into glue.

[Timsk]

Maybe Denise should have the show, and Johnny should go. I think she's more talented judging by her theatrical work.

She definitely has talent theatrically, didn't she do a lengthy run on stage on Broadway in the States? As to whether that makes her a good radio presenter I'm not so sure as it's a different talent. Johnny Yawn just annoys me these days - his time is up.

Or even better, make them into glue.

Haha, yes. Or handbags/coats. Vaughn might even make good dogfood.

[E*F*4L]

Chris was laughing about Johnny Yawn being bald this morning.

[Jono]

Coming from a guy who had just dyed his grey hair? Strange!

[E*F*4L]

at least he has hair.