Rajars don’t cover the Christmas limbo period which is prob why. Easter I’d imagine is a personal choice. I don’t think there are as many production teams as previous plus weekend presenters generally doing 3 day weeks which is why it’s easier now to give practically everyone Christmas limbo week than have disruption to schedules going on through January. It doesn’t apply now I don’t think but I remember Aled saying that time off was stricter before and was generally mandated that Chris Moyles and Scott couldn’t be off at same time but made an exception once when they came to an agreement Sara was able to cover breakfast and Greg covered Scott. Dev covered Greg and Tom Deacon covered Dev

Another side note… I would imagine it is in contracts like breakfast and drive that you “will” be off over Christmas and Easter and new year. Notice how Greg never works a Christmas now neither does Sara (Christmas Day was an exception and not since the Moyles days has a resident breakfast presenter done their own show on the day itself)  of course these days all the R1 lot get Christmas to new year off for the takeover but in years before that weekday breakfast used to be Scott most of the time over the festive period when he was on drive and afternoons and over on 2 it’s been Mark the last few years  like Greg as well always used to cover shows over Christmas before he did drive as well and you’d get a mixup of the weekend presenters covering weekday slots  In community radio it usually works the same one station I work with the resident breakfast presenter has two weeks off every Christmas and we all take a turn covering it (not so much me as I am drive and I had a week off this year anyway)  but it certainly is on R1 and 2 the weekday breakfast and drive hosts never work Christmas time   

I agree. I'm more inclined to think OJ would be offered drivetime. Spoony's a decent cover presenter on daytimes, but then you'd be looking at someone new for Good Groove (or whatever they would decide to do with that slot). Finding a replacement for OJ's overnight show would be much easier.

It's going to be Sara Cox all the way, trust me, it's the only way the BBC can go with it, she is safe, reliable, knows the show, knows the team, and listeners know her. They will not want to rock the boat anymore. I am saying "when" she moves not "if" as I am confident it will be, what happens to Drive, OJ, Spoony or someone new maybe (Zoe Ball comeback?) 

comments seem to thinks he's radio 2 bound

It won't be him, he has a contract with ITV for This Morning he is still in, and has to cover that on a Friday and when the usuals are on leave 

Ah there we are then, thanks for the clarification.  Also of note........ this is why Moyles was not allowed to appear on a "rival" brand until 2015. he had signed a new contract in 2011 for R1 up to December 2014. This meant that even after he finished breakfast and was offered the late night slot on R1 and Sounds of the 80s on R2 as a package, he decined and was on "gardening leave" from September 2012 until December 2014, and low and behold come 2015 he appears on Radio X. Moyles was never in breach of his contract ergo remained under BBC rules for that period of time.  Now when Mistajam left R1, that was quicker. I would imagine his contract was coming to an end and he likely secured the role at Global some months before to effectively run and manage Cap Dance, which he has done a blinding job of (he is the station manager there I believe, or certinaly was when it started and he was in charge of programming etc as well as being a DJ) so when his BBC Contract came up for renewal he would have gone into negoitations and said he wanted to end it on that date in 2020 and move on (wow that is six years ago), again not in breach. The same goes for Ken Bruce, who was coming up for renewal and left for a rival brand.  Steve Wright was different, he was still in contract for SWITA even when Scott took over, and was being paid as such for the remaining time he was there, it may have changed mid way through before he passed to reduce to Sundays and specials, but largely he was still being paid for his weekday slot.  The Grimmy and Greg swap happened mid contract as well, which is why Grimmy just saw out his current breakfast contract on drive and it changed to Vick and Jordan post covid.  In Scott's case, it seems the BBC found him in some kind of breach of a clause of his contract that caused them to enact the termination clause, it may have only been one small timy clause, but still a broken contract is a broken contract. With these types of contract there is no "hearing" or "process" once it is breached it will be down to a board and likely signed off by the DG to terminate it. This is why it was so quick. I was in the pub earlier and someone (knowing I am in radio) spoke to me about it, and said the problem is... had the BBC not acted and the mirror leaked it, imagine the outcry then, yet they've done the "right thing" with due dillagence and still it's deemed as "outrageous" by some.  Whatever happened happened, and will all be protected by NDAs and binding documents, what is no good and making absolutely no difference, and just fanning the flames, is people like on the FB Group threatening to boycott the station, and "demand" Scott's reinstatement, that ship has sailed and the BBC aren't going to act on the say so of a few keyboard warriors (says he typing essays on the subject), yes the R2 show will loose listenership as a result, like many of us have gone back to Greg, or some have moved to commercial, whatever you choose is up to you.  Of course all of the above is purley in a clinical sense as well, not that I am a hater of Scott, far from it, but being in media, and my job outside of media, I deal in hard facts, data and reports, and the only ones of those we have are what has happened and what statements have been made. it would be wrong to make assumptions based on that.