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Yeah know what you mean there, I don't really listen to the music on R1 but Gregs links more so. I think Half Wower will be a 9-930 Friday thing like the wonder years were for Scott.  All request Friday will stay on drive with the new host, that was there in the Mayo era and before him Evans on drive days (people forget Evans did drive on 2 after Walker finished until he went to Breakfast in 2009). 

@Lee E I agree it does feel like a very muted announcement without a huge deal of celebration. I can understand them wanting to fix the current situation without making too much of a fuss, but as you say it's a huge promotion for Sara.  Maybe closer to the time of the show launching we will get a bit more fanfare for her. Just shows how difficult this has been for all involved. I heard her saying they would have to be very loose with their givaways of the new order of mugs and pencils. Although I took it to mean they might say Tea Time on them and won't fit in with the branding of the new show, not necessarily that the feature would be gone. I like Totally Tea Voted and think it would work great at 6.40. To replace Scott's chat with his 'Faithful' - even typing that makes me sad though. I'm not up that early but always listened back to it. Interesting to know that Pause for Thought has been going for so long! I work with a lady who adored Terry Wogan on the radio in the way that we all talk about Scott. The best there has ever been she says.  I love the half wower but I thought they might struggle to fit it in daily with all the guests that come and go on Breakfast. Would be nice to have it as a Friday treat though.  I am looking forward to Sara's new show, I'll feel like I'm cheating on Greg again but I am really feeling the grind of the R1 playlist in the mornings since switching back there.   

Yes she will have to keep Pause for Thought, it was on Zoe and Evans and Wogans itterations of the show.  I suspect the half wower might stay on daily at 9am maybe? or maybe just on a Friday at 9am.  Totally Tee Voted might come across but with a name change for breakfast maybe? she could do that at 6.40 instead of the "how are you" chat with Tina and Elle that happened before although Sara said yesterday it was awkard because they have literally just ordered a shed load of mugs for Totally Tee Voted and they won't be needed now so maybe it isn't going over.  I think Big Guest Friday will stay, that was carried over from Zoe's show to Scott's and still seems to be happening with Gary.  I suspect she will start a quiz type thing to replace the one Scott did and the kids on the school run thing as well after 8am.  Her supporters are showing the love for sure, and all saying they will join her for breakfast, but as I said earlier, this transition is not being pushed in our faces as much as the major headline of Scott getting the gig after Zoe probably because of the circumstances it has come about, which is understandable but IMO a disservice to Sara, for her its a major deal and should be shouted about. Don't get me wrong, I am sad, gutted and heartbroken for Scott, but at the same time, Sara deserves the promotion and asscoiated publicity to go with. 

I hope the initial backlash is much shorter than Scott had to go through when he moved to R2 afternoons.  Sara is well loved on her show so her supporters are showing their love I'm hoping. I wonder what features she will bring over from her current show, or is it more likely to be a clean slate? I can't always listen through HMD without sobbing at the end of the day, I can't imagine that being a good feature to set anyone up for a good mood in the morning. That's the only one I'm not keen on really. Also, does anyone know how long Pause for Thought has been running? That always felt misplaced to me in Scott's show, sometimes they were nice uplifting messages, but it was always a gear change.  I assume Sara will have to keep it?

contracts must been sighned quickly as they only sacked Scott 4 weeks agon  

Yeah that was slightly different. He was covering her mat leave and when she came back she asked the BBC for a move to a lesser slot, so it all fell into place nicely for all parties. And for her specially as she did a long stint on weeekends and then covered weekdays as well, covering for Mills, Moyles, Whiley, Cotton, and became the main "supply teacher" and then transitioning to R2 doing the same there, and did stints of covering Mat leave on daytime R1.  When this change happened in 2003/4 it would have all been negoiated through agents, in fact they all are so the DJs I would think are bound contractually not to discuss it with each other, cetianly not while negotiations are ongoing and probably afterwards as well. So yes that time it worked in Scott's favour that a weekday slot came up, he was already covering it so just took it over. He was clearly pissed at the BBC in 2012 when they announced him and Greg were to swap though, he did a cryptic tweet at the time.

Well said, yes totally that. There is no betrayal gone on, yet some on the facebook group are making it out to be that and saying she should have declined the offer as a matter of principle. In this game principle doesn't matter. Remember how Moyles campainged on air on R1 for months for them to give hom breakfast when Sara wasn't doing so well at it. Publically on air saying he should be given the slot.  As I said earlier, yes it is very sad what has happened to Scott. I will note that he has not disputed it, saying he is fighting it, nor has he said that he was "wrongly dismissed" which is what you would expect from someone who feels they have been treated badly. Privately there maybe a "claim" and settlement to happen, which is in his interest to see himself right financially, but the raw facts are people threatening to boycott or complain are really not going to get him reinstated, that ship has sailed. As has Scott's time at the BBC. A very sad way to end such a career and them having to make a change to their peak time lineup when they wern't expecting to have to for at least 5-8 years.  What it has done is given Sara a "new" lease of life. She was by no means stale on teatime, but she had been there for 7 years, and maybe in 2027/8 they would have had a shuffle and she would have been moved elsewhere. This new role has given her another ten to fifteen years of life at Radio 2 I reckon. We all predicted Scott would do ten years at the slot, remember Zoe only jacked it in for personal reasons, there was no desire to "get rid" or move her on, so it is feasable she could have gone on another 4-5 years in the slot and Scott or Sara never getting the opportunity to take it. With these sad events, the "good" outcome for Sara is a new show, one she can do for 8-12 years taking her into her 60s if she desired to and probably to retirement.  I noticed this change has not been thrust at us as much as when Scott or even Zoe got the gig, or Evans in that matter, and Sara only briefly mentioned it on her show yesterday. Toned down as you said @xxladybarefootxx I don't think it will as much of a glamorous transition as when Scott took it over with him being photo'd with Zoe and being on her show as a guest and all and that is all down to the circumstances. The Beeb will want to install Sara as quickly as possible, with as little drama as possible to then move on from this.  The show is currently featureless, with no real format and Gary just bringing his take on it with some of his SOT80s features and the usual roster of guests coming in. It needs to go back to being a breakfast show, and Sara will do that, and do it well. Good on her and well deserved.