Early Morning / Late Shift Presenters Sleeping Patterns
occy
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Do presenters who do Over nights, Early Breakfast and Breakfast shows sleep during the day? Have any of you experienced this?
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occy
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Sleep 8-11pm, do the show, sleep 6:30am-2pm
On bteakfast I was usually in bed by 9pm and up at 4.
As jobs go it's not bad really if you compare to nurse or taxi drivers. One is run off their feet all shift and the other has to put up with pissed people throwing up and taking messy food into the car. A radio presenter sits in a warm studio and pisses about on the internet for 3 hours. They might even get to watch some tv.
When I was doing breakfast for years and years, I would go to bed about 8 but either go on laptop or read, never watch TV, until about 10 then go to sleep. I got up at 445 as I was only 10 mins from work.
I know others who stay awake all night do early breakfast then go home and get to bed for around 8am and treat it as a nightshift.
Personally i always think early breakfast is a harder shift than nights, the night jock will usually get to bed for 6am. When i did that i slept till around 12 - 1 ish and i then had a afternoon and most of the evening to do as i wished before getting into work for around 11 - 12 ready for a 1am start.
Do you see?
Wow that's quite a lot of sleep, almost 10 hours per day! When I worked a nightshift (not in radio) I'd do 8pm-6.30am and sleep 7am-2pm.
True, I was listening to Grimey and Dev do the handover one morning 'moaning' about the hours on iPlayer. I started work at 6am for a 12 hour shift. Somehow somebody sitting in a studio pressing play and saying 'that was, this is...' Reading Twitter or Facebook comments with lots of adverts in between isn't such a hard job.
To be fair I wouldn't say Nick Grimshaw's show is "that was, this is", Radio 1 breakfast is at least 50% speech, and they don't play adverts.
That's the hard bit!
Some people I know get around 5-6 hours a night, and swear by an afternoon cat nap of a couple of hours. That never works for me, I have to go through. A daytime sleep seems to make me disorientated, grumpy, or both!
4.1 million people in the uk work shifts (including night shifts)
The both of them are forever MOANING about the early mornings they do. Sick of it...so ungrateful for their jobs.
I'd say early breakfast is the worst slot and I would be tempted to split my sleep between evenings and mornings if I was doing that slot. Might not be so easy with a partner, kids, people making noise outside during the day, etc
I wonder if he sleeps before the show or when he gets home ? My guesses are that if he's home by about 7-8am then he must just hit the sack until the late afternoon.
Must bugger up your body clock.
He probably sleeps like we do.at night, but a different time.
between records you mean?
occy, that's a daft reply. How can he sleep like we do at night when he's live on Radio 2 from 2am-5am ?
Or do you mean he sleeps during the day?
My point exactly!
He told me he goes to bed at 9pm and awakes at 1am. Then after the show goes back to bed from 6am until 10am
Amazing.so at as I write this at 12.50. he;s still asleep.and then proceeds to do a live national radio show at 2am? Might explain why when Janice Long was ill on air the other month,he didn't appear until 1.35.standing in.
All other jocks working for other stations (at any time of the day) are obviously putting far to much prep in,for a mere splinter of the money he must be getting.>:(
Either he lives in a shoe inside Broadcasting House or he lives literally round the corner and is uber confident with nothing ever going wrong with his travelling arrangements,..ooh..it's NOW 1 am..the alarm must be going off.Unbelieveable.
He must live minutes from the studios if he gets up at 1am and goes to bed at 6am?