Originally Posted by Gavin_D:
“From this summer new albums and singles will all be released on Fridays Radio 1 are now looking at moving the chart show from Sunday to Friday,
Is this something global could do? if they did they'd have to ditch something from the current schedule
4-7 isn't really possible as thats the regional drivetime could cause a few issues for them if they want to keep inline with radio 1”
Originally Posted by harrykent:
“They could have the Big Top 40 , 4-7 on at Saturday afternoon instead of Celebrate Saturday. They could then have All 80s 4-7 Sunday's and then something like Roberto 7-10. I'm sure Capital could do something similar.”
Originally Posted by Gavin_D:
“But that would then mean Saturday locals would loose an hour as they are on from 1pm to 5pm”
In that instance the local slot on Saturday would have to move probably to 12noon-4pm.
Personally I don't think commercial radio will risk moving the chart at least just yet. Especially given the sales element is collated from I Tunes which can vary on release dates anyway.