Not likely. Could just send microphone audio from segensworth to L Sq and have a tech press the buttons. That's possible isn't it?

I don't think so, as Adam O'Neill normally does it from London. (But isn't he on breakfast tomorrow?)

According to the South Coast site, Adam Inker is also on breakfast cover tomorrow...but I suppose its easier for him to get back down south than it is for the other Adam to get back?

Someone's brave, finishing at 11pm and then being on air 7 hours later. If he is in fareham that's a maximum of 5 hours sleep, London would be no sleep, unless it's all pre recorded?

It seems a few of the usual breakfast shows are off this week. Adam O'Neil in for HDD in Yorkshire, Adam Inker in for Zoe and Gillies on the South Coast, Ant Payne in Manchester and Greg Burns in for Dave and Lisa in London.

Capital are now playing a track every so often from few years back that they call "songs capital made famous" eg: La Roux, Bulletproof. Brilliant idea.

Things happening at Global.

"Black Eyed Peas with 'I Gotta Feeling' on Capital, remember we made this famous on Capital in 2009.."

A. 2008

B. Saying that on the network which didn't exsist till 2011 is abit weird; people assuming that it was Galaxy/One Network who made it big back in the day.

They need to rethink their announcement when it comes to songs pre-capital network

No they don't. Granted, the song may have been released in 2008 but it was 2009 when it got the biggest airplay.

And nobody apart from anoraks dustinguish between the Capital network and its predecessors.

What a silly thing to say. They played the song, they didn't make it famous. Talk about arrogant.

It's not exactly a new thing. Kiss have been calling "kisstory" the songs "that Kiss made famous".

There's probably some truth in it as their airplay will get the track heard by more people than if it wasn't.

Great idea and sounds great on air, only problem i can see is some artist may kick up a bit of a fuss and say something along the lines of "Capital didn't make us famous, BBC Radio 1 did"

This idea of songs that Capital made famous, it smacks of desperation, and trying to live on your "supposed" past success.

In what way is it desperation? Seems to me as a good way of putting some recurrents or older tracks on the playlist and having a useful mechanic to get in to them.

If it's working on Kiss, why not Capital?

Ahh, of course. It's Global. Nothing they ever do is good for the listeners....

A fantastic idea and long overdue. It's good to hear songs from outside of the big top 40 that were big hits a while back. Just cos the songs are not current doesn't make them less of a great song/listen. Will be listening to Capitall more often now I think.

Agreed, heard Jennifer Lopez - On The Floor on yesterday, big song last year and didn't sound out of place with the rest of the playlist.

Same here and enjoyed the two shows through the night with Pandora and the other gal that came on at 3 but I was busy and did not catch her name.

I'm almost with you. I think they should be playing songs that are of a few years ago, but to claim that 'Capital made this song famous' is a bit desperate - trying to claim credit for something that, let's be fair, Radio 1 would've done.

I certainly don't remember Capital playing 'Bulletproof' until a good few weeks after R1 made it a regular fixture on their playlist.

In a year or so's time, they'll be claiming they made Sam and the Womp's 'Bom Bom' famous...

Global really don't have much class, do they?

It's called a presentaton gimmick! Just accept it as such.

Or, alternatively, file a complaint with OFCOM. I'd love to see that in a Broadcast Bulletin...

Is it actually working on Kiss though? I'd lay the same charge there.

CHR as a format, is actualy flexible enough to allow for tracks to be included from up to 10 years ago, though usually 5 years is a good cut off point.

By saying that this was a song "Capital made famous" or Kiss made famous, they are inflating their self-importance to the "Smashie and Nicey" level, a charge that was often levelled at the old Radio 1 DJs prior to the Matthew Bannister era.

Last night, as I was tuning around, I heard the late night Capital DJ, think his name was James say that he realised that he hadn't played any ads, and that it didn't matter, cos he was going to keep on playing the music. That kind of attitude is unprofessional, and reflects badly on the station.

But frankly, it seems that Global has an inflated sense of it's own importance. As did GCap before them, as did GWR before them. History shows this is not going to end well for Global.

You seem to have a very short memory then, as radio stations have been inflating their self importance for the best part of 50 years, or more if you look at the US market. Straplines are nothing new.

And I'd question whether James (Barr?) really did ignore an ad break. Or perhaps one hadn't been scheduled. Again, radio is an act, and everyone does it - just like Tony Blackburn saying he "personally chooses" the songs for his Magic shows.

Doesnt sound like him at all. Normally very professional.

No, but the best ones say what they do, and the stations actually then do what they say.

"Jack FM - Playing What We Want."

After all, Jack FM don't do requests, so yes, definitely saying what they do, and doing it.

But saying that Capital or Kiss made a song famous, is pure hype and unprovable, like most of the worst station imaging around. In this case as well, it can be debunked by a simple question.

Which station in the UK do more people listen to?

Capital
Kiss
Radio 1

No contest really.

The usual suspects have regulary admitted they only add the tracks once they have become well known , countless times they have said they are not there to educate listeners musically.....yet now seem to want credit for "breaking" songs other stations were responsible for!


Pathetic.

But that's a different argument. You're saying that Capital has - in your view - poor imaging. Listeners really don't think about these things.

So I'll ask you again. How is it desperation?

Hype, yes. Just hype to happen to disagree with.