I think Paddy forgot sometimes that he wasnt just on in Manchester and Liverpool.

I wondered that when Ewen and Cat joined for the Sunday show and Greigsy has became the main cover presenter for George Bowie.

I wondered a while ago if Bauer got the old XFM frequency for Clyde 2 would George be offered Clyde 2 breakfast but continue with GBX on a Saturday on Clyde 1. Then Clyde 1 Breakfast could then he taken over by Ewen and Cat (cant see them taking over at the moment due to Ewens TV Work) or Greigsy.

Ahh the glamour of London. It's grim up north and there is that glimmer of hope when hearing z listers from the big capital. It gives a warm fussy feeling inside.

It ain't up north for listeners in Scotland...

At least when you hear a well-produced star it sounds like there's a reason for the networking, rather than just rebroadcasting Key 103 and throwing "This is Clyde 1" in some of the links.

I do wonder how the bidding for that frequency will go. It's quite the poker game.

It's common sense for Clyde 2 to take the frequency - it's been facing an uphill battle with Smooth being on crinkly old MW. However, it would be difficult to argue that it increases listener choice for that reason.

Faced with the risk of the likes of Go putting in a 24-hour Glasgow bid, an unknown Global option (should they be interested) and many other community stations maybe considering an upgrade, not to mention the possibility a Paisley bidder goes for it, would that be enough?

Maybe they could have something from London. Would be more glamorous

London, Manchester, it's all foreign rubbish to us.

I see where you're coming from with your general point but I'm not sure that's how Global see things. They don't want you to know the networked stuff is coming from London, in fact they don't even want you to know it's networked at all. Hence the smart networking stuff Bassman does, and when they have callers on the callers aren't allowed to say where they're calling from.

If Global wanted the glamour of Capital broadcasting from Leicester Square, they'd be honest about it. Whereas now they try and cover it up and treat the listener like a fool.

Lets not rule out communicorp. They've just launched XS Manchester and it would be interesting to see an XS Scotland launching on 96.3 FM across Glasgow and the central DAB mux. Network everything besides the phone in show, breakfast and drive?

I know that Global's merging the studios at some point, but currently there's a spare studio at Capital Scotland for XS to broadcast from?

Wonder why Global didn't sell it off to Communicorp in the first place?

Lcraa - I've not really expressed myself properly, sorry. I know what you mean about the game being to hide the London origins from regional listeners. What I meant was more that people were used to receiving TV broadcasts from London so wouldn't be so averse to a London sound (slick if predictable presentation and a standard accent) to what sounds like Key 103 with a bunch of local jingles thrown in. Not saying that's right (either in terms of the theory being right or it being correct that's how things should be), it's just a theory.

Personally I have more of a problem as a listener with Clyde networking than Heart/Capital. There's a degree to which you accept the latter is brand radio, whereas the former feels like it should be local.

I hadn't thought of Communicorp, you're quite right. The return of Rock Radio would be an interesting development. What I don't know is whether they just have XS by default or whether they want to develop it - here's a chance to test that I suppose. It would have made sense in hindsight for Global to pass it along but they probably thought there would be no more FM readvertisements.

Free Radio's Phil Ray is in for Connor Philips on Radio Aire drivetime this week. Sounding good.

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Hats off to Bauer Scotland this morning. Special report for Dunblane at 9.30am with Read all about it by Emeli Sandé preceding it, very appropriate song choice.

Also a very well produced report so sad to hear

Dunblane you mean.

Thanks

That would be nice

I might be reading in to this too much but I wonder if Greigsy was moved from the Evening show across Scotland to the Clyde 1 10-2 show as some of the bauer Scotland stations wouldn't have had a female DJ bar the breakfast sidekick till 10pm.

Greigsy is covering for knoxy tonight. Is that not quite unusual for a previous presenter of a show to do cover

No.

I'm surprised you didn't spot that Good Friday's "2 O'Clock Anthems" is showing on the BC1 schedule as being replaced by a one hour "GBX Easter Anthems" Scotland-wide.

I'd guess for a show that short they won't open the phone lines… I can only imagine some of the callers!

Some BC1 stations are also carrying Grant Thomson 3 - 6pm on Good Friday, but there does appear to be opt-outs. Of course, the schedule could be up to Bauer's usual accuracy standards.

I think Bauer city 1 in Scotland are going with

6am Local breakfast
10am Greigsy
2pm GBX Easter Anthems
3pm Grant Thomson
6pm Floorfillers with James Barr
10pm Ryan Brothwick

Not sure if they are doing a top 10@10 day or not. Also a bit of a change this year as last year on public holidays the drivetime slot was picked for the local show.


This seems a strange one as other posters have said that GBX was tried outside Glasgow and never worked. I wonder if it is a trial to see if it would work on a Saturday night rather than Old Skool and anthems.

The calls might not be too bad as its during the day and I take it the premium number will be promoted but the die hards will know the Clyde studio number to call George and ask for Bits n pieces.

Easter Monday looks like the opposite to Good Friday with the home run being local

The schedule at the moment looks like

Bauer City 1 Scotland

6am Greigsy
10am John Milne
2pm Local show
6pm Knoxy

Bauer City 1 England

6am Alex James
10am Stu Tolan
2pm Local show
6pm Knoxy

Nice to see Knoxy getting networked across Scotland and England

Also monday is a top 10@10 day from 9am - 6pm just found this out.

What idiots run these stations? Do they not know how stupid that sounds. Simply a perfect example of the mess city one stations are in. I want to like radio city, absolutely refuse to listen to capital after they ruined juice but all i hear is good djs spewing corporate shite. Leave work at 6 and get 3 mins of scott hughes bleating on about the city family of stations and other shows on City followed by promoting some crappy itv play style competition. Once in a while fair enough but it's the same old spiel every bloody day.

But i digress. 10 sings at 10 o clock. How hard is it to get that wrong ffs. Whoever comes up with this nonsense wants sacking. City had a golden opportunity to capitalise on juice going and have well and truly blown it. I can actually see city 2 having higher figures the way it's going, the whole package sounds so much better, not least the sung jingles and the beds.

GBX anthems this afternoon seems to have been received well on twitter.

It didnt seem as nedy as the Clyde 1 Saturday show. Maybe this was a trial to see if it would work across the Scottish network

Seems that Knoxy is doing her show tonight from KEY 103 studios in Manchester. Seems strange that she isnt doing it from Clyde's studios