Clyde 1's Bowie @ Breakfast will be mad on Monday as Calvin Harris played a GBX tune - Bits and Pieces to close his set at T in the park last night after The Hits breakfast presenter Tom Green gave him it on a USB stick.

Also Clyde 1 has something special planned if Murray wins. Last time he won Wimbledon they renamed the station Murray won

Noticed that the second picture was similar to Clyde Rocks/ On Air 2 / "The cave".

I find it strange that Bauer City 1 stations which most play hit music with the exception of the feature of the Top 10 @ 10 have older presenters most in their late 30's and 40's. The presenters that are on Bauer City 1 are more suited to Global's Heart format playing music from the 80's, 90's, 00's and now.

Global have younger presenters playing hit music for a younger audience on Capital.

Paul Hayes who is the Drivetime presenter on The Greatest Hits Network in England and weekend presenter on Magic is an excellent presenter but I would not expect him to be on a station for a younger audience. Paul used to present on Radio Aire in Leeds but moved onto The Greatest Hits Network . I think once you have left a Bauer City 1 station and move onto a Network which is aimed at a older audience you should be not allowed to return to the Network aimed at a younger audience. The same with Gina Mckie who is the Greatest Hits Network Drivetime presenter in Scotland and sometimes covered on Clyde 1 and the Scottish Bauer City 1 Network.

Take for instance Heart's Evening presenter Roberto who used to present on Capital would not be asked by Global to do some cover work on Capital as well as working on Heart. The presenter no longer falls into Capital's target audience.

The same at the BBC take for instance Jo Whiley who moved from weekends on BBC Radio 1 to weekday evenings on BBC Radio 2 would not be asked to return to BBC Radio 1 and do some cover work as well as continue presenting her Evening Show on BBC Radio 2.

Bauer need to clearly position the Bauer City 1 where they have younger presenters playing the Hit Music and move the older Bauer City 1 presenters to The Greatest Hits Network or even nationally on Magic to compete with Global.

I get what you mean but Gina only does one show a week on Clyde one and occasionally does cover but not often. I think occasional cover is ok but Paul on breakfast doesnt make sense

Since when was age an issue?

As an example - Alan Edwards is in his earlyish 30's yet manages to present the BC2 format very well, likewise, at the opposite end of the spectrum, George Bowie is just 2 years shy of 50 yet both presents Breakfast on one of the biggest BC1 stations and presents the new Scotland-wide Friday night dance music show (and regularly has sell-out events at night clubs across Scotland as well, so must be doing something right).

To give another example - Jim Gellatly is another presenter who is almost 50, yet, he is regularly featured on stations and is a well known champion of new performers and has an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of music.

If we were to apply the logic that the age of the presenter had a bearing on where they could host a show, then we'd be ruling out the some of the best quality presenters the country has to offer, both young and old (think - the likes of Fat Brestovca and Ryan Borthwick on BC1 are only 20… puts them more in the Clyde 3 bracket, no?), and it'd no doubt ultimately do nothing to improve the stations. In fact, it'd probably be nothing more than an ageist practice and would bring more unfair dismissal claims such as the one put forward by Adrian Coll and Kevin Cameron a few years ago.

The content ultimately matters more than the age of the presenter IMO.

Oh, and regarding Gina - IMO, it's a pleasure to hear her back on Clyde 1, her chat is good on what would otherwise be a generic afternoon show, before the dreary "Vodafone Big Top 40" which is about as content light as an advert break.

EDIT: Probably also worth pointing out, remember the vast majority of the presenters have no direct control over the music in the playlist (GB on his GBX shows and Tony Blackburn being two notable examples across BC1 and BC2), but, even if it is out of their assumed eras it doesn't mean they can't present a credible show around it - just like you wouldn't expect a doctor who qualified in the 1980s to still be practicing 1980s era medicine, you wouldn't expect a DJ who started in the 1980s to only specialise in 1980s era music - continuing professional development is a thing in nearly every industry.

Where is James Barr show Firday floorfillers show networked from, form the hits studio in London, or key 103 Manchester, because he is on heat radio on weekdays it would make sense to network it from the hits studio in London.

The existing show is broadcast from Key 103 in Castle Quay, Manchester.

The Hits (city 3 stations) comes from studios in Manchester

ah right okey, cheers for that

Thanks.

Thing is though age of the presenter doesn't matter so long as they are relevant to the audience. Look at Pete Tong on Radio 1, he's nearly into his 60's yet he is still known as the king of electronic music by the audience. Moyles is another good example, his average listener age when he was on Radio 1 Breakfast was around the same as Grimshaw's despite Grimshaw being late 20's early 30's and Moyles being late 30's early 40's.

Margherita Taylor used to have a regular Capital slot while at the same time presenting on Classic FM. Justin Walker on Capital Birmingham also used to do cover shifts for Heart from time to time.

Let's not forget Westwood. He's Capital xtra's selling point. Mentioned quite a lot these days.

Anyone know what's happening with the overnight show - Jack Wood's on in England for this week, and Fat Brestovca's on as usual in Scotland. Is this a permanent split or just maybe trialling it?

Noticed the Sophie (So Wright) isn't on air this Friday night. I take it that her saturday show will rerun the following Friday and so on?

She's on this Friday on Aire, Hallam, Viking, Radio City, Rock and CFM - Key, TFM/Metro and Scotland seem to be keeping their Friday night shows.

Key 103 seems to be keeping there Friday night show Steve and Janine.

Also the Hot 20 in England seems to be getting replaced by Weekend Anthems with Darren Proctor.

It's an error on their website as she has tweeted to say that she is on the 16 Beaur stations across the uk this Firday and Saturday.

Sctoland are taking the floor fillers chilled show too.

Slightly off topic here on the Big top 40 the Baeur Stations/ukdr/utv take the chart show via a satellite signal via IRN 3, ive noticed quite a lot most of the songs when they start sound like there being played on a wobbly cassete, has anyone noticed that?
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Presumably with Paul Hayes covering and not seemingly a permanent arrangement, no decision has been made about who is taking on Rock FM Breakfast?

Internally in Bauer, the obvious choice may be to switch Jordan North from Drive to Breakfast given he's now established his drive show there and would be known to its listeners, there is of course Stu Toolan also who I think's a great presenter and used to enjoy his evening shows.

Elsewhere they have Connor Phillips currently without a permanent gig, he has been doing drive on City Talk some days but they've used different hosts on others so he could always crop up somehwere. The Hits/City 3 network is another place they've used talent from recently, having listened too some of their output recently, I'd say that James Hall is an excellent presenter on there with a good personality and does inject a youthful energy into his shows, I think he'd be well suited to Rock FM, perhaps more so in the drive slot if Jordan moves over to breakfast.

Externally, Glen Hunt is once again broadcasting in the Tower FM area and has been settled there for a while now, I've always enjoyed his shows, especially on Radio City and his early Century/RR days but there seems very little room for him to inject his personality into his current show, that said he does seem to enjoy it there and maybe considered to be a bit outside of the slightly younger tone Rock have been going for in recent years, nevertheless I think he could do still a very good job for Bauer.

The other one of course without a gig but who has been billed as getting his own show somewhere is Michael Blades

Anyone else got any thoughts on this?

Has anyone noticed that Planet Rock has gone stereo on Sky ?

Reading the radio today article it seems to me that So Wrights show will only be on in Scotland on Saturdays

Yes because Scotland on a Friday night do the GBX Experience or something of the lines of that

Scotland will have GBX from 7 - 10 on a friday while Floorfillers will be on in England.

From 10-1 Scotland seems to be having Ryan Borthwick who usually just plays normal playlist stuff on a Friday while England has So Wright

Doesn't make sense. Are the ratings strong enough for Clyde on Friday nights..? (compared with Krystal Weaver's old show)