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This is what happens when the star becomes bigger than the station. No boundaries, no direction just whatever he wants to do.
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I agree Chris sounded today utterly bored, tired and just messing about with sound effects, other station jingles and acting like he couldn't really give a toss.
It's also clear Global have give him limited jingles and talk over beds, to the point he's now using the LBC ones. Moyles is extremely talented but totally limited in what he can do with the repetitive music, lack of imaging, lack of celebs etc He's moved from one of the UK's biggest stations to a relatively small scale station, knowing the in the same building you have Crapital and Heart must hurt him a lot. I've expressed my concerns about Dave previously he's not right for Moyles and A lot of responsibility is in the hands of Dom right now. |
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It's on the way back down when a bit of humility comes in handy and the realisation that you might need to work a little smarter and make the most of what you've got.
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I agree Chris sounded today utterly bored, tired and just messing about with sound effects, other station jingles and acting like he couldn't really give a toss.
It's also clear Global have give him limited jingles and talk over beds, to the point he's now using the LBC ones. Moyles is extremely talented but totally limited in what he can do with the repetitive music, lack of imaging, lack of celebs etc He's moved from one of the UK's biggest stations to a relatively small scale station, knowing the in the same building you have Crapital and Heart must hurt him a lot. I've expressed my concerns about Dave previously he's not right for Moyles and A lot of responsibility is in the hands of Dom right now. Whilst I agree Capital and Heart are the bigger networks, Radio X should have the bigger breakfast show. |
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Not sure why everyone is having a pop at Dave - Chris has been very vocal about the fact that when he signed up it was only on the proviso that he is given carte blanche to do what he wants with the show.
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Not sure why everyone is having a pop at Dave - Chris has been very vocal about the fact that when he signed up it was only on the proviso that he is given carte blanche to do what he wants with the show.
Very difficult to be Global's man in the room when the company have already gift-wrapped and presented your testicles to the man in the hotseat... |
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Not sure why everyone is having a pop at Dave - Chris has been very vocal about the fact that when he signed up it was only on the proviso that he is given carte blanche to do what he wants with the show.
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Switched off after 15 mins all this talk on Bono & U2 is making me a wee bit tired.
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Switched off after 15 mins all this talk on Bono & U2 is making me a wee bit tired.
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and the funny thing is, I don't U2 are actually on the show this morning...
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Radio X has a national breakfast show unlike Capital and Heart so surely Moyles' audience will be bigger than any individual Heart or Capital breakfast show.
Whilst I agree Capital and Heart are the bigger networks, Radio X should have the bigger breakfast show. The last stats I can see show that the best weekday half hour share for breakfast for XFM London was about 50k, compared to about 180k for Capital London and 190k for Heart London. Let's generously assume that XFM Manchester was getting half the London figure (25k), that still needs Moyles to more than double the previous XFM breakfast audience to get ahead of Heart or Capital London. I really don't see that being the case. https://pauleaston.wordpress.com/201...on-rajar-q215/ |
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I'd be surprised if Chris is getting more listeners nationally (remember, only one extra city on FM) than Heart or Capital in London.
The last stats I can see show that the best weekday half hour share for breakfast for XFM London was about 50k, compared to about 180k for Capital London and 190k for Heart London. Let's generously assume that XFM Manchester was getting half the London figure (25k), that still needs Moyles to more than double the previous XFM breakfast audience to get ahead of Heart or Capital London. I really don't see that being the case. https://pauleaston.wordpress.com/201...on-rajar-q215/ So if we use your Maths of of 75k for London and Manchester then multiply by 6 for national coverage your at 450k, well over Heart's 190k. Even if you factor in a pessimistic 50% drop as the rest of the country is DAB/online rather than FM and only multiply by 3 you'd be at 225k, again well above Capital and Heart London breakfast, so I expect Moyles gets more listeners than Dave Berry or Jamie Theakston. Radio X is not XFM as it's no longer a set of local stations but a national station covering the whole of the UK unlike Heart and Capital which are just a group of local stations with small breakfast shows for each area, |
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Even if you factor in a pessimistic 50% drop as the rest of the country is DAB/online rather than FM and only multiply by 3 you'd be at 225k, again well above Capital and Heart London breakfast, so I expect Moyles gets more listeners than Dave Berry or Jamie Theakston.
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and the funny thing is, I don't U2 are actually on the show this morning...
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It appears not, apparently just a wind up... all will be revealed after the current song it seems...
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I get the feeling they nearly weren't...!
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I think the problem with the show is that Chris just doesn't have enough to talk about. On Radio 1 he had the whole of the BBC, and Radio 1 was a much "busier" station than Radio X, when all you have to go on is the sodding Road Trip week in week out. Plus it's a much smaller team than before which means less material to talk about. So you get the situation where a couple of weeks in and he's already going on about Heart, LBC, Smooth etc, as if he's run out of Radio X material. Then on Facebook and Twitter you have all the old fans chanting "bring back Roy Walker/Andi Peters/Dominic the Donkey" as if repetition is the only thing of merit.
He's just about pulling it off at the moment as he has a way of making you care about a link even when it's inconsequential, but I wish he'd just have a bit of self-control and do a 5 minute link instead of 10 mins when there's no material...the world wouldn't end, no-one would die. Oh and after hardly playing any U2 at all for the first month they're suddenly playing them all the time now Bono's coming in as a guest...awkward. |
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the u2 interview went well and thank god they have binned the odious "madam" moniker for Dave
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I think the problem with the show is that Chris just doesn't have enough to talk about. On Radio 1 he had the whole of the BBC, and Radio 1 was a much "busier" station than Radio X, when all you have to go on is the sodding Road Trip week in week out. Plus it's a much smaller team than before which means less material to talk about. So you get the situation where a couple of weeks in and he's already going on about Heart, LBC, Smooth etc, as if he's run out of Radio X material. Then on Facebook and Twitter you have all the old fans chanting "bring back Roy Walker/Andi Peters/Dominic the Donkey" as if repetition is the only thing of merit.
He's just about pulling it off at the moment as he has a way of making you care about a link even when it's inconsequential, but I wish he'd just have a bit of self-control and do a 5 minute link instead of 10 mins when there's no material...the world wouldn't end, no-one would die. |
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I agree Chris sounded today utterly bored, tired and just messing about with sound effects, other station jingles and acting like he couldn't really give a toss.
It's also clear Global have give him limited jingles and talk over beds, to the point he's now using the LBC ones. Moyles is extremely talented but totally limited in what he can do with the repetitive music, lack of imaging, lack of celebs etc He's moved from one of the UK's biggest stations to a relatively small scale station, knowing the in the same building you have Crapital and Heart must hurt him a lot. I've expressed my concerns about Dave previously he's not right for Moyles and A lot of responsibility is in the hands of Dom right now. |
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I thought he choose the music for his show? Or is he still limited in what he can play ?
The only feature playing non Radio X genre tracks is the wheel of inappropriate songs, but he then sings all over them so this is more a feature rather than playing a track in full uninterrupted. |
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No he plays what's on the Radio X playout system, he may occasionally drop songs when he speaks too much so may drop the songs he's less keen on but he only selects the songs for Friday's Platinum hour and then they have to be Radio X friendly, if he had free reign he'd be playing Taylor Swift, Take That and McFly which would repel the old XFM listeners.
The only feature playing non Radio X genre tracks is the wheel of inappropriate songs, but he then sings all over them so this is more a feature rather than playing a track in full uninterrupted. |
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No Breakfast breakdown, but interesting to see 6 Music had almost double the audience in London of Xfm, despite only being on digital platforms.Quality always wins out in the end. Ask Waitrose
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No Breakfast breakdown, but interesting to see 6 Music had almost double the audience in London of Xfm, despite only being on digital platforms.
Quality always wins out in the end. Ask Waitrose ![]() |
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No Breakfast breakdown, but interesting to see 6 Music had almost double the audience in London of Xfm, despite only being on digital platforms.
Quality always wins out in the end. Ask Waitrose ![]()
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