Originally Posted by pjex:
“But I hate Capital, Capital Xtra and Classic FM.
Smooth, Heart and Gold also very bland.
Radio X is the future, finally a non BBC station bringing some personality to air rather than just back to back music. Plus it plays the greatest guitar music from yesterday and today, a bit more variety wouldn't go a miss though, I find Absolute has a better music policy, Radio X need to address that as their is a big audience they could pull across from there.
You've got to admit a station which has managed to employ the two presenters of the biggest breakfast shows of the 00s and get them into their two prime slots is doing pretty well. Just imagine the size of the audience that Chris and Johnny had combined between 2004 and 2011, if you can pull a lot of those listeners in Radio X will be massive. On top of that they have a presenter who's hosted the Radio 1 breakfast show (Vernon) and two former presenters of the XFM breakfast show (Jon Holmes & Ian Camfield), plus some legendary music shows (Xposure, Communion and Clint Boon). Finally you have a massive star of indie music and a big current stat of tv (Ricky Wilson), two up and coming comedians (Jon and Ellis), plus the partner of a huge comedian (Byrdy).
No other station can touch Radio X for the huge amount of personality which pours out of that station, just weekdays at 1pm and 7pm to fix now.”
One man's "biggest stars of radio (past)" is another's washed-up old hasbeens.
You seem to believe that your own taste equates to mass appeal. Moyles is hardly a great coup, considering everything he's touched since R1 has been a flippin disaster. I'm not surprised he jumped at the chance. He was always Marmite - as many people loathed him as liked him, and those who loathed REALLY loathed (like me). That will turn as many OFF X breakfast as on. He's a bigger name than they've had for a long time, so I don't doubt he'll pull an audience, but you're dreaming if you think X Breakfast is going to be fighting in the top echelons of UK radio.
X could play the most exquisite range of music imaginable in the mornings, and I wouldn't go near it whilst that oaf is at the microphone.
The other presenters you mention are pretty third rate. Wilson is not a "huge indie star". He fronted a half arsed pop band who had a couple of hits, and is now a complete media whore with no quality threshold whatsoever. X is above all else, a music station, and no matter who it has presenting, so long as they are stuck with a Global-mentality playlist, it will be as dull as ditchwater. Ironically - the biggest personality presenter Xfm ever had was one R. Gervais Esq, and was about the first person Global/GCap sacked when they took over.
Maybe X will be a huge success. Nobody ever got poor underestimating the Great British Public after all. Personally, I doubt it will make any headway over the mediocre performance of the old incarnation. I've listened for spells and it sounds exactly the same, only with a few more old and predictable songs. And there are still the bloody adverts, of course. They drive me crazy. If you like it, then I'm very pleased for you. I wish you'd stop talking like a Global lackey, however, and realise that it is not the great revolution you seem to think.
Have you ever, actually listened to 6 for any period of time during the daytime? If not, please don't refer to it as a "stepping stone". It's laughable.