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Old 29-10-2016, 21:02
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Chris won't be going back to the BBC for a very long time.

Where he goes after Radio X. Who knows.
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Old 29-10-2016, 21:35
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As much as that is a jokey suggestion I think Chris would be quite good at the top 10 @ 10. If Bauer were to network the 10 - 2 slot on the English city 1 stations I think Chris would be quite a good choice. But it would seem like a demotion from a network station to a group of local stations.
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Old 29-10-2016, 23:40
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Chris won't be going back to the BBC for a very long time.

Where he goes after Radio X. Who knows.
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Old 30-10-2016, 01:52
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Time to move on Moyles back to the BBC. Problem is would chris accept a smooth transition back in after his Saviour Of Radio One days? Chris Evans had to do an afternoon Saturday slot to be introduced to the radio two family.

Would chris fit in on 6 Music as an option as well?

As I have said before if he had accepted a different slot on R1 then I think he would be on R2 by now.
Chris barely fits Radio X, so 6 Music is a no-go. Coolness and new music is not his game.

I suspect you're right, had he done the transitional move of going to a less high-profile slot on Radio 1, developing a different act, then I suspect the BBC would have tried him out on the odd Radio 2 slot. The only problem with that is that he would have faced tabloid stories about his listening figures falling off a cliff (with unfair comparisons between breakfast and night-time) and the fact he'd pissed off a lot of people over the years (fairly and unfairly) who would no doubt have had the ear of the bosses to try and keep him out. We also don't know the exact conditions he would have been offered by Radio 1.

However, with a lot of hindsight, it does strike me if would have been much better for him to stay. His act doesn't really fit Global at all. He's essentially on Radio Miscellaneous, the station for all the DJs who don't quite fit anywhere else on their roster. The BBC is generally quite loyal to its presenters and I'm sure they would have got him on to Radio 2 eventually had he adapted the act. Having said that, I hate Chris Evans' current act (as much as I know his show is very well produced and very successful, for me it's too forced and safe - I know he has no other alternative though) so even if Moyles isn't at 100% it's still good to be able to hear him.
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Old 30-10-2016, 14:58
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I think Chris's best hope would be to stop trying to recreate the Radio One breakfast show. For all kinds of reasons it looks increasingly like that was a moment in time that can't easily be put back together. He has got into a mindset that the breakfast show format is what he does, forgetting that, if you listen back to his early shows on R1 and his late shows on Capital there was a great broadcaster there without most of the superstructure that goes with the breakfast show. Perhaps he should take up a mid-morning slot at a suitably prominent station, solo without any co-presenters, and show everyone, as much as himself, what a great broadcaster he is.
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Old 30-10-2016, 15:41
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I think Chris's best hope would be to stop trying to recreate the Radio One breakfast show. For all kinds of reasons it looks increasingly like that was a moment in time that can't easily be put back together. He has got into a mindset that the breakfast show format is what he does, forgetting that, if you listen back to his early shows on R1 and his late shows on Capital there was a great broadcaster there without most of the superstructure that goes with the breakfast show. Perhaps he should take up a mid-morning slot at a suitably prominent station, solo without any co-presenters, and show everyone, as much as himself, what a great broadcaster he is.
I really think Moyles (Just him, no Dom/team) would be great at a late night phone in with a bit of music. Iain Lee's old gig on Virgin/Absolute would have been perfect for him, that slot is now sadly just a music show now though.

As for Radio 2, even Chris himself said he wouldn't fit Radio 2, i remember him saying of all of the BBC Networks he felt that 5Live would be best fit.
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Old 30-10-2016, 15:48
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I think it will be Virgin Radio breakfast.
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Old 30-10-2016, 15:53
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JV's week will be the tipping point I think. If he excels then the writing will be on the wall.
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Old 30-10-2016, 17:37
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As for Radio 2, even Chris himself said he wouldn't fit Radio 2, i remember him saying of all of the BBC Networks he felt that 5Live would be best fit.[/QUOTE]

A Danny Baker-type show could work. Talk Radio perhaps?
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Old 30-10-2016, 18:04
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A Danny Baker-type show could work. Talk Radio perhaps?
I don't think a talk radio show would work, He needs to play music on a national station I still think a BBC station is the only way forward. As I've said before 6 music should of been set up as a station for the ones who are to old for R1 & to young for R2. With the likes of Chris, Fearne cotton, Sara Cox etc could have gone and Scott Mills when he finally hangs up his headphones at R1.

I listened to Fearne last week and think she still sounds to young for R2, her first show she sounded nervous but by the end she sounded settled.
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Old 30-10-2016, 18:26
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As I've said before 6 music should of been set up as a station for the ones who are to old for R1 & to young for R2. .
It seems to be doing pretty well for just that demographic as is, and offers completely something different too.

I'm not really sure that people in their 30s and 40s really want to listen to the same people as they listened to in their teens.
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Old 31-10-2016, 00:34
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I don't think a talk radio show would work, He needs to play music on a national station I still think a BBC station is the only way forward. As I've said before 6 music should of been set up as a station for the ones who are to old for R1 & to young for R2. With the likes of Chris, Fearne cotton, Sara Cox etc could have gone and Scott Mills when he finally hangs up his headphones at R1.

I listened to Fearne last week and think she still sounds to young for R2, her first show she sounded nervous but by the end she sounded settled.
6 Music is definitively what the BBC should be doing - providing a service that commercial radio can't. I may be more of a pop fan than a fan of what's on that station, but even I can see its value. It was clearly set up in the BBC's era of plenty before cutback after cutback, so it's evolved into what it is rather than deliberately getting there, but I still think it's better than the BBC trying to do Radio 1.5.

There's still a gap for commercial radio to do Radio 1.5, but given it's a relatively small age group (30-40 or so) and given it involves significant investment in programming, I can see why they just stick to what they're good at.
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Old 31-10-2016, 04:06
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6 Music is definitively what the BBC should be doing - providing a service that commercial radio can't. I may be more of a pop fan than a fan of what's on that station, but even I can see its value. It was clearly set up in the BBC's era of plenty before cutback after cutback, so it's evolved into what it is rather than deliberately getting there, but I still think it's better than the BBC trying to do Radio 1.5.

There's still a gap for commercial radio to do Radio 1.5, but given it's a relatively small age group (30-40 or so) and given it involves significant investment in programming, I can see why they just stick to what they're good at.
Trouble is no one especially me wants to listen to commercial radio crap of the same adverts over and over again. This is one of the reasons I couldn't listen to Chris any longer.

Also the fact of their very limited playlist is the reason I still listen to Radio 1.
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Old 31-10-2016, 04:51
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The show is sounding much better now than it did a few weeks after the launch. It feels like Chris is sounding more like himself which is good.

The issue is the team though. Those wanting The Chris Moyles Show now has a completely different team bar Chris and Dom, so naturally the show we remember on R1 will not be the same as the mechanic is different.

The second point I'd like to make is that XFM was not really the right place really. I think Radio X should have been more like the cool kids answer to Heart, playing a wider range of genres and stuff a bit musically like Virgin.

Ironically I think Moyles would have been much better suited on Virgin breakfast as it seems a lot broader and not just 'fresh rock' for blokes.
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Old 31-10-2016, 05:41
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The show is sounding much better now than it did a few weeks after the launch. It feels like Chris is sounding more like himself which is good.

The issue is the team though. Those wanting The Chris Moyles Show now has a completely different team bar Chris and Dom, so naturally the show we remember on R1 will not be the same as the mechanic is different.

The second point I'd like to make is that XFM was not really the right place really. I think Radio X should have been more like the cool kids answer to Heart, playing a wider range of genres and stuff a bit musically like Virgin.

Ironically I think Moyles would have been much better suited on Virgin breakfast as it seems a lot broader and not just 'fresh rock' for blokes.
Ironically I think Edith Bowman would have suited Radio X breakfast better than Chris. But Ashley Tabor is Chris's friend so I guess that's how it came about, I wonder how close that relationship is now.
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Old 31-10-2016, 06:35
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Very noticable that they haven't gone with the usual approach of retaining the theme tune or the 'The Chris Moyles show with xx' jingle that they usually do when Chris is away, .
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Old 31-10-2016, 06:58
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Listening this morning and he mentioned that he is in for 'Chris Moyles for just this week' shame as it's sounding really good.

It's been said many times above in this thread and I've said before that RadioX needs to find out what it wants to do but you know what, it's the breakfast show that is stanting out. Not in a good way...

For a guy that had millions of listeners over on Radio 1 where do they all go?

The breakfast show needs to be taken apart and put back together again. I know that there are various threads about the Absolute Breakfast show with OC and co but it's a tight show and it works
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Old 31-10-2016, 08:01
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Listening this morning and he mentioned that he is in for 'Chris Moyles for just this week' shame as it's sounding really good.

It's been said many times above in this thread and I've said before that RadioX needs to find out what it wants to do but you know what, it's the breakfast show that is stanting out. Not in a good way...

For a guy that had millions of listeners over on Radio 1 where do they all go?

The breakfast show needs to be taken apart and put back together again. I know that there are various threads about the Absolute Breakfast show with OC and co but it's a tight show and it works
Most of them can't listen as Radio X is only on in 2 area via FM and people aren't going to upgrade their car and personal stereos to DAB overnight.

Also, the genres and music chosen is left to be desired. The lack of CM imaging and features this week may damage the show. I'm sure JV would like a promotion to be back on breakfast again.
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Old 31-10-2016, 09:03
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Johnny Vaughan and his team are sounding great on breakfast this morning (albeit from a relatively short bit of listening). And nice to have the news starting on time.

I could see this working really well at this time of day if Chris Moyles did move on.
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Old 31-10-2016, 09:12
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As much as that is a jokey suggestion I think Chris would be quite good at the top 10 @ 10. If Bauer were to network the 10 - 2 slot on the English city 1 stations I think Chris would be quite a good choice. But it would seem like a demotion from a network station to a group of local stations.
it wasnt a jokey suggestion ....his career will be over soon if he doesnt re-invent himself
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Old 31-10-2016, 09:43
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Ridiculous to suggest 6 Music for Moyles, do people forget George Lamb that quickly.
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Old 31-10-2016, 10:06
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Ridiculous to suggest 6 Music for Moyles, do people forget George Lamb that quickly.
The difference is that Chris has a passion for great radio, which I'm not sure George Lamb had.
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Old 31-10-2016, 10:15
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Vaughan in the morning has had me listening to Radio X again for the first time in a while.

He sounded awful this morning though- falling ill or just not used to mornings yet?
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Old 31-10-2016, 13:26
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Trouble is no one especially me wants to listen to commercial radio crap of the same adverts over and over again. This is one of the reasons I couldn't listen to Chris any longer.

Also the fact of their very limited playlist is the reason I still listen to Radio 1.
I'm afraid when you say "no-one" you mean yourself, and a significant chunk of listeners (including me) who have never been invested in commercial radio. I'll listen to bits of it if I just want a burst of music, but nothing has ever matched putting Radio 1 on and feeling like you could listen to it all day as it just perfectly suited you.

I'm afraid, however, that generally speaking the world doesn't go to work for you or me alone.
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Old 31-10-2016, 13:45
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Just echoing the chorus of acclaim for Johnny on breakfast this morning. Had me listening to X again for the first time in a while. It was just brilliant. So much more on-brand for Radio X too.

@beemoh, he mentioned on-air he had a sore throat.
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