As I said before, Chris does not do 'serious politics' well as he lets his personal feelings shine through, which although entertaining, is not 'informative' radio.

But, I do not listen to Chris for informative radio. I listen for those exact personal feelings and his exasperation accompanying them [and the sublime laugh out loud moments that come with them].

Whilst on the subject, Chris' football analogy of how the US Voting works explained it perfectly, and I'm not even into football.

If he can't do it seriously he shouldn't bother. He spent way too long covering the election on Wed's show without saying anything of any value whatsoever.

If he had ignored it it would have been weird. If he had gone into a Radio 4-esque level of depth it would have been weird.

I haven't listened to the show in months, but have listened again to the Wednesday show.

I thought it was very well done - about the right level of information and frivolity (it not being a news station). Good music too!

I love the show, but I feel for Dom sometimes... top broadcaster who sometimes has to play it down

Me personally I've always enjoyed listening to chris moyles show even from the early radio 1 Saturday afternoon days, then weekday afternoon, then mornings and now.

Rarely I have a digital radio at work, but in this day and age we are privileged with technology including playback apps e.t.c, I was on PC last night and tonight and loaded the shows up, always enjoyable listen.

Took a little bit to get used to no comedy Dave e.t.c but like life things move on, and I think the new team have now settled in well.

I love my music and all types of it, but I do mainly listen for the crack with the chris and the team, but I probably prefer radio x music, maybe not unreal variation/ wide list of tunes, but enough there to keep the show ticking over, with some classics thrown in.

Maybe miss the dance tunes the most from the radio 1 days, and a bit of pop, but to be honest I've always over the years regarded the new stuff on there as half pants and half pretty good, but yeh anyway can see peoples points of view, but me personally I still think the moyles show is a decent listen and will always tune in a canny few times a week.

Turned off yesterday during the Rob DJ quiz (which I usually like) - all the arse noises and 'ooh Gary, repeatedly, was puerile. Is this what Chris Moyles has been reduced to?!

Moyles never did Saturday afternoons on R1 only mornings.

It was long time ago maybe 15 year plus, not that it matters, but was it 10-1 that Saturday show wasn't it, but yes mid mornings not afternoon.

It was he started on Sat breakfast then promoted to mid mornings (peak weekend slot), he quit Saturdays in 2001 due to Simon Mayo's departure allowing him to increase his weekday afternoon show by 5 hours a week not leaving him enough time for a Saturday show so R1 recruited Jamie Theakston to replace him.

£1,000 cash give away this morning, Chris getting into the money making commercial world, making out it was a generous thing to do on a Friday but at a £15.0 premium rate text if they had 10,000 enter that would have earned Chris' bosses a nice £14k that would help cover his salary. In fact that competition would have easily covered the cost of today's show I expect.

Are we likely to have more of these, as long as at least 1,000 people apply they are making money?

But it does feel very like those late night TV premium rate quiz shows

Unfortunately, although the Moyles breakfast show doesn’t feel like a traditional commercial radio breakfast show, it’s on a commercial radio station. Phone in and text in competitions are standard. It just feels weird to hear Moyles doing them after so long at the BBC.

By the way, I assume you put the decimal in the wrong place? A £15 text to maybe win £1,000 on a radio station with as many listeners as Radio X... I think I’ll pass on those odds.

Yeah £1.50, but crap odds, at least 50% of lottery spend goes in prizes but with this you have no idea but prob max 10%.

Most worrying was Chris doing the whole big sell for an hour making out it was a fantastic deal. Sadly he's finally sold out and just cares about making the station money even if that involves ripping off his listeners.

Still my breakfast show of choice though and impressed by JV on drive who I'd never heard on the radio until X. Shame they lost Jon Holmes he was good at weekends.

Would I be right in thinking this is JV's first 'national' gig? He's been doing radio almost continuously since leaving The Big Breakfast IIRC, but only in That London.

I can remember years ago on R1 he used to slag off commercial radio and there text competitions. How times have changed, a £1000 prize for a £1.50 txt. sorryChris but you won't have me listening to your show anymore.

Had a talksport weekend show, covered a few times on breakfast.

Also did an Olympics 2012 Summer teatime show on Absolute

Listened for about 15 minutes, on my way into work, this morning - some rubbish with Dave pretending to be Arnie that completely missed the mark.

Moyles is too talented a broadcaster for this, so I can only reach the conclusion that his heart isn't in this show.

Didn't stick around for the Rob DJ quiz (which I used to really look forward to) - not with the inevitable puerile arse noises and childish nonsense that have been a main feature of this section of late.

He was also the original presenter of Fighting Talk on 5 Live - which is still made by his production company.

I tune in just for the first half hour now as sometimes the old Moyles reappears, but find the rest of the program just plain boring now so go over to LBC at 0700. It is a shame because he would be fabulous were he allowed to do his own thing.

Thought he was good with the competition winner this morning, I think he handles callers really well. He couldn't believe someone from Oxford has not been to London for 30 years. But once you've seen the sights why would people keep returning?

The clear out begins! http://radiotoday.co.uk/2016/11/matt...naging-editor/

Very interesting I wonder what 2017 will bring for Radio X

I think the problem is that he is allowed to do his own thing.

Back in the Radio 1 days there was obviously conflict between him and the bosses on a constant basis. To be honest though, that breeds creativity and a sense of "I'll show them".

You get the feeling on Radio X that no-one is actually saying "Right, what is this show about? Who is listening to it? And, you know, just there to go "You are a bloody great broadcaster but here's a few things that could just work a bit better".

The problem is, Global isn't really set up for someone like Moyles. It's not as simple as playing 54,000 songs in a row, there are really clever people in there who know how to get radio stations on target and know what to say and when to say it, all the while still making some cash. They know what they're doing with strictly focused brands which are going for happy cheery DJs first thing in the morning then a ton of songs and are aimed at a certain segment of the population.

They haven't really known what to do with Radio X from day one, hence the confusing get into the music branding for a station which has just hired a DJ who constantly talks. They haven't managed to match the part where they get a hugely in-demand radio host who still has a big fanbase and align it with attracting a certain type of listener who they can then sell to advertisers.

My penny for the thoughts of some of the really interesting informative Global insiders who used to hang about here.

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