I thought too it's a syndicated show? Unless Gary is joining?

He's only in combination with this program on the schedule, not apart of this. I hope so he's also old Capital.

Could be a bespoke version of Totally 80s/90s for Thames Radio, unless he's taking over the synidcated show.

Chris Blumer will do Thames Radio breakfast, Pat 10am to 1pm, Neil 1-4 with Fox at Drivetime every weekday - according the website: http://thamesradio.london/schedule/#

Who the F. is Chris Blumer? No connection with the old Capital I guess.

Here's some info on Chris.

http://nationradio.wales/profile/chris-blumer/

He does Drive on Nation Radio:
http://nationradio.wales/schedule

He does Afternoons on Bridge FM:
http://bridgefm.wales/schedule/

And he does Afternoons on Swansea Bay Radio
http://swanseabayradio.wales/schedule/P

A stalwart of Nation Broadcasting.

I sent a tweet to Tony Blackburn today and being the gentleman he is, he responded.

He told me that his show will not be live but recorded as live.

Schedule coming on nicely, just need Dean Martin weekday 8pm to 10pm and maybe 6-10pm Sundays.

i wonder who is going to do the Breakfast Show

Chris Blumer, according to the schedule

Mmm, looks like a third-rate VT DJ. Breakfastshows are very important for radiostations as whe know (I guess). It makes your day to listen longer after the breakfast show to the station. And with this Capital revival on this new station it must be important that you have a DJ who feels that. Chris Tarrent would be nice, but also Neil Fox instead of drive time who is now on. So i'm not impresive about this breakfastshow. The rest of the day would be nice if it's live and not VT though.

J.R Nelson is no longer with us but i agree he had a great voice.

Not sure if Thames started at 64k but it's showing as 80k on my radio now.

That's a pitty, but hey, lots of other American voices still around to give the station that real Capital vibe.

Use the same liners and instead of Capital, Thames Radio offcourse: http://aircheckdownloads.com/Capital_Sweepers_1992.mp3

Brian James was the other voice: http://aircheckdownloads.com/Capital_Imaging_95.mp3

Nice to see Neil doing Drivetime


http://www.martinbuchanan.co.uk/about-martin/

Chris Blumer is on the website breakfast 6-10 monday to friday

Not a bad looking line up in general. All we need now is Dean Martin covering 8-10pm during the week with his request show and then (although he never worked on Capital) from 10-1am Late Night Love Songs with Nigel Williams.

Yes, it increased from 64 to 80kbit/s.

Sundays looking quite empty still.
Kid Jensen's not on the air anywhere at the mo, is he?

Tony Blackburn would be a good addition to Nation Gold I think

Well, hopefully their more professional than nation radio who don't seem to even know how to spell his name.

He could make his breakfastshow live from Wales because he's on Nation on late mornings. But a real breakfastshow for a London station needs to be made in London it self, it seems clear.

He is on the AgeUK Wireless, a rival to Thames, Gold, Eagle Oldies and Golden the greatest hits radio market is getting busy here.
RTL have kept the Thames TV brand just wondered if they kept the radio interests in the UK they might have invested in Thames radio and Country 1035?

That schedule in full (as at 29.06.2016):

Monday - Friday

( 01:00:00 - 06:00:00 ) Thames Radio Nighttimes

( 06:00:00 - 10:00:00 ) Breakfast with Chris Blumer

( 10:00:00 - 11:00:00 ) Pat Sharp - The Top Ten At Ten, followed by:
( 11:00:00 - 13:00:00 ) Pat Sharp

( 13:00:00 - 16:00:00 ) Neil Francis

( 16:00:00 - 20:00:00 ) Drivetime with Neil Fox [Friday: Neil Fox Kick Starts The Weekend!]

( 20:00:00 - 22:00:00 ) Non-Stop Thames

( 22:00:00 - 01:00:00 ) London's Love Songs

Saturday

( 01:00:00 - 06:00:00 ) Thames Radio Night-times

( 06:00:00 - 08:00:00 ) Weekend Breakfast

( 08:00:00 - 12:00:00 ) Neil Fox - All Time Favourites

( 12:00:00 - 14:00:00 )Totally 80s - Martin Buchanan

( 14:00:00 - 18:00:00 )Neil Francis

( 18:00:00 - 21:00:00 ) Tony Blackburn's Soul Party

( 21:00:00 - 01:00:00 ) London's Love Songs

Sunday

( 01:00:00 - 06:00:00 ) Thames Radio Nighttimes

( 06:00:00 - 08:00:00 ) Weekend Breakfast

( 08:00:00 - 12:00:00 ) Pat Sharp's Chilled Sunday

( 12:00:00 - 14:00:00 ) Totally 90s - Martin Buchanan

( 14:00:00 - 22:00:00 ) Non-Stop Thames

( 22:00:00 - 01:00:00 ) London's Love Songs

If the breakfast host is already doing two separate daily shows in Wales, then my guess is that not one single show is live. I'd say that the studio is actually a server running somewhere in Wales. Happy to be proven wrong, though.

He's also doing the "Flashback 40" retro chart show for TWG's AM stations - maybe that could be carried on/repackaged for Thames?

I gave up listening to Nation Gold because I could no longer stand hearing "Lovely daaaayyy" and "Bette Davis eyes" over and over ------ are they still being played ??
Regards

Still a lot of spaces on late evenings and sunday's. Need to be filled with other on air talent.

P.s. Lot of lovesong programs in the schedule. Had Captital FM in the old days also love songs late evenings?