[Adam]

Radio 1 revamps schedule with even more Moyles!• Chris Moyles gets extra half hour

• Kelly Osbourne joins Radio 1

• Friday nights dedicated to dance music genres - Saturday nights dedicated to black music genres

BBC Radio 1 announce today (Thursday 6th September) an overhaul of both the daytime and evening schedules. The new schedule will come into effect on Friday October 12th with the following changes:

• The Chris Moyles Show will be extended by an extra half an hour with a new start time of 6.30am from Monday October 15th

• Sunday evenings 7pm - midnight becomes the teen zone - New show hosted by Annie Mac, Kelly Osbourne the new host of Radio 1’s Surgery

• Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates will host Radio 1’s Chart Show plus a new audience request show

• Friday and Saturday evenings become “the best club flyer in the world” dedicated to dance music genres (Fridays) and black music genres (Saturdays)

In further news, more brand new shows are being introduced:

• Nihal will host the weekend breakfast show

• New DJ Greg James takes over the prestigious early breakfast slot, having been plucked from student radio

• Trevor Nelson’s Saturday evening show will be simulcast on Radio 1’s sister station 1Xtra

• Huw Stephens and the Nations shows continue and become BBC Introducing, the BBC’s initiative supporting the newest emerging musical talent

• Rob da Bank gains a new show

• Dick and Dom join the station to host the Sunday morning show


JK and Joel, the current hosts of the early breakfast show and Radio 1’s Chart Show will leave Radio 1 after three and a half years with the station. Trophy Twins will leave Radio 1 after two years with the station.

[Console]

I think it's a shame JK and Joel are leaving, I've been listening to them on and off this week, and was just starting to like their show. Oh well.

Good news for us though with an extra 30 mins of Moyles, although I suppose most of you will sleep through that half hour.

[MK Chris]

I also quite liked JK and Joel. I don't see the point in the 'simulcast' thing with Trevor Nelson, personally.

I'll usually sleep through the first half hour of Moyles, unless I go to the gym before work (which I need to start doing again.)

[David]

JK and Joel leaving is bad news I always liked what I heard, seems a strange choice. I saw them being primed as potential Moyles replacements. Will miss the Moyles/JK and Joel banter.

I really thought the next schedule changes would see Whiley and Bowman out... ach well.

[fish heads]

Nice to see a new DJ in the main schedule not being an actual celebrity. Anybody heard Greg James's work? Is he any good?

Fearne and Reggie for the chart - I'm not fussed but since Fearne films so much stuff she'll be away for the majority of it. I suspect Kelly Osbourne will be in the job of Sunday Surgery for little more 6 months as she is one of the worst tv presenters around and won't have the sensitivity required for the job - although she could well surprise me.

Sad to see JK & Joel leaving, presumably to concentrate on their tv stuff - not surprised as at the moment they aren't getting a sniff of a "promotion" off earlies - Personally I'd ship Jo off to 6music, Edith in at 10-1 and JK and Joel 1-4. I bet they'll be on Capital in a year or 2

[fish heads]

Just found an easy to read all new schedule -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/schedule/oc ... dule.shtml

[MK Chris]

I really thought the next schedule changes would see Whiley and Bowman out... ach well.

I know I'm in the minority here, but I'd be disappointed to see Whiley go.

I suspect Kelly Osbourne will be in the job of Sunday Surgery for little more 6 months as she is one of the worst tv presenters around and won't have the sensitivity required for the job - although she could well surprise me.

That surprised me too.

[GF05]

More Moyles and the team is always a good thing .

I really liked Jk and Joel when they first started on R1, but then they started to grate on me a little, but i started to come around to them again more recently.

Fearne and Reggie are horrible DJ's imo, so putting them on a show were they don't have to say much seems like a good idea to me.

I'm surprised to see Vernon Kay's still there, i really cant figure out what his appeal is.

Nice to see a new DJ in the main schedule not being an actual celebrity. Anybody heard Greg James's work? Is he any good?

I wasn't that impressed with the shows i've heard from him, but then again i don't really like the shows with solo DJ's, so i might be the wrong person to judge him.

[parody number 9]

It's ashame Dance Anthems after it's 10th birthday last month to suddenly get the heave to late night, personally Dance Anthems rounded off my weekend.

[DemonHorse]

I may be alone but I'm happy JK and Joel are off. Seems to me Dick and Dom will be a direct replacement anyways.

[Vivienne]

an extra 30 mins. of Moyles - yahooo. some of us will indeed not be asleep.

[Andy B]

Can't help thinking this may be the start of the end. Didn't Chris Evans get an extra half hour which he called the secret half hour just before he started to go mad and demand friday's off (yes I know about the jingle).

I will however be glad to have extra earlier Moyles as I have to get out of bed ridiculously early and I've normally left the house well before the opening song.

[timp]

I'm disapointed JK and Joel are leaving. Ive liked them since they were on Key103. Moyles getting an extra half hour though is good news as I get up at 6.30 anyway. So bitter sweet for me.

[Boboff]

I wonder if JK & Joel are as fussed as you guys, they seem ready for TV now

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Have you seen them on tv? They look like rabbits in the headlights.

[C-Kay]

@ Dick and Dom, i remember the last time they were on, they were * dire. What a bizarre choice.

Greg James is cool, still very young but has a lot of potential, JK and Joel i can live with or without.

I Just hope Kustski hasn't been dropped, that would really piss me off.

[Dead-metal]

It will be interesting to see how often Chris will be late for his earlier slot.

[Andy B]

Didn't he say contract negotiatons were happening at the moment? I wonder how much more of our hard earned taxes he will be reaping in as a result?

[scamp88]

I really thought the next schedule changes would see Whiley and Bowman out... ach well.

I know I'm in the minority here, but I'd be disappointed to see Whiley go.

I suspect Kelly Osbourne will be in the job of Sunday Surgery for little more 6 months as she is one of the worst tv presenters around and won't have the sensitivity required for the job - although she could well surprise me.

That surprised me too.

Nope i quite like Jo Whiley and would be sad to see her go, i like the fun between her and moyles some of the songs he would sing about her would make me cry with laughter!

I am not to fussed with Edith Bowman take her or leave her, much rather sara cox on in the afternoon, but i think for the next 2 weeks that can come true!

Extra Half hour of moyles YAY but i will have to wake up eariler now thou Wonder what new and wonderful things they will put into that half hour,

liz xxx

[S4B]

Hurrah I can really wake up with Moyles now!

[Zenon]

Surprised to see JK and Joel go but I look forward to Fearne and Reggie taking over the chart, about time after 40 years (or 50+ going back to the Light Programme days) that a woman had a go at the Radio 1 chart.

I can't wait for the Teen Zone as well.

[MK Chris]

Zenon in "replies to thread other than his own" shock!

[Nicola_Red]

I too will be sad to see JK & Joel go even tho I don't hear much of them these days. When I was doing a long commute last year I was getting up at 5.45am so I would hear over an hour of their show and I liked it. From what I have heard of Greg James so far he just doesn't seem to have much of a personality. I also cannot stand Nihal so more of him is a bad thing as far as I'm concerned.

I think the extra half hour of Moyles might actually help me get up a bit earlier. As it stands at the moment my alarm goes off at 6.40 and I have one snooze and then get up and shower whilst the news and cheesy song are on, and I'm always on the last minute leaving the house! Maybe him starting at 6.30 will inspire me to actually get my backside out of bed.

[chelle3112]

I love waking up to JK and Joel they are really good - what a pity but an extra half hour with Chirs every morning is cool although I have to listen to the show on listen again as Im in the gym by 6.30 most mornings and we cant listen to the show in the office. Its great this couple of weeks as Im working in our India office so Im getting to listen to the whole show live.

[Yudster]

Nihal seemed ok when he stood in for Chris that time, but since then he's got worse and worse, wooden and stilted, sounds like he's reading everything - he might be better in a two-hander with someone to chat to rather than have to present all by himself. I got the impression that JK and Joel had decided to leave rather than been pushed, but obviously that might be wrong. But Early Moyles - very good, I like that a lot.