Cotton And Yates Signed To Radio One Early Breakfast
Top of the Pops presenters, Fearne Cotton and Reggis Yates will be hosting the early breakfast show on Radio 1 every Friday from the end of September.
The show will see them broadcast between 4.00am and 7.00am, with their appointment completing the most recent schedule changes at Radio 1 that saw JK and Joel take over early breakfast from Monday through to Thursday.
Commenting on the decision, Cotton said: “I’m so excited about joining Radio 1. When I was a kid I did the classic thing of tapeing shows off the radio and dropping my own voice in – hopefully this show will be better than that.”
She continued: “Most of all, I’m looking forward to talking about music, obsessing about music and playing loads of music.”
Yates said: “It’ll be brilliant at Radio 1. Fearne and I are proper mates, we both have a genuine love of music and very different sorts, but we do have a common ground and that’s when you get the golden moments.”
The new show will be an ultimate guide to what to do at the weekend, with Cotton and Yates discussing music and gigs.
Ben Cooper, head of mainstream Radio 1 added: “Reggie and Fearne are really hot at the moment and I’m really chuffed that they are ready to get up early to do the show.”
In the latest RAJAR results, Chris Moyles’ Radio 1 Breakfast Show increased by 1.31% year on year, giving the broadcaster his second largest weekly reach since he took over the reins from Sara Cox in 2003 (see RAJAR Results Q2 2005:Capital Top Of The Table For Breakfast).
Elsewhere, in the BBC Radio network, long-serving radio host Jono Coleman has returned to BBC London 94.9, presenting a daily magazine show with interviews, topical discussion, listener interaction, humour and music. He will be taking over the breakfast show later on in the year (see Coleman Makes Return To Breakfast Radio).
The move follows Coleman’s replacement by Jamie Theakston as breakfast host at Heart 106.2 earlier this year, bringing the DJ’s six-year career with the station to an end (see Heart Ditches Coleman In Battle For London Supremacy).
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