The Chris Moyles Show

This article is about The Chris Moyles Show. For him as an individual, see Chris Moyles. For the breakfast show in general, see The Radio 1 Breakfast Show.
The Chris Moyles Show
Genre Comedy, chat
Running time 210 minutes (6:30-10:00 am)
Country UK
Language(s) English
Home station Radio X
Hosted by Chris Moyles
Vernon Kay (cover)
Starring Chris Moyles
Dominic Byrne
Pippa Taylor-Hackett
Dave Masterman
Written by Chris Moyles
Produced by Pippa Taylor-Hackett
Dave Masterman
Recording studio Studio 3J, Global Radio, Leicester Square, London
Air dates since 21 September 2015
Audio format Stereophonic sound
Website http://www.radiox.co.uk/radio/chris-moyles/
Podcast The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X Podcast
The Chris Moyles Show (2004-2012)
Genre Comedy, chat
Running time 210 minutes (6:30-10:00 am)
Country UK
Language(s) English
Home station BBC Radio 1
Hosted by Chris Moyles
Scott Mills (cover)
Sara Cox (cover)
Vernon Kay (cover)
Starring Chris Moyles
David Vitty
Dominic Byrne
Aled Haydn Jones
Tina Daheley
Written by Chris Moyles
David Vitty
Produced by Rachel Jones
Aled Haydn Jones
Freya Last (nee Mehta)
Executive producer(s) Rhys Hughes
Recording studio Studio Y2, Yalding House, London
Air dates 5 January 2004 to 14 September 2012
Audio format Stereophonic sound
Opening theme The Cheesy Song (from 2007)
Website The Chris Moyles Show
Podcast Best of Chris Moyles

The Chris Moyles Show is the title given to two differing versions of a radio programme hosted by Chris Moyles, originally broadcast as the The Radio 1 Breakfast Show from 5 January 2004 to 14 September 2012 before transferring almost three years later in September 2015 to the Global Radio-owned commercial radio station Radio X. The show is broadcast 6:30‐10:00am each weekday (originally broadcasting from 6:55‐10:00am between 2004-2007).

At eight years, it is currently the longest running breakfast show in BBC Radio 1's history, having overtaken original Radio 1 breakfast show presenter Tony Blackburn's tenure of five years between 1967 and 1973.[1]

On 21 September 2015, Moyles relaunched the show on Radio X, the rebranded XFM, reviving the show under the same title. The new show incorporates elements of the BBC Radio 1 incarnation of the show, in particular referencing the opening "Cheesy Song" at the start of the show before reverting to the Radio X imaging, Paul Turner providing prerecorded voice over, and Richard Olive singing the show's jingle.[2] In February 2016 RAJAR published the first listener figures for the Radio X show. However these figures were only for FM listeners in London. Moyles provided a 39% boost in listeners for Radio X and gave the station its best breakfast show figures in London in almost a decade. More detailed figures, including DAB, for The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X will be released in May 2016.

Show format

The original Radio 1 show lasted for three and a half hours, with news and sport read half-hourly between 06:30 and 10:00, except at 09:00. Starting on 1 January 2007, the show began with the "Cheesy Song", an opening song performed by session singer Richard Oliver in the style of the "Station Song" jingles which were commonly used in radio before the advent of 24-hour broadcasting. Starting on 5 January 2009, the song had its own day, for example, if it was Wednesday, it would go " the Wednesday Cheesy Song" repeatedly. A typical half-hour segment contained fifteen to twenty minutes of chat, discussing the team members' lives, Radio 1's features, music or popular culture. There were regular celebrity guest interviews usually between 08:00 and 09:00, with the occasional live music performance and frequent first exclusive plays of new single releases. At 10:00, when Fearne Cotton took over (who took over the slot previously occupied by Jo Whiley from 21 September 2009) Moyles and the team would typically talk to Fearne Cotton for the first few minutes. The show relied on a number of on-air contributions from background staff in a variation of the "zoo" format, with members of the production team, news and sport readers and other studio guests contributing throughout the show.

The rebrand on Radio X consisted largely of the same format. The "Cheesy Song" and similar jingles were replaced by a more distinguished rock-led sound. Dominic Byrne returned for news, sport and weather. Similarly Pippa Taylor, also previously at Radio 1, returned as producer joining previous XFM Breakfast Show producer Dave Masterman.

Team members

Current

Former

Scott Mills covered the programme when Moyles and team were absent, and presented the programme under the title The Chris Moyles Show with Scott Mills. Scott used most of his own features from his afternoon slot, and was joined on air by Beccy Huxtable, Mark Chapman and Chris Stark.

When only Moyles was away, Vernon Kay or Sara Cox would present in his place, and stay with the usual format of the show.

Contributors

As well as the team members, other contributors also regularly featured on the show.

  • Rob DJ - friend of Moyles, host of feature Rob DJ's Monday Night Pub Quiz
  • Roy Walker - host of Car Park Catchphrase
  • Andi Peters - former children's TV presenter who frequently contributes to the show
  • Keith Chegwin - contributor, host of Cheggers' Pop Quiz (2009)
  • Jake Humphrey - reports live on the Friday of a Formula One weekend from the track
  • Ant Danbury - creator and producer of the Best of Chris Moyles free download

Features

Numerous other features of past shows include "Celebrity Tarzan", "Celebrity Two Word Tango", "Who Knows Dom?", "One Word Weather with Nelson Mandela", "One Road Travel", "Yesterday's Weather", "Truth or Gunge", "Listen, Watch, Cher", "Let's get ready to Ramble!" and "Birthday Corner".

Other former regular competitions hosted included Viaduct (named by Simon Mayo when asked for a suggestion about what to call the quiz when Moyles stood in for Zoë Ball on the breakfast show). It was based on a Two Ronnies sketch (in turn based on Mastermind, with a specialist subject of "answering the question before the last").

Guests

Radio 1's Longest Show Ever

On 28 February 2011, it was announced that Moyles and Vitty would attempt to beat the record for the longest continuous Radio 1 show in aid of Comic Relief. The previous record of 37 hours was set by Simon Mayo in 1999.[9]

Moyles and Vitty began their record attempt on the morning of 16 March 2011. At the beginning of the show, Moyles announced that they would attempt to break the Guinness World Record for "Radio DJ Endurance Marathon (Team)" and attempt to continuously broadcast for 51 hours 30 minutes.[10] At 19:30 on 17 March they were joined by Simon Mayo who held the previous record and also revealed that they had raised £1,009,033. Moyles and Vitty were presented with a cake by Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt.[11][12]

On Friday 18 March 2011 at 08:30, Moyles and Comedy Dave broke the Guinness World Record for the 'Longest Marathon Radio DJ (team)' and by the end of the show (at 10:00), they had hit the 51 and a half hour mark. The duo opted to 'round it off' by going to 10:30 and thus set a new record of 52 hours. In doing, so they raised a final total of £2,406,648 for Comic Relief,[13] which is an average of £46,282 for each hour they were on air. During the attempt, the duo were joined by many celebrity guests, including The Wanted, Chipmunk, Jimmy Carr, Craig David, Katy Perry and Ricky Gervais.[14] The grand total has since increased to £2,821,831 and with an audience of 2.84 Million, the event was the most popular live BBC Red Button radio feature ever.[15] 3.8 million people watched on the Radio 1 website.

On 18 November 2011, their record was broken by a breakfast show on the German station 98.8 KISS FM Berlin, when presenters Nora Neise and Tolga Akar were on air for 73 hours.[16][17]

Podcast

Main article: Best of Chris Moyles

Starting on 28 July 2005, as part of a BBC podcasting trial, a weekly podcast entitled the Best of Chris Moyles was released, containing the highlights from the past week of the show. Originally updated every Thursday, and now Friday as from January 2006, the podcast features highlights from the five previous broadcasts. It featured as the most downloaded podcast in the UK iTunes Music Store for much of 2005; however, in December 2005, it was overtaken by the Ricky Gervais Podcast. The podcast was regularly downloaded by over three hundred thousand people worldwide . The podcasts also contain original opening and closing links.

From July 2011, the podcast was referred to as a Free Download and this was marked by the team on the 24 June 2011 episode.[18]

The current Radio X show has a Podcast available via iTunes and RSS.

Complaints

There have been a number of complaints about The Chris Moyles Show. These have included complaints of swearing, racism, homophobia, transphobia and sexism. Some of these complaints have been upheld by Ofcom, while others were dismissed.

See also

References

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  2. "Richard Oliver". richardoliver.biz.
  3. The Chris Moyles Show - Radio 1–6 December 2008
  4. The Chris Moyles Show - Radio 1–16 December 2008
  5. "Friday - with Davina McCall". bbc.co.uk. 22 January 2010. Retrieved 2011-12-26.
  6. "Friday - with a LIVE McFly Day!". bbc.co.uk. 10 September 2010. Retrieved 2011-12-26.
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  8. The Chris Moyles Show - Radio 1–27 September 2010
  9. "BBC - Radio 1 - The Chris Moyles Show - Longest show ever broadcast on BBC Radio 1 record attempt". BBC Radio 1.
  10. "Chris Moyles and Comedy Dave attempt world record radio broadcast"; SWNS; 16 March 2011, (Retrieved 16 March 2011)
  11. "BBC - Radio 1 - The Chris Moyles Show - Radio 1 boss Andy presents Chris with a congratulatory cake as he passes the 37 hour mark!"; BBC; 17 March 2011, (Retrieved 17 March 2011)
  12. "BBC - Radio 1 - The Chris Moyles Show - Simon Mayo joins Chris & Dave for the moment they break his record for Radio 1's Longest Show Ever - 37 hours!"; BBC; 17 March 2011, (Retrieved 17 March 2011)
  13. "Chris Moyles breaks radio show record for Comic Relief" (Retrieved 13:13 Friday, 18 March 2011)
  14. "BBC Radio 1's Longest Show Ever with Chris Moyles and Comedy Dave for Comic Relief"
  15. "Moyles record grabs 2.8m on Red Button". digitalspy.co.uk. 23 March 2011.Laughlin Andrew,
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  17. "Weltrekord für 98.8 KISS FM: Berliner Sender mit längster Morningshow der Welt - RADIOSZENE". RADIOSZENE.
  18. "BBC - Best of Chris Moyles - Downloads". BBC.
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