[netgem21]

According to http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2009-04/08/content_7659060.htm, the record is 169 hours, not 51.5

confused :S

[bmstinton93]

50 hours is just the team radio endurance challenge for a music show

[Zenon]

They're going for the team record, you;re referring to a record by an individual.

[bmstinton93]

No its not. Its 50. But that would take them to the middle of their show so they have to go to 52

[McGuinness-89]

The record is 50 hours which would take them to 8:30am, show ends at 10:00am which would be 51.5 so they're rounding up to 52 hours which is 10:30am.Simple.

[Yudster]

If it wasn't adjudicated by Guinness it isn't a record.

[Zenon]

Maybe Moyles could do live link ups with him, the attempt starts in a fortnight.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/c ... r-marathon

[reviloslater]

I lived in New Zealand for 3 years until September last year. The radio there is ALL like local radio, as in the kind that all Chris Moyles fans love to hate, so it will be a very long show if they want to do 185 hours. I always listened to Chris Moyles with a slight feeling of 'this is what real radio is all about...'

By the way - isn't 185 hours almost a week? Wowsers.

[Zenon]

[quote="reviloslater"]I lived in New Zealand for 3 years until September last year. The radio there is ALL like local radio, as in the kind that all Chris Moyles fans love to hate, so it will be a very long show if they want to do 185 hours. I always listened to Chris Moyles with a slight feeling of 'this is what real radio is all about...'

By the way - isn't 185 hours almost a week? Wowsers. [/quote]

A whole week plus three hours!

[R94N]

This is a separate record right? Chris' record is for a group.

[Wykey]

Not even sure 185 is the record.

Some Icelandic kid did 260 if i remember right...

[Wykey]

Peter Tripp did 201 hours in 1959.

And the Icelandic kid I was thinking of was from Finland, and he was just staying awake, he wasn't doing a radio show.

[MadTheEddos]

Apparently the current record is 169 hours, set in Germany in April 2009. There seems to be a lot of confusion over it though.

[Zenon]

[quote="Wykey"]Peter Tripp did 201 hours in 1959.

And the Icelandic kid I was thinking of was from Finland, and he was just staying awake, he wasn't doing a radio show.[/quote]

None of them were doing radio shows though.

[GottaBeAndrew]

The thing is, all the way through to the end, Chris and Dave's links were all proper full links, with conversations and discussion and surprises and interviews etc., whereas i suspect other people who do it for 100 odd hours will just have 'hi this is me talking', then 2 songs, then 'talking again' then 2 more songs.. just power napping through the whole thing.

[Blizzard]

Hopefully they will put a live webcam so we can see the presenter is there for at least 55 minutes every hour. I don't think it would be safe or possible to stay awake for 185 hours.

[Nicola_Red]

I was reading up about this today and found this article about world records:

http://www.radioworld.com/article/6750

It mentions the record by a US DJ called Johnny Walker (not to be confused with Radio 2's Johnnie Walker) who set a 175hrs individual record on college station WUAG in 2007. That's the guy who Chris said he thought died afterwards, but I found no mention of that.

this is the one mentioned above, from 2009, when a German DJ called Dominik Schollmayer did 169hrs:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2009- ... 659060.htm

Just cos I thought it was mildly interesting

[Wykey]

Peter Tripp did 201 hours in 1959.

And the Icelandic kid I was thinking of was from Finland, and he was just staying awake, he wasn't doing a radio show.

None of them were doing radio shows though.

Peter Tripp was, and I did mention the lad from Finland wasn't....

[MK Chris]

It can't be a Guinness record though because Simon Mayo's 37 hour show was a Guinness World Record for a while. Maybe they didn't tell Guinness or just didn't follow the rules that Guinness set.

[Wykey]

It can't be a Guinness record though because Simon Mayo's 37 hour show was a Guinness World Record for a while. Maybe they didn't tell Guinness or just didn't follow the rules that Guinness set.

I think it might have been before Guiness brought out their book...

[Yudster]

I think that is highly unlikely - The Guinness Book of Records has been going since 1951.

[Wykey]

It was 1959 - so maybe the guiness book hadn't fully evolved...

From wikipedia:

"He was a Top-40 countdown radio personality from the mid-1950s, whose career peaked with his 1959 record breaking 201 hour wakeathon (working on the radio non-stop without sleep to benefit the March of Dimes). For much of the stunt, he sat in a glass booth in Times Square. After a few days he began to hallucinate, and for the last 66 hours the observing scientists and doctors gave him drugs to help him stay awake. He was broadcasting for WMGM in New York City at the time."

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/20 ... awake-men/

"While Tripp somehow managed to keep it together during broadcasts, off the air he was experiencing wild hallucinations. He saw mice and kittens scampering around the makeshift studio. He was convinced that his shoes were full of spiders. He thought a desk drawer was on fire. When a man in a dark overcoat showed up, Tripp imagined him to be an undertaker and ran terrified into the street. He had to be dragged back inside."

Ace.

[dimtimjim]

I think that is highly unlikely - The Guinness Book of Records has been going since 1951.

Tis true, they have the guiness world record for the longest running guiness world record book.....

[Zenon]

I remember Simon Mayo saying during his attempt that Guinness had binned all the previous records such as 22 days for some reason and that they were starting from scratch.

[Zenon]

Official website and listen live facility here

http://www.worldrecordchch.co.nz/