[Cacophonic]

I've narrowed my opinion over those media reviews down to two things.

Either the entire media were listening to a Nick Grimshaw show in a parallel universe where he wasn't vapid, stumbley, and boring, or the bbc are paying them to write positive reviews. I suspect it's the latter. The general population don't seem to rate him on first listening!

I like how Chris tweeted the entire #teammoyles album at 2am. I wonder if that was his way of showing support? Either that or he was a bit tipsy!

I'm so annoyed by those media reviews

Why? What's the point of being annoyed? They liked it, you didn't, you don't have to listen if you don't want to and they can carry on listening happily. Everyone is sorted. We all need to move on from the Moyles show.

They are entitled to their opinion, but it's the incorrect reporting that really gripes me. Bringing up the 'gay' stuff and all the above stuff misinterpreted that's been pointed out in the thread.

[Emmy]

Fair point, but then it's only to be expected given how much the press 'loved' Chris. I don't think anyone thought the first new breakfast show reviews would be full of the mainstream press hankering after Moyles' show and saying how poor Grimmy was in comparison!

[James H]

I wonder what the forumites of Digital Spy made of it... I never thought to check there!

[the sniper]

This site was always going to be one of Grimmy's toughest audiences to impress, but personally I thought the show was alright. He was actually quite funny in places. Will I be an avid listener of his? Certainly not. Will I listen to his show regularly? No. Could I listen to his show for 10 minutes if Chris Evans was winding me up or playing something like Katie Melua? Yeah, probably.

Having listened on the iplayer largely out of curiosity, I thought the first 45 minutes were the best. The 'who text me good luck' bit wasn't great but presumably won't be a reoccurring feature. I wasn't expecting to think much of the One Direction interview, but even with that in mind it was pretty bad. The 1D guy had the same vibrancy as Chris Rock in the morning... Their song also happened to be rather poor. The show ground to a halt around that interview. The Bieber interview was mind numbing. The lead into the 'Showquizness' feature was quite amusing and the feature itself was okay, though I objected to him using 'lol' as a word!

For me, Nick's show could go one of two ways. Either it'll go more towards the 'zoo' style, actually having the team on mic (having Fincham/the team off mic will grow tiresome) and allowing the show to grow a personality, which is probably the best way it can go, or it'll become increasingly reliant on the stories of Grimmy's celebrity mates and features/competitions involving the latest teenage girl's idol.

Not that the above really bothers me. I'm only 23 but I switched to Radio 2 daytime a couple of years ago and the R1 playlist meant that I rarely listened to Moyles live in the morning anyway, instead I listened to the show in full during the evening on Iplayer. I don't envisage that I'll ever listen to Nick Grimshaw on the Iplayer again, but I wish him the best of luck.

[tavypilgrim]

The programme was too focused on celebrity for me, it was like listening to a trashy magazine aimed at teenage girls (Harry Styles and Bieber being the centrefold posters). I was hoping the show might as the very least showcase some of the music Grimmy played in the evenings, instead they just played the same old carp that will have been on every other show today.

[Tunster]

I wonder what the forumites of Digital Spy made of it... I never thought to check there!

There's some very different opinions there! Either "give it a chance" or "don't like it and will switch off".

[James H]

I wonder what the forumites of Digital Spy made of it... I never thought to check there!

There's some very different opinions there! Either "give it a chance" or "don't like it and will switch off".

I was quite surprised actually, some really good advice for Nick on there too, which I doubt will be heeded.

[MK Chris]

I wonder what the forumites of Digital Spy made of it... I never thought to check there!

There's some very different opinions there! Either "give it a chance" or "don't like it and will switch off".

I was quite surprised actually, some really good advice for Nick on there too, which I doubt will be heeded.

I knew I'd read that earlier - I was all ready to accuse the poster of plagiarism, but then I realised Fathomer quoted the same post, so that's OK:

Good review I agree with from digitalspy:

I felt somewhat sorry for Grimmy, listening to him to this morning. Being handed breakfast is the great opportunity to push one's self into the A-list - but it is also a baptism of fire. Nick is more than up to the job, but certain things have to happen.

Firstly - he needs to drop the self-deprecation. Yes, he didn't have the crash-and-burn learning curve of the radio ladder that Moyles, Evans, Edmonds etc. did, which is both a blessing and a curse, but he is well over that phase now. He has just as much a right to command that microphone this morning as anyone else and should have that faith in himself.

Secondly - breakfast radio, even if trying to appeal to a younger generation - is a different format to nighttime. The morning is not usually the most endearing time of day to most people, and Grimmy needs to start building empathy with his listeners by sharing more of himself and his opinions. He now has the platform on which to do that. For example, one of his first links this morning was how he woke at 4 a.m. approx. I'm not a broadcaster or producer but perhaps a good link there would have been to describe what it was like travelling through London at that time, and how his life was going to change, and how Moyles was probably in bed having his feet massaged, etc. - something along those lines. He missed some opportunities for that today which is probably nerves more than anything, but he may also have been given a directive to keep the links tightly centered around celebrity content. If so that would be a terrible shame. A couple of items early on asked "what should be the @R1breakfast show's first tweet" and "what celebs tweeted him to wish him good luck - guess". I find it hard to believe that these are weighty issues on either his mind or that of the listener.

Pop tunes and listener texts can only carry one so far. He has to take that chance and absolutely let rip.

Good luck Grimmy - make the show your own.

Actually, looking at that entire post:

[Grimshaw] was a more than worthy successor to John Peel

...no he wasn't.

[Wykey]

4. Too teenage girl focused. It seems to be a BBC perception of what young people like rather then the reality.

Thats a problem all over the BBC, you're absolutely spot on.

The BBC are run by, or certainly seem to be heavily influenced by, focus groups, have been for a long time - as for the perception of what young people like, it's a self fulfilling prophecy - though as I'm no longer a 'young' person I can't say that for sure, but it seems to me that the message is 'no one listens to band-x or genre-y so we won't play them, they like boy band-a and girl group-b so we'll play them'

The result being no one listens to band-x or genre-y, so they don't get played...

[Chris]

I'd be curious how long Ian's edit turns out to be. The first five Moyles shows are all almost identical at 1hr 30 without music.

[JackKelly]

I tuned in for just 10 seconds and there was a mention of both One Direction AND Justin Bieber. Tuned out, never will be tuned in again.

[lynothehammer]

I tuned in for the first 45 minutes, and I really can't see myself tuning in again. Is it fair to base my opinion on 45 minutes ? probably not, but it his voice just grates on me.

I wish him all the best of luck I really do, I wouldn't be surprised if the zoo format is introduced within 6 months as i honestly don't think he can do it all himself.

[GottaBeAndrew]

[Wykey]

I tuned in for the first 45 minutes, and I really can't see myself tuning in again. Is it fair to base my opinion on 45 minutes ? probably not, but it his voice just grates on me. .

If it walks like a duck and quacks, it's a duck.

[neilt0]

[Badger Mark]

So I got around to listening to it on the iplayer during lunch. Now, even with Chris running the show, I almost always skipped past the music (I'm way out of R1's demographic) to get to the stuff in between the songs. Today I found I had gone through the 1st twenty minutes or so and it was obvious I was going to spend most of the time zipping through the songs. Also, I had no interest in the guests. Pretty much what I expected to happen. Definitely not for me.

[Wykey]

Jesus wept.

I'm guessing they're one direction?

(surprised none of them went for #teammoyles, as yet)

[asplitnfish]

Just got home from 06:25 this morning!

I listened to the 1st 30 mins thank God I had the 26/09/11 podcast with me!

Normality was quickly restored

[VMPhil]

If anyone wants an edited version so they can listen/skip through the show without the music, I can do it if you want - unless someone else has already offered to do so of course (have looked through this thread and haven't seen anyone mention)

[Nicola_Red]

I *think* Ian said he was doing it.

[Bas]

I'm in an interesting twitter debate with the Independent reviewer @michaelhogan. He seems to think it was good!

With all due respect, he's wrong.

With absolutely no respect whatsoever, he's probably a ballbag.

[Bas]

Shaun Keaveney got a few digs in a Grimshaw in his 6Music show this morning & welcomed any Moyles refugees as well.

[English Bob]

I turned Radio 1 on...heard Grimshaw talking to Bieber, I switched over to 6Music.

Thank * I have a digital radio! My mornings now rotate between 6Music, XFM, Planet Rock and podcasts on my phone.

[Bas]

I turned Radio 1 on...heard Grimshaw talking to Bieber, I switched over to 6Music.

Thank * I have a digital radio! My mornings now rotate between 6Music, XFM, Planet Rock and podcasts on my phone.

You're lucky you get the last two on DAB. We can't, not even any Absolute ones.

[Cacophonic]

Shaun Keaveney got a few digs in a Grimshaw in his 6Music show this morning & welcomed any Moyles refugees as well.

Ohhh I'd be interested to listen to that bit - do you know when he said that?
I'm tempted to try him. I decided this afternoon that I may have been harsh to judge on one show and decided to give Grimmy a week, but I am not sure whether my opinion will change and wonder if it's worth my time/sanity.