[Turicum]

Now that "Rick from online" is a coach on The Voice maybe we'll see a bit of Moyles in the audience? He loved the show when it started.

[The Deadly]

I imagine he is absolutely desperate to be on it in some capacity. He'd make a good judge.

[dimtimjim]

Still no CM back on the radio. Shame... Still hoping. Lots.

maybe Westwood can put in a good word at Capital!

[Johnny 1989]

Still no CM back on the radio. Shame... Still hoping. Lots.

maybe Westwood can put in a good word at Capital!

Ah so has Westwood has gone back to Capital then (he used to be there back in the late 80's/early 90's)

[jamiec21]

Just heard Moyles on the radio voicing an advert for Travis Perkins.

[chrysostom]

Chris just RT'd some random mentioning the site and the playback service - busy times!

[slaphead1982]

Chris reckons his musical career is over now JCS has finnished. Is this the start of a return to the airwaves now he has nothing big to distract him? I bloody hope so.

[The Deadly]

Nah he isn't coming back. Not until he has run out of money anyway.

[Badger Mark]

It really looks like coming back to radio is very low on his list of priorities. Too bad. Maybe he felt so burned by his R1 treatment that he just can't do it. Maybe his ego won't allow him to take anything but a prime time slot somewhere (presumably R2). Maybe he's still burned out from radio in general. Possibly some combination of those 3 reasons, but who really knows other than Chris himself.

[Yudster]

His tweets sound sad. He says he misses the JCS tour and the people, and he sounds sort of drifty and - well, sad. I'm probably just imagining that though.

[chrysostom]

But he has no expertise in cars and failed his CPD.

[Travis Bickle]

But he has no expertise in cars and failed his CPD.

I think you mean his CBT, which is motorcycle training. Top Gear is a strange suggestion anyway. As you say, he has no expertise in cars, and, whatever Chris thinks, his skill isn't in television.

[chrysostom]

Ah, I only know the reference from the radio story they tell!

Also, I can't imagine any of the other presenters warming to him. The ONLY logical choice?!

[Misfit]

Hammond was a car enthusiast and owned lots of american cars and spent a lot of time building them. May was interested in cars but has a great collection of motorbikes as well. They're both "petrol heads" not random people dragged in off the street by the bbc. I dont class chris as a petrol head, in fact I cant remember him ever talking about cars apart from when his were nicked!

[Badger Mark]

Dave would be a much better fit for Top Gear in the sense that he's way more into cars than Chris is.

[neilt0]

James May was a writer for AutoCar! Before he got fired for doing this:



Yeah, Chris is not a car guy. He buys Audi convertibles. Like a girl.

[chrysostom]

Here's an anomaly for you.

When the show ended, Chris' twitter account had around 2.6m followers. Since the show has ended, it's still steadily risen to surpass 3m users.

Now large Twitter accounts are guaranteed to attract a larger than normal percentage of fake followers - and Chris will have a huge number of inactive users (~30%) due to many people signing up because of the show and never going on again.

However he has 43% fake followers (a high percentage for an account with less than 10m users - to compare, @Grimmers has 9% fake). That's the kind of percentage which naturally occurs in accounts that have around 10-40m followers.

While I don't want to make any accusations of artificial inflation, it seems that Chris' steady gain of followers since the show bucks the trend of what SHOULD be happening.

Chris' twitter content hasn't been dynamic (in fact it's been quite dull), he's not been able to drive users to his profile using external media (TV, radio, print) - yet recently he's been making a concerted 'effort' to post something (anything) that seems relevant (his most recent instagram video is testament to this).

Compared to an account whose subject is getting every day exposure and very much in the public eye (Grimmy's) Chris' account seems to have had the same level of increase since last September (400k) . Here's how the follower increases have compared between the 2 over the last 6 months.



This is not what organic results should be showing, and is very odd indeed. To my mind, if there is artificial inflation, it is to keep his account relevant and to prevent a visible decline, which is positive as there may be a lust for future projects to go well - if the rise is organic, then I can't explain it!

To contrast with related show accounts, here is the trajectory which they have taken in the last 6 months.

In addition to this, I'm definitely suspicious of Chris' Twitter account. The idea was floated previously that he may have had a freebie from Twitter to promote one of his banal tweets, but now he has promoted this, which garnered a measley 148 RTs.

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Promoted tweets aren't cheap, even if you have good contacts - so the massive question is why?

As well as this strange promotion, his follower numbers have continued to rise, with his fake follower percentage remaining similar at 42%, with a further 39% inactive - giving him just 19% (~600,000) active followers, which has to be a fraction of what he had at the show's end...but on the face of it, his followers are continually rising without any interesting content, or social relevance attached to him.


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There are a lot of conclusions that can be brought from this, but overall it's not looking great...

[Evs]

http://www.leedsunited.com/news/article ... -christmas

[DevilsDuck]

"life long United fan"? He used to hate football when first on afternoon shows

[MadTheEddos]

I was speaking today to a good mate who's not a fan of Moyles in the slightest, and even he said it's strange how Chris seems to have just vanished. It got me thinking.

It's sad, and in a funny way I find it disturbing too. I don't like the lack of news about him and from him in the last year or so - it somehow implies there's something wrong. As mentioned already, it's like he's lost interest in being a DJ, and that would be a tragic loss to radio.

For the first few months after the show finished I thought he was taking a break with a view to bouncing back, but it's been a bit too long now for that to be realistic.

I personally miss him like * and wish he'd come back - doing something media-related, it wouldn't even have to be radio. I'd like to know exactly what was said to him in order to make him want to step down and walk away like this.

[Nicola_Red]

I agree. After the interview on This Morning in which he said he had no plans to return to radio, I felt kind of pissed off and also somehow cheated. I'm well aware that Chris Moyles owes me nothing - but I bought so wholeheartedly into the radio geekiness that was a big part of the show, and I think a lot of us here did the same, it felt kind of hollow to hear him say so decisively that he was leaving that behind. I can't articulate exactly what I feel (it's early), but it was kind of like his passion for radio had not been quite real, and the show was a more cynical exercise than we were led to believe. I know at the time the end was announced, a few of us said that we felt as if a group of friends were leaving us - and now I wonder about that friendly, familiar feeling the show had.

I am still listening to old shows in the mornings, but I started to think maybe at the end of this year I would stop, that it's time to move on. I do realise this is ridiculous given that the show is still exactly what I made it - the nature of those shows cannot change - but if Chris is so determined to leave it in the past, maybe we should be too. This all makes me very sad, but I feel quite differently about it to how I did this time last year. I think I just want things to remain in my memory the way I felt about them at the time - I feel the same about Lost, which is my other big passion. Apologies for the outpouring of emotion, I'm quite tired.

[The Deadly]

To play devils advocate for a second what if he has been advised by his PR people to say these things about radio in order to be taken more seriously as a TV star? The chances are he wants to appear to potential employers that he is ready for the next step and the radio show is a distant memory. Like I've said before many times Chris isn't great on the TV. He is best on the radio without a script and with the freedom to talk openly. The thing that really annoys me is that he hasn't given any interviews about the show and almost treats it with a certain level of unimportance. This may well be a front though as he could be bitterly disapointed that it didn't end on his terms and he could in fact be desperately upset still.

[fatboydave73]

It sounds to me as if he is trying to block the radio stuff out; this could be for a number of things:

1) He had stated a number of times he had reached the pinnacle; to host the Radio 1 Breakfast Show. Maybe he doesn't see any other opportunity as a forward step, and wants to finish his radio career on the highest of highs.
2) We still to this day (and maybe never will know) the full details of the meeting between Chris and Ben Cooper that lead to his departure; the scripted words from Cooper after the event were written by the PR dept so we can't take them as gospel; maybe the outcome of that meeting still hurts.
3) This could be a PR stunt by him; to make him more marketable for other media.
4) He might not have any credible offers from anyone.

I am fairly sure at some stage (and that could be governed by an NDA) there will be a book that will tell all. I think it is interesting that none of TCMS have penned a book to date since the end of the show.