More on that pending schedule rejig at Radio 1, and as much as we like to pick holes in these things, it all kinda sounds quite good (except for Colin Murray and Edith Bowman getting an extra hour during daytime, but we listen to Xfm in the afternoons, so we don't care).
The main casualty of the rejig is Dave Pearce who loses his daytime slot - the extra time going to the aforementioned Murray and Bowman (not good) and to Zane Lowe (good). Other changes include the loss of Seb Fontaine, and the shifting back of John Peel's show by an hour.
But most important is the moving of some of the station's excellent specialist shows from graveyard shifts into prime time. Mike Davies' punk metal show The Lock Up gets a 9pm slot on what will become Tuesday Rock Night, while Bobby and Nihal's award winning Asian beats show moves from its middle of the night slot to 9pm on what will become Wednesday Urban Night.
Talking through the schedule rejig a spokesman for the station told reporters: "It is about making sure the right music is on at the right time of day. We looked at the line-up six months ago and asked if we were giving the right exposure to the right musical genres, and decided to bring shows like Bobby and Nihal and The Lock Up into the evening schedule."
On the extension of Zane's slot: "Zane's presentational style will help take listeners from daytime into specialist programming."
And on the cutting of Dave Pearce's daily teatime dance music show: "Rather than having one big dance show we have redesigned it to suit what was going on now. Dance music has fragmented and subdivided, so Dave Pearce will be doing a trance show, Jules will do a Saturday night warm-up house show, while The Blue Room is more eclectic chillout stuff."