BBC Radio 6 Tune Pronounces Morning Time table Shake-Up

BBC Radio 6 Tune introduced a raft of adjustments to its morning lineup on Thursday (Jan. 9).

Starting in February, Nick Grimshaw will take at the weekday breakfast slot completely. Earlier host Lauren Laverne will transfer again to a later mid-morning slot when she returns to the air following her restoration after a most cancers prognosis. Esteemed DJ Mary Anne Hobbs, who has been broadcasting at the BBC since 1996, will take a sabbatical and vacate the slot that Laverne will now host.

In August 2024, Laverne introduced that she were recognized with most cancers “hastily right through a screening check” and would take a step again from the display. She has now not specified the kind of most cancers she has been recognized with, however mentioned that the remedy she won closing 12 months were “a success” and that she would regularly go back to broadcasting in 2025. 

Laverne hosted the display from 2019 and likewise gifts BBC’s Wasteland Island Discs, taking on the long-running franchise from Kirsty Younger. In a remark, Laverne mentioned the verdict to go away the breakfast slot: “As listeners will know, I had a actually tricky 2024 and anxious from time to time that I wouldn’t have the ability to go back to the station I like such a lot.”

She added: “Right through my restoration I realized in every single place once more in regards to the energy of track, the folk you encompass your self with and the emotional make stronger and pleasure radio can give. I’m so thankful so as to get again to doing what I like and sharing the ones issues with our good listeners each day.”

Grimshaw, who in the past hosted Radio 1’s day by day breakfast display between 2012 and 2018, took at the slot following Laverne’s prognosis. He’s going to host the display on weekdays from February and mentioned in a remark that, “I’m in truth commemorated to be requested to paintings there and will’t wait to proceed supplying the most productive new track from the arena’s maximum fascinating artists.” He additionally hosts BBC’s Sidetracked podcast along fellow Radio 1 alumni Annie Mac, which delves into the week’s largest track happenings.

Hobbs, in the meantime, will go away her slot from mid-morning to lunchtime on weekdays and go back to the station with a brand new display later in spring. “My schedule has been to switch sunlight hours radio at BBC 6 Tune,” she mentioned in a remark. “It was once David Bowie who taught me that ingenious existence is development. As soon as the paintings is entire.. stand on the fringe of the entirety you understand and ask a special query.”

In December the station introduced that their annual 6 Tune Competition will happen in Manchester between March 26-29; a lineup is but to be introduced. The station lately hosts display via musicians like Iggy Pop and Elbow’s Man Garvey on a weekly foundation.