Pre-Radio 1
Before settling in at Radio 1, Chris has had presenting experience at various local radio stations in the UK, including Radio Aire, The Pulse of West Yorkshire, Chiltern Radio, Horizon Radio and Capital FM. Before then, he also managed a short stint at Radio Luxembourg, being known as presenter Chris Holmes.
Without co-presenters alongside in his shows, Chris’s unique style was more obviously seen, and was arguably more creative than in his current Radio 1 role. His usual mocking of callers and over-the-top phone-cutting-off sound effects were still heavily used.
Features in his shows included ‘Throwing CDs at the studio clock’, ‘The ABC Game’ and ‘True or False’. Regular characters such as ‘Agony Kid’ (a young child creating spoofs of an Agony Aunt column) and a high-pitched ‘Little Fella’ also made appearances on the shows. Over the years on local radio, Chris has had production talents such as Daryl Denham lending a hand in producing the goods before each show was put on air.
Already known as ‘The Saviour’ to his listeners, ‘The Early Evening Bit’, ‘The Late Bit’, or just the ‘xxx bit’, in general, were common names used for his shows on the various stations.
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Radio 1
In 1997 Moyles was voted one of the Faces for ‘97 by Sky Magazine. He later joined Radio 1 on July 28, 1997. Within months, in May 1998, his work was recognised by the award of the Silver Sony Awards DJ of the Year, and within the year he was promoted to a Saturday mid-morning slot.
His next promotion came in October 1998 when he took control of the afternoon show. Moyles took with him the show’s writer and his sidekick David “Comedy Dave” Vitty. His show also included regular guests such as impressionist Jon Culshaw. He and his team soon attracted considerable attention and notoriety.
Moyles’ style of delivery involves fast speech punctuated with long pauses.
After five years on drive time, on January 5, 2004, Moyles started presenting Radio 1’s flagship programme The Breakfast Show, switching places with Sara Cox. He had been appointed to increase the ratings for the show and did so, putting on an extra 700,000 listeners to the audience in the first quarter of 2004. After a successful first year, Moyles was awarded ‘DJ of the Year’ by readers of The Sun.
By 2005 Chris Moyles and his team had succeeded in vastly increasing the morning audience, as his programme’s audience had swelled to 6.5 million. This was coupled with an increase in the overall Radio 1 listenership. With 895,000 listeners in London in the third quarter of 2005, he succeeded in overtaking Johnny Vaughan to take the prized position of the capital’s most listened to youth breakfast show. Along with his short-lived campaign “Say No to Wogan”, Chris’ listener count is increasing each week. This lead to him winning a gold Sony Radio Award in 2006 for best entertainment show.
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Show format
Main article: The Chris Moyles Show
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Features
Regular competitions he has hosted have been Viaduct, which was based on a Two Ronnies sketch (itself based on Mastermind, with a specialist subject of “answering the question before the last”), and more recently Car Park Catchphrase, featuring voice samples from the Ulster comedian Roy Walker. This was replaced in January 2006 with a spoof on the quiz Blockbusters called Beep Beep Busters. His Saturday morning shows often contained slightly bizarre competitions, including one where Chris and Dave made predictions on how long people’s marriages would last (entitled May Divorce Be With You).
Numerous other comedy features have been included in Moyles’ shows. These include Girls Going to Football, in which Comedy Dave predicts the scores of football matches to which female listeners are going; Rob DJ’s Monday Night Pub Quiz, where the team answers a selection of questions from a local pub quiz; Frog Or Dog, where listeners had to do an impression of either a frog or a dog; Guess Who, a Twenty Questions-style game, in which the team members try to guess the name of a celebrity spott
Grease is The Word judge, David Gest, has invited Radio One DJ, Chris Moyles to dinner aftre being banned from his show.
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