Radio 2 breakfast presenter ‘crushed’ on his first display

Scott Turbines welcomed listeners to his first BBC Radio 2 breakfast display on Monday, telling listeners it used to be “all a little bit overwhelming”.

The broadcaster has taken over the celebrated slot from Zoe Ball, who stood down from final month after six years of web hosting.

“As a radio presenter, and radio fan all my existence, I am nonetheless discovering it fairly exhausting to procedure that this is going on if I am fair,” Turbines instructed listeners in his opening hyperlink.

He joked that everybody have been guessing what his first tune can be, as he officially opened the display by way of introducing Rock DJ by way of Robbie Williams.

“Right here we move then, that is the Scott Turbines breakfast display on BBC Radio 2, and I will’t imagine I am in any case pronouncing the ones phrases,” he mentioned.

“I have labored on the BBC for 25 years now, at the radio. A large number of you might have grown up paying attention to me, I am certain a large number of you are going to now not have a lot thought about me in any respect.

“Both method, if you must make me a part of your morning regimen, it might in truth imply such a lot, as a result of I’ll give it completely the entirety I have were given. I in reality hope you revel in it.”

Turbines follows within the footsteps of earlier Radio 2 breakfast hosts Ball, Chris Evans, Terry Wogan, Ken Bruce and Derek Jameson.

“If I believe an excessive amount of in regards to the earlier occupiers of this display, it turns into mind-blowing to me, for a child who sought after to be at the radio however wasn’t certain he had the self-confidence in an effort to if truth be told do it,” Turbines mirrored.

“The purpose here’s to make you smile, carry up your temper, to make you shoulder and head dance within the automotive, or in mattress, or within the bathe or within the kitchen, and to stay your spirits up on mornings the place perhaps you do not really feel so nice.”

Turbines joined Radio 2’s weekday agenda in 2022, changing Steve Wright because the host of the afternoon slot.

Previous to that, he labored on Radio 1 for almost 3 a long time and likewise hosted a weekend display on 5 Reside.

The presenter instructed listeners on Monday he sought after to “make this display into one thing I in reality hope you return to adore and stay up for each day”.

The breakfast display’s different on-air voices come with shuttle presenter Ellie Brennan, whilst Tina Daheley, who prior to now seemed on BBC breakfast radio displays hosted by way of Zoe Ball, Chris Moyles, Nick Grimshaw and Trevor Nelson, is the newsreader.

A number of listeners recalled a remark Turbines made final 12 months, the place he mentioned: “Ring a bell in me by no means to do the breakfast display.”

Recalling the touch upon Monday, Turbines defined: “That used to be a factor that I mentioned as soon as on Race Throughout The International after we needed to stand up early to do the duties.

“Ellie has simply were given me a card and at the entrance of it’s the precise scene from Race Throughout The International. Issues have modified, ?”

The breakfast display is noticed as essentially the most prestigious flagship programme in a radio station’s agenda.

On the other hand, in Radio 2’s case, it isn’t these days essentially the most listened to programme at the agenda.

That accolade is held by way of the mid-morning display, these days hosted by way of Vernon Kay, who took over from Ken Bruce in 2023.

Kay and Turbines are two of a number of DJs who’ve gravitated to the station from Radio 1 as bosses have freshened up the agenda.

Radio 2’s weekday agenda now additionally options Nelson, Sara Cox and Jo Whiley, similar to the Radio 1 agenda of the noughties.

However now not all former Radio 1 DJs robotically transfer to Radio 2. Moyles now hosts breakfast on Radio X, whilst Grimshaw just lately took over the BBC Radio 6 Song breakfast display.

Discussing his objectives for the Radio 2 breakfast display, Turbines instructed listeners: “I need you to be listening each and every morning, and for this to be your go-to position, the place that Radio 2 is the one who is assured to boost you up, to listen to one thing humorous or attention-grabbing or a work of tune that implies such a lot to you.”

TV presenter Davina McCall despatched a voice be aware to pray Turbines success, and Williams referred to as the station to thank the DJ for opting for to open the display with considered one of his songs.

Songs by way of Whitney Houston, The Beatles, Kylie Minogue, The Doobie Brothers, Madonna, Chappell Roan, Middle of the night Teach, Taylor Swift, Cher, Teddy Swims and Rufus and Chaka Khan additionally featured on his first display.

Turbines performed voice notes from neatly wishers together with Linda Rands, a retired opera singer who was a viewer favorite on the latest sequence of The Traitors.