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Chris Moyles has mocked the 'male-focused' rock remit of the newly debuted Radio X within the first few hours of his debut show.
The XFM rebrand, Radio X, kicked-off this morning (21 September) at 6:30am with Chris Moylers returning as breakfast host after three years of being off the airwaves.
The online response to Radio X has been focused on the complete lack of gender diversity within the station's presenters.
Moyles addressed these concerns earlier this morning, dismissing suggestions that the station is just for men, saying that the content is suited for everyone then opening his show with Girls Aloud's 'Love Machine'.
Your new team on The Chris Moyles Show on @RadioX #MoylesIsBack pic.twitter.com/LCa9dS7Fru
— Radio X (@RadioX) September 21, 2015
"I've been waiting for three years for this place, sitting on my backside doing nothing - watching Judge Rinder or whatever it's called - and now I'm back on the radio. Yes, the money finally ran out," Moyles quipped within the show's opening minutes.
When the conversation became less about the host and more about the new station, Moyles tried to work through the obvious issue with an all-male radio station: "There's been a lot of press about Radio X and a lot of confused press, people going down a route which they needn't have to go down."
"There was a quote saying that Radio X is going to be the UK's first male-focused radio station and many people took that to mean it's a radio station just for blokes, by ruddy blokes playing ruddy bloke music for more ruddy blokes."
Moyles later added that Radio X is "not a radio version of a Yorkie bar - it's just a radio station. Everyone calm down."
The XFM rebrand will see a new cast of presenters including Vernon Kay covering mid-mornings, Johnny Vaughan on weekday drivetime, and Kaiser Chiefs' Ricky Wilson on air at the weekends.
While Moyles first show may look great on paper, the typical insensitivities of the breakfast host were still present even during his first show on air featuring a jingle about women listeners and mocking the gay community.
Radio X trolling, new jingle says they do want women "with their high heels and makeup" and gay people "not gay myself but I like Alan Carr"
— Sam Wolfson (@samwolfson) September 21, 2015
