Really nice to see Mike getting his interests in the 1am bulletin, talking too two musical artists.
Nice long, lingering outro for Mike. Cheerio Mike!
I love that outro music.
Yet another of the remaining old school greats gone. Sad times.
Fantastic they gave Mike the full outtro music, well done Mike and happy retirement!
Edit: My timer recording failed, sorry :-(
A class act. So many make their farewells an over the top, self-indulgent affair, which is in a way justified, but Mike made even this somehow understated and not about him. Hope he enjoys the retirement.
BTW, I've seen quite a few YT clips of these long outros with Mike, seems to be common overnight.
In the "Coming Up" segment before the commercial break during the 3 am UK and 4 am UK editions, Mike's interview with Gene Simmons (of Kiss) was captioned as "Simmons V Embley". Mike Embley had to clarify that he was not duelling with Gene Simmons before conducting a live interview during a latter half of the 3 am UK edition.
Radio_man post_id=5485 time=1618079869 user_id=1477 Wrote:It's not a huge surprise that Mike is retiring, I doubt many people want to be working permanent nightshifts in their mid-60s.
There's also the argument that the UK overnight NC & World simulcast should be used as a training ground for future talent. I remember watching Martine Croxall and Karin Giannone on the N24 & World overnight simulcasts in the mid-late 2000s, both of course are now daytime anchors on the NC and World news.
Sad that Mike is leaving though and a big loss none the less.
Martin Kelner is in his 70s and doing weekend overnights on TalkSport.
I don’t suppose anyone has uploaded it in higher quality, rather then the pixelated mess of Twitter?
harshy post_id=7015 time=1618565180 user_id=970 Wrote:I don’t suppose anyone has uploaded it in higher quality, rather then the pixelated mess of Twitter?
Unfortunately my timer recording also failed. I've got most of Mike's last shift, right up to just before 4am...
Hopefully someone has a decent recording of the final signoff.