ChatterBank1 min ago
Bbc Cuts
I see the BBC is having to make more cuts.
How about shutting down Radios 1, 2 and 3? There are so many commercial stations doing it as well or better.
I used to listen to Radio 2, but have virtually given it up now. Dreadful.
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Radio 2 has the biggest listening figures of any radio station in the world. So somebody must like it!
Radio 3 has a completely different approach to classical music than that taken by either Classic FM or Scala Radio, largely because (as the station isn't driven by a need to maximise advertising revenue) it can at times broadcast to minority audiences.
Similarly, Radio 3's jazz output doesn't have to fit within the same constraints that apply to what can be found on Jazz FM.
There are no commercial stations broadcasting anything remotely similar to Radio 3's roots-based programme, Music Planet.
Radio 1, while generally concentrating on tracks that have already entered the charts, 'breaks' far more new recordings than its main rival, Capital, and repeats tracks far less often too.
They could save a fortune by having just one person, on a sensible salary to present sports coverage. e.g. football (if they must broadcast it at all): broadcast begins five mintes before k.o. with just enough time to go through the runners and riders; ends five minutes after final whistle with just a run down of where that leaves the teams in the league or whatever.
No pundits; no "analysis"; just the match.
The news: just one newsreader (again, on a sensible salary) sitting behind a desk reading the autocue. No multiple presenters, no fancy sets with robotic cameras, just the news.
They should stop trying to emulate commercial broadcasters. They are a public broadcaster funded by a tax on watching the television.
I drive supermarket lorries.
The depot I work out if plays a different station each day over the tannoy, voted for by the staff who work there. Radio 2 is not one of them.
I drive a different lorry each day, and can see what previous drivers have set the presets to. I hardly ever see Radio 2, just lots of different commercial stations.
Rajar figures may suggest it is popular but I really don't think it is now.
>>> "Steve Wright in the afternoon."
Thank goodness he's gone! (Of course I'm not welcoming his death, only the fact the Radio 2 listeners no longer have to put up with him). If any radio presenter was ever 'totally up his own @rse, Steve Wright must surely have been at the very top of the list. He was utterly appalling!
>>> "Johnnie Walker on drive time (replaced by Simon Mayo)".
Although I have fond memories of JW on Radio Caroline, and I still enjoy listening to him on Sounds of the 70s, his health problems would almost certainly prevent him from presenting a live daily programme nowadays:
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Sarah Cox, on Radio 2, now pulls in more listeners than Simon Mayo does on GHR.
