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Sorry Everyone, Looks Like We're Stuck With Mayo/whiley For At Least Six Months
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I get where they are coming from but pleeeease! is it better now than it was when it forst started? i tend not to listen anymore so don't know
I get where they are coming from but pleeeease! is it better now than it was when it forst started? i tend not to listen anymore so don't know
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The BBC is trying desperately to defend the indefensible.
The idea that a radio format needs time to 'bed in' like it's a newly seeded lawn is the only response they can make in the light of the singular failure of their change, which was clearly doomed from the start.
The BBC makes much of the 'massive talent' and 'vast experience' of its two presenters. Fine - so why can't they sound less like a couple of prisoners manacled together, and more like what they are supposed to be - professional and highly paid presenters who are supposed to like and respect each other.
If radio presenters are going to work well together, then they, and everyone else knows that by the end of the first week. Clearly it does not take six months!
The lines were drawn in that first week. Both presenters were thrust together, probably against their own personal wishes, because they could see it would not work, and why wouldn't they - everyone else did!
They are clearly gritting their teeth and making the best of a seriously bad situation until someone somewhere owns up and separates them again.
This will mean someone at the BBC admitting that not only has the experiment failed - six months, six years, whatever, it's not going to change because it can't change - and they simply are unable to do that at the BBC.
Failure is not an option - heaven knows why! People make mistakes, that's why they put rubbers on the end of pencils.
So the deserting listeners, who actually pay for thie debacle,
The idea that a radio format needs time to 'bed in' like it's a newly seeded lawn is the only response they can make in the light of the singular failure of their change, which was clearly doomed from the start.
The BBC makes much of the 'massive talent' and 'vast experience' of its two presenters. Fine - so why can't they sound less like a couple of prisoners manacled together, and more like what they are supposed to be - professional and highly paid presenters who are supposed to like and respect each other.
If radio presenters are going to work well together, then they, and everyone else knows that by the end of the first week. Clearly it does not take six months!
The lines were drawn in that first week. Both presenters were thrust together, probably against their own personal wishes, because they could see it would not work, and why wouldn't they - everyone else did!
They are clearly gritting their teeth and making the best of a seriously bad situation until someone somewhere owns up and separates them again.
This will mean someone at the BBC admitting that not only has the experiment failed - six months, six years, whatever, it's not going to change because it can't change - and they simply are unable to do that at the BBC.
Failure is not an option - heaven knows why! People make mistakes, that's why they put rubbers on the end of pencils.
So the deserting listeners, who actually pay for thie debacle,
… will be obliged, along with Mr Mayo and Ms Whiley - to suffer on while the BBC tries to save its shattered dignity and find a way to let them escape without it looking like the BBC got it wrong from before even Day One - from the day when this idea was discussed, and should have been rejected out of hand.
It seems a fair few have complained. Radio 4 covered it. Horrified to hear Jo refer to it as 'My show' the other day. I do not like driving home listening to Jo talk about her super children, their meals, their dreams the dross of the life of the super rich. So I listen to other stuff. Simon Mayo with the other guy was lively and witty.
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