Radio 3 schedule changes (‘edging away from speech')

[Ein Heldenleben]

As others see us... From Guardian BTL

Well I don’t hate or even dislike any of them . I also like change - how about a night of the second Viennese school ?Not mad keen on the playlister though.

[LMcD]

Well Katie Derham just gave the Controller the easiest ride conceivable. Of all the many objections raised here and in the Guardian comments section not a peep. Even ended by saying how much she was looking forward to presenting Friday Night Is Music Night so she has a direct conflict of interest (a breach of editorial guidelines in fact) . The question is what is that programme doing on Radio 3 ? It’s a Classicsl music station not an outlet for commercial music produced in Broadway and the West End. And I love that music - but it’s not what R3 is for is it?

Worked for forty years on and off at the Beeb as a journalist and that was a travesty of journalism. I’d complain to OFCOM but what’s the point ? I mean how can you interview your boss ?

Perhaps Lee Anderson could be invited to ask him a few more difficult questions.

[Nick Armstrong]

According to the BBC Media Centre announcement, Tom Service is 'one of Radio 3's best-loved voices’

[LMcD]

I will now be "rocking up" (sic) to the France Musique "neighbourhood" exclusively. Waving goodbye to "Friday night is music night" with not a tear in my eye.

"Don't cry for me, Mantovani"

'You could replace 'Mantovani' with 'Ike and Tina'

On the subject of 'Classical Live', might it prove to be a sort of Through The Night With trailers ?

[LMcD]

As others see us... From Guardian BTL

...and somebody at The Guardian seems to hate a lot of views expressed on the Forum. Perhaps we should start carrying a golf club for our own safety when we venture out of doors..

[antongould]

I fear you are right Andrew . It’s a statement of intent . The marketing mob have triumphed .

sadly they always will EH

[AuntDaisy]

JH on Twitter...



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[Nick Armstrong]

As others see us... From Guardian BTL

What does “BTL” mean?

[Historian]

What does “BTL” mean?

I believe it refers to comments on articles 'Below The Line' m'lud.

[vinteuil]

What does “BTL” mean?

... below the line

viz, comments

[Ein Heldenleben]

What does “BTL” mean?

Is it below the line : as in the comments section ?

[Nick Armstrong]

... below the line

viz, comments

Ah thanks. So the quote could well be from an ex-Forumite who’s not got over it yet…

[Ein Heldenleben]

Ah thanks. So the quote could well be from an ex-Forumite who’s not got over it yet…

I read all 200 plus of the comments yesterday and 90 percent of them could have been written by people in this forum .Several musicians and teachers mentioned how important the “old” radio three had been in educating them and informing their tastes. Also a lot of comment from Jazz J-Z fans .That one very negative comment is not at all representative. It is quite clear to me that a substantial proportion of the Radio 3 audience does not welcome these changes or indeed what might called the past and gradual classicFMification of the channel which is now approaching its apotheosis like a white dwarf becoming a black hole. To mix metaphors

[Hitch]

There doesn't seem to be a recognition within the BBC management that the main music stations have only so much capacity to cover music. Radio 1 has to deal with the ever-changing charts and the many striations of modern pop music, Radio 2 is more suited to blues, swing, rock and pop, while Radio 3 has to deal with the small matter of, oh, I don't know, a millennium of music, most of which needs putting in context by experts because it is from the distant past. If Jools Holland, who would fit nicely into Radio 2's world and would make a good job of it, intends to broadcast blues as well as classical (as he says in the above video) then, ipso facto, there will be less room for the aforesaid thousand years of music and Radio 3 will be the poorer for it.

[french frank]

and gradual classicFMification of the channel which is now approaching its apotheosis

However, in many respects R3 IS distinct - quite different - from CFM, and that's good enough for BBC managers to persuade the BBC top brass who neither know nor care any better. As long as Radio 3 is 'distinctive', it probably doesn't matter whether it plays any classical music at all.