Private Eye scoop or non scoop?

[french frank]

I can't find any confirmation at the moment of a story in this week's Private Eye that Night Waves is to be cut from four weekly editions to three, as a result, they say, of financial cuts.

I know that there have been less than impressed comments, in general, about Night Waves, but this does seem (?) to mark a further bite out of the speech schedule (except there was no indication in the story as to what would replace it).

If there's further cutting of costs, this is getting altogether ridiculous, with each of the 'specialist' genres being successively hit: jazz, world, music talks, drama, now the arts. And with the required 'live' music output now down to 40% this is beginning to look like a service for those who really do want CFM without the adverts.

[Note the R3 Facebook discussion with someone who wants to know why André Rieu is not given due recognition on Radio 3 - musical 'snobbery'.]

[vinteuil]

If there's further cutting of costs, this is getting altogether ridiculous, with each of the 'specialist' genres being successively hit: jazz, world, music talks, drama, now the arts. .]

... not forgetting the cutbacks in Early Music.

[Frances_iom]

...this is beginning to look like a service for those who really do want CFM without the adverts.

admittedly with fewer adverts based on my limited sampling of CFm and now very selective listening to R2.5 which has a growing number of quite intrusive adverts - R3 is dead, give RW his gong and admit that the UK has followed the USA to become a dumbed down nation of consumers which both slip further down the UN league table each year.