BBC Licence Payers Association anyone?

[kernelbogey]

FF - many thanks. It would be good if it were possible for some of the devotees to get onto these councils..... (Round up the usual suspects.)

[french frank]

More on Audience Councils here.

"Audience Council members are recruited to ensure they reflect the diversity of the UK, have connections with communities and are able to take a view on how the BBC's Public Purposes should be promoted."

FF - many thanks. It would be good if it were possible for some of the devotees to get onto these councils..... (Round up the usual suspects.)

Yes, I imagine a sort of 'Twelve Angry Men' scenario where one R3 listener swings the entire Council round to an appreciation of Radio 3

[Osborn]

Far better is just to keep plugging away at the Trust to try and persuade them to think about the contradictions implicit in management's strategies.

This year's R3 Review document said:
Action 2 –
BBC management should consider how the BBC can best deliver classical, jazz and world music to all licence fee payers

They should set out how Radio 3 can best work alongside other BBC services and events to deliver this overall responsibility. In particular, BBC management should consider how the BBC can effectively make this content available and appealing to those audiences which Radio 3 struggles to reach.

We have asked BBC management to report back on this by summer 2011.

That's clear as mud to me, but it's end of summer now - are they likely to publish their agreements & strategies, FF?

[french frank]

This year's R3 Review document said:
Action 2 –
BBC management should consider how the BBC can best deliver classical, jazz and world music to all licence fee payers

They should set out how Radio 3 can best work alongside other BBC services and events to deliver this overall responsibility. In particular, BBC management should consider how the BBC can effectively make this content available and appealing to those audiences which Radio 3 struggles to reach.

We have asked BBC management to report back on this by summer 2011.

That's clear as mud to me, but it's end of summer now - are they likely to publish their agreements & strategies, FF?

Ossie, management strategies are not published. We have asked that they should be so that we can see how the Trust arrived at its conclusions to back those strategies. The reply was: No. We don't have to and we're not going to.

Nice quote you have there in which there is yet another contradiction: 'how the BBC can best deliver ... jazz ... to all licence fee payers ...'
Answer: cut the amount of jazz programming (new and existing) on R3 and move more up to the graveyard slot.

Also, we suggested that other services, particularly BBC Two, should be involved in introducing people 'with little knowledge of classical music' to classical music. DQF proposes big cuts to BBC Two's budget rather than BBC One's.

But the blindness of the Trust is revealed in their basic outlook, as revealed in the phrase 'audiences which Radio 3 struggles to reach'. Why should Radio 3 even attempt to reach audiences other than those who have a particular interest in its core content? Which audiences does Radio 1 'struggle to reach' - and should they do anything about it?

My view: they should forget about audiences and clarify what, in terms of content, they should focus on. Then provide it.