Worse news still?

[french frank]

http://www.classicfm.com/music-news/latest-news/everything-bott/

Is this the result of the edition of EMS being axed? One way or another, it serves Radio 3 right!

[Nick Armstrong]

http://www.classicfm.com/music-news/...erything-bott/

Is this the result of the edition of EMS being axed? One way or another, it serves Radio 3 right!

I repeat:

[french frank]

"I'm delighted to welcome her to the Classic FM family for this ambitious, exciting and, I hope, groundbreaking series, which I'm confident our audience of 5.6 million weekly listeners will love."

You bet they will! Classic FM bites back - and good for them!

[eighthobstruction]

Very very very best of good luck to Catherine Bott though....!!!

[salymap]

Our loss is their gain.

Good luck Catherine Bott.

[Nick Armstrong]

Our loss is their gain.

Good luck Catherine Bott.

Yes I would second... sorry, third that *sob*

[doversoul1]

Good for you, Catherine. BBC doesn’t deserve you, and I join eight and salymap. Very Best Luck. You deserve all the respect and enthusiasm that will greet you. I almost wish others will follow you, then Radio3 will know what it has done to itself.

All the same, I can’t tell you how much I shall miss you on Radio 3.

[Richard Tarleton]

Catherine, likewise from me. The very best of luck. For the first time, I'm going to tune a preset button on my car radio to Classic FM. This is a tragedy for Radio 3.

[french frank]

"Over the course of three years, Bott will shine the spotlight on every area of classical music, answering questions about the genre – from "what exactly is 'classical music'?" to "how did Beethoven manage to compose music when he was deaf?" "

Perhaps the BBC will lodge a complaint that Classic FM is invading Radio 3's territory, making classical music "accessible" to new listeners.

[mercia]

I shall certainly be tuning in for the shows dedicated to film music

[Bax-of-Delights]

"Over the course of three years, Bott will shine the spotlight on every area of classical music, answering questions about the genre – from "what exactly is 'classical music'?" to "how did Beethoven manage to compose music when he was deaf?" "

Perhaps the BBC will lodge a complaint that Classic FM is invading Radio 3's territory, making classical music "accessible" to new listeners.

CFM get Catherine Bott from R3 and R3 get Katie Derham from CFM.



Says it all really. Good luck to Ms Bott in her new role which - it appears to me anyway - could easily have been one of R3's "educate and entertain" programmes.

One suspects that there is much ado in the corridors of R3 and Ms.Bott may not be the only one exiting stage left.

[Sir Velo]

Our loss is their gain.

Good luck Catherine Bott.

Believe it or not you will still be able to hear her!

[french frank]

Believe it or not you will still be able to hear her!

I just read this on a blog from two months ago about Classic FM (NB blogger is a BBC employee):

"But listen carefully and you’ll find presenters not only being conversational but also hinting at their musical background, knowledge and experience. It’s the same as Radio 3 is doing with its on-air presentation only the other way around. That’s a good thing. Because it means that the likes of me end up rather liking listening to Classic FM."

He'll like it even more now.

[Black Swan]

This is a loss but I am happy for Catherine. I have loved her shows and also seeing and speaking with her at the York Early Music Festival. This is just the beginning of BBC3 heading down the road to ramrod, wreckage and ruin to the tune of music from the movies, haiku, text messages, twitter.

I can't wait for them to use Tweet on Down the Yellow Brick Road as the theme music for R3.

Our loss, but Classic FM and Catherine's gain.

[Russ]

There once was a lady called Botty
Who CFM thought was top totty
They thought she was sweet, because she could tweet
And Radio 3 is now grotty



(ok, I'll get me coat...)