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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30292

    Originally posted by Paul Sherratt
    It'll probably be average age 66 now.
    Yes, Paul. Going from memory (i.e. I haven't located the document yet), if you look at the Charter review documentation, efforts to reach a wider audience between 2000 and 2004 resulted in the listeners becoming on average older, whiter, and slightly higher social class
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • french frank
      Administrator/Moderator
      • Feb 2007
      • 30292

      Originally posted by Paul Sherratt
      >>he was expected to make his breakfast show 'more breakfast-y'

      That's because his bosses were* patronising, self-serving, wrong-headed fools.

      ( imo )


      * Still are, probably !
      Yes, that could have been the reason in the case of 6 Music . But ... why would they be wanting to make R3 more breakfast-y?
      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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      • antongould
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8785

        Originally posted by Paul Sherratt
        It'll probably be average age 66 now.
        Have we any idea what the average age of those gathered here in the name of R3 is?

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        • Eine Alpensinfonie
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 20570

          Salzburg, Frankfurt, Paris

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          • Norfolk Born

            Originally posted by antongould View Post
            Have we any idea what the average age of those gathered here in the name of R3 is?
            I'm happy to start the proverbial ball rolling. I'm 67. Regarding #144, my hair is whiter, but my social class has probably remained whatever it was. Perhaps I should update my profile, what with the census coming and all...

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            • antongould
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8785

              well I am almost 62 and salymap is 31

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              • salymap
                Late member
                • Nov 2010
                • 5969

                Thank you Anton, I was once.

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                • french frank
                  Administrator/Moderator
                  • Feb 2007
                  • 30292

                  I do actually have some figures now. Only a relatively small number (85) have divulged their age but those who have reveal a pattern not wholly dissimilar to the average Radio 3 profile. There are fewer over 65s and and fewer 45s to 54s. This leaves a larger 55s to 64s group (plumb in the middle of the station's average). Also rather fewer 35s to 44s.

                  Forum over 65s 27% R3 average 37%

                  Forum 55-64s 36.4% R3 average 23%

                  Forum 45-54s 20% R3 average 18.4%

                  Forum 35-44s 7% R3 average 11.3%

                  Forum 25-34s 6% R3 average 6.3%

                  Forum under 25s 3.6% R3 average 4.0%
                  It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                  • Paul Sherratt

                    hercule,

                    Before

                    After ?

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                    • mercia
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920



                      that was certainly one of the multiple choice answers we were given

                      a photo for every occasion - how very ...... mmmmm ....... pertinent

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                      • Paul Sherratt

                        After
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                        • mercia
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8920

                          is that Sylvia Peters? - no probably not

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                          • kernelbogey
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 5746

                            When Rob was interviewing Tom Service the other day over the Red Nose day mularkey, and Tom's spell at the Comedy Store, Tom said 'I know you're here rehearsing all the links from five a.m.' It had never occurred to me that presenters would do this. I suppose that explains partly the smoothness of the presentation. And it would explain the different approach on other stations. Does anyone know how widespread this practice is at the BBC? I posted elsewhere about the striking ability of Verity Sharpe to sound like she's ad libbing all her announcements. (BTW, where's she gone?)

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                            • vinteuil
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12832

                              kernelbogey - I heard that too - but I thought Tom Service was teasing and did not seriously mean it!

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                              • Suffolkcoastal
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 3290

                                I see next week the 'Commercial Breakfast Show' will be having celebrity guests in after 9am to select five choices of their own. Please, please, please RW resign now and do us all a favour before the whole of R3 ends up just like any other commercial radio station.

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