The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[cloughie]

Since the BBC now pays the cost of the over 75's free licence, maybe this contributes to the ageism ?

Anyway, its fine, some isms are ok, some aren't. Just depends which newspaper you read.

That doesn’t mean they can forget the 65 to 75s!

[french frank]

Since the BBC now pays the cost of the over 75's free licence…

Kicking and screaming, because it was a government imposition.

What's the point of making radio completely free but not offering much to listen to?

[Nick Armstrong]

He gave the weather for Hartlepool last week .... top man ....

[Nick Armstrong]

There's a quiet confidence about the way PT and his team go about their business these days, in my view.

The Breakfast programmes I go out of my way to listen to are the Martin Handley weekend programmes - his manner, and the choice of music (by him or his team - I'd love to know the actual dynamic of who chooses what) are much more appealing/interesting than my recollection of "Breakfast" programmes in the past... I do now systematically download the Handley morning programmes to the iPad and use them for day-time listening when the live offering isn't for me.

[Stanfordian]

The Okehampton line needs to be renewed.

The length of the grass on the verges in Freckleton is terrible.

[Old Grumpy]

He gave the weather for Hartlepool last week .... top man ....

And Hexham today!

OG

[vinteuil]

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... if all that it takes is for a presenter to mention a place dear to us for us then to forgive all - gawd 'elp us.


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[cloughie]

The length of the grass on the verges in Freckleton is terrible.

No pride these days!

[oddoneout]

Kicking and screaming, because it was a government imposition.

What's the point of making radio completely free but not offering much to listen to?

That might not be everybody's view - other stations are available as they say. However if you were to substitute 'TV' and 'watch' for 'radio' and 'listen to' I would be inclined to agree - but still probably wrong as that's just my opinion of current output.

[french frank]

That might not be everybody's view - other stations are available as they say. However if you were to substitute 'TV' and 'watch' for 'radio' and 'listen to' I would be inclined to agree - but still probably wrong as that's just my opinion of current output.

I was speaking for myself, no one else. I may get radio entirely free, but it's not much of an advantage if I don't want to listen to Radio 1, 2, 6 Music &c. and Radio 3 alternates between some items that are very good and others which are so irritating as to be unbearable. And it's not so easy to predict which will be which - except the most popular times for listening to the radio (the mornings) are uniformly … not the kind of … thing … I find interesting.

After Q2, Radio 3's researchers pointed out that the station had had 4 quarters in a row which failed to reach 2m and the last quarter made it 5 in a row. So the Contents aren't as numerous as they were. Possibly for the reasons that have been well rehearsed, here and elsewhere.

[antongould]

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... if all that it takes is for a presenter to mention a place dear to us for us then to forgive all - gawd 'elp us.


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I couldn't possibly be more shallow vints

[Serial_Apologist]

Since the BBC now pays the cost of the over 75's free licence, maybe this contributes to the ageism ?

Maybe not for much longer.

[Serial_Apologist]

That might not be everybody's view - other stations are available as they say. However if you were to substitute 'TV' and 'watch' for 'radio' and 'listen to' I would be inclined to agree - but still probably wrong as that's just my opinion of current output.

On the contrary, you are part of an articulate, informed and intelligent community here, a large number of whom feel exactly the way you do.

[underthecountertenor]

On the contrary, you are part of an articulate, informed and intelligent community here, a large number of whom feel exactly the way you do.

[antongould]

It’s the Mantovani Show .......