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  • kernelbogey
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 5745

    Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
    I must be missing something here, but I don't quite see why Prince Philip's death should mean the omission of the usual Sunday Breakfast Sounds of the Earth slot, particularly as much of today's schedule is otherwise back to normal. Does someone in management think it disrespectful to listen to Nature?
    The same with the birdsong recognition feature. Martin solemnly said that as the DoE had died it would be postponed until next week. Incomprehensible! I was so irritated that I switched off. I'm a Sunday Breakfast regular listener, and and MH fan, but it was my only available protest in the moment.

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    • Pulcinella
      Host
      • Feb 2014
      • 10921

      Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
      The same with the birdsong recognition feature. Martin solemnly said that as the DoE had died it would be postponed until next week. Incomprehensible! I was so irritated that I switched off. I'm a Sunday Breakfast regular listener, and and MH fan, but it was my only available protest in the moment.
      You can fill in the online complaints form, which is on the BBC website.

      These pages have information about how to complain to the BBC, with links to the BBC’s Complaints Framework, the BBC’s regulator Ofcom and regular reports about complaints. Watch our short film to learn more about how the BBC responds to your feedback.


      They've been inundated, according to some newspaper reports.

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      • cloughie
        Full Member
        • Dec 2011
        • 22119

        Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
        You can fill in the online complaints form, which is on the BBC website.

        These pages have information about how to complain to the BBC, with links to the BBC’s Complaints Framework, the BBC’s regulator Ofcom and regular reports about complaints. Watch our short film to learn more about how the BBC responds to your feedback.


        They've been inundated, according to some newspaper reports.
        I think most of the ‘complaints’ from the forum will be after the return to ‘normal’. The wall to wall music with minimal babble has been good.

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        • kernelbogey
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 5745

          Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
          You can fill in the online complaints form, which is on the BBC website.
          These pages have information about how to complain to the BBC, with links to the BBC’s Complaints Framework, the BBC’s regulator Ofcom and regular reports about complaints. Watch our short film to learn more about how the BBC responds to your feedback.

          They've been inundated, according to some newspaper reports.
          It's sort of like sending a teenager up to their room, saying, 'Alright, you can listen to your music, but only nice music, and quietly'.

          A form will just be part of a bureaucratic process, and end up as a statistic.

          I hope R3 producers and presenters will look at these forum threads, and take note. (Though, of course, they may be powerless.)

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          • kernelbogey
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 5745

            Originally posted by cloughie View Post
            The wall to wall music with minimal babble has been good.

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            • oddoneout
              Full Member
              • Nov 2015
              • 9184

              I think I may have made a mistake( I was adrift with what the time was which didn't help, and only half heard what MH said) as to which of the slots was omitted, as later there was sound of birdsong merging into a Mahler song. However the basic grumble still exists as to why any omissions were thought necessary.
              I'm not filling in a complaint form (I thought I read yesterday that it has been taken down now?) but have written a letter(snailmail) to say how much I enjoyed Saturday's broadcasts, without the dumbtime early morning slots, and the intrusive and wholly unnecessary ADVERTS. I acknowledge that not everyone will have been happy at the loss of BaL and the evening opera relay, but I think most are able to accept that they will turn up eventually at some future date.

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              • Pulcinella
                Host
                • Feb 2014
                • 10921

                Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
                I think I may have made a mistake( I was adrift with what the time was which didn't help, and only half heard what MH said) as to which of the slots was omitted, as later there was sound of birdsong merging into a Mahler song. However the basic grumble still exists as to why any omissions were thought necessary.
                I'm not filling in a complaint form (I thought I read yesterday that it has been taken down now?) but have written a letter(snailmail) to say how much I enjoyed Saturday's broadcasts, without the dumbtime early morning slots, and the intrusive and wholly unnecessary ADVERTS. I acknowledge that not everyone will have been happy at the loss of BaL and the evening opera relay, but I think most are able to accept that they will turn up eventually at some future date.
                I think that by far the majority of complaints are to do with the blanket TV coverage, and that (as you say) we R3 folk are in general if anything grateful for the changes, given that Stravinsky Day will presumably be rescheduled fairly soon.

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                • Bryn
                  Banned
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 24688

                  Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                  I think that by far the majority of complaints are to do with the blanket TV coverage, and that (as you say) we R3 folk are in general if anything grateful for the changes, given that Stravinsky Day will presumably be rescheduled fairly soon.
                  Re the Stravinsky Day, true, but only by the removal/rescheduling of whatever was originally carefully scheduled for that day. Listening figures for Radio 3 yesterday will be of interest. Will they have gone up or down. I suspect the latter, and not to a marginal degree.

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                  • oddoneout
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2015
                    • 9184

                    Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                    Re the Stravinsky Day, true, but only by the removal/rescheduling of whatever was originally carefully scheduled for that day. Listening figures for Radio 3 yesterday will be of interest. Will they have gone up or down. I suspect the latter, and not to a marginal degree.
                    What would be just as interesting to my mind would be the make-up of the audience. There will be losses from those who wanted to hear the original schedule, but possibly gains(temporary) from those wanting refuge from elsewhere or who just left the radio on when it might normally be switched off.
                    As far as re-scheduling is concerned there are several hours on a Saturday which would arguably not be missed by those who would be wanting to engage with the Stravinsky Day?

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                    • french frank
                      Administrator/Moderator
                      • Feb 2007
                      • 30281

                      Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                      Re the Stravinsky Day, true, but only by the removal/rescheduling of whatever was originally carefully scheduled for that day. Listening figures for Radio 3 yesterday will be of interest. Will they have gone up or down. I suspect the latter, and not to a marginal degree.
                      I imagine the R3 gamble would be that a large portion of the new audience would be be switching over to news channels anyway, notwithstanding the complaints of excessive coverage.
                      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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                      • LMcD
                        Full Member
                        • Sep 2017
                        • 8458

                        Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                        Re the Stravinsky Day, true, but only by the removal/rescheduling of whatever was originally carefully scheduled for that day. Listening figures for Radio 3 yesterday will be of interest. Will they have gone up or down. I suspect the latter, and not to a marginal degree.
                        I don't think there's a radio equivalent of the overnight ratings for TV programmes, so we may have to wait a while. For some reason, Radio 4 Extra has been suspended and is now carrying the same programmes as Radio 4. I've no idea how typical, if at all, I am, but it's a long time since I spent so much of a Saturday listening to Radio 3.
                        Re #9945 - I've posted elsewhere (Prince Philip thread #181) on the major desertion of viewers from BBC1 and 2 and ITV 1 on Friday evening.
                        Last edited by LMcD; 11-04-21, 10:04.

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                        • Ein Heldenleben
                          Full Member
                          • Apr 2014
                          • 6779

                          Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                          I don't think there's a radio equivalent of the overnight ratings for TV programmes, so we may have to wait a while. For some reason, Radio 4 Extra has been suspended and is now carrying the same programmes as Radio 4. I've no idea how typical, if at all, I am, but' it's a long time since I spent so much of a Saturday listening to Radio 3.
                          You are right there are no overnight figures but I don’t think there will any figures at all.Unless things have changed Rajar figures are not currently being gathered because of Covid . Although channel wide figures are available for free on the Rajar website figures for individual programmes are only available if you , expensively , subscribe. Even then the figures for many smaller audience shows are pretty unreliable - almost approaching noise level.

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                          • french frank
                            Administrator/Moderator
                            • Feb 2007
                            • 30281

                            Originally posted by Heldenleben View Post
                            You are right there are no overnight figures but I don’t think there will any figures at all.
                            And certainly none published. I think BBC Radio networks do get updated more regularly on their figures, but if that's only via RAJAR rather than internal research, same applies: no published figures, either way.
                            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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                            • Ein Heldenleben
                              Full Member
                              • Apr 2014
                              • 6779

                              Originally posted by french frank View Post
                              And certainly none published. I think BBC Radio networks do get updated more regularly on their figures, but if that's only via RAJAR rather than internal research, same applies: no published figures, either way.
                              Yes looked at the website - fieldwork still suspended from Q1 2020...so anything could have happened in the last year though I suspect listening will have gone up across the board ...

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                              • DavidA1964
                                Full Member
                                • Apr 2021
                                • 1

                                I've really enjoyed Radio 3 this weekend, especially not being awoken by the terrible stuff on the Saturday Breakfast programme.

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