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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostMartin Handley is my favourite Breakfast presenter by a long way. But it does grate when he says 'I'll see you next Saturday,' when of course that is one thing that he won't be doing.
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostIt's all so incredibly false.
Thinking about it, broadcasters have an idea of something they're trying to achieve and they're not too bothered how annoying it is to the listeners, who have separate ideas about what they'd like to hear.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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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostAnd "Thank you for your company" (unless he was addressing the microphone or the technician). It's all so incredibly false.
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostPossibly counterintuitively, I find this phrase - which I believe to be an invention of Jonathan Swain on TTN - warmly comforting. I think (and have posted before) that radio is a one-to-one communication. It jars for me when presenters say 'some of you...' which comes from their perspective of broadcasting to many: as a listener, I am the only one s/he is addressing! Especially in the middle of the night.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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Originally posted by french frank View PostI suppose it depends what you want/expect of radio. I find the idea of "interacting" with a radio station totally bizarre. Why would I want to interact with a radio station or presenter? I just want to focus on the music, or play, or documentary; not enter into a relationship with someone I may in fact feel I don't like very much. That won't matter if they just get on with the introductions.
As a bit of a side issue, I guess it actually provides , for some people, a justification for their payment of the fee. They may understand that voicing a point of view on national media may well not happen, but given a modicum of persistence, that view might actually make it onto the airwaves in, say, Hampshire. Which in a world of people expressing their views on a myriad of platforms, seems reasonable enough.
Anyway, back to R3, and honestly, on a 24 hour station,I can't see that having a small window for interactive listener experience is that big a deal. Just part of the mix. The people running the station might even gain something from it. But I suppose some people might reasonably see it as part of a general and undesirable direction of travel, which of course it needn't be.
( R1 fans might recall the very popular Annie Nightingale request show, one of the better things on that station at the time).Last edited by teamsaint; 09-05-18, 19:36.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostI suppose it depends what you want/expect of radio. I find the idea of "interacting" with a radio station totally bizarre. Why would I want to interact with a radio station or presenter? I just want to focus on the music, or play, or documentary; not enter into a relationship with someone I may in fact feel I don't like very much. That won't matter if they just get on with the introductions.
Personally, I just find the phrase 'thank you for your company' a pleasant alternative way of saying 'thanks for listening'. My distaste for 'I'll see you next week' does probably belong in Pedants' Paradise.
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Originally posted by teamsaint View Post.... Anyway, back to R3, and honestly, on a 24 hour station,I can't see that having a small window for interactive listener experience is that big a deal. Just part of the mix. The people running the station might even gain something from it.
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kernelbogey
I always thought the ‘you’ in Thank you for your company was plural.
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Originally posted by doversoul1 View PostI often have a chance (not by choice) to hear R2 and yes, I can see that interactive between the listeners and the presenter works well there in more than one sense. However, with six radio stations, having one station as a small window for the listeners who prefer their listening experience without listener interactive isn’t that big deal surely?
kernelbogey
I always thought the ‘you’ in Thank you for your company was plural.
I'd just like to mention that don't listen to a lot of late night local radio.......I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by teamsaint View PostAnyway, back to R3, and honestly, on a 24 hour station,I can't see that having a small window for interactive listener experience is that big a deal. Just part of the mix.
Originally posted by teamsaint View PostThe people running the station might even gain something from it.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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Originally posted by french frank View PostAnd I suppose I was thinking of R3 exclusively, since I haven't listened to any other station for getting on for 30 years. But, honestly, no station is really a 24-hour station if you're thinking about 'live' listening. I just rebel against any idea that 'the broadcasters' have worked out what 'people' want, and they're jolly well going to get it at peak listening times (and it's a 'big deal' if that happens to be when, like many others, you want to listen), and no matter what radio station they're listening to. It seems to me stale, lazy and clichéd programming. Texts, tweets, requests - never did new ideas pall so quickly. But this was mainly about presenters: if you want to hear your friendly 'likeable' presenters, you have to put up with the tooth grindingly annoying ones. I don't think that's what R3 should descend to but I'm quite happy to be in a minority in holding this view.
I'm sure they think they do, otherwise they wouldn't do it.
And it should be used judiciously.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostAnd I suppose I was thinking of R3 exclusively, since I haven't listened to any other station for getting on for 30 years. But, honestly, no station is really a 24-hour station if you're thinking about 'live' listening. I just rebel against any idea that 'the broadcasters' have worked out what 'people' want, and they're jolly well going to get it at peak listening times (and it's a 'big deal' if that happens to be when, like many others, you want to listen), and no matter what radio station they're listening to. It seems to me stale, lazy and clichéd programming. Texts, tweets, requests - never did new ideas pall so quickly. But this was mainly about presenters: if you want to hear your friendly 'likeable' presenters, you have to put up with the tooth grindingly annoying ones. I don't think that's what R3 should descend to but I'm quite happy to be in a minority in holding this view.
I'm sure they think they do, otherwise they wouldn't do it.
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