News on R3

[LMcD]

I do not seek news on R3, so their sprinkling of news is just fine. Having too regular news bulletins usually constrains the musical content with fixed events on the hour or so forth.Like many I actually turn more to R3 as a way of avoiding the depressing litany of actions by the evil, stupid, incompetent or greedy that passes for news.

I'm one of the many! If you're quick off the mark you can make a cup of tea or coffee (or pour yourself a glass of something a bit stronger) and be settled back in your chair just as the news comes to an end.

[Old Grumpy]

I do not seek news on R3, so their sprinkling of news is just fine. Having too regular news bulletins usually constrains the musical content with fixed events on the hour or so forth.Like many I actually turn more to R3 as a way of avoiding the depressing litany of actions by the evil, stupid, incompetent or greedy that passes for news.

Indeed...



...but R3 Breakfast news the other day featured a report on the current footballfest as the first item!

Whether that fits into your definitions above is a moot point.

[hmvman]

I don't particularly want to hear news bulletins on R3 and I think there are too many during the Breakfast programme but at least they are fairly short. It would be better if they included a couple of items of news more relevant to R3 listeners - classical music and arts news.

[teamsaint]

Indeed...



...but R3 Breakfast news the other day featured a report on the current footballfest as the first item!

Whether that fits into your definitions above is a moot point.

Remembering what Zappa said about politics , which has unfortunately stood the test of time, they may as well have football, Taylor Swift, or this weeks gardening news.
Mumble Grumble…..

[LMcD]

I don't particularly want to hear news bulletins on R3 and I think there are too many during the Breakfast programme but at least they are fairly short. It would be better if they included a couple of items of news more relevant to R3 listeners - classical music and arts news.

Breakfast is regularly peppered with such items, including celebrations of the passing of musicians and others in the world of the arts and birth and death anniversaries, promotions of, and reviews of, concerts and festivals, and important local stories that don't qualify for news bulletins.

[french frank]

Breakfast is regularly peppered with such items, including celebrations of the passing of musicians and others in the world of the arts and birth and death anniversaries, promotions of, and reviews of, concerts and festivals, and important local stories that don't qualify for news bulletins.

I stopped listening, I think, in the pre-Breakfast Morning on 3 era, because every time the music stopped I kept wondering what they were going to tell me next that I didn't want to know

[LMcD]

I stopped listening, I think, in the pre-Breakfast Morning on 3 era, because every time the music stopped I kept wondering what they were going to tell me next that I didn't want to know

I would like to think that Lord Reith is up there nodding approvingly at Petroc's attempts to inform, educate and entertain us.

[french frank]

I would like to think that Lord Reith is up there nodding approvingly at Petroc's attempts to inform, educate and entertain us.

Up to a point, Lord Reith … :-)

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm one of the many! If you're quick off the mark you can make a cup of tea or coffee (or pour yourself a glass of something a bit stronger) and be settled back in your chair just as the news comes to an end.

It's my solution for the evermore increasingly inconsequential and moronic adverts now coming every 12 or so minutes on non-BBC TV channels.

[kernelbogey]

Up to a point, Lord Reith … :-)

[oddoneout]

Breakfast is regularly peppered with such items, including celebrations of the passing of musicians and others in the world of the arts and birth and death anniversaries, promotions of, and reviews of, concerts and festivals, and important local stories that don't qualify for news bulletins.

Many's the time I've heard news of such things as deaths of eminent musicians before they reach the main news - if at all in some cases. The variety of information is one of the reasons I still listen to Breakfast, but have given up on the rest of the output. The choice of music(even if it is not in full) I find interesting as well and not prone to same old same old repeat syndrome - unless I have been very inattentive for a long time, which is possible of course... I don't listen to the whole programme each day, admittedly, but usually a fairly big chunk of it.

[LMcD]

Many's the time I've heard news of such things as deaths of eminent musicians before they reach the main news - if at all in some cases. The variety of information is one of the reasons I still listen to Breakfast, but have given up on the rest of the output. The choice of music(even if it is not in full) I find interesting as well and not prone to same old same old repeat syndrome - unless I have been very inattentive for a long time, which is possible of course... I don't listen to the whole programme each day, admittedly, but usually a fairly big chunk of it.

I think the Breakfast playlists are gradually becoming less adventurous, with more 'popular classics', but I still listen for at least 2 hours every day, except on Saturdays, and learn quite a lot of arts-related facts and news that might otherwise have escaped my attention. .