Radio 3 Unwind starts on the 4th of November
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Shame, you missed Chailly's tremendous recording of the Eroica although only the first movt.
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I turned on R3 for a change this morning, and hit it towards the end of Mendelssohn's MND overture. Next thing up, a bloody trailer for guest what. Hideous, and off R3 goes. Either I was just unlucky, or they trail the thing after every, or almost every item.
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Originally posted by LMcD View Post
Perhaps they're concentrating on Great Western Music.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostLooking at the schedule it appears that Night Tracks is on Radio Unwind- as well as Radio 3
. Next step replace it on R3 with something sensible and let the Night Trackers switch over to Unwind which has now found its natural home. I can't believe that the BBC - and Radio 3 - are marketing classical music as 'music to go to sleep to'. Is there a more effective way to devalue it? It ranks with playing it in shopping centres to disperse the gangs of late night hooligans.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostLooking at the schedule it appears that Night Tracks is on Radio Unwind- as well as Radio 3
. Next step replace it on R3 with something sensible and let the Night Trackers switch over to Unwind which has now found its natural home. I can't believe that the BBC - and Radio 3 - are marketing classical music as 'music to go to sleep to'. Is there a more effective way to devalue it? It ranks with playing it in shopping centres to disperse the gangs of late night hooligans.
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Alas, I fear both above are right. ...................so CFM wins?
Am increasingly using European radio stns post 8 p.m.
Poor are those who cannot access an escape online from the eviscerated and sliding into ignominy R3!
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Originally posted by french frank View PostI can't believe that the BBC - and Radio 3 - are marketing classical music as 'music to go to sleep to'. Is there a more effective way to devalue it? It ranks with playing it in shopping centres to disperse the gangs of late night hooligans.
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Looking at the schedule it appears that Night Tracks is on Radio Unwind- as well as Radio 3
. Next step replace it on R3 with something sensible and let the Night Trackers switch over to Unwind which has now found its natural home. I can't believe that the BBC - and Radio 3 - are marketing classical music as 'music to go to sleep to'. Is there a more effective way to devalue it? It ranks with playing it in shopping centres to disperse the gangs of late night hooligans.
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Originally posted by smittims View PostI'm just relieved it hasn't replaced ThroughThe Night, which might easily have happened, so maybe For3 did have some influence there. I sometimes think Sam eyes TTN as a property developer eyes a few green fields and a patch of woodland between two housing estates in Oxfordshire.
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I'm just relieved it hasn't replaced ThroughThe Night, which might easily have happened, so maybe For3 did have some influence there. I sometimes think Sam eyes TTN as a property developer eyes a few green fields and a patch of woodland between two housing estates in Oxfordshire.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostIt occurred to me that the only success FoR3 had in persuading the BBC they should think again was when they reduced the audio quality of R3 in order to assign the necessary bandwidth to a looped trail as a placemarker for Radio 5 Sports Extra when it was off air. The BBC boffins assured the managers that the reduction in bandwidth would not be detectable by the human ear. I printed off pages of forum posts complaining about it in order to persuade the Director of Radio that on the contrary the decrease in audio quality was very noticeable and unacceptable. They did reverse their decision and I received a letter from the Director of Radio notifying me.
So, I don't think we would have much joy in persuading them that RadioUnwind should be abolished, but we might persuade them that it should be completely separate from Radio 3, that what it offers is for a different audience. I would therefore suggest a name change from Radio 3 Unwind to BBC Radio Unwind, or even Classical Unwind, and explain to them that classical music is not quintessentially 'calming' and that most classical music lasts for longer than 4 or 5 minutes. I'm collating the bests forum posts for a similar, very polite, missive, copied to the DG, of course.
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It occurred to me that the only success FoR3 had in persuading the BBC they should think again was when they reduced the audio quality of R3 in order to assign the necessary bandwidth to a looped trail as a placemarker for Radio 5 Sports Extra when it was off air. The BBC boffins assured the managers that the reduction in bandwidth would not be detectable by the human ear. I printed off pages of forum posts complaining about it in order to persuade the Director of Radio that on the contrary the decrease in audio quality was very noticeable and unacceptable. They did reverse their decision and I received a letter from the Director of Radio notifying me.
So, I don't think we would have much joy in persuading them that RadioUnwind should be abolished, but we might persuade them that it should be completely separate from Radio 3, that what it offers is for a different audience. I would therefore suggest a name change from Radio 3 Unwind to BBC Radio Unwind, or even Classical Unwind, and explain to them that classical music is not quintessentially 'calming' and that most classical music lasts for longer than 4 or 5 minutes. I'm collating the bests forum posts for a similar, very polite, missive, copied to the DG, of course.
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