Late-evening pleasures on Radio 3

[Serial_Apologist]

There’s quite of lot of well grounded research that Radio 3’s audience is skewed male, over 55 and ABC1. It’s not just Rajar figures but other surveys the BBC does. Radio 5 and local Radio tend to be more C2DE. The conundrum the BBC has is that the ABC1 audience reaction tend to be supporters of the licence fee - something that’s not largely true of C2DE’s.
The other problem is that the core audience - the one that drives support the BBC One audience is in long term slow decline. People should be under no illusion if support for the licence fee keeps declining subscription won’t go any where near replacing the cost of its current service provision . It might raise a billion tops. Radio 3 and 4 and 5 would be amongst the first services to go leaving little more than BBC One and a few national radio services. Maybe 1, 2 ,and a Radio 3/ 4 . Something uncannily similar to broadcasting in 1937.
The other problem is that the BBC faces a huge range of implacable enemies ranging from Vladimir Putin to Rupert Murdoch and when you look at the comments in most right wing newspapers they seem to have convinced many of their readers that defunding the BBC is the road to take. All I can say is try listening to the news in the 45
percent of the world that has neither a truly free press or broadcasting System .

It all fits in rather neatly with the further slow demise of the community still invoked as necessary for the bringing up of a child. We're told by the powers that be that on the one hand we must be less wasteful in the name of planetary survival, and on the other that culture - without which there is no civilisation - be disseminated according to the time demands and restrictions imposed by the very modern living for which technological advance was supposed to liberate us!

[Serial_Apologist]

You can fit what OFCOM has done to protect and encourage programme production in the UK for audiences in the UK into a very small thimble. They’ve sat back , produced reports and watched it fall to pieces. ITV will soon be owned by the Americans like C5 , C4 is facing oblivion and the BBC shrinking to a pale shadow,

It's very very worrying. What sort of a world to they think they are going to end up with? All the opinion shapers seem concerned with is dicing up the way in which information vital for arriving in even the most basic levels of social consensus regarding matters of ever-increasing urgency, along with the cultural manifestations of awareness, all in the name of the regurgitated sacred illusion of "choice".

[LMcD]

ITV will soon be owned by the Americans like C5 ,

Well, I suppose it will make a nice change from being owned by somebody from China or the Middle East oil states.