'Slow Radio' and other changes afoot at R3

[Bryn]

.. A scheme like New Generation Artists - but for presenters - would surely unearth some hidden talent.

ISTR that's effectively how we got SMP.

[Nick Armstrong]

It feels like those deciding schedules etc. don't actually listen to the cringeworthy, toe-curling interviews and other vacuous gibbering that we endure.

Fortunately, those organising the technology mean that we can completely ignore the scheduling numpties!

I too was born 'too early' and cut my teeth taping off the wireless. But I've become a thorough-going 'late adopter' of the technology - it saves a world of pain!

[french frank]

ISTR that's effectively how we got SMP.

Talent contest.

[DracoM]

This should be interesting:

DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT COMMITTEE:

Tuesday 7 November
Time: 10.30 am
Subject: BBC Annual Report and Accounts 2016-17

Witnesses:

Tony Hall, Director General, BBC
Sir David Clementi, Chairman, BBC
Anne Bulford, Deputy Director General, BBC

[french frank]

The annual grilling, I suppose "talent" pay being an issue that will be raised.

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Witnesses:

Tony Hall, Director General, BBC
Sir David Clementi, Chairman, BBC
Anne Bulford, Deputy Director General, BBC

[teamsaint]

The annual grilling, I suppose "talent" pay being an issue that will be raised.

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The Parable of the Talents ,perhaps....

[Nick Armstrong]

Talent contest.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/sep/15/posh-bbc-removes-qualifications-from-cvs-of-job-applicants

[french frank]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...job-applicants

Interesting. If details of university degrees are widely removed from CVs, there will be less reason to go to university in the first place, 'since you can get [evidence] through demonstrating competency in other ways'. Or does it just mean that there will be cunning ways of discovering whether someone has been to university, more circuitous and subtle than just asking people?

“The hard question is what is good. We know what our data is, we don’t know how it compares to other people. Until we have data across the industry, I think it’s quite hard to know what good is. We would love to have a target, we would be very happy to do that, it’s just what it would be.”

I think there might be a job in government for that man.

[mercia]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...-autumn-winter

what that doesn't quite mention, though perhaps it is implied, is that when In Tune loses 30 minutes at 4:30pm it will get back at 6:30pm with the loss of the repeat of Composer Of The Week, with the extra 30 minutes taken up by the mixtape thing

[french frank]

what that doesn't quite mention, though perhaps it is implied, is that when In Tune loses 30 minutes at 4:30pm it will get back at 6:30pm with the loss of the repeat of Composer Of The Week, with the extra 30 minutes taken up by the mixtape thing

I'd have to say that I always thought there was something uncomfortable about repeating the midday CotW at 6.30, since it entailed losing the 'midday' listeners after In Tune. Who's going to want to hear the identical music-documentary programme twice every day, Monday to Friday? With the iPlayer no one need miss an episode, so insisting on hearing the [recorded] programme 'live' is probably asking a bit too much. The late night repeat seemed a better idea, but since there's no longer a slot available for it, it had to be tucked in where a space could be manoeuvred for it.

[Nick Armstrong]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...-autumn-winter

"An all-star line-up this autumn..."

[mercia]

what that doesn't quite mention, though perhaps it is implied, is that when In Tune loses 30 minutes at 4:30pm it will get back at 6:30pm with the loss of the repeat of Composer Of The Week, with the extra 30 minutes taken up by the mixtape thing

with In Tune now starting at 5pm I suppose Choral Evensong could move to 4pm - but not today anyway

[Barbirollians]

"An all-star line-up this autumn..."

That press pack really could have been written by Siobhan of Perfect Curve.

[Gary Freer]

Well, that's ruined my evening drive home from the railway station - no better way of unwinding while hearing something interesting than tuning into Donald M. Even the Sandy Goehr stuff was tolerable.

[Sir Velo]

Well, that's ruined my evening drive home from the railway station - no better way of unwinding while hearing something interesting than tuning into Donald M. Even the Sandy Goehr stuff was tolerable.

My approach to the dogs' dinner which is the evening slot is to plug a HI Res Sony NWZ-15A in via the Aux slot on the car stereo, giving me a choice of 128Gb of recorded music from various carefully "curated" playlists. Occasionally, when in good 4G area, the R3 app can also be reliably used where one can catch up on a concert or recital without any of the inane interruptions that mar R3's live early evening offerings.