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  • DracoM
    Host
    • Mar 2007
    • 12960

    Baffled by R4 scheduling

    This is on the online page for R4's Christmas Eve daytime schedule:


    MORNING

    06:00
    OFF AIR
    Programmes will resume at 10:00

    10:00


    The Archers Omnibus
    24/12/2017
    Toby's life is changed forever, and there's a day to remember for Lilian.
    11:15
    OFF AIR
    Programmes will resume at 19:00


    What on earth is going on?
  • MrGongGong
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 18357

    #2
    Originally posted by DracoM View Post
    This is on the online page for R4's Christmas Eve daytime schedule:


    MORNING

    06:00
    OFF AIR
    Programmes will resume at 10:00

    10:00


    The Archers Omnibus
    24/12/2017
    Toby's life is changed forever, and there's a day to remember for Lilian.
    11:15
    OFF AIR
    Programmes will resume at 19:00


    What on earth is going on?

    Pip is pregnant

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    • DracoM
      Host
      • Mar 2007
      • 12960

      #3
      I think you know that isn't what was baffling.

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      • eighthobstruction
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 6432

        #4
        ....6-10am....football match in no mans land?

        yesbut....nobut....weird....
        bong ching

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        • MrGongGong
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 18357

          #5
          Originally posted by DracoM View Post
          I think you know that isn't what was baffling.
          Aaah you mean Matt Crawford
          sorry I misunderstood

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          • Pulcinella
            Host
            • Feb 2014
            • 10892

            #6
            Is the Christmas/New Year Radio Times out yet?
            That might shed light on both this and the King's carol service (usually listed in full).

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            • Serial_Apologist
              Full Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 37602

              #7
              Originally posted by DracoM View Post
              This is on the online page for R4's Christmas Eve daytime schedule:


              MORNING

              06:00
              OFF AIR
              Programmes will resume at 10:00

              10:00


              The Archers Omnibus
              24/12/2017
              Toby's life is changed forever, and there's a day to remember for Lilian.
              11:15
              OFF AIR
              Programmes will resume at 19:00


              What on earth is going on?
              Perhaps the Second Coming is due for announcement and someone in the Beeb Religious Affairs Dept has got wind of this. We need miracles at this time.

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              • MrGongGong
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 18357

                #8
                Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                Perhaps the Second Coming is due for announcement and someone in the Beeb Religious Affairs Dept has got wind of this. We need miracles at this time.
                You mean Nigel Pargetter will come back ?

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                • french frank
                  Administrator/Moderator
                  • Feb 2007
                  • 30250

                  #9
                  My guess is that 'Off Air' means the same as it does on R3's schedule when the programming hasn't been settled.R4 also 'off air' on Christmas Eve.
                  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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                  • jean
                    Late member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 7100

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                    Is the Christmas/New Year Radio Times out yet?
                    It's usually out long before the editions for the preceding couple of weeks - but not this year, I think.

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                    • DracoM
                      Host
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 12960

                      #11
                      It was the 'Off Air' insertion that puzzled. Sounds pretty definite.
                      You mean they really don't know a mere 18 days beforehand what programmes are to be scheduled? Hmm.

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                      • french frank
                        Administrator/Moderator
                        • Feb 2007
                        • 30250

                        #12
                        Originally posted by DracoM View Post
                        It was the 'Off Air' insertion that puzzled. Sounds pretty definite.
                        You mean they really don't know a mere 18 days beforehand what programmes are to be scheduled? Hmm.
                        No, I don't mean that. I mean that the Radio 3 schedules have frequently replaced the programme details by 'Off Air' when they aren't ready to announce them. Given that we usually only get a week ahead, rolled out one day at a time, they're already further ahead of themselves than is Radio 3 normally. And atm R3 is 'Off Air' at 7am on Christmas Eve. What's 'baffling' is why they use that phrase at all.

                        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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