I am probably like a lot of my age-group - mid seventies - in having a radio in each room tuned to the station I use most often, R3. So as I move about I press a button and can listen fairly smoothly. I get annoyed with morning and evening presentation but feel compensated by the occasional serendipity. I do use the iPlayer, but not every day.
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post. . . Of course, nobody from that 3.5million who have "never used a computer" has contributed to the Forum.
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostI would also suggest that the 70% of pensioners who do have used a computer are perhaps more likely to represent a likely population among which to find potential Radio 3 listeners.
Should iPlayer be a substitute for standard radio, so that people don't need to listen through a radio at all, or an additional facility?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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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... all right, all right - but must you show off quite so brazenly?
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Originally posted by greenilex View Post. . . a radio in each room tuned to the station I use most often, R3. So as I move about I press a button and can listen fairly smoothly. . .My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)
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Originally posted by french frank View PostAs at last year, 30% of pensioners have never used a computer. The average age of the Radio 3 audience is 59, which means a lot of older listeners are not in a position to take advantage of the iPlayer.
They want to listen on their radios at the most popular times for listening to radio. That means, effectively, to three programmes: Breakfast, Essential Classics and In Tune.
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostMmm, I'm not convinced by that argument. For one thing, surely those "older listeners" are not constrained to listening at any given time of the day?
Breakfast time is, for pretty obvious reasons, the peak time for listening: people in the home, relatively immobile wherever they are preparing or eating the meal. It's the time when advertising demand (that is, demand from advertisers!) is at its highest. From 9am onwards, audiences drop away flatlining during the afternoon until drivetime, then falling again as people migrate over to television.
That is how people choose to regulate their day, and you seem to be saying that they should do it differently.
Radio 3's main differences are that the breakfast time peak is a little later and the audience doesn't fall away so steeply during the course of the morning. That is not to do with what's being broadcast (exception probably the evening concert where evening listening is higher on R3 than other stations): it's how people listen. You might as well tell them to sit at their computers and listen to Listen Again more. It doesn't suit their preferences. But yes, they could be asked to alter their Preferences.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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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... all right, all right - but must you show off quite so brazenly?
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostMmm, I'm not convinced by that argument. For one thing, surely those "older listeners" are not constrained to listening at any given time of the day?
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Originally posted by french frank View PostT
Radio 3's main differences are that the breakfast time peak is a little later and the audience doesn't fall away so steeply during the course of the morning.
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Originally posted by Old Grumpy View PostI have recently replaced my retro mobile telephone with a smartphone. I am loving the facility to download and listen to selected Radio 3 programmes on iplayer. Makes listening to programmes I want to hear much easier.
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I think our Suzy tries too hard - a touch of the over-achieving headgirl? Her approach to punctuation I find less problematic that Petroc's. It's a bit exhausting to listen to, but at least doesn't make a nonsense of the text by putting in arbitrary gaps("Richard Egarr Undefiled Mother of God" being a notable recent one).
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