R4's "Feedback" had a piece about cuts to Radio 1 (which I don't listen to).
Radio 1's head, Aled Haydn Jones, said something interesting about their Sounds streaming and OFCOM that may be relevant to the Tearjerker etc. drivel.
Here are a few "highlights" (apologies for any typos or errors):
Roger Bolton asked "What about Decompression Session? Which almost sent me to sleep... but how much of this is unique to Sounds?" (~8:00 in).
RB "How much fresh, original content...?" (~9:14)
AHJ "Not a station... we can't put live programming on it..." (~10:12)
RB "Similar services already provided by other commercial stations such as Magic & Virgin..." ~10:49
RB "Always Politics involved... chair of all party Parliamentary group on commercial radio asked the regulator Ofcom to fully investigate BBC Sounds app..." (~11:28)
AHJ "Open and honest with Ofcom about our need to collate programmes already broadcast on Radio 1 into its own stream..." (~12:18)
AHJ "... reassure them that the programmes that are going out on Radio 1 Relax are also already broadcast and already part of BBC Sounds. So OFCOM say it's fine, if other people do not agree..." (~12:36)
AHJ "... I'm focused on ensuring young people get use of the licence fee in the same way that older audiences do." (~12:51)
So, to sum up - "You Oldies get too much radio", "We want Youngsters to have it", "Stop moaning and b#gger off to Classic FM" (Alright, he didn't really imply the last part, but I'm extrapolating in my best Scientific manner.)
Does this mean that the Tearjerker drivel will also be used in this way, i.e. fragments of the as-broadcast programmes can be cut up and streamed willy-nilly? And, because the fragments have already been aired, they're automatically legally compliant?
In terms of funding I wonder what the relative proportions of Radio funding is between Youngsters & Oldies? Or, is £ R2+R3+R4+R4extra > R1+R1extra+Radio1Relax+Radio1Dance+Radio6Music+Asi anNetwork+... (N.B. I'm guessing at a lot of these stations, never having heard them).
Radio 1's head, Aled Haydn Jones, said something interesting about their Sounds streaming and OFCOM that may be relevant to the Tearjerker etc. drivel.
Here are a few "highlights" (apologies for any typos or errors):
Roger Bolton asked "What about Decompression Session? Which almost sent me to sleep... but how much of this is unique to Sounds?" (~8:00 in).
RB "How much fresh, original content...?" (~9:14)
AHJ "Not a station... we can't put live programming on it..." (~10:12)
RB "Similar services already provided by other commercial stations such as Magic & Virgin..." ~10:49
RB "Always Politics involved... chair of all party Parliamentary group on commercial radio asked the regulator Ofcom to fully investigate BBC Sounds app..." (~11:28)
AHJ "Open and honest with Ofcom about our need to collate programmes already broadcast on Radio 1 into its own stream..." (~12:18)
AHJ "... reassure them that the programmes that are going out on Radio 1 Relax are also already broadcast and already part of BBC Sounds. So OFCOM say it's fine, if other people do not agree..." (~12:36)
AHJ "... I'm focused on ensuring young people get use of the licence fee in the same way that older audiences do." (~12:51)
So, to sum up - "You Oldies get too much radio", "We want Youngsters to have it", "Stop moaning and b#gger off to Classic FM" (Alright, he didn't really imply the last part, but I'm extrapolating in my best Scientific manner.)
Does this mean that the Tearjerker drivel will also be used in this way, i.e. fragments of the as-broadcast programmes can be cut up and streamed willy-nilly? And, because the fragments have already been aired, they're automatically legally compliant?
In terms of funding I wonder what the relative proportions of Radio funding is between Youngsters & Oldies? Or, is £ R2+R3+R4+R4extra > R1+R1extra+Radio1Relax+Radio1Dance+Radio6Music+Asi anNetwork+... (N.B. I'm guessing at a lot of these stations, never having heard them).
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