Skelly leaving Essential Classics

[oddoneout]

OED merely says it's 'colloquial', unlike a slightly shorter word which is 'coarse slang'. You may have miscounted the asterisks.

Anyway, to jointly share a prime 3-hour morning slot with one other presenter isn't really matched by a lower-profile 3-hour afternoon slot shared with three others.

Particularly when the afternoon slot gives far less opportunity for individual input - an interval interview is about as far as it goes for the most part.

[cloughie]

Particularly when the afternoon slot gives far less opportunity for individual input - an interval interview is about as far as it goes for the most part.

Maybe he’ll be doing some of the lunchtime live concerts that Georgia has done recently!

Who will become Petroc’s back-up on Breakfast - maybe Lizzie? though he tends to do it on a 3:1 ratio rather than 50/50.

[french frank]

Particularly when the afternoon slot gives far less opportunity for individual input - an interval interview is about as far as it goes for the most part.

Another solution would be to have 'less input' from all the announcer-presenters from that style of programme, and they would spend less time preparing material, could do more programmes, and a few of them could then go back to the other radio stations they'd come from.

[antongould]

And what's really hypocritical about that press release is how they manage to avoid saying Ian's being kicked off and Georgia's taking his place. It's as if there are two entirely unrelated pieces of information: they're both getting enticing new jobs. They don't even mention that Ian was doing EC.

S****b***s.

Yes it is appalling ........

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Who will become Petroc’s back-up on Breakfast - maybe Lizzie? though he tends to do it on a 3:1 ratio rather than 50/50.

Please don’t put ideas into their heads.

[hmvman]

I think that, probably, Georgia Mann is better suited to the EC style than Ian Skelly. Before he got the EC posting Ian stood out as a very good presenter of concerts with the 'subversive' style that we like. It'll be good to have him presenting the afternoon concerts and hopefully he'll still be able to get in his quips.

I must admit, though, to not being a regular EC listener and appreciate that some of you will miss IS on the programme (show?) I tend to listen to R3 more in the afternoons. Good, too, that Petroc's staying in the Breakfast slot, it's a bit of a disappointment for me when GM's in the presenting chair.

[Rex Bartlett]

very disappointed, I think he is the best there has been on this show for some time.

I couldn't agree more. It's always been a pleasure and relief to have him back after enduring two weeks of that woman.

[oddoneout]

I wonder if any of those included in this reshuffle actually requested a change? And even if someone did, was this the best/only way to accommodate that request?
Taken together with the recent assault on TTN it does rather smack of a perverse take on "If it ain't broke...", whereby management sees something working/being liked by listeners and fiddles with it, to the benefit of no-one and the detriment of the target of the interference.

[Barbirollians]

I wonder if any of those included in this reshuffle actually requested a change? And even if someone did, was this the best/only way to accommodate that request?
Taken together with the recent assault on TTN it does rather smack of a perverse take on "If it ain't broke...", whereby management sees something working/being liked by listeners and fiddles with it, to the benefit of no-one and the detriment of the target of the interference.

Your post sums up the management of Radio 3 for the last 20 years.

[Ein Heldenleben]

The Skelly saga has made the Telegraph. As I thought it was an impromptu announcement by him ..pretty brave of him really.

[MJB]

Your post sums up the management of Radio 3 for the last 20 years.

...if not that of BBC programmes generally for the last 20 -or more- years.

[DracoM]

Your post sums up the management of Radio 3 for the last 20 years.

[oddoneout]

The Skelly saga has made the Telegraph. As I thought it was an impromptu announcement by him ..pretty brave of him really.

And shows a great deal more regard for his audience than does the management...

[cloughie]

And shows a great deal more regard for his audience than does the management...

He shows a great deal more regard for his audience than he does for his management who it appears he has upset!

[antongould]

He shows a great deal more regard for his audience than he does for his management who it appears he has upset!

I am heartbroken if the suits are upset ......