Originally posted by Norfolk Born
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So what's wrong with Radio 3 Breakfast?
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Originally posted by doversoul View PostRW’s Radio3 on top form
Today, 19:30 on BBC Radio 3
performances of John Williams' Olympic Fanfare, Vangelis's world-famous theme from Chariots of Fire, Ravel's Bolero, highlights from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
135minutes of this? (we haven't been told)Last edited by Frances_iom; 03-03-12, 19:04.
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Originally posted by Frances_iom View PostI suspect we are due another 3 months of this possibly populist programming - quite what a bunch of often doped physical exercisers can add to the music is beyond me - but the whole Olympic charade is just a mechanism to throw large amounts of public money towards developers much the same way the public purse funded the infrastructure that enabled the private profit of Canary Wharf
building stadia to then knock them down? building arena we don't really need ? absolute madness.
25000 + security staff including lots of soldiers.........sounds dangerous to me !!
if it was any other event it would have been scrapped years ago.
and as for the intrusion into the musical world..............well at least Wickham festival is going ahead, with record ticket sales so far, right in the middle of it all. A haven of sanity, hopefully !!I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Did anyone see yesterday's Independent. In the magazine was a quite lengthy article on the success of 6Radio and the success of its average 39.5 year old audience in getting a reprieve and revival for the station. Match that to the total lack of success of this board.s average 59.5 (or is it 69.5) year old audience in restoring R3 to what it should be.
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostDid anyone see yesterday's Independent. In the magazine was a quite lengthy article on the success of 6Radio and the success of its average 39.5 year old audience in getting a reprieve and revival for the station. Match that to the total lack of success of this board.s average 59.5 (or is it 69.5) year old audience in restoring R3 to what it should be.
Sales of the radios remained very slow and I think it was privately (and not so privately) acknowledged that the strategy of launching all the new stations hadn't achieved its aim. So when the time came for finding cuts, the suits felt that 6 Music and the Asian Network (by far the least successful and most expensive of the new stations) could be axed without much loss.
But 6 Music was/is essentially a pop music station. It ought to have had more listeners and research showed that the main problem was low public awareness, not that there was no demand. When the campaign against closure was launched, the problem of public awareness was solved almost overnight: the potential audience flocked in (without necessarily having to buy DAB radios either, now that other platforms have become more popular).
R3's problem is, if anything, the exact opposite. The BBC strategy (however they like to cloak it) involves getting in more listeners and changing Radio 3 in order to make it more attractive. They have been using every promotional stunt in the book - from hugely expensive pan-BBC trails to One-Composerfests to the Nation's Favourite Opera Song to Snippets from the Charts to Your (Wake-Up) Call to Music Nation on 3. All ways of attracting public and media attention. The (potentially) huge audience poised to flock in is the one which is attracted by the gimmicks and the easier listening. Unlike with 6 Music, we don't have common cause with such new listeners and apart from those in the media who have been appreciative R3 listeners, Out There isn't that sympathetic towards us because we're not popIt 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 french frank View PostThe situation was that 6 Music was really doing reasonably well. But the five new digital stations were launched specifically to boost the sales of DAB receivers by providing more choices for listeners - as long as they bought the new radios. This isn't speculation: the BBC confirms it. It was preparation for the digital switchover.
Sales of the radios remained very slow and I think it was privately (and not so privately) acknowledged that the strategy of launching all the new stations hadn't achieved its aim. So when the time came for finding cuts, the suits felt that 6 Music and the Asian Network (by far the least successful and most expensive of the new stations) could be axed without much loss.
But 6 Music was/is essentially a pop music station. It ought to have had more listeners and research showed that the main problem was low public awareness, not that there was no demand. When the campaign against closure was launched, the problem of public awareness was solved almost overnight: the potential audience flocked in (without necessarily having to buy DAB radios either, now that other platforms have become more popular).
R3's problem is, if anything, the exact opposite. The BBC strategy (however they like to cloak it) involves getting in more listeners and changing Radio 3 in order to make it more attractive. They have been using every promotional stunt in the book - from hugely expensive pan-BBC trails to One-Composerfests to the Nation's Favourite Opera Song to Snippets from the Charts to Your (Wake-Up) Call to Music Nation on 3. All ways of attracting public and media attention. The (potentially) huge audience poised to flock in is the one which is attracted by the gimmicks and the easier listening. Unlike with 6 Music, we don't have common cause with such new listeners and apart from those in the media who have been appreciative R3 listeners, Out There isn't that sympathetic towards us because we're not pop
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Originally posted by cloughie View Post.. 6R's campaigners are also facebook twitterers, which is alien to many seasoned R3 boarders, myself included.
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look at use of internet + computers (not generally domestic items until 1990's) by the over 65's - yes many use them but not that fluently and for quite restricted purposes (eg their grandchild probably set up skype for them) - I can recall the difference between my parents kitchen and that of my grandparents re say use of fridge and freezer
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostAnd I thought we 'silver surfers' had been found to be the largest age-group amongst users - tho' don't know if that's still true....
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