New Presenter for Weekend Breakfast Show

[Guest]

I see there is a new presenter or new to me for Saturday and Sunday Breakfast. Adam Tomlinson does anyone have any information, etc on him?

[vinteuil]

I see there is a new presenter or new to me for Saturday and Sunday Breakfast. Adam Tomlinson does anyone have any information, etc on him?

... after Simon Hoban and that other bloke they seem to have found another local radio breakfast presenter -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/content/articles/2005/12/08/radioyork_adam_tomlinson_feature.shtml

[Sir Velo]

Here is a bio. Obviously, his experience hosting breakfast shows with their focus on tweets, travel news and trivia is considered to be an excellent qualification for the job.

[underthecountertenor]

Oh Lord. Martin Handley needs to be chained to the studio chair.

[teamsaint]

Adam is presenting the Britten/DSCH concert tonight also.

[Black Swan]

Oh Lord. Martin Handley needs to be chained to the studio chair.

I totally agree. I have taken a few days off and caught the end of Breakfast this morning which was Dire. Sarah was playing something from the movie Xanadu. I don't know this movie and the excerpt didn't pique my interest to see it.

[teamsaint]

I totally agree. I have taken a few days off and caught the end of Breakfast this morning which was Dire. Sarah was playing something from the movie Xanadu. I don't know this movie and the excerpt didn't pique my interest to see it.

wasn't Olivia Newton John on most of the music ?!

any road up, here is a shot in the dark...but this bloke

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/dorset/hi/tv_and_radio/newsid_8170000/8170245.stm

does Drive time on Radio Solent and he is, TBF, a good presenter.(in the sense of being professional and slick).
He also has a good knowledge of pop music.
I really wouldn't be at all surprised if he got a trial on R3.....

[Nick Armstrong]

I see there is a new presenter or new to me for Saturday and Sunday Breakfast. Adam Tomlinson does anyone have any information, etc on him?

... after Simon Hoban and that other bloke they seem to have found another local radio breakfast presenter -


https://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire..._feature.shtml

We have had cause to discuss Mr Tomlinson before....

Let me take you back to the summer.... (*cue: harp arpeggios*)

I'm not warming to the announcer though, whose grasp on the piece seems to be pretty superficial and who has just informed me that "there are no really outstanding moments" in the opera. And - oh dear - he's just invited listeners to tweet their comments "so we can all join in with this".

The presenter knows absolutely nothing. He's reading out prepared questions which come straight out of Noddy's Siegfried Book for Kiddies, he is not engaging in debate or getting the best out of the speaker. Dreary and totally unnecessary.

Groanworthy tat.

Couldn't agree more - I confess to having switched off with a four-letter word*

Patronising, Noddy stuff indeed...





*Not the chap's actual four-letter first name either. This is the person:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002fg04

The curse of "breakfast" strikes again...

"Adam Tomlinson is Radio York's voice of breakfast for the weekends.

Presenting both Saturday and Sunday breakfast programmes means plenty of early starts.

As presenter of BBC Radio York's Saturday breakfast show, Adam Tomlinson knows a thing or two about early mornings and gardening.

He's on air between 6am and 9am every Saturday morning.

For the first two hours there's a fine mix of music and chat, plus your chance to win great prizes on "Hit & Miss", the competition that gets you guessing the ages of celebrities, will you be the next champion."





The obvious choice to present a live performance of Siegfried

I mean - look at his cheery face!

[underthecountertenor]

Black Swan: you were lucky only to catch the end. She seemed to spend the whole morning reading out dreadful soi-disant haiku submitted by listeners, telling us in that patronising tone she has how clever and wonderful they were (when they weren't). Something that I'm sure she's done before. Petroc doesn't do this sort of thing. Nor does Martin. Why does she?

[Frances_iom]

...
He also has a good knowledge of pop music.
I really wouldn't be at all surprised if he got a trial on R3.....

As I keep on pointing out R3 has morphed into R2 (as was) thus knowledge of the last decade's pop music is what will be required in future - R2 can thus concentrate on the 20+ year olds who being major spenders are sought by just about every other radio station.

[Mary Chambers]

Adam is presenting the Britten/DSCH concert tonight also.

Oh, is that who it was? I wondered. Not impressed, not one bit.

[Alison]

Dear oh dear. Very poor.

I certainly won't be tuning in at the weekend!

[Roehre]

Dear oh dear. Very poor.

I certainly won't be tuning in at the weekend!

I've never done since 2005. That was when IMO the rot set in too strongly.

[Flay]

Oh, is that who it was? I wondered. Not impressed, not one bit.

Nor was Hornspieler on another thread. It made him even grumpier than usual:

Oh dear, oh dear!

Talk about forced labour!

An idiot presenter just about summed that up for me.

I must say he did prattle on rather about the interval talk, which had no relevance to the concert.

He sounded well out of his depth.

[Dave2002]

As I keep on pointing out R3 has morphed into R2 (as was) thus knowledge of the last decade's pop music is what will be required in future - R2 can thus concentrate on the 20+ year olds who being major spenders are sought by just about every other radio station.

Are the 20+ really major spenders in the current economic climate? In a recent trip northwards I made a remark to a family member that there didn't seem to be much sign of austerity, and was promptly corrected. I think some people, which includes youmg, middle aged and older are having a hard time right now, while others are barely affected at all. Where the 20+ group may be different is in the seemingly unthinking way they might spend - instant gratification versus long term, but even suggesting that is probably a vast over generalisation.

In some market sectors I suspect older people are actually bigger spenders. A few years ago I read that the average age of a Porsche driver was around 55-57.

Many middle class families are smoothing things out, by older members passing money down to sons and daughters - for example:

Buying them cars
Buying them houses or flats, or putting deposits down
Paying tuition fees
Paying off student loans
Bailing them out ...
Etc.

There always was an element of this, but the scale of transfers is surely much higher now. I had to work to buy an old banger of a car when I was around 21 - but now it seems that often new ones are 18th birthday presents. OTOH I didn't have to pay student fees or repay student loans.

Another family member who is financially astute has sugested that the current student loan arrangements are actually roughly equivalent to a 9-10% "graduate" tax for those who pay their loans back. This is based on an observation that the current interest rates for student loans are sufficiently higher (no longer an obvious "almost free" money supply for the better off) than previous loans that many who start to pay their loans off (kicks in at around £21k salary) will very possibly only succeed in paying off interest for quite a while. Some will get highly paid jobs and pay off early, but many won't. In the meantime, young people who do not have the support of middle class families may have an even rougher time, and some talented young people will not even take the chance on "better" educational opportunities. In some cases this is a great shame.