Roger Wright moves to Aldeburgh Music

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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30213

    Originally posted by Honoured Guest View Post
    The BBC Trust and Management based their decisions on the relative merits of the parties' cases.
    How do you know that? Would the decisions always be the same, regardless of who the members of Trust and Executive were? Oh, to live with such certainties as 'Whatever is, is right.'
    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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    • jean
      Late member
      • Nov 2010
      • 7100

      Originally posted by french frank View Post
      'Whatever is, is right.'
      Precisely.

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      • teamsaint
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 25190

        For purely personal reasons that need not concern board members, I had a listen into 6 Music yesterday morning.

        It was just like listening to R3, but with rock " classics" instead of classical warhorses.

        Presenter led chat with "celebrity" guests, music of a dull, unadventurous, predictable nature, irritating and pointless.
        Paul Sherratt suggests it is better at other times of day though.

        It would have to be.

        Very depressing.
        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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        • Honoured Guest

          It's like all BBC music stations in that weekday daytime programming is aimed at general listeners and the more specialist programmes are broadcast at other times.

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          • subcontrabass
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 2780

            Originally posted by Honoured Guest View Post
            It's like all BBC music stations in that weekday daytime programming is aimed at general listeners and the more specialist programmes are broadcast at other times.
            What is a "general listener" ?

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            • Honoured Guest

              Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
              What is a "general listener" ?
              A non-specialist listener.

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              • Richard Barrett

                Originally posted by Honoured Guest View Post
                A non-specialist listener.
                That doesn't really answer the question I think. What would a "specialist listener" be? a professional musician?

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                • Honoured Guest

                  Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
                  That doesn't really answer the question I think. What would a "specialist listener" be? a professional musician?
                  A person who has chosen to listen to a specialist programme.

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                  • Eine Alpensinfonie
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 20569

                    So now we have intellectual apartheid.

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                    • Eine Alpensinfonie
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20569

                      Originally posted by french frank View Post
                      How do you know that?
                      That's what I've been wondering ever since HG joined the forum. So much claimed inside knowledge...

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                      • jean
                        Late member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 7100

                        Originally posted by Honoured Guest View Post
                        A person who has chosen to listen to a specialist programme.
                        And what's a specialist programme? One that attracts a specialist listener, of course.

                        I think this is what's called a circular argument.

                        Will we get any further if we try to define a general listener/programme?

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                        • Honoured Guest

                          I've never claimed any inside knowledge. I have none.

                          I'd be very surprised if you don't all understand broadly what is meant in common usage by "general" and "specialist" in relation to listeners and programmes.

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                          • teamsaint
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 25190

                            Originally posted by Honoured Guest View Post
                            It's like all BBC music stations in that weekday daytime programming is aimed at general listeners and the more specialist programmes are broadcast at other times.
                            6 music is a specialist rock/contemporary music channel.

                            It is called 6 music.

                            But its content seems to be chat and classic/easy listening rock. Its daytime programming is for people not yet old enough to listen to R2.

                            More "specialist " programmes means programmes aimed at people who are actually interested in music, not music to hear in the background while they work.

                            Why do specialist pr0grammes have to be on at midnight, or outsied peak hours? What research is there that indicates that this the way to build audience, or serve the stations remit?

                            Apologists for low quality thresholds do none of us any favours.
                            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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                            • french frank
                              Administrator/Moderator
                              • Feb 2007
                              • 30213

                              Originally posted by Honoured Guest View Post
                              The killer detail of this Daily Mail piece:

                              [That the BBC wants Radio 3 to attract more 'mainstream' audiences]

                              Is this just a rumour?
                              I don't think it's a rumour: I think it's an out of date reference to the old 2011 review in which Radio 3 proposed that it should do so, as its editorial direction, and the BBC Trust said, 'Carry on, then'. This has been interpreted by some who should know better as the Trust requiring Radio 3 to do this (and Radio 3 has helped that particular canard to circulate).

                              The Controller of Radio 3 is responsible for its strategy.
                              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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                              • mercia
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8920

                                I know I'm a bit slow but the top of that article says "Roger Wright has left the BBC"
                                Is that correct ? Is there currently no Controller of Radio 3 ? I had been assuming he was in place until September.

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