The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[EdgeleyRob]

Sara tweets re Sony RAA:

@SaraMohrPietsch 1h Delighted and deeply proud of the whole team for our Breakfast Show of the Year nomination*

That's spoiled your day.

What's the competition like ?

[Hautboiste]

Back in the 1970s I applied for a job as music librarian with a now defunct local authority. My final papers at college were in written and assessed music librarianship and practical cataloguing and classification in music amongst other things. On top of that I'd worked for 2 years prior to college for an urban district council where I'd been everything from tea girl to chief librarian. There was one other candidate for the post who knew everyone and her father-in-law was on the interviewing panel! Guess which one of us got the job.

[french frank]

Sara tweets re Sony RAA:

@SaraMohrPietsch 1h Delighted and deeply proud of the whole team for our Breakfast Show of the Year nomination*

That's spoiled your day.

I've tried to work out who does the nominating. The BBC, certainly, and I suspect Radio 3 offers the suggestion to BBC Radio people.

Do you enjoy the Breakfast Show, Zucchini?

[Suffolkcoastal]

Looking at the previous nominations and winners of the under 10 million listener category, Breakfast would fit in well with its Radio 2.4/cheesy local radio breakfast show manner. There are a number of awards I would like to nominate Breakfast for, but they would not be repeatable here.

[Zucchini]

Suffolkcoastal: R3 is a national station and in the 10 million plus category

[french frank]

Suffolkcoastal: R3 is a national station and in the 10 million plus category

The Breakfast nominations are:

Breakfast – BBC Radio 3

Chris Evans – BBC Radio 2

The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show – Absolute Radio

KISS Breakfast with Rickie, Melvin & Charlie – KISS

Today Programme – BBC News for BBC Radio 4

Plus:

Best music programme

The Dermot O'Leary Show – Ora Et Labora for BBC Radio 2

Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service – BBC 6 Music

Lauren Laverne – BBC 6 Music

The Ronnie Wood Show – Somethin' Else for Absolute Radio & Absolute Classic Rock

Zane Lowe – BBC Radio 1

Music radio personality of the year

Charlie Sloth – BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra

Christian O'Connell – Absolute Radio

John Suchet – Classic FM

Ken Bruce – BBC Radio 2

Lauren Laverne – BBC 6 Music

Music radio broadcaster of the year

Cerys on 6 – BBC 6 Music

Jamie Cullum – Folded Wing for BBC Radio 2

Johnnie Walker – Wise Buddah Creative for BBC Radio 2

Mark Radcliffe & Stuart Maconie – Smooth Operations for BBC 6 Music

Suzy Klein – BBC Radio 3 & BBC Radio 4

UK station of the Year

BBC Asian Network

BBC Radio 5 live

Classic FM

Radio 3 also has a nomination for the best feature or documentary:

Belongings – TBI Media for BBC Radio 3

[teamsaint]

Going to be edge of the seat stuff.....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

So, not The Early Music Show; not The Essay; not Hear & Now; not Jazz Line-Up; not Late Junction or World Routes - not any of the programmes of which R3 might reasonably be proud, but the crappiest thing by far on any radio station?

[Suffolkcoastal]

and COTW which is always at least professional. Exactly, shows what the Dear Leader and his Politburo are now most proud of, namely just about the most awful programme that has ever come out of R3 and a total embarrassment. Since when has R3 had more than 10 million listeners?

[EdgeleyRob]

Wot no Alan Brazil sports breakfast ?.

Wonder if Paddy Power have opened a book ?

[french frank]

So, not The Early Music Show; not The Essay; not Hear & Now; not Jazz Line-Up; not Late Junction or World Routes - not any of the programmes of which R3 might reasonably be proud, but the crappiest thing by far on any radio station?

The reason it hasn't 'spoiled my day', as I believe Zucchini had it, is that I have always held that the characteristics which the Sony Radio Academy Awards value are not those that Radio 3 should embrace.

It's about newsworthiness (getting news coverage), popularity (getting big audiences or increasing your audience).

I posted some of the other categories so that you can see what they don't value - by not nominating them.

So, I'm quite pleased to see the Breakfast Show nominated. In puts it in a certain category. I seem to remember the year R3 won "UK Station of the Year" they were up against talkSport ...

If you see who makes up the jury you realise that few if any will ever listen to Radio 3 or appreciate what it does well.

[Black Swan]

I totally agree Suffolkcostal.

[Northender]

What makes Radio 3 different from its rivals is that - unfortunately - it doesn't seem to know what its essential role is, with the result that has ended up falling between any number of proverbial stools. Even when it deigns to broadcast complete works, these are often combined in a very messy fashion (the afternoon concerts on Tuesday - which also featured La Gazza Ladra- and Friday are cases in point). Much as I admire Brahms's 4th and the Rach 2, I like a decent interval between them, rather than hearing them in rapid succession. Classic FM, however much some people like to mock it- is a popular music station that happens to play a lot of 'classical' stuff'. Like it or not - and you don't HAVE to listen any more than you HAVE to listen to Radio 3 - CFM seems to know where it's going and how to get there. (ELGAR alert - SM-P has trailed the item after next - Pomp & Circumstance No. 1 - presumably afraid that the unfamiliar piece for cello and piaon that's now playing will scare us off.)

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm quite pleased to see the Breakfast Show nominated. In puts it in a certain category.

That was my first thought - it's puts a seal on the accuracy of what's said here about what's happened to the "show"

Do you enjoy the Breakfast Show, Zucchini?

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Der Troll schweigt....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

and COTW which is always at least professional.

- I thought I'd included that, but ... I won't edit it now, or it'll make your comment seem odd!

The reason it hasn't 'spoiled my day', as I believe Zucchini had it, is that I have always held that the characteristics which the Sony Radio Academy Awards value are not those that Radio 3 should embrace.

It's about newsworthiness (getting news coverage), popularity (getting big audiences or increasing your audience).

I posted some of the other categories so that you can see what they don't value - by not nominating them.

So, I'm quite pleased to see the Breakfast Show nominated. In puts it in a certain category. I seem to remember the year R3 won "UK Station of the Year" they were up against talkSport ...

If you see who makes up the jury you realise that few if any will ever listen to Radio 3 or appreciate what it does well.