A Bit of News

[Alyn_Shipton]

After 55 years a rather major change announced today by Radio 3:

WEEKEND SCHEDULE
 Music Planet will move to a brand new prime weekend slot on Saturday afternoons at 4pm,
beginning on 5 October.
 Jazz Record Requests will move from Saturdays to Sundays from 4 - 5pm, beginning on 6 October.

[LMcD]

Thank you!

[eighthobstruction]

After 55 years a rather major change announced today by Radio 3:

WEEKEND SCHEDULE
 Music Planet will move to a brand new prime weekend slot on Saturday afternoons at 4pm,
beginning on 5 October.
 Jazz Record Requests will move from Saturdays to Sundays from 4 - 5pm, beginning on 6 October.

....what is on saturdays please....

[Serial_Apologist]

....what is on saturdays please....

A bit of rootsy-tootsie.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09ymx3v

Thanks for this news, Alyn

[DracoM]

So when's the rpt of CE? Hmm.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Is "JRR" being moved to Sundays to be "near the exit"? Suspicion rises. Is Saturday afternoon on R3 to be "magaziney" in pursuit of the youthful demographic? Surely Saturday is where JRR has always been and where its expected to be. People of taste and sophistication (me) arrange their weekends around this iconic "institution". Seriously, why not leave well alone. Juggling schedules is a listener disincentive whatever the "bright 2.1 kids" on work experience think.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

So when's the rpt of CE? Hmm.

They seem to be scheduled for 3:00pm - so I think JRR in its new Sunday slot will be replacing the 4:00pm Proms repeats?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Dec 2014 Telegraph:
"For anyone who loves jazz, BBC Radio 3’s Jazz Record Requests is the most familiar and rock-solid thing in the musical landscape. During its 50-year span musicians and bands have come and gone, and jazz festivals, clubs and record labels have started up, flourished, and in some cases faded away. But Jazz Record Requests just keeps going and going. It’s actually the longest running jazz show anywhere in the world, beating Marion McPartland’s Piano Jazz on the American NPR network by some distance. Get into the habit of listening to it, and you’ll find that in its undogmatic, friendly way, JRR (as its fans call it) will give you a deep and wide education, in the only way that really counts in jazz – an education by ear."

"Rock solid" means Saturdays. As Theresa Mayhem would say..."JRR means JRR means SATURDAYS"!

BN.

[DracoM]

So does that mean that Choir and Organ is..........well, kaput? Or............?

[Jazzrook]

JRR...

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Tr3OKxh-S9M

JR

[zola]

So does that mean that Choir and Organ is..........well, kaput?

It would appear so from the October listings in BBC Music.

[Old Grumpy]

It would appear so from the October listings in BBC Music.

SM-P too busy now she's big boss at Dartington, perhaps..

OG

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The Beeb fluff:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/r3-aw

[Serial_Apologist]

The Beeb fluff:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/r3-aw

On the sonic journey down the Thames, you might just about be able to make out the sound of me screaming, six miles away to the south.

[Serial_Apologist]

JRR...

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Tr3OKxh-S9M

JR