Conversational - One word which sums up what's gone wrong with broadcasting.

[Serial_Apologist]

I wonder if the BBC fears/believes that today's goldfish attention span audience is unable to cope with the lack of pictures on the radio and therefore needs some way of staying engaged? Ironically, for me it's the 'talking head' TV presenters that I find the most interesting and watchable. I don't need histrionics,emoting and 'bigging up' to understand or appreciate what I am seeing on screen, and in the same way I don't need 'conversational' to stay engaged in radio. I have always had something of a problem hearing speech clearly, and in recent years that has got markedly worse so this new style means I miss a good deal of what (little in some cases) information is being conveyed.

The worst example of this, from a lengthening diet of bad examples over the past few years, was on this morning's Sunday Politics show on BBC1. In trying to explain the complex parametrics involved in having Parliament vote on the timings, practicalities and tactical advantages of accepting whatever deal is or is not reached with the EU, Hilary Benn was subjected to interruption after interruption by Sarah Smith making his answers (or were they part-answers?) completely incomprehensible to even the most attentive viewer.

[Alison]

The general chumminess on BBC news channel I find very irritating.

Neither do I like that self important sequence of reporter images that accompany the signature tune each hour.