Scala Radio

[cloughie]

I don't know the answer to the question (#82), but a quick glance at my 2019 Radio Listener's Guide suggests a possible answer. I paraphrase: Scala Radio is not listed (RLG is published in December the year before), but Planet Rock is - this is only "available on from Digital 2 (Sound Digital / SDL) transmitters (on channel 11A) - which cover around 83% of the UK population. Digital 1 [which was the first DAB multiplex in the UK] transmitters, broadcasts to 91% of the UK population (on channel 11D in NI, England and Wales and 12A in Scotland)".

OG

I'll get my anorak...

Yes, I get all that - clear as mud!

[Old Grumpy]

Yes, I get all that - clear as mud!

If you can't get Digital 2 (and therefore Planet Rock), perhaps you can't get Scala either (Scala seems to have something to do with Planet - see #84)

OG

[Old Grumpy]

"Mayo plays John Barry, Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty, that Figaro opera one (Rossini’s Largo al factotum), a classical version of Coldplay’s The Scientist. All whistleable, the type of classical music made popular by adverts and cinema scores, and the whole show really is easy listening, in the non-pejorative sense. I usually can’t work to Classic FM or Radio 3 – one is too cheesy, the other too cerebral … "

As one who doesn't find Radio 3 cerebral enough (or did she mean R3 was the cheesy one?), I tried it for about five minutes. I'd really prefer nothing at all .

I knew you'd like that FF, hence my disclaimer!

[french frank]

I knew you'd like that FF, hence my disclaimer!

[cloughie]

If you can't get Digital 2 (and therefore Planet Rock), perhaps you can't get Scala either (Scala seems to have something to do with Planet - see #84)

OG

I retuned one of my radios and now can listen to it, but on the strength of of what I heard last night - I don’t think I will trouble their airwaves regularly.

[antongould]

.........- I don’t think I will trouble their airwaves regularly.

I don’t think I will trouble them at all unless Skellers takes the Mourinho millions of course ........

[LMcD]

If Scala Radio is going to be offer a 'smooth' Classic FM-like listening experience, perhaps it should be renamed The Silken Ladder.

[Old Grumpy]

If Scala Radio is going to be offer a 'smooth' Classic FM-like listening experience, perhaps it should be renamed The Silken Ladder.

[cloughie]

If Scala Radio is going to be offer a 'smooth' Classic FM-like listening experience, perhaps it should be renamed The Silken Ladder.

No doubt in its climb to woo listeners!

[LMcD]

I've heard that members of the popular beat combo Steps will be discussing the influence of Hildegard of Bingen and mid-period Lutoslawski on their songs. ( I rung to check, but there was no reply).

[Old Grumpy]

I've heard that members of the popular beat combo Steps will be discussing the influence of Hildegard of Bingen and mid-period Lutoslawski on their songs. ( I rung to check, but there was no reply).

The quality of puns is escalating!

[vinteuil]

The quality of puns is escalating!

... ah, Gradus ad Punassam -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DsqghqJwlU

[ ... coat has disappeared... ]







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[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I’ve just managed to tune in to Scala Radio.

Well, perhaps that’s something of a exaggeration, as the excerpt from Faure’s Requiem was accompanied by gurgles that sounded like the old Radio 3 medium wave. I never thought digital radio was good, but this was dreadful. And once the presenter opened his mouth, things got a whole lot worse, and the gurgles became preferable.

[Study Session]

I’ve just managed to tune in to Scala Radio.

Well, perhaps that’s something of a exaggeration, as the excerpt from Faure’s Requiem was accompanied by gurgles that sounded like the old Radio 3 medium wave. I never thought digital radio was good, but this was dreadful. And once the presenter opened his mouth, things got a whole lot worse, and the gurgles became preferable.

Given the presenter in question seemed to be on the brink of big things at R3, perhaps we've been spared. Listening to Charles Nove at the moment; an underrated broadcaster, but I can't get on with the amount of crossover stuff - in the space of 45 minutes we've had bits of the Lord of the Rings soundtrack, a version of Eleanor Rigby and Leonard Cohen's deathless dirge Hallelujah as interpreted by the seemingly ubiquitous Sheku Kanneh-Mason.

[LMcD]

Scala Radio

A couple of days ago I saw a TV advertisement promoting Scala Radio. The emphasis was heavily on the presenters. I'm just wondering whether this advertisement comes in response to their latest listening figures, which they may have seen prior to their publication today. The good news, I guess, is that their market share is steady at 0.1%, but the other graphs paint a gloomy picture.