April Schedule Changes

[Andrew Slater]

I'm not sure whether this has already been flagged:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/musicians-lead-bbc-radio-3-spring-changes

[Bryn]

I'm not sure whether this has already been flagged:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/musicians-lead-bbc-radio-3-spring-changes

Hmm. According to that notification, 12.30 pm to 1.00 pm is in the morning, on Saturdays.

[Old Grumpy]

Probably to be welcomed, on the whole, I think. Not so sure about Alker's "ambient and neo-classical" stuff or The New Music Show, perhaps.

OG

[zola]

Hmm. According to that notification, 12.30 pm to 1.00 pm is in the morning, on Saturdays.

Yes, Record Review loses half an hour. Thin end of the wedge before the introduction of Essential Saturdays.

[french frank]

Don't know about the Controller's: "I know that audiences are ceasing to distinguish [classical music] from other genres." What audiences would those be? Radio 1 audiences? Radio 2 audiences? 6 Music audiences? If so, why isn't it played more on those stations because these audiences are certainly not listening to it on Radio 3 judging by the recent listening figures.

[oddoneout]

Yes, Record Review loses half an hour. Thin end of the wedge before the introduction of Essential Saturdays.

Especially now that Sundays have caught the EC bug(albeit minus most of the listener input - for now at least). For some reason I find that more irritating than the weekday schedules, perhaps because my Sunday mornings lend themselves better to lengthy listening than do weekdays. I find myself thinking 'I want something different - and better'.

[cloughie]

Don't know about the Controller's: "I know that audiences are ceasing to distinguish [classical music] from other genres." What audiences would those be? Radio 1 audiences? Radio 2 audiences? 6 Music audiences? If so, why isn't it played more on those stations because these audiences are certainly not listening to it on Radio 3 judging by the recent listening figures.

Or on Radio Cornwall - the head of the Station informed me that it would not be good use of the Licence fee to duplicate what was provided elsewhere, after I suggested that the occasional classical or jazz piece in amongst the ageist mix of post 1970s Pop might be nice - on the other had he seems to see no problem with making the station a pop station trying to attract youner listeners whilst alienating the over 65s!

[cloughie]

I'm not sure whether this has already been flagged:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/musicians-lead-bbc-radio-3-spring-changes

Looks like another nail in the coffin of something once great.

[DracoM]

Don't know about the Controller's: "I know that audiences are ceasing to distinguish [classical music] from other genres." What audiences would those be? Radio 1 audiences? Radio 2 audiences? 6 Music audiences? If so, why isn't it played more on those stations because these audiences are certainly not listening to it on Radio 3 judging by the recent listening figures.

Yes, yes yes!
How bloody dare he be so smugly patronising?!!

HOW does he 'know' that people do not listen across genres? Evidence?
How many Forumistas have been asked to complete any kind of survey that might support or refute this outrageous claim of the Controller's?
Which, given that this is very specifically a Radio 3 site, might be one of the first places he might come to actually ASK questions.

[Pulcinella]

Looks like another nail in the coffin of something once great.

And just how great is amply portrayed in ferney's listings of what the station's schedule used to be like in his 'Today's the Day' thread.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Hmm. According to that notification, 12.30 pm to 1.00 pm is in the morning, on Saturdays.

Well it is still morning during BST.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Yes, yes yes!
How bloody dare he be so smugly patronising?!!

HOW does he 'know' that people do not listen across genres? Evidence?
How many Forumistas have been asked to complete any kind of survey that might support or refute this outrageous claim of the Controller's?
Which, given that this is very specifically a Radio 3 site, might be one of the first places he might come to actually ASK questions.

I expect he just says what Suzy tells him.

[oddoneout]

Re: Classical/Opera fix. Why are programmes 'for the uninitiated' broadcast on R3? I know this has been asked before when Clemmie's slot first appeared but I see that opera has been added to the format. I'm not saying that all R3 listeners are knowledgeable about all aspects of the R3 output, but I would hazard a guess that they know enough( names of some composers and their works) to make their own excursions into new areas such as opera, whereas those outside the R3 fold might find it a bit more difficult to find a starting point?

[french frank]

Re: Classical/Opera fix. Why are programmes 'for the uninitiated' broadcast on R3? I know this has been asked before …

Endlessly, endlessly. But the reason is that the BBC doesn't think they would get big enough audiences on mainstream services, so they shove them on to Radio 3 where it doesn't matter if few people listen. In fact it demonstrates that the programmes are on the right station.

Just popped over to R3 Facebook page where there are some trenchant comments about the David Baddiel programme 'My Trouble with Classical Music'

E.g 'Who cares? Why not have a programme on Radio 1 called My Problem with Pop Music?' - a question that captures the ludicrousness of Radio 3's nanny strategies.

[teamsaint]

I can’t work out if Kate Molleson is even more flavour of the month , since she seems to present almost everything, or has been naughty and thus relegated to the show formerly known as “Hear and Now”.

Anyway, good for R3 , for getting on trend with the cult of celebrity, one way and another.......