All aboard for Salford

[kernelbogey]

More likely to be replaced by some cheeky Northern chappess (or chappie at a pinch) once things get back to ‘normal’...

Essential clog dancing....

[kernelbogey]

Did the “IS to afternoons” theory originate from a reliable source, or just wishful thinking? I can’t remember

From the BBC's hastily-rushed out press release after IS blew the gaff?

[Serial_Apologist]

Essential clog dancing....

We have concrete floors and ceilings here, so I won't be telling "upstairs"!

[Nick Armstrong]

The BBC CO perhaps to the East Midlands and East Anglia where there isn't a large full time orchestra.

Yes, all for a fair distribution of orchestral concerts throughout the country. With the exception of the BBCCO you mention, the BBC seem to me to have been pretty exemplary about this over the years

[duncan]

The change to a less London-centric mindset is hogwash; just moving personnel elsewhere doesn't suddenly change their perspective, which will stay rooted in the company 'culture', unless given permission and freedom to do differently.

It worked for 5Live and BBC Sport. The football coverage is overrun with ex-Liverpool players giving their unbiased (cough) views on the Premiership.

[cloughie]

Ah, but the previously mentioned SW hails from Barnsley, so . . .

Nowt wrong wi’ Barnsley - any road up she’s ensconced in the Soft South now but as she is so good on Sunday mornings that replacement on the same grounds as IS is likely, though probably has the thumbs up from the suits so probably safe.

[cloughie]

Yes, all for a fair distribution of orchestral concerts throughout the country. With the exception of the BBCCO you mention, the BBC seem to me to have been pretty exemplary about this over the years

Well only if you think the SW is Bournemouth or Bristol!

[french frank]

Was the Saturday sabotage of TTN the dry run? says I displaying ignorance of realms of R6, but you know what I mean.

I do know that the suits consider there is a great similarity between the listeners to R3 and those to 6 Music as both stations attract particularly 'passionate and discerning' music lovers. I do wonder whether the crossover audience (between the two stations, I mean) is equal in both directions. [Some] People over here seem well up in popular music but it never appears that devotees of pop music are equally interested in classical music. Do Radio 3 presenters get their own programmes on 6 Music?

From the BBC's hastily-rushed out press release after IS blew the gaff?

And when they were busily crafting their press release on the move to Salford!

[cloughie]

I do know that the suits consider there is a great similarity between the listeners to R3 and those to 6 Music as both stations attract particularly 'passionate and discerning' music lovers. I do wonder whether the crossover audience (between the two stations, I mean) is equal in both directions. [Some] People over here seem well up in popular music but it never appears that devotees of pop music are equally interested in classical music. Do Radio 3 presenters get their own programmes on 6 Music?

Or indeed do the R6 pop fans have a quota of Classical Music or is it one-way traffic, and why are Jorja and Celeste’s programmes eating into the R6 schedules rather than R3?

[EnemyoftheStoat]

The 13-page document is here:http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/abouttheb...oss-the-uk.pdf

"That all sounds lovely." - Daniel Craig as James Bond in Spectre.

[french frank]

Or indeed do the R6 pop fans have a quota of Classical Music or is it one-way traffic, and why are Jorja and Celeste’s programmes eating into the R6 schedules rather than R3?

Have you omitted a 'NOT' ? Only R6 music eats into R6's schedules. It's R3 that wants to attract new listeners and think that R6 presenters and 'transitional' music programmes will act as Pied Pipers and lure in new, younger generations of music lovers. What is vaguely annoying is that they suggest that if people tune in to EA's Unclassified and these new twilight zone easy listening progs, that will open people's ears and they will become classical music listeners. I suppose it might turn them into Classic FM listeners, except that Classic FM is a bit too, well, 'classical'.

[cloughie]

Have you omitted a 'NOT' ? Only R6 music eats into R6's schedules. It's R3 that wants to attract new listeners and think that R6 presenters and 'transitional' music programmes will act as Pied Pipers and lure in new, younger generations of music lovers. What is vaguely annoying is that they suggest that if people tune in to EA's Unclassified and these new twilight zone easy listening progs, that will open people's ears and they will become classical music listeners. I suppose it might turn them into Classic FM listeners, except that Classic FM is a bit too, well, 'classical'.

I thought it was the BBC that are trying to educate listeners to listen to classical music. Surely getting them to hear some in their comfort zone and then tell them there’s more like it on R3 is the better approach!
Education comes second to figures.

[french frank]

I thought it was the BBC that are trying to educate listeners to listen to classical music. Surely getting them to hear some in their comfort zone and then tell them there’s more like it on R3 is the better approach!

Nope. The BBC doesn't care tuppence about 'educating' listeners to listen to classical music. Every few years there will be a Ten Pieces, or the Opera Season with appropriate hype; plus the annual Proms. But that's it. Not even one regular weekly - or monthly - TV slot for a concert or recital. Bits and pieces now and again have no lasting impact at all. The managers themselves aren't interested in classical music - so how can 'the BBC' be interested?

[Roslynmuse]

Re the relocation of the BBC CO - could Nottingham perhaps be the lucky city? The council has just this week reversed a multi-million pound cut of arts funding (what do they know that we don't?), there's an excellent concert hall already there...

Re a weekly or monthly TV slot - coincidentally, the Radio Times Collectors Group on Facebook has just put up a photo of a Saturday night schedule for BBC1 and 2 in March 1977 - simultaneous broadcast of Capriccio on BBC2 and R3 - can you imagine that opera ever being shown on terrestrial TV now?

[french frank]

a Saturday night schedule for BBC1 and 2 in March 1977 - simultaneous broadcast of Capriccio on BBC2 and R3 - can you imagine that opera ever being shown on terrestrial TV now?

I'm pretty sure BBC Two even dropped all the main 'light' Proms - turned them over to BBC Four - because they didn't get big enough audiences for a 'mass media' channel. They could get more viewers with a detective serial or cookery programme. Size of audience dictates what they schedule and where.