All aboard for Salford

[Old Grumpy]

Interesting that 6 Music is also going to be rooted in Salford too. It was always 'understood' that 6 Music was the digital sister station of Radio 2, but now it can be Radio 3's very own digital sister station and share more of its presenters with R3. Lauren Laverne to alternate with Petroc on Breakfast weekdays, Stuart Maconie doing In Tune with Ms Drm, Steve Lamacq pulling in the punters for Composer of the Week.

Stuart Maconie / In Tune could be interesting...

...the man is a fine broadcaster and all round (best said with a Lancashire accent) good egg.

[french frank]

Stuart Maconie / In Tune could be interesting...

It's the ulterior motive that would be suspect: attracting more listeners from 6 Music would result in more of R3's schedule moving over towards the tastes of the 6 Music listeners in order to keep them. I did earlier just try Downtime Symphony and lasted 2 minutes and 36 seconds. The presenter had even been taking lessons from SMP on the low, almost whispering voice. Somehow over obvious, exaggerated … You are feeling calm, you are smoothing away all your anxieties …

Why do people even want to 'wind down' at 6am?

[oddoneout]

It's the ulterior motive that would be suspect: attracting more listeners from 6 Music would result in more of R3's schedule moving over towards the tastes of the 6 Music listeners in order to keep them. I did earlier just try Downtime Symphony and lasted 2 minutes and 36 seconds. The presenter had even been taking lessons from SMP on the low, almost whispering voice. Somehow over obvious, exaggerated … You are feeling calm, you are smoothing away all your anxieties …

Why do people even want to 'wind down' at 6am?

Hard night's clubbing? But that's not happening during lockdown so a bit of a misfire there as well.

[muzzer]

Imagine working all your early life to get out of some part of the country which is seen, for whatever reason, as being second rate, making it to London, which is a hard enough place to be when you’ve got limited funds, getting a job at the BBC, where there is ridiculous competition for plum jobs, and of course not paying well, and then being told you’re being packed off to Salford to work, (but you can ‘commute’ should you wish). The failure of Britain over the last 20 years and the now inevitable demise of the Beeb lies in the elimination of social mobility. *ducks*

[Keraulophone]

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

The BBCNOW has crossed the Tamar very occasionally in the last ten years, though symphony concerts in Camborne (though it was usually the Bournemouth SO) are a distant memory.

[kernelbogey]

....symphony concerts in Camborne (though it was usually the Bournemouth SO) are a distant memory...

...albeit retaining a golden sheen!

[Quarky]

The BBCNOW has crossed the Tamar very occasionally in the last ten years, though symphony concerts in Camborne (though it was usually the Bournemouth SO) are a distant memory.

.....Well, who knows......

::https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56359865

[cloughie]

The BBCNOW has crossed the Tamar very occasionally in the last ten years, though symphony concerts in Camborne (though it was usually the Bournemouth SO) are a distant memory.

Carn Brea?

[oddoneout]

Imagine working all your early life to get out of some part of the country which is seen, for whatever reason, as being second rate, making it to London, which is a hard enough place to be when you’ve got limited funds, getting a job at the BBC, where there is ridiculous competition for plum jobs, and of course not paying well, and then being told you’re being packed off to Salford to work, (but you can ‘commute’ should you wish). The failure of Britain over the last 20 years and the now inevitable demise of the Beeb lies in the elimination of social mobility. *ducks*

The loss of the 'job for life' and the volatility of big employers in terms of continuing in business/susceptibility to economic pressure etc means that increasing numbers are facing this lack of permanence. Historical losses of major industrial employers have left their very obvious mark in places but the more recent trends have equally damaging effects. Community cohesion struggles when the population is transient and planning for such things as schools and health services becomes ever more difficult.

[kernelbogey]

Carn Brea?

Yes - the Pool Ballroom! (Hornspieler, late of this parish, in the back row!)

[Serial_Apologist]

The loss of the 'job for life' and the volatility of big employers in terms of continuing in business/susceptibility to economic pressure etc means that increasing numbers are facing this lack of permanence. Historical losses of major industrial employers have left their very obvious mark in places but the more recent trends have equally damaging effects. Community cohesion struggles when the population is transient and planning for such things as schools and health services becomes ever more difficult.

Absolutely spot on! The economic model is wrong, and the chickens, rather than coming home to roost, are either being dispersed to no man's land or unceremoniously dumped - whether they be jobs, homes, shopping outlets, homeless people or refugees. And yet, we're told all this change is "inevitable" - like was once said about the weather, though we now know that that, too, is subject to the same ultimately unnecessary pressures. But, try telling that to the younger folk...

[DracoM]

Realistically, is this dispersal more for show than affecting the core of what the BBC daily does / is?
In a digital age, does it actually much matter WHERE your studios etc are based??

[french frank]

Realistically, is this dispersal more for show than affecting the core of what the BBC daily does / is?
In a digital age, does it actually much matter WHERE your studios etc are based??

In theory it matters because it creates employment, but if you're going to move all your existing staff out of London …

[oddoneout]

Realistically, is this dispersal more for show than affecting the core of what the BBC daily does / is?
In a digital age, does it actually much matter WHERE your studios etc are based??

In some respects yes it does matter as the studios may be the focus of a range of local activities, as this shows https://theforumnorwich.co.uk/visit-us/bbc/bbc-east