Radio 2.5

[Guest]

Do we need to change the name of the Forum?

http://tinyurl.com/6g6gzuv

[Norfolk Born]

..or possibly BBC-CFM?

[Stillhomewardbound]

Feel I must graft the following reflection from the Breakfast thread:

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After PT had done that appalling 'Yurr ... coming rite up in the nerxt ow-err of B-on-3' business with the bleeding chunks I swear he gave a big wink and beamed a Colgate ring-of-confidence smile.

Least, I think it was a wink.

[Nick Armstrong]

I dared to tune in again on the way to a meeting this morning: Carmen Fantasy - gardening guest - song from Carmen Jones - Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2...

The total giveaway is Wetrocks' admission on Facebook this morning that "I channel Alan Freeman every time I see the new specialist chart ." Great, super, smashing...

What the hell are Roger Wrong and his team playing at? I pity sensible folk like Sarah Walker and Rob Cowan having to pawn their musical souls to make a living. I suspect Mr Trelawney is in his element, in contrast....

[Nick Armstrong]

Least, I think it was a wink.

You were right, shb. Petroc is self-evidently a winker.

[DracoM]

That drawl...........first thing in the a.m......? No thanks.

[Tony Halstead]

[Anna]

Crikey! Caliban's just posted on the Daily Wail website!!! I've given him his first green arrow!! Plus I presume cristo from Salisbury is our very own? Wot Larks!

[Nick Armstrong]

Crikey! Caliban's just posted on the Daily Wail website!!! I've given him his first green arrow!! Plus I presume cristo from Salisbury is our very own? Wot Larks!

Not sure I'm too happy about appearing cheek-by-jowl there with one "Buster Jockstrap" talking about the 'slavering Sarah Walker'

Not your DM soubriquet is it, Anna, what with the rugby connotations???

[Anna]

Not your DM soubriquet is it, Anna, what with the rugby connotations???

Indeed Not!! I've just posted, under my name, of course they don't guarantee to publish all posts but fancy the DM picking up on it (must be a slow news day for them where their usual fare of footballers, WAGS and immigrants are concerned!!)

[Chris Newman]

Crikey! Caliban's just posted on the Daily Wail website!!! I've given him his first green arrow!! Plus I presume cristo from Salisbury is our very own? Wot Larks!

Not guilty, Milady. I would not....well, never mind....with the Dail Pail. I think Breakfast early in the day is too sweet . Strictly black coffee and some bracing Tippett or Bartok (well, Tubin today) for me and I want the Full Monty, not snippets.

[barber olly]

..or possibly BBC-CFM?

aka CFM2

[DracoM]

First thing in the a.m., the radio station one turns on is usually the result of unconscious reflex, not informed choice. So to change millions to R3 away from whatever would seem to be short- and/or long term doomed, IMO.

Moreover, the number on these and older threads who say they now use either other stations online eg WQXR or France Musique etc or CDs in desperation to very specifically avoid precisely the mix that R3 deems brightly attractive for 'younger listeners' might indicate that far too late in the day, the R3 Management have realised the importance of the early morning slots and are now busily betraying or deterring the core audience of those slots that they have taken some time to build up.

I do not see how they can avoid facing the fact that R3's TTN is paradoxically for many the morning online LA of choice. Maybe they should quite urgently ask themselves why.

And in any event, Wetroc is for me absolutely THE wrongest presentation style and voice they could have engaged for it. Just one bite of that drawl as I surface is enough to galvanise me into the first action of he day - turn him off.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

er careful with the aka C's please .... it's the blood pressure you know ....

[barber olly]

...the R3 Management have realised the importance of the early morning slots and are now busily betraying or deterring the core audience of those slots that they have taken some time to build up.

Is it my age? Are my tastes so weird? i don't think so. Yet despite paying my license fee regularly I am continually sold short. Radio 3 we all know is not what it was, Radio 2 I used to listen to quite a bit then Evans spoilt all that when he replaced Johnnie Walker. It seems to be catering for an ever younger audience and music without tunes or gravitas. Nowadays I flick the wavebands and frequently there is nothing I want to listen to. Occasionally I tune in to the excellent local Radio Cornwall, but that in the era of cuts is severely threatened In the car R5 is next to useless because of reception - AM is a disgrace and totally unacceptable with the technology at our disposal in the 21st Century. Television is as bad - we have more channels than ever before on Freeview yet often I check the guide and then the off switch. Who owns Freeview and decides what's on it anyway. There's some Sky on it - up to last year I could watch the Football scores as they developed with the admirable Jeff Stelling and his crew. Sky pulled that one, presumably in the hope that they would attract more subscribers, we are now left with the very poor substitute of final Score on BBC. We have something called the BBC Trust which is supposed to look after listeners and viewers interests but who TRUSTS them. There biggest claim to fame seems to be to sack the best DG the BBC has had for years. Its about time that license payers were treated like shareholders instead of mugs bearing cash! WE WANT OUR 3 BACK - WHEN DO WE WANT IT NOW!!!!