Annoying R3 Trailers

[smittims]

I just wish Radio 3 management would come clean and tell us honestly just what they are up to with all this . I had hoped that 'Sam' would make some sort of statement. Of course, I know that nowadays this just doesn't happen, and that however they larded it with promises of openness it would be deceptive, ambiguous 'weasel words' , but I would like to hear them make some explanation . I mean, dash it all, we do pay for it (those of us with TV licences) .

[oddoneout]

I believe the reason for this torrent of advertising - dons steel helmet before continuing to type - is the pressure the BBC is under not only from this current* government and its unruly backbenchers but from streaming sources (as well as, obviously, other terrestrial stations).

Perhaps we old timers need to grit our teeth over this issue and remind ourselves that maybe the R3 management is doing its best for the station to survive.

I'd rather have a BBC classical music station with lots of trails than no BBC classical music station!

* other governments may shortly be available

In principle I still sort of agree, but am getting to the point where the combination of trails, increasingly flimsy programmes, evening concerts rarely of interest, is tipping me over the line into being a non-R3 listener much of the time. Then it would become something that I would mourn if it went completely but would have said my goodbyes some time ago, to join all those other things that were good and nice(or in many cases essential) to have, but which have been removed from our lives.
It would be ironic(and rather sad I think) if what drags me into the modern way of doing things which threatens the BBC's future would be not the wish to have modern gadgets(the opposite in fact) but necessity due to lack of acceptable content. Lack of TV content isn't too much of an issue as I watch little now anyway(and hardly any of that is BBC), but lack of music is something else.

Try this station: https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/ohjelmat/57-llL6Y4blL

[french frank]

Perhaps we old timers need to grit our teeth over this issue and remind ourselves that maybe the R3 management is doing its best for the station to survive.

I'd come to exactly the opposite conclusion: that it was an all-out effort to reduce the audience to the point where they could safely change R3 into another popular music station ("No demand for classical music these days").

I'd rather have a BBC classical music station with lots of trails than no BBC classical music station!

Sadly, I have moved beyond that point as it's actually classical music programmes which I find so banal. I didn't mind what jazz or world music programmes were like because I chose not to listen, but accepted that they had a legitimate place on R3. I don't feel that about some of the other offerings.

[kernelbogey]

I believe the reason for this torrent of advertising - dons steel helmet before continuing to type - is the pressure the BBC is under not only from this current* government and its unruly backbenchers but from streaming sources (as well as, obviously, other terrestrial stations).

Perhaps we old timers need to grit our teeth over this issue and remind ourselves that maybe the R3 management is doing its best for the station to survive.

I'd rather have a BBC classical music station with lots of trails than no BBC classical music station!

* other governments may shortly be available

[Nick Armstrong]

Nick, I suspect your 'thick-voiced' bloke is our old friend Petroc Trelawney, who seems to be mebyon kernow (where the yellow ice-cream comes from).

No no no I know PT’s voice, I’d say his is a very good radio voice.

It may well have been Mr Nunes, Aunt Daisy! Thanks for that!

[hmvman]

"The home of classical music" trail on this morning's 'Breakfast' was immediately followed by 'That's Entertainment' from Band Wagon.

[AuntDaisy]

Nick, I suspect your 'thick-voiced' bloke is our old friend Petroc Trelawney, who seems to be mebyon kernow (where the yellow ice-cream comes from).

Or, could it be Neil Nunes, who has a very deep voice - one of his Shipping Forecasts is here for Nick's delight & delectation.
(NN could give Geoffrey Cox a baritone / basso profondo run for his money).

[smittims]

Nick, I suspect your 'thick-voiced' bloke is our old friend Petroc Trelawney, who seems to be mebyon kernow (where the yellow ice-cream comes from).

[LMcD]

They wold play Rachmaninov PC No 2 there back in the day.....

'Change at Lancaster for Carnforth'

[Nick Armstrong]

"The home of classical music" tagline is also getting tiresome

Extremely

Listening to R3 has already been stripped back to programmes with minimal risk of trailer-intrusion e.g. Composer of the Week…

… but even then, as a blasted trailer seems always to follow hard on the heels of any programme these days, it’s sadly essential to switch off the channel the second the programme ends.

Circumstances prevented this at the end of today’s CotW and I got a shocker of a trailer for “Music Mix Up” or something including the promise that it would ‘wipe away all life’s cares’…

Plus they seem to use the most annoying R3 voices for trailers. There’s some thick-voiced bloke - can’t work out if it’s an Irish or a West Indian accent (haven’t listened long enough before reaching the ‘off’ switch with an oath), but either way, it seems to me a terrible broadcasting voice…

[smittims]

[LMcD]

Chap on Crewe Station said to me 'have you noticed no-one knows anything any more? They have to look it up on their smartphone first'.

Apparently Crewe station is a very good place to listen to Late Junction as you wait for your delayed Aviva train.

[smittims]

Chap on Crewe Station said to me 'have you noticed no-one knows anything any more? They have to look it up on their smartphone first'.

[Old Grumpy]

It's like a mass collective adhd...

Well, didn't you know - everyone who's anyone has that now