Annoying R3 Trailers

[Nick Armstrong]

A crushing defeat for Apple.

More of a crumble perhaps

[LMcD]

More of a crumble perhaps

... or, if you're a rugby fan, a turnover, perhaps.

[Serial_Apologist]

... or, if you're a rugby fan, a turnover, perhaps.

Una peeling. Rotten to the core.

[kernelbogey]

At 0630 at the transition from TTN to Breakfast we now have a trailer for upcoming stuff, then Petroc talks up some of the Breakfast fare - all before the news summary. This is new. Clearly a policy to 'hold on' to listeners....

[french frank]

At 0630 at the transition from TTN to Breakfast we now have a trailer for upcoming stuff, then Petroc talks up some of the Breakfast fare - all before the news summary. This is new. Clearly a policy to 'hold on' to listeners....

I suggested something like this donkeys years ago: group all your programme info in dedicated time slots. Five minutes before a main news summary, delivered in a factual way, would seem ideal. But commercial advertising strategy doesn't work like that because people may deliberately avoid the adverts . I would have thought that intelligent listeners would make a point of listening to information which is of interest to them. Instead they tell people what they don't want to know, when they don't want to hear it, often using enticing Mr Whippy voices.

[Old Grumpy]

What is a "Mr Whippy Voice"?*



*I am old enough to know what a Mr Whippy is, but don't remember a voice.

[french frank]

What is a "Mr Whippy Voice"?*
*I am old enough to know what a Mr Whippy is, but don't remember a voice.

I'm probably confusing Walls' Mr Whippy with Cadbury's Milk Tray. It's been a long time since I've been voluntarily exposed to any sort of advertising, anywhere

[oddoneout]

I'm probably confusing Walls' Mr Whippy with Cadbury's Milk Tray. It's been a long time since I've been voluntarily exposed to any sort of advertising, anywhere

Mr Whippy's "voice" was the jingle jangle of the ice-cream van. Considerable similarity from the POV of irritation...

[kernelbogey]

I suggested something like this donkeys years ago:

A pedant writes

Did you mean donkeys' years ago
or
I suggested something like this, donkeys, years ago?

I prefer the second.

[Old Grumpy]

I'm probably confusing Walls' Mr Whippy with Cadbury's Milk Tray. It's been a long time since I've been voluntarily exposed to any sort of advertising, anywhere

I did have the Milk Tray advert in mind when I was trying to "picture" a Mr Whippy voice. Nowadays this would probably be a CFM Smooooooooth Classics at seven voice.

[Old Grumpy]

Mr Whippy's "voice" was the jingle jangle of the ice-cream van. Considerable similarity from the POV of irritation...

[Roger Webb]

Mr Whippy's "voice" was the jingle jangle of the ice-cream van. Considerable similarity from the POV of irritation...

When we heard it as kids, my mother used to tell us that the jingle meant he'd run out of ice cream!

[Serial_Apologist]

When we heard it as kids, my mother used to tell us that the jingle meant he'd run out of ice cream!

That explains everything, Roger!

[LMcD]

Unless my ears deceived me, Sean Rafferty has just told us that the subject of tomorrow's Record Review is Debussy's 'Jeux'

[smittims]

The repetition of the trailer for 'In Tune' ('It's a treasure chest!... it could be a choir, it could be a shtring (sic) quartet!')') has reached public nuisance level. Fortunately I was next to the off-switch last time I heard it start.