Annoying R3 Trailers

[bwhitjo]

Is there nobody at the BBC who has sufficient authority to clamp down on these damned trailers which are the curse of R3 listening? Time was when they appeared only in breaks, but now they infest the very programmes, like the ill-mannered man who insists on butting into other people's conversation. A trailer is an advertisement, and its intrusion into a programme is no less irritating than a commercial for dog-food or floor-polish, and it is a perfect example of radio bad manners.

[french frank]

Is there nobody at the BBC who has sufficient authority to clamp down on these damned trailers

Yes, but they're the people who are ordering them ...

How far is this the new, fast-moving, commercially-oriented audience which the BBC is moving with the times to cater for; and how far is it the BBC programming people to accept what they consider advantageous to give them?

If you fend off the complaints, people will eventually come to accept the irritations. And it seems that they do.

[Thropplenoggin]

What is most irksome of all are the cross-media trailers. I haven't heard this yet on R3 but R4 has adverts for BBC telly programmes all the time. I find it an abomination. Like those embedded links in The Guardian cross-referencing itself all over the shop. The BBC will eat itself.

[Dave2002]

What is most irksome of all are the cross-media trailers. I haven't heard this yet on R3 but R4 has adverts for BBC telly programmes all the time. I find it an abomination. Like those embedded links in The Guardian cross-referencing itself all over the shop. The BBC will eat itself.

I'm sure they have these on R3 - you can't have been listening long enough.

[Thropplenoggin]

I'm sure they have these on R3 - you can't have been listening long enough.

I'm in France. We only invested in a WiFi radio last Christmas.

[johncorrigan]

What is most irksome of all are the cross-media trailers. I haven't heard this yet on R3 but R4 has adverts for BBC telly programmes all the time. I find it an abomination. Like those embedded links in The Guardian cross-referencing itself all over the shop. The BBC will eat itself.

When I go to the cinema the trailers always start by informing me that they have been deemed appropriate for the certificate of the film - so when I went to see 'Dredd', I didn't get a trailer for a nice wee fluffy unicorns and bunnies movie; when I went to 'Brave' I didn't get an ad for some forthcoming slash horror effort. If the beeb are going to persist with this cross-media stuff(and I imagine they will), they need to get working at making it appropriate to the programme they're putting it in, but that's probably down to producers - funnily enough I quite like to see a trail for a radio programme on TV, but I hate it the other way round - it irritates me, but doesn't annoy me near as much as the endless news and sport that infects the airwaves, but that's in another string somewhere else.

[DracoM]

But you are paying enough attention to them, irritating or not, to notice them. And for the BBC, that is one hundred and EIGHTY!.

Just ask yourself what your least favourite ads on telly are, and I bet you can remember almost every silly word / move that makes you grind teeth - result? Advertisers chortle, you NOTICED it, And that's all they want.

[Paul Sherratt]

See, you did notice that punch in the face.
It works.

http://theletter.co.uk/images/lc/punch_in_the_face.jpg

[Frances_iom]

Just accept it - R3 is dead - the BBC will be soon privitised and the R3 slot given over to R2.1 catering for the 35+ audience thrown off by R2 (recall that advertisers want the freer spending 20-35 age group) - R4 is also dumbing down in anticipation of having to cater to a much less knowledgeable audience who cannot handle info in anything longer more than a sound bite.

[salymap]

To me the most irksome by a mile is SPEAKING over the music, whether the work being ruined or something else. SMP is particularly guilty of this. Bad manners - and that dates me, manners don't seem to matter anywhere any more.

[Pianorak]

deleted - to keep people happy!

[Flosshilde]

Pleeeease, ff, can we have a seperate board/forum for whingeing threads? They do become rather tiresome (& repetitive - I'm sure there have been other threads moaning about trailers in the past).

[french frank]

Pleeeease, ff, can we have a seperate board/forum for whingeing threads? They do become rather tiresome (& repetitive - I'm sure there have been other threads moaning about trailers in the past).

Well, Floss, we can all be tiresome and repetitive at times . Platform 3 is for 'everything else' and a thread entitled 'Trailers' isn't too difficult to avoid.

I was actually thinking it was quite a long time since we had a trails thread. As an ex-listener, I was beginning to think they'd been discontinued ...

[Flosshilde]

It's not difficult not read them, but like the trailers themselves it's difficult to avoid them (& the other similar threads) as one still has scroll through them in the list threads/posts to find threads that one might be interested in.

[Old Grumpy]

It's not difficult not read them, but like the trailers themselves it's difficult to avoid them (& the other similar threads) as one still has scroll through them in the list threads/posts to find threads that one might be interested in.

Not that difficult though really is it? Some of the whingeing threads can be quite interesting. I half expected this thread to be about what is towed behind a vehicle!

I always use the New Posts / What's New facility when I come on the forum - doesn't take that long really.

OG