Annoying R3 Trailers

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

We should all resolve to have no truck with trailers.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

We should all resolve to have no truck with trailers.

[oddoneout]

We should all resolve to have no truck with trailers.

Nor blue sky thinking with con-trails...

[Stanfordian]

We should all resolve to have no truck with trailers.

The trailers are to get listeners used to the space where the adverts will soon go.

[Old Grumpy]

The trailers are to get listeners used to the space where the adverts will soon go.

Don't say it, it may well come true. The Beeb is running out of cash, even if it does stop dishing out free TV licences to over 75s

[Frances_iom]

Don't say it, it may well come true. The Beeb is running out of cash, even if it does stop dishing out free TV licences to over 75s

every time I say this (and have been saying now for some time) I get various comments or emjois? disagreeing - however I do assign some rationality to Beeb management, after all they are paid well,since as listener figures show no corresponding rise with the increasing frequency of adverts produced at significant expense then the only rational approach is that they are creating, at the viewer's expense, the groundwork for a future privatised + presumably advert driven network.

[teamsaint]

Don't say it, it may well come true. The Beeb is running out of cash, even if it does stop dishing out free TV licences to over 75s

BBC income is still rising.
And that income is pretty much secure at the start of a financial year.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/284709/bbc-s-annual-income-in-the-united-kingdom-uk-by-source/

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

every time I say this (and have been saying now for some time) I get various comments or emjois? disagreeing - however I do assign some rationality to Beeb management, after all they are paid well,since as listener figures show no corresponding rise with the increasing frequency of adverts produced at significant expense then the only rational approach is that they are creating, at the viewer's expense, the groundwork for a future privatised + presumably advert driven network.

Whatever the past responses have been, I have a horrible feeling that you may have been right all along, f_i.

[french frank]

Whatever the past responses have been, I have a horrible feeling that you may have been right all along, f_i.

Well, the enemies of the BBC will be rejoicing at that!

[Frances_iom]

Well, the enemies of the BBC will be rejoicing at that!

With the current Beeb's management I suspect the 'enemies' are already rejoicing - possibly unlike the new younger audience they appear to be so desperate to attract I can remember a much better and more informative network

[french frank]

With the current Beeb's management I suspect the 'enemies' are already rejoicing -

I meant the political enemies, rather than the dissatisfied listeners/viewers.

[Old Grumpy]

Oh, very well *amends thread title*

Well, KD definitely said trail at the start of In Tune today, so it must be right!


OG

I'll just get my straight-jacket

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

[While we're waiting for the complaints to restart ]

Yes, OED says Cinematography(!) for 'trailer', Radio and television for 'trail'.

I think some people get a real kick out of making the language as irregular and complex as possible.

[Serial_Apologist]

I think some people get a real kick out of making the language as irregular and complex as possible.

It's a good way to keep all them forriners out innit? - takin' all our jobs, pretending to be British, blah blah etc etc ad nauseam.

[Old Grumpy]

It seems Libby Purves is no fan of BBC trails (or perhaps trailers in this case) either.

I like her comments about BBC Sounds too - I did explore briefly, but rapidly returned to iplayer Radio.

OG