R3 Controller's Lecture to the RPS 09/10/2013

[hedgehog]

[I]
where would you put R3 on the bathroom scale(s) ?

Losing weight rapidly. Cause: diabetes 2 (dangerous blood sugar levels).

[mercia]

I hope that at BBC Radio 3 we can engage with our governing body, the BBC Trust, in the next year and seek to change what now seems to be an out-of-date view about restricting our ability to offer limited but free classical music downloads.

He says the experiment of putting a BBC Philharmonic Beethoven cycle on the web for a week in 2005 as a free download attracted 1.4 million people worldwide.

As a result of this pilot project, Beethoven sales increased by hundreds of percent as the sales also were positively impacted by more recent special seasons run by the station featuring Bach, Mozart and Schubert. This is, to my mind, a model of public service broadcasting - a publicly funded broadcaster paid for by TV licence fee payers delivering unique content, engaging the audience, encouraging it to seek out new experiences and then delivering it to the commercial market to take their interests further.

[Serial_Apologist]

... and then delivering it to the commercial market to take their interests further.[/I]

Did I read that right???

[mercia]

Did I read that right???

that's what it says. I think that is "their" relating to the audience rather than "the commercial market". I'm still not quite sure what is being "delivered" though.

"a publicly funded broadcaster paid for by TV licence fee payers delivering unique content, engaging the audience, encouraging it [the audience] to seek out new experiences and then delivering it [the content ?] to the commercial market to take their [the audience's ?] interests further"

[Stephen Whitaker]

Subtly thrown in to implant the idea that all Radio 3 critics are mindless reactionaries who will oppose all change without reflection. Anecdotal and without evidence.

"But Y’are Blanche, Y’are In That Chair!!!!"

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

if this talk is the true measure of Squealer then i despair of the presentational idiocies, and the driving to pap that which should be hard, ever ceasing since i can discern little strategic or substantive intelligence just fixes and appetites .... but then this puts him on a par with the bbc trust .... a shameless lack of real mindedness about culture and society across the board there .... another bunch of fixers and muckers from meeja ...

i am particularly unimpressed by the uturn on young performers; the BBC Young Musician was a major tv event now a bowdlerised acquiescence to xfactor; many interesting competitions for orchestras, wind bands choirs etc for young people take place around the country without the 'benefit' of bbc attention my my grandmama waht big teeth you have

[french frank]

"a publicly funded broadcaster paid for by TV licence fee payers delivering unique content, engaging the audience, encouraging it [the audience] to seek out new experiences and then delivering it [the content ?] to the commercial market to take their [the audience's ?] interests further"

Either way, that's a bit iffy, isn't it?

'We don't presume to take audiences beyond a certain point. After that they must seek out commercial sources for further experiences.'

or

'We set the ball rolling on licence fee payers' money, create the interest and then hand over the audience to the commercial market thus helping the industry to flourish.'

[Serial_Apologist]

Either way, that's a bit iffy, isn't it?

'We don't presume to take audiences beyond a certain point. After that they must seek out commercial sources for further experiences.'

or

'We set the ball rolling on licence fee payers' money, create the interest and then hand over the audience to the commercial market thus helping the industry to flourish.'

Exactly ff - that's how I read it!

[teamsaint]

How I read it.

The trust and its functionaries do whatever their mates in the wider media will be happy with, and they find some people who are good with language to justify it.

Hope I am wrong.

Would it help if i take a protest banner to the RFH tonight, at all?

[Frances_iom]

...- a publicly funded broadcaster paid for by TV licence fee payers delivering unique content, engaging the audience, encouraging it to seek out new experiences and then delivering it to the commercial market to take their interests further.

isn't this a highly accurate description of how R3 has moved under RW - aiming to be more demotic than CFm,with little to strain the intellect (recall that UK has one of the worst public education systems as measured by outcome in Europe) thus encouraging those enthused, along with the more musical presenters, move to CFm for further (+ presumeably 'deeper') experience.

[DracoM]

..............where Catherine Bott will be waiting to welcome them with open arms.
Hmm.
Law of unintended consequences? Or....maybe not.

[mercia]

little to strain the intellect

doesn't he want to strain the intellect? - he wants R3 to be a 'power shower' not a 'warm bath' [see #15]