Originally posted by oddoneout
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Why on earth is record review moving
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Originally posted by LMcD View Post
A sharp fall following a flat refusal to listen?
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Originally posted by neiltingley View Post
RRV was the only thing on Radio 3 I listened to. Now it's gone from it's slot there's nothing left.
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I don't know how everyone does their R3 listening - whether on a portable radio or HiFi. If the latter, if you have a DAC, just connect a spare PC to the DAC via a spare USB port and run Sounds through it. Alternatively, if you just have an amp and no DAC, Arcam do a very acceptable and cheap Bluetooth DAC which can be hooked up to an RCA input on your amp. Then download the Sounds app on your smartphone and play any programme from the schedule. Quality will be 320mbps (CD quality) so more than acceptable I would have thought.
If you're happy with a portable radio, then there are several good quality wireless smart speakers which can be controlled again via bluetooth. It really isn't rocket science and even my 80 year old technophobe mother is happy listening to her favourite radio programmes, or streaming Spotify from her phone in perfectly good sound.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
But Sounds...The response in answer to all R3 discombobulated listeners.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostI don't know how everyone does their R3 listening - whether on a portable radio or HiFi. If the latter, if you have a DAC, just connect a spare PC to the DAC via a spare USB port and run Sounds through it. Alternatively, if you just have an amp and no DAC, Arcam do a very acceptable and cheap Bluetooth DAC which can be hooked up to an RCA input on your amp. Then download the Sounds app on your smartphone and play any programme from the schedule. Quality will be 320mbps (CD quality) so more than acceptable I would have thought.
If you're happy with a portable radio, then there are several good quality wireless smart speakers which can be controlled again via bluetooth. It really isn't rocket science and even my 80 year old technophobe mother is happy listening to her favourite radio programmes, or streaming Spotify from her phone in perfectly good sound.
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Saturday mornings are now unlistenable, jumping around all over the place and peppered with tedious interviews. I really miss Record Review with the excellent Andrew Macgregor and I do wonder if even one dedicated R3 listener wanted it shunted to Saturday afternoons, when no one with a life can listen to it. I BEG the new Controller to swallow his pride and move RR back to its traditional time on Saturday morning.
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Originally posted by Philidor View PostSaturday mornings are now unlistenable, jumping around all over the place and peppered with tedious interviews. I really miss Record Review with the excellent Andrew Macgregor and I do wonder if even one dedicated R3 listener wanted it shunted to Saturday afternoons, when no one with a life can listen to it. I BEG the new Controller to swallow his pride and move RR back to its traditional time on Saturday morning.
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Originally posted by Philidor View PostSaturday mornings are now unlistenable, jumping around all over the place and peppered with tedious interviews. I really miss Record Review with the excellent Andrew Macgregor and I do wonder if even one dedicated R3 listener wanted it shunted to Saturday afternoons, when no one with a life can listen to it. I BEG the new Controller to swallow his pride and move RR back to its traditional time on Saturday morning.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostSamJ sees those as a really important part of his "vision" for R3.
There is a speciousness to suggesting, as SJ did on Feedback, that the aim of persuading listeners to stay tuned to R3 is that they should 'get more out of their licence fee'. Nothing to do with the fact that the longer they can be persuaded to listen the greater is R3's market share of listening - incidentally commercial broadcasters' gold standard?It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by french frank View Post
He should be pressed to explain in detail what his vision is. I wasn't impressed by his youthful enthusiasm on Feedback which seemed to ignore any thought other than the marketing of Radio 3 to the 'largest possible' audience. A pseudo-intellectual R3 member of staff once clarified that 'possible' didn't mean 'the largest audience possible' it meant 'the maximisation of the audience likely to be attracted to what Radio 3 does'. Still no indication of what, in his view, Radio 3 "does".
There is a speciousness to suggesting, as SJ did on Feedback, that the aim of persuading listeners to stay tuned to R3 is that they should 'get more out of their licence fee'. Nothing to do with the fact that the longer they can be persuaded to listen the greater is R3's market share of listening - incidentally commercial broadcasters' gold standard?
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Originally posted by LMcD View Post
That pretty much sums up my feelings about what was not a very challenging interview. I always think that people who use the word 'absolutely' as often as he seemed to are still trying to convince themselves of their own beliefs while trying to explain them to others.
I made a cameo appearance on a recent edition, to moan about yet another heart-rending dose of "ordinary people" telling their "absolutely amazing stories" at 9:45 on a Monday morning, to add to the pile of emotive "human" gush in which Radio 4 majors these days. Needless to say, my balanced critique (praising Alexei Sayle's equivalent show and the excellent random postcode-based documentary series) was cut and pasted to make me sound like the baldest old grump, which was what I knew they'd do. Nor did Ms Catherwood press my points on the blithely sunny presenter of Hope Café, the offensive programme in question. But how do I complain to Feedback about being misrepresented on Feedback?
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Originally posted by Master Jacques View Post
Feedback doesn't do "challenging" any more: that's why they sacked Roger Bolton, who had trodden on a few too many elegantly-shod toes and got the boot. Andrea Catherwood is an intelligent broadcaster, who constantly gives the impression of thinking more trenchant thoughts than she's prepared to utter.
I made a cameo appearance on a recent edition, to moan about yet another heart-rending dose of "ordinary people" telling their "absolutely amazing stories" at 9:45 on a Monday morning, to add to the pile of emotive "human" gush in which Radio 4 majors these days. Needless to say, my balanced critique (praising Alexei Sayle's equivalent show and the excellent random postcode-based documentary series) was cut and pasted to make me sound like the baldest old grump, which was what I knew they'd do. Nor did Ms Catherwood press my points on the blithely sunny presenter of Hope Café, the offensive programme in question. But how do I complain to Feedback about being misrepresented on Feedback?
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