Originally posted by french frank
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Why on earth is record review moving
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post200,000 is a pretty good audience for a specialist music programme.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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Well it will be interesting to see if one of "the Nation's favourite voices" (sic) is able to build on Record Review's audience. If, as one suspects, it isn't the runaway success that the powers that be intend for it. it may not be long before the schedules are returned to normality and the experiment quietly forgotten as a "learning curve" for the new controller.
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostWell it will be interesting to see if one of "the Nation's favourite voices" (sic) is able to build on Record Review's audience. If, as one suspects, it isn't the runaway success that the powers that be intend for it. it may not be long before the schedules are returned to normality and the experiment quietly forgotten as a "learning curve" for the new controller.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 PostWell it will be interesting to see if one of "the Nation's favourite voices" (sic) is able to build on Record Review's audience. If, as one suspects, it isn't the runaway success that the powers that be intend for it. it may not be long before the schedules are returned to normality and the experiment quietly forgotten as a "learning curve" for the new controller.
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Originally posted by french frank View Post
And that's the point it reaches at its peak, others may tune in later so the total reach will have been higher. I'll see if I can locate the graphic for the 2013/14 Charter review. The figures may be up or down on these, but the basic pattern will be the same: 9am is peak listening for the entire day, 3pm is the absolute trough for daytime. It may be that RR will 'boost' that afternoon trough, but no way will the programme reach anything like what it would attract at 9am. If (by any chance) there's a rationale atb all behind this it's a pretty gloomy outlook for intelligent radio.
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View PostThe other thing with Radio 3 are the audience appreciation figures which used to be stellar and I suspect still are.
As has been pointed out, programmes listened to by a small number of enthusiasts get inflated AI scores. And anything vaguely 'specialist' scores more highly than popular entertainment shows.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 Serial_Apologist View PostVery surprised to see Jazz Record Requests getting more listeners than the Proms.
Certainly in recent years I would say I have listened to more JRR than Proms concerts(many more in the last 2 years), and no Opera as it's not my thing.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
It would be interesting to see more up to date figures, but I'm not that surprised at JRR getting more listeners than Proms/Opera.It would be a fixed point for many listeners - week in week out, and probably with fairly broad appeal - whereas Proms/Opera is 'listen to selected items' territory, not so much consistency?
Certainly in recent years I would say I have listened to more JRR than Proms concerts(many more in the last 2 years), and no Opera as it's not my thing.
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostVery surprised to see Jazz Record Requests getting more listeners than the Proms.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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I wonder how much of this variation is due to the specific programming, and how much of it simply reflects a typical Saturday routine? It's natural to switch the radio on at breakfast time, and later at tea time. Many people will have other things to do in the afternoon and evening. If so, the new Saturday morning programme may get a lot of listeners, which is presumably what they hope. We'd need a control experiment to test how much the programming matters - I wonder what the graph would look if they broadcast 12 hours of Tom Service? (polite suggestions only, please).
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Originally posted by Retune View PostI wonder how much of this variation is due to the specific programming, and how much of it simply reflects a typical Saturday routine? .... I wonder what the graph would look if they broadcast 12 hours of Tom Service? (polite suggestions only, please).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 Ein Heldenleben View Post
Thanks FF . Of course that was twenty years ago. If you correlated these figures against average audience in 2002 compared to now I guess you could estimate the current audience. But then you’d have to add in the Sounds element. Interesting that JRR does so well. I’m a bit of a loss as to why they are moving Record Review as 20 years ago it was the most popular programme of the day. Maybe no longer ? 200,000 is a pretty good audience for a specialist music programme.
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