The new schedule - Saturdays and Sundays

[Bryn]

Ah, yes, thanks for that. So the live Parsifal starts at 4.45 and Les Vêpres at 5.45 . What will happen to In Tune on those evenings ?

We'll be spared it. Oh joy!

[mercia]

Ah, yes, thanks for that. So the live Parsifal starts at 4.45 and Les Vêpres at 5.45 . What will happen to In Tune on those evenings ?

........ and will there still be opera on the Monday evenings of those particular weeks ? .............. questions, questions

[french frank]

Orwellian.

Yes, they've edited out that bit of RW's blog that I quoted And 'much reduced budget' has become 'reduced budget'. Well, that's a relief.

[Ruhevoll]

I have written to Feedback and Complaints to complain about both the loss of one EMS show and this week's schedule being awash with 'Sound of Cinema' - there is hardly anywhere to escape from it this week (TTN, Lunchtime Concert). The rather excellent BBC 4 programme 'underscored' the notion that film music underscores visual matter, to bring out nuance of character, drama, elicit empathy, etc. A few standalone programmes would have worked but not total immersion.

[teamsaint]

Yes, they've edited out that bit of RW's blog that I quoted And 'much reduced budget' has become 'reduced budget'. Well, that's a relief.

For this relief (----) thanks !

[teamsaint]

license fee income rose £50m in the last completed year, and there appears to have been a large "group surplus" of approx £300m (net of the sale of TV centre)

where is that extra being spent ?

[Ruhevoll]

license fee income rose £50m in the last completed year, and there appears to have been a large "group surplus" of approx £300m (net of the sale of TV centre)

where is that extra being spent ?

Redundancy packages.

[mercia]

SAT 12th October at 7.30pm – VERDI 200 – IL TROVATORE
Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros and Alexey Markov with the Bavarian State Opera, Paolo Carignani conducts

SAT 19th October at 6.45pm – BRITTEN – DEATH IN VENICE
Alan Oke, Peter Savidge and Christopher Ainslie with the Orchestra of Opera North, Richard Farnes conducts

(...... on Radio 3 that is .....)

[Old Grumpy]

More importantly, what about the poor buggers who work for a living?

i player?


DOI: Work for a living

[Miriam]

I've just noticed: Classic FM's 'Saturday Night at the Movies' with Howard Goodall starts at 5pm. The new Radio 3 programme will be at 4-5pm on Saturdays ('Stage and Screen' used to be on Mondays at 4pm), followed by the most popular jazz programme, Jazz Record Requests.

This means there will be no music on the radio late Saturday afternoon that I want to listen to, as I hate jazz and often dislike film music unless it is the sort that is also classical.

[Quarky]

This means there will be no music on the radio late Saturday afternoon that I want to listen to, as I hate jazz and often dislike film music unless it is the sort that is also classical.

Radio 3 is a main source of music for me, but 90% of my listening is via iPlayer. Or if there is absolutely nothing I want to listen to in the previous week's broadcasts, there is always the CD player.

[HARRIET HAVARD]

While I am sure there is some film music that has merit, unfortunately the wretched Sounds of Cinema slot is simply being used as yet another excuse by the station to further Classic- FMify Radio 3.

[french frank]

While I am sure there is some film music that has merit, unfortunately the wretched Sounds of Cinema slot is simply being used as yet another excuse by the station to further Classic- FMify Radio 3.

I've only listened to it once - probably a mistake to choose the Walt Disney week: it was just a load of song from films like Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book. I can't see that that would have had any interest for those who have a genuine interest in a range of film music. And the audience to whom it might have appealed (children) would be unlikely to have been listening in the first place.

[Quarky]

While I am sure there is some film music that has merit, unfortunately the wretched Sounds of Cinema slot is simply being used as yet another excuse by the station to further Classic- FMify Radio 3.

I don't disagree with you Harriet, but just to remark that with the new Saturday schedule, there is a very wide spectrum of music, positively Kaleidoscopic. So I guess probably only very few would enjoy the entire content of Saturday.

Personally I think the new Saturday sked is an improvement. But then I enjoy Jazz, and had become very bored with Operas from the Met.

I hope the new schedule is not being blamed for the drop in listener numbers, according to Rajars latest figures. It seems to me the major problem of R3 is to hold its traditional listener cachement, in the face of overall CFM-isation, as you say.

It seems to me R3 is going down the wrong route in CFM-isation. If listeners want a CFM type programme, well they can tune into to CFM -CFM probably does it better, it that's your cup of tea. R3 needs to assert its own individuality, and I feel the new Saturday schedule is a step in the right direction.

[Old Grumpy]

Personally I think the new Saturday sked is an improvement. But then I enjoy Jazz, and had become very bored with Operas from the Met.

I agree entirely (once I had worked out what a "sked" was!)

(I guess I am just not down wiv da kids enuff)