New r3 schedule and how it affects this particular part of the forum...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I assume that these changes will take place in the week following the last night of the Proms.

Tom Service has just announced that the changeover from Hear & Now to The New Music Show is happening "in April", so if all the programme changes are being dumped on us as a package, it'll happen a lot sooner than September.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ah - perhaps not: going back to the link in the OP, they are specifically referred to as happening in "Autumn" (the H&N change isn't mentioned at all in that).

[LMcD]

Tom Service has just announced that the changeover from Hear & Now to The New Music Show is happening "in April", so if all the programme changes are being dumped on us as a package, it'll happen a lot sooner than September.

If for no other reason, a change to 'The New Music Show' is to be regretted because it's ambiguous, especially when spoken - 'Have you heard the new music show on Radio 3?'
My very first post on the Forum was a reaction to the activities of the Department For Not Leaving Well Alone (or a title to that effect). The only difference now seems to be the almost desperate focus on the need to attract young(er) listeners at all costs. There was a trailer on Radio 4 this morning dedicated exclusively to podcasts - indeed, an article in yesterday's 'Times' discussed the activities of 'Purnell The Disruptor' and its deleterious effect on that channel.

[Globaltruth]

What is striking is that music-lovers who bewail the loss of Late Junction seem also to a man [sic] to share the view that it is the only programme on R3 worth listening to. .

that’s just your opinion, please don’t present it as a fact.

[MrGongGong]

that’s just your opinion, please don’t present it as a fact.

[Bryn]

that’s just your opinion, please don’t present it as a fact.

The "seem also" surely shows that it was not presented as fact.

[cloughie]

If for no other reason, a change to 'The New Music Show' is to be regretted because it's ambiguous, especially when spoken - 'Have you heard the new music show on Radio 3?'
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...and how new does ‘New Music’ have to be and how long does new music remain new - is the ‘Modern Jazz’ I listened to in the sixties still modern?

[Cockney Sparrow]

Just to say, whenever I have found myself listening to Late Junction, I've never listened for more than about 20 minutes at the most. Electronic or other non-vocal non-instrumental sounds (probably an inadequate description - I don't listen on) are not what I want to listen to, and certainly not at that time of night. Its fine that others do, though.

It just means that late evening R3 is not for me, thanks. With the exception of Martin Handley, pre-noon R3 is not for me these days. Increasingly I am selective about what I listen to on R3 (and my selections will not be influenced by what the "Sounds" app wants to impose on me, either).

[Bryn]

These days, I rarely listen to Radio 3 at the time of broadcast. It's far easier to be selective via the iPlayer, or even 'Sounds', on demand facility. However, the removal of index points from 'Sounds'/iPlayer does rather stimy such selectivity.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

These days, I rarely listen to Radio 3 at the time of broadcast. It's far easier to be selective via the iPlayer, or even 'Sounds', on demand facility. However, the removal of index points from 'Sounds'/iPlayer does rather stimy such selectivity.

- totally agree on every point.

[MrGongGong]

Just to say, whenever I have found myself listening to Late Junction, I've never listened for more than about 20 minutes at the most. Electronic or other non-vocal non-instrumental sounds (probably an inadequate description - I don't listen on) are not what I want to listen to, and certainly not at that time of night. Its fine that others do, though.
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A bit pedantic, I know
but


ALL broadcast sounds are "electronic"

If you know what you want to listen to why have the radio at all?
(Unless, it's a live broadcast)

[teamsaint]

LJ, like In Tune, strikes me as something of a missed opportunity. It might have done well being presented as a joint venture with 6 Music, for example.

[french frank]

that’s just your opinion, please don’t present it as a fact.

Eh? I wasn’t presenting anything as”fact”. I was referring to the comments under the article. Was I mistaken in imagining that there were a number of remarks which were clear that the people there who “bewailed” the reduction in the Late Junction programming expressed the view in one way or the other that it was “the only thing worth buying a licence for” or similar? Even that the classical music was just more ‘Mozart and Beethoven’? It is my opinion (though not a fact) that over the past 10 years, as the BBC has increased the number of stations , R3 has steadily lost the programmes which fulfilled its original remit.

But there, there are always winners and losers, I suppose

[cloughie]

Eh? I wasn’t presenting anything as”fact”. I was referring to the comments under the article. Was I mistaken in imagining that there were a number of remarks which were clear that the people there who “bewailed” the reduction in the Late Junction programming expressed the view in one way or the other that it was “the only thing worth buying a licence for” or similar? Even that the classical music was just more ‘Mozart and Beethoven’? It is my opinion (though not a fact) that over the past 10 years, as the BBC has increased the number of stations , R3 has steadily lost the programmes which fulfilled its original remit.

But there, there are always winners and losers, I suppose

Seems to have increased the number of stations but decreased the variety of music available on them - all in the name of attaracting younger listeners, and chasing the ratings of commercial stations. The older listener has lost out. All those good niche bits on R2 are gradually being whittled away, and limited to one hour per weekday evening, to accommodate 2 hours of Jo Whiley and two hours of Trevor Nelson. Mainstream, daytime programmes on 1,2 and 6 have largely forgotten any music from before 1970, and most music seems to built around a nucleus of 80s pop, as has local radio.

[Cockney Sparrow]

A bit pedantic, I know..........

I very much agree that its pedantic, but I don't agree its only "a bit" pedantic. But those comments, pedantry in general and degeneration into punning are only to be expected. I'm not really bothered...... (In fact, I very nearly didn't spend the time posting this, or adding an edit).