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Behind Geddon's Wall
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Ernie,
For those of not subscribed to media guardian, please elucidate.
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Toggy tea slurper
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It's about Lesley Douglas
"Lesley Douglas is controller of the country's most popular radio station. With her finger on the pulse of what middle England wants to listen to, Radio 2 is the Daily Mail of the airwaves" 
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What?
If Radio 2 was the equivalent of the daily wail I'd have stopped listening years ago.
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Toggy tea slurper
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:54 am Post subject: |
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| Likewise. |
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Mark Mayhew
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| A truly terrible daily newspaper. |
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Ian Robinson
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:18 am Post subject: |
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Number 9 in the MediaGuardian list of Most Powerful People!
| Quote: | Lesley Douglas is controller of the country's most popular radio station. With her finger on the pulse of what middle England wants to listen to, Radio 2 is the Daily Mail of the airwaves.
Controller of Radio 2 and its digital offshoot, 6Music, Douglas's empire expanded this year with her appointment as the BBC's first controller of popular music.
The role is as grand as the title suggests, coordinating all of the corporation's pop music output across radio, TV and online - appearing to usurp the responsibilities of her boss, Jenny Abramsky, in this area. She also becomes the first port of call for record labels looking to promote their artists through the BBC.
No wonder Douglas is one of this year's big risers, up 28 places to number nine.
"Radio 2 is the Daily Mail of the airwaves, it speaks right into the heart of middle England," said one of our panellists.
With a weekly audience of 13.25m listeners, Radio 2 has been a driving force behind the BBC's record 15.6% lead over commercial radio in terms of audience share.
"She is single-handedly destroying commercial radio," said another of our judges. "She has got a cheque book and she is not afraid to use it."
Douglas's latest signing was Russell Brand. The stand-up comic and Sun's "shagger of the year" is an unlikely stablemate for other Radio 2 DJs such as Terry Wogan and Ken Bruce.
However, his signing was a reflection of the broad church that Radio 2 has become, and how far the station has moved away from its stuffy old image of 10 years ago.
Brand joined a rota of DJ talent that commercial radio would love to have (if only it could afford it), including Jonathan Ross, Chris Evans and Steve Wright.
Other Douglas signings include Dermot O'Leary, Alan Titchmarsh and Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond. If you want to get on Radio 2, it helps if you have made it on TV first.
"Lesley wants to get everyone in the country listening to her station at some time in the week," said a panellist. "That's why she signed Russell Brand."
The station's relentless move towards the mainstream has meant some of its heritage programming, such as Your Hundred Best Tunes, has been axed. Where do the station's older listeners go next?
However, Douglas has managed the station's evolution without the sort of listener revolt that typically greets change on Radio 4.
The fiercest response from listeners came when Chris Evans replaced Johnnie Walker in the weekday drivetime slot. When Terry Wogan retires from the breakfast show - possibly in 2009 - dare she choose Evans to replace him?
A former head of programmes and managing editor at Radio 2, Douglas succeeded Jim Moir in the controller's job in January 2004. She began her BBC career as a production assistant and producer working with the likes of David Jacobs, Gloria Hunniford and Ken Bruce.
Douglas also controls digital station 6Music, where she hired Ricky Gervais's sidekick Stephen Merchant for a new Sunday afternoon show and Xfm's Shaun Keaveny for breakfast, replacing Phill Jupitus.
She also brought in Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour from US satellite broadcaster XM Radio, which airs on both 6Music and Radio 2. |
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firewirefred
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The Daily Mail of radio broadcasting? Where's the "off" button?
PS: Does that mean that Chris Evans is designed to appeal to the white, middle-class, suburban Tory blue-rinse and handbag-waving brigade? That explains a lot........  |
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However, Douglas has managed the station's evolution without the sort of listener revolt that typically greets change on Radio 4.
Obviously no-one read the old R2 message boards before they were sanitised.
Posters were commenting ata ratio of 9:1 against the introduction of Mr Evans.
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nod
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Anyone on here live in 'Middle England' or it is somewhere out of the Lords of the Rings ? |
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Toggy tea slurper
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, where exactly is 'Middle England' I might live there for all I know.  |
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nod
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| Looking at a map, a quick guess is the middle of England must be around the Leicester, Northampton, Peterborough area, of which Corby appears to be the centre. |
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Toggy tea slurper
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Well I don't live in Corby, thank god |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
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I think it's near the old Triumph motorbike factory at Meriden
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Behind Geddon's Wall
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I'd be careful about that map, it shows Grimsby as part of East Yorkshire! That would upset the codheads.
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Ian Robinson
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| Do you remember when Wogan used to advertise Alton Towers by saying it was right in the middle of England (thus easy for everyone to get there)? |
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mark occomore
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| You have to be common as muck to join the station. Oh is her cheque book still able to sign big names? Now where have those real broadcasters gone too? |
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Mark Mayhew
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:50 am Post subject: |
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| BFBS Radio 2 for a start. |
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