| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Mark Mayhew
Joined: 11 Dec 2006
Posts: 2897
|
 Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: Too Many Trailers/Adverts on Radio 2 |
 |
|
I have to say I'm getting sick to death of adverts for the Evans/Brand/Wogan/Vine/Wright shows. The Vine advert really annoys me-does he think we are all thick. Does he think that people don't know what his show is about when he says "Ahhh that what's it about".
All these adverts are unnecessary. When I'm listening to a programme I would like to hear it all the way through without several intrusive trails being thrown in, otherwise I might as well as listen to commercial radio. |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
tarahrah bomdiay
Joined: 17 Dec 2007
Posts: 260
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:38 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| I find them really annoying too but I suppose they are slightly better than the Eastenders ones, grrr! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
Posts: 9955
Location: UK
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Mark do you like anything about Radio 2?  The shows have to be promoted too hear what is coming up. It's about getting listeners to tune in. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006
Posts: 3417
Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Yes Mark, I'm with you on this as well as the Richard Allinson issue. It fair ticks me off when a track (particularly an interesting / rarely heard track) gets the 'Steve Wright treatment' because the powers-that-be are in such a hurry to play that trailer we've heard a thousand times already - even more annoying if it's an Evans one  It should never be allowed to happen on shows like Sounds Of The 60s, but it has crept in, even on SOT 70s, usually the last track which just goes straight on into Janice Long's show, or is there a news bulletin before Janice? Please producers, sort this out! Now we're getting those for 6 music's least popular son - George Lamb. The furore about him is still going strong on the 6 music boards!
_________________
Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Barkingbiker
Joined: 11 Dec 2006
Posts: 2313
Location: Lincolnshire
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:09 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Yes Mark I agree 100%, if I want to hear Evans, Brand, Wogan, Wright or Vine I can tune in, why oh why must I have to listen to the irritating voice over trailers, they drive me mad. Let the Evans fans have him 5 - 7, that way I can avoid him! along with Brand and O' Bleary!
BB 
_________________
Old Bikers Never Die, our leathers just get tighter! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006
Posts: 19382
Location: Cheshire
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:14 pm Post subject: Re: Too Many Trailers/Adverts on Radio 2 |
|
|
| Mark Mayhew wrote: | I have to say I'm getting sick to death of adverts for the Evans/Brand/Wogan/Vine/Wright shows. The Vine advert really annoys me-does he think we are all thick. Does he think that people don't know what his show is about when he says "Ahhh that what's it about".
All these adverts are unnecessary. When I'm listening to a programme I would like to hear it all the way through without several intrusive trails being thrown in, otherwise I might as well as listen to commercial radio. |
You picked this one up from the POV board word for word Mark.
H
_________________
88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
Posts: 9955
Location: UK
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:24 pm Post subject: Re: Too Many Trailers/Adverts on Radio 2 |
|
|
| Helen May wrote: | | Mark Mayhew wrote: | I have to say I'm getting sick to death of adverts for the Evans/Brand/Wogan/Vine/Wright shows. The Vine advert really annoys me-does he think we are all thick. Does he think that people don't know what his show is about when he says "Ahhh that what's it about".
All these adverts are unnecessary. When I'm listening to a programme I would like to hear it all the way through without several intrusive trails being thrown in, otherwise I might as well as listen to commercial radio. |
You picked this one up from the POV board word for word Mark.
H |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006
Posts: 19382
Location: Cheshire
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:32 pm Post subject: |
|
|
 at Mark O
H
_________________
88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006
Posts: 2133
Location: Northumberland
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:49 pm Post subject: |
|
|
We used to have Classic FM on quite a bit but have pared it well back, largely because of the repetitive ads.
R2 isn't too bad by comparison.
Ian. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006
Posts: 3701
Location: near Amble, Northumberland
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:18 pm Post subject: Re: Too Many Trailers/Adverts on Radio 2 |
|
|
| Mark Mayhew wrote: | | I have to say I'm getting sick to death of adverts for the Evans/Brand/Wogan/Vine/Wright shows. |
With the exception of Brand, I can't see why any of the above shows actually require a trailer, unless there's something really, really, really special happening on a particular day to promote. After all, these are the staples of R2. I can understand why Brand's show would be advertised, since it no doubt needs a boost in the ratings department - and trailers for one-offs such as documentaries would be perfectly acceptable (though not every other hour).
_________________
Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
(Free to read via Kindle Unlimited) |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006
Posts: 19382
Location: Cheshire
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: |
|
|
They've only stepped up the frequency since the last set of listening figures I'd say. Maybe the daytime show figures are down all round?
H
_________________
88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
Posts: 4861
Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:49 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Helen May wrote: | They've only stepped up the frequency since the last set of listening figures I'd say. Maybe the daytime show figures are down all round?
H |
we may never know since Rajar botched the figures for Q4 and have to rerun them!
But if daytime is down its because its sounding a bit tired. Possibly because the music is too repeatative. And maybe the presenters too!
Advertising cant help you if the product isnt right. Maybe the Beeb should watch its own series on advertising running on BBC4 at the moment if they need to learn that basic rule.
_________________
His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006
Posts: 3417
Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:38 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I suspect the reason for the sudden saturation trailering of Lamb's 6 music show on R2 (as well as 6 music itself) is a desperate attempt to try and drum up listenership for his show. Out of fairness, I listened to the trailer at first but, I can now see what the furore over on the 6 music message boards (& elsewhere on the web) is all about. It certainly won't persuade me to desert Ken Bruce and Jeremy Vine for him, would you? Honestly, he sounds sub-wright.
_________________
Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Ian Robinson
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006
Posts: 3609
Location: Chorley, Lancashire
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: | | I suspect the reason for the sudden saturation trailering of Lamb's 6 music show on R2 (as well as 6 music itself) is a desperate attempt to try and drum up listenership for his show. Out of fairness, I listened to the trailer at first but, I can now see what the furore over on the 6 music message boards (& elsewhere on the web) is all about. It certainly won't persuade me to desert Ken Bruce and Jeremy Vine for him, would you? Honestly, he sounds sub-wright. |
That Lamb sounds terrible. But he seems to stick with policy that if a presenter is controversial/useless just promote, promote, promote as if they're really popular. It amazes me that Brand and (until recently) O'Leary get loads of trailers every week - surely if they're any good, the audience will be listening every week anyway? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Angus McCoatup
Joined: 22 Nov 2007
Posts: 221
Location: , Location, Location
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 1:40 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I have to agree with the trailers thing. Aren't we, as Radio 2 listeners, old enough to make up our own minds about which shows we want to listen to?
I know that Chris Evans comes on at 5:05pm which is about time the CD button gets hit in my car. I've tried listening to the show - the music can be quite good but the man is a hyperactive fool and I can't bear to listen so to have the "best bits" chucked at me throughout the dayis just painful.
Why is Lesley Douglas trying to turn Radio 2 into Radio 1? Haven't we already got one of those? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
nod
Joined: 24 Dec 2006
Posts: 3558
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:20 pm Post subject: |
|
|
The worst ad on R2 at the moment is for Eastenders
and I wish JV would not come on at 11:30am every day |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006
Posts: 19382
Location: Cheshire
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:18 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| nod wrote: |
and I wish JV would not come on at 11:30am every day |
Well considering that Jimmy Young did the same for at least 10 years, I doubt that it's about to change...........
H
_________________
88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
nod
Joined: 24 Dec 2006
Posts: 3558
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:39 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| but he wasn't as tabloid shock was he |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006
Posts: 19382
Location: Cheshire
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:11 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Life has moved on since back then though Nod like it or not.
H
_________________
88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Spanners
Joined: 05 Jan 2008
Posts: 169
Location: Lincolnshire
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Helen May wrote: | Life has moved on since back then though Nod like it or not.
H |
Yes, unfortunately and R2 is sounding more and more like those moronic commercial programmes which keep stopping to extol some product or other. Why can't we have programmes that play good music and those where the half-wits yatter to their heart's content. That way the listener could decide which he wanted to listen to.
Spanners 
_________________
Useful for tightening nuts. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006
Posts: 3417
Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 8:41 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Spanners wrote: | | Why can't we have programmes that play good music and those where the half-wits yatter to their heart's content. |
I'd like more of the former & much less of the latter, but sadly this isn't the kind of station that Lesley Douglas wants us to have.
_________________
Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
Posts: 3367
Location: Warwickshire, UK
|
| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Spanners wrote: | | unfortunately and R2 is sounding more and more like those moronic commercial programmes which keep stopping to extol some product or other. Why can't we have programmes that play good music and those where the half-wits yatter to their heart's content. That way the listener could decide which he wanted to listen to |
Radio 3 is doing the same too. The breakfast show trails the drivetime show, the and just before the afternoon concert they tell you what's 'coming up' in the evening concert.
And Rob Cowan has an annoying habit during his own show to say things like "coming up later in the show I'll be playing...... but first here's......" blah blah. I like to NOT know what's coming up  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
Posts: 9955
Location: UK
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Wogan, Wright, Evans and Brands trailers are for the Podcasts this is why they trail them. It's so people can download the latest. It's a new thing for Radio 2 in the last year so they need to promote this. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
nod
Joined: 24 Dec 2006
Posts: 3558
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Helen May wrote: | Life has moved on since back then though Nod like it or not.
H |
yes I agree but we don't have to get poorer quality do we. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006
Posts: 19382
Location: Cheshire
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Unfortunately it does in most cases, just look at the newspapers these days.
H
_________________
88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
nod
Joined: 24 Dec 2006
Posts: 3558
|
| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:43 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Sounds like you agree Jv is dumbed down like the papers.
MB was much better this week. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006
Posts: 19382
Location: Cheshire
|
| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:50 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Well if the news has been dumbed down it would follow that a news programme will also be............
H
PS It's editor not the presenter who decides what goes out.
_________________
88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
nod
Joined: 24 Dec 2006
Posts: 3558
|
| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:53 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| So how come MB didn't sound dumbed down and tabloid like JV ? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
