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Angus McCoatup · Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:01 am Post subject: Evans losing listeners already!!

Been listening to BBC Radio Oxford for the last couple of days although it won't be a final switch for me. Too dull really - a whole hour without music today and only one song in an hour yesterday - but the show was made up this morning almost exclusively of emails and texts saying that they'd moved over from Radio 2 as they couldn't be bothered to listen to the "inane drivel" at that time of day.

This, I feel will be happening all over the country.

All the commercial radio stations offer exactly the same shouty zoo format at that time of morning which doesn't suit the ears of the Radio 2 listener that have become atoned to the gentle waffling of Sir Terry for what seems like an eternity. And they are peppered with commercials on an endless repetitive loop...........

MadeinSurrey · Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:31 pm Post subject:

I'm sure that a great many people will have voted with their dials already. Evans' fate will rest on how many new converts from Moyles and commercial he can bring - from a personal point of view, I would rather Sarah went back to her old slot and we got a decent presenter for Breakfast - there must be one available, somewhere?
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Clive55 · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1336

A decent presenter? There is one. What's his mane?? ahh... Chris......

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Briant · Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:35 pm Post subject:

... 'What's his mane?'... The Red Headed Stranger? Rolling Eyes

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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:41 pm Post subject:

Radio 2 has lost 2 in this house in the morning. Mrs G listens to Heart via freeview, and I listen to KCFM on the way into work.
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MadeinSurrey · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 8:36 am Post subject:

As I've said elsewhere, they'll lose a shedload of Terry's regulars, but what will matter to the PTB is how many new listeners they bring in from elsewhere.

Do the BBC care a hoot about the previous audience? Do they Eckerslike!
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Clive55 · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1336

I rekon they;ll keep most of the listeners, win new ones, & some of those who left will come back
Day Three & the show is sounding great! Cool

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aviddiva · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:57 am Post subject: Evans losing listeners already

As someone who listened when Johnnie Walker sat in for Wogan, I'm afraid it'll be back to Shaun Keaveney on 6 Music again for me.
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Angela W · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 7202 Location: North Yorkshire

I'm liking the sound of 5 Live (its a bit lighter than Radio 4's Today prog) so I won't be back until he's on holiday either!
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Fred · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:21 pm Post subject:

Interesting article here - a commercial radio operator complaining he's being over-advertised. http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.5527.17
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Minx · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:30 pm Post subject:

Now there's a coincidence. So have I! But I thought you had to go through the normal complaints procedure before you could appeal to the BBC Trust.
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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19335 Location: Cheshire

I believe you have, but I'd say write to them both as at least it will get there. John Petters gave David Liddiment as the Trust member to contact on the R2 board.

We all know that BBC complaints have a habit of being ignored. Wink

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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Complaining because Chris Evans has been given Breakfast on Radio 2? Blimey have people not got anything else better to do? Laughing

Give the bloke a chance. Drivetime had a good listener figure and I'm sure Breakfast in time will bed in.

On prospective Radio 2 does cater for all ages. The balance just needs to be tweaked, and introducing lots of things at once will confuse things. Although hopefully the anti Evans posts should calm down.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

The rash of advertising, on radio and BBC-TV, is no more or less than you would expect. We've had plenty of TV trails for Radio 2 in the past - Terry, Chris, Dermot - and they're better than a lot of other trailers.

On Radio 2 itself, if you complain about the trails for the Breakfast show, then you would have to include those for Alex/Sarah and Drivetime, which are just as frequent.
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MadeinSurrey · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:53 pm Post subject:

Sadly, I doubt he'll have a holiday before Easter. By then we'll have found other homes and settled on them.
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Tom Dors · Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 64

Do what I'm doing ; re-discover your CDs on the way to work instead ! Be honest - how many records that are played on the radio do you really want to hear anyway ?

Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:34 pm Post subject:

I believe that there is an old marketing maxim - The more you need to shift the stock, the more you have to advertise.

The blanket trailing of the new breakfast show (how much did they have to pay Terry to pretend to listen?) proved to me that Radio 2 were not certain how it would be received.
Evans' assurance that the TOGS would have nothing to worry about with the new show was just a marketing ploy to get us to listen.

KCFM, Radio 5 or back to the night shift for me!!
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Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil

Minx · Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 10:41 pm Post subject: