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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 7:16 pm Post subject: Hand Over BBC Radio 1 and 2 too Commercial Radio |
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The outgoing GCap Media chairman, Richard Eyre, has questioned the move away from localness towards networked programming, and has called on the BBC to hand Radios 1 and 2 over to the commercial sector.
Speaking in a personal capacity at the Radio 3.0 conference, Eyre said: "piping in a mega-DJ from London" would mean sacrificing the key element of local radio: localness.
http://www.radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.3428.2 |
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Dean Robertson Guest
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Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 11:19 am Post subject: |
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Not this again. It was only a few months ago some bright spark called for Radios 1 and 2 to be privatised...
It will never happen. |
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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Dean Robertson wrote: | Not this again. It was only a few months ago some bright spark called for Radios 1 and 2 to be privatised...
It will never happen. |
No it won't. Commerical Radio will be sounding different soon with a lot of shows being networked. Commercial Radio just want to get hold of BBC funding from the Government. It needs to start and look closely at itself before they write there own death warrant. |
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RobbieM

Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 233 Location: Buckinghamshire, UK
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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mark occomore wrote: | No it won't. Commerical Radio will be sounding different soon with a lot of shows being networked. |
Yes it will 'cos they're soon about to start piping in lift music on an overnight download from Harrods. Oh hang on they do that already do they not?
mark occomore wrote: | Commercial Radio just want to get hold of BBC funding from the Government. It needs to start and look closely at itself before they write there own death warrant. |
The BBC doesn't get funding from the government though. _________________ ONline, ONdigital and ONtherocks: BBC Radio 2. Eleanor Rigby, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. |
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Dean Robertson Guest
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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We find the BBC through the licence fee. I am beginning to wonder why seeing as the quality of BBC programming has gone from bad to worse. |
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RobbieM

Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 233 Location: Buckinghamshire, UK
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Dean Robertson wrote: | We find the BBC through the licence fee. I am beginning to wonder why seeing as the quality of BBC programming has gone from bad to worse. |
I think it's pretty good overall. It could be worse - a lot worse. It could be taken over by Rupert Murdoch and his clan. _________________ ONline, ONdigital and ONtherocks: BBC Radio 2. Eleanor Rigby, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. |
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