Dr. Furface
One small step for me
And place-dropping, such as 'i'm recording this in Tokyo this week' or wherever, as if to say what a cool life i've got don't you wish you were me?
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Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I fucking hate him, hate his band, hate his babbling on and getting his music facts wrong all the time....hate him playing racist clapton music...what a boring cunt.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Today he claimed that in the covered Markets of Brixton there's always a Sade song playing
That's not something I've noticed in 30+ years of living here. Not something anyone else has ever mentioned as being a thing here. Which covered Markets is he going to where this is happening?
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
And after having the gall to play a shitty Neptunes remix instead of the sublime Sade original.
danski
"vibey"
That's the main reason I stopped listening
I agree. especially when it's filled with bullshit like what the king is up to today.
and think of the budget the BBC could save by reducing the news bulletins across the music stations.
but doubt it'll ever happen. people would be up in arms about them betraying their public service remit.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
I can't really get upset about 2 minutes of news in every hour. 
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
you could get the petition up to 20!
I'd sign a petition to just remove the DJs completely and replace them with AI bots.
Unfortunately my work day coincides with Craig fucking Charles and his 'time machine', delivered in that creepy creepy voice. I got Keaveny sacked, with the help of others here, and I now fully regret that. I'm sorry Sean. Come back.
Unfortunately my work day coincides with Craig fucking Charles and his 'time machine', delivered in that creepy creepy voice. I got Keaveny sacked, with the help of others here, and I now fully regret that. I'm sorry Sean. Come back.
skyscraper101
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I can't really get upset about 2 minutes of news in every hour.
Yeah, I'm not sure either. I think generally I'm ok with it on live radio but it does get irritating when I listen back to stuff from the weekend shows on bbc sounds later in the week and the news is like 5 days old. I would definitely support a news-free catchup experience.
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
I wouldn't either if that's all it was, but the length of 6's news bulletins (and other non-music bits) seems to have increased in the last few years, which I assume must be due to cost cutting - a couple of record plays fewer per hour (@ about £50 per minute I think) adds up to a big saving over a year. IMO there's often a clear distinct bias in their news coverage too, enough to have me frequently shouting Alexa OFF!I can't really get upset about 2 minutes of news in every hour.
skyscraper101
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((((Clare Runacres))))
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a comp of last week's archers' cliff hangers.
skyscraper101
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That also massively pisses me off. BBC trailers for stuff. Especially TV shows. Enough already.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Please god no more cloudbusters. I'm sick of being told to be upbeat every single morning, and it's ruining my enjoyment of the actual Kate Bush song as I come to associate it almost entirely with an unseen horde of rictus-grinning folk shouting CHEER UP LOVE, IT MIGHT NEVER HAPPEN.
Or if you won't get rid of it, at least have the decency to alternate cloudbusting with cloud-revelling - you know, playing listeners' picks of the most sardonic, cynical, fuck-all-this tunes. Now that I could get on board with.
Or if you won't get rid of it, at least have the decency to alternate cloudbusting with cloud-revelling - you know, playing listeners' picks of the most sardonic, cynical, fuck-all-this tunes. Now that I could get on board with.
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Aye, I mind the same constant trails and self advertising (to the point that you could basically recite them) far more than I mind a news update.
'This is Huw Stephens. 6 Music'. I don't fucking care. Honestly hearing his name or hearing about Wills 'going back to work' on the news every half hour or whateevr it is. I'm gonna get the old lynch mob back together. It got much worse then that new controller took over.
skyscraper101
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This is mainly why I mostly listen to the shows on catch up. I can at least fast forward past the news and other annoying stuff. Though I'd rather I didn't have it in the first place.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Eh?
These stations are getting their shit arse about face.
Listening to 6 this morning, 90% of it was from the 90s. how old is the radio 2 spin off looking at? I see 6 as a channel already playing mostly older music.
They should stick Tony Blackburn on instead of rapey craig. Then 2 & 6 will be 2/6 in old money.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Ali G hasn’t aged well
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
I thought radio 2 was older music
skyscraper101
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It was, but they fucked it by trying to skew younger and lost a load of their core boomer audience in the process. They're trying to connect to all the old radio 1 listeners from the 90s/00s but a lot of those have moved on to 6 Music, or just not interested in DJs like Zoe Ball or Vernon Kay. So they lost loads of long time listeners and DJs to stations like 'Greatest Hits radio' and suchlike, which is where a lot of the oldie jocks are now like Ken Bruce.
skyscraper101
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Just reading about this here: Radio 2 spin-off among four new stations planned by BBC
It's all just too much fragmentation. So in addition to this new radio 2 spinoff (presumably to try and recapture the exodus of listeners they've lost to boomer radio or greatest hits), they're also launching yet another Radio 1 'spinoff' which will...
I mean really what is the point in this? What even is "Recent nostalgia"? Who wants to listen to a station that only plays stuff between 2000 and 2020?
Then there's the new radio 3 one which will
So probably just another generic calm classical station. I mean a spotify playlist can probably do the job here and I'm sure it has a place, but I don't feel its particularly dynamic thinking.
And then 'Radio 1 Dance' will go to DAB. Currently just on BBC sounds. I don't really know what the audience for this is. But it does a lot of generic playlist stuff with no DJs or just repeats or simulcasts of other Dance stuff on Radio 1. It's just very generic. The funniest thing that ever happened on that station was the feed getting interrupted with the announcement that Prince Philip died before cutting back to the beats.
