I was listening to Greatest Hits Radio the other day, and when Ken goes from BBC, he is taking a short break then going to that station. Of course it has far too many adverts for my liking, but there you are.You can sign up to Bauer's premium streaming service for 3:99/mth, and
You can sign up to Bauer's premium streaming service for 3:99/mth, and
have no adverts
https://planetradio.co.uk/premium/
You can sign up to Bauer's premium streaming service for
3:99/mth, and have no adverts
What do you get instead of adverts?
Mark Carver wrote:
You can sign up to Bauer's premium streaming service for 3:99/mth,
and have no adverts
https://planetradio.co.uk/premium/
What do you get instead of adverts?
GHR has such a small playlist anyway, you may not notice on there !
You can sign up to Bauer's premium streaming service for 3:99/mth, and
have no adverts
Mark Carver wrote:
You can sign up to Bauer's premium streaming service for 3:99/mth, and
have no adverts
https://planetradio.co.uk/premium/
What do you get instead of adverts?
You can sign up to Bauer's premium streaming service for
3:99/mth, and have no adverts
What do you get instead of adverts?
The same hundred odd records played every few hours, every day, every
month.
Better to spend the money on Amazon Music or Mixcloud.
Angus
On 17/02/2023 17:56, Mark Carver wrote:
You can sign up to Bauer's premium streaming service for 3:99/mth, and
have no adverts
So nearly a third of the cost of the TV Licence for a radio station that I
do not particularly want to listen to and cannot hear in the car where I
do a lot of my listening.
On 17/02/2023 18:27, Andy Burns wrote:
Mark Carver wrote:
You can sign up to Bauer's premium streaming service for 3:99/mth, and
have no adverts
https://planetradio.co.uk/premium/
What do you get instead of adverts?
Another track. I use it on Jazz FM. The only problem is (at least on Jazz) the filler tracks are taken from a very small pool, so it can get a bit 'samey'.
GHR has such a small playlist anyway, you may not notice on there !
On 17/02/2023 19:23, Mark Carver wrote:
GHR has such a small playlist anyway, you may not notice on there !
The commercial radio 'experts' recommend reducing the size of the playlist
to increase the number of listeners!
On 17/02/2023 14:18, Brian Gaff wrote:
I was listening to Greatest Hits Radio the other day, and when Ken goesYou can sign up to Bauer's premium streaming service for 3:99/mth, and
from
BBC, he is taking a short break then going to that station. Of course it
has
far too many adverts for my liking, but there you are.
have no adverts
https://planetradio.co.uk/premium/
Ah, but Greatest hits seems to be going out of their way to
recruit personalities, This and things like popmaster suggest
that the tide maybe changing, and an untapped need for
personality radio with a bit more variety could be one way to go.
Ah, but Greatest hits seems to be going out of their way to recruit personalities
On 17/02/2023 17:56, Mark Carver wrote:
You can sign up to Bauer's premium streaming service for 3:99/mth, and
have no adverts
So nearly a third of the cost of the TV Licence for a radio station
that I do not particularly want to listen to and cannot hear in the
car where I do a lot of my listening.
Well, there are an almost infinite number of services that are an even
larger proportion of the licence fee (some are even bigger), that are
not mandatory to subscribe to if you don't want them.
You don't half say some daft things irrelevant things !
He has just Tweeted that his last programme will be next Frriday, he had >planned to work until the end of his contract but the BBV want him to
finish on Friday.
Is this to create a gap between his last show at the BBC and his
starting at Bauer in the hope of reducing the number of listeners
following him?
On 24/02/2023 21:50, Scott wrote:
Is this to create a gap between his last show at the BBC and his
starting at Bauer in the hope of reducing the number of listeners
following him?
Surprised they have not removed him immediately, why let him spend a
few weeks promoting a different radio station?
 Ken Bruce is a consummate professional (a dying breed) He hasn't been, nor will be promoting his new job and show on air, on Radio 2. Another
of your ludicrous assumptions.
The BBC will have created a one month gap, because Bauer will for sure
have Ken's face of the side of buses, on TV ads, on billboards etc
promoting his arrival on April 3rd.
You can't blame the BBC for putting him on 'gardening leave' during March.
It's standard practice for any employee in any industry who leaves for a direct competitor.
On 25/02/2023 08:55, Mark Carver wrote:
Ken Bruce is a consummate professional (a dying breed) He hasn't been,
nor will be promoting his new job and show on air, on Radio 2. Another
of your ludicrous assumptions.
The BBC will have created a one month gap, because Bauer will for sure
have Ken's face of the side of buses, on TV ads, on billboards etc
promoting his arrival on April 3rd.
You can't blame the BBC for putting him on 'gardening leave' during March. >>
It's standard practice for any employee in any industry who leaves for a
direct competitor.
He might not have mentioned it by name but has indirectly talked about,
hard to avoid doing so.
Would have been best to take him off air as soon as he announced the move.
In many jobs, people are escorted off the premises by security staff in
a similar situation.
In many jobs, people are escorted off the premises by security staff in
a similar situation.
Reported at the time to be the case with John Pienaar.
On 25/02/2023 10:13, Scott wrote:
Reported at the time to be the case with John Pienaar.
And of course nowadays, just as important to remove their access to any >computer systems immediately.
In many jobs, people are escorted off the premises by security staff in
a similar situation.
In article <bs8mvhdb937je7sihf19ndcfa2p39p49d7@4ax.com>, Roderick
Stewart <rjfs@escapetime.myzen.co.uk> scribeth thus
On Sat, 25 Feb 2023 09:19:13 +0000, MB <MB@nospam.net> wrote:I've heard of this several times over the years, one reason why I've
In many jobs, people are escorted off the premises by security staff inI've heard of this. It never happened to me, but if it had it would
a similar situation.
have felt like a monumental insult, effectively a statement from my
erstwhile employer that they didn't think I was to be trusted. It
would have made me wonder how they'd been able to trust me during all
the years I'd been employed, and why they'd thought I was worth
employing in the first place. It's an appalling way to treat someone
who has been a loyal employee.
If the management of modern companies expect all the trust to go one
way, it makes you wonder how trustworthy they are themselves.
Rod.
been working for myself for the last 30 odd years!
Never had it done in fact twice they begged me to stay on after my
notice date!
Mind you anyone would have taken the info they needed wouldn't they
before they decided to go, seen that happen was a case in the papers the other day!...
On Sat, 25 Feb 2023 09:19:13 +0000, MB <MB@nospam.net> wrote:
In many jobs, people are escorted off the premises by security staff in
a similar situation.
I've heard of this. It never happened to me, but if it had it would
have felt like a monumental insult, effectively a statement from my
erstwhile employer that they didn't think I was to be trusted. It
would have made me wonder how they'd been able to trust me during all
the years I'd been employed, and why they'd thought I was worth
employing in the first place. It's an appalling way to treat someone
who has been a loyal employee.
If the management of modern companies expect all the trust to go one
way, it makes you wonder how trustworthy they are themselves.
Rod.
I've heard of this several times over the years, one reason why I've
been working for myself for the last 30 odd years!
I've heard of this. It never happened to me, but if it had it would
have felt like a monumental insult, effectively a statement from my
erstwhile employer that they didn't think I was to be trusted.
On 27/02/2023 13:31, tony sayer wrote:
I've heard of this several times over the years, one reason why I've
been working for myself for the last 30 odd years!
A friend in the US told me of getting rid of someone. When they cleared
his desk, they found some cocaine so had a quiet word with their
contacts in the police.
On 27/02/2023 13:31, tony sayer wrote:
I've heard of this. It never happened to me, but if it had it would
have felt like a monumental insult, effectively a statement from my erstwhile employer that they didn't think I was to be trusted.
The day I retired, I was on my own all day so locked up and passed the
keys to someone the following week!
MB <MB@nospam.net> wrote:
Six months into my new job I was 'loaned' back to my old employer to
help sort out an external contractor who had taken on one of my jobs and
had suddenly discovered he had bitten off more than he could chew. I
don't think he ever got the system working again.
On 28/02/2023 09:12, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
MB <MB@nospam.net> wrote:
Six months into my new job I was 'loaned' back to my old employer to
help sort out an external contractor who had taken on one of my jobs and had suddenly discovered he had bitten off more than he could chew. I
don't think he ever got the system working again.
On my last day somewhere, they made me to do a handover of the system
and its operation to someone that was leaving the following day. I kid
ye not....
Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> wrote:
On 28/02/2023 09:12, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
MB <MB@nospam.net> wrote:
Six months into my new job I was 'loaned' back to my old employer to
help sort out an external contractor who had taken on one of my jobs and >> > had suddenly discovered he had bitten off more than he could chew. I
don't think he ever got the system working again.
On my last day somewhere, they made me to do a handover of the system
and its operation to someone that was leaving the following day. I kid
ye not....
I can well believe it.
About 80% of the job I did was based on biology and the psychology of
the people using the equipment. The easy 20% was the hardware which >consisted of cam timers, pneumatic valves, relays and hidden >magnetically-latching relays that 'remembered' the sequence of events
and defeated any attempt to do something stupid that might put the
animals at risk.
The management decided that I was too old-fashioned and should have used >computer-driven software, so they made me redundant and brought in an
outside software contractor. He thought he had an easy job, replacing
each relay, one-for-one with a logic switch ... until he went to
re-wire the relay panel and found all sorts of hidden interconnections
whose purpose he didn't understand. I explained to him that these were
to protect against the stupidity of the management and he had better >incorporate similar interlocks in his system, otherwise he was going to
be held responsible for an awful lot of damage.
The next surprise was that he had been told that the local switches had
to be removed and the system would be controlled entirely remotely from
an office in another building. The girl who cleaned out twice a day
would have to run up and down to the office 20 times, to operate each
channel - and she would have to shower and change clothes each time to
avoid bringing contamination into the building. It turns out the
management had never asked the cleaning girl what her job involved.
The point at which he finally gave up all hope was when he asked me
about the power supply to equipment in a wet room. It was 35 volts, >two-phase, for reasons of safety; he asked where I bought the
transformer and I said I had wound it myself - as he would have to do if
he wanted to power his own equipment in that room.
On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 12:47:09 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid[...]
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
The point at which he finally gave up all hope was when he asked me
about the power supply to equipment in a wet room. It was 35 volts, >two-phase, for reasons of safety; he asked where I bought the
transformer and I said I had wound it myself - as he would have to do if
he wanted to power his own equipment in that room.
Did you use any machinery to wind the transformer or was it done by
hand, which must have taken hours if not days?
Scott <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 12:47:09 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
The point at which he finally gave up all hope was when he asked me
about the power supply to equipment in a wet room. It was 35 volts,
two-phase, for reasons of safety; he asked where I bought the
transformer and I said I had wound it myself - as he would have to do if >>> he wanted to power his own equipment in that room.
Did you use any machinery to wind the transformer or was it done by
hand, which must have taken hours if not days?
I have an AVO hand-operated winding machine with a variable ratio drive
to a pair of opposite-handed leadscrews; the half-nuts engage
alternately, to pull the guide fingers across the winding area and back.
It doesn't take long to wind a mains transformer, but something like a multi-section audio transformer can take a lot longer.
The BBC will have created a one month gap, because Bauer will for sure
have Ken's face of the side of buses, on TV ads, on billboards etc
promoting his arrival on April 3rd.
You can't blame the BBC for putting him on 'gardening leave' during March.
It's standard practice for any employee in any industry who leaves for a >direct competitor.
I see Gary Davies is taking over on an interim basis until Vernon Kay
starts. If the BBC is concerned about losing audience to GHR, why are
they not starting with their preferred presenter? Could it be that
Gary Davies has been told to make a bad job of presenting the show to
make Vernon Kay look good? How would this work if this antagonises
the listeners and encourages them to follow Ken to GHR?
On Sat, 25 Feb 2023 11:27:22 +0000, MB <MB@nospam.net> wrote:
On 25/02/2023 10:13, Scott wrote:
Reported at the time to be the case with John Pienaar.
And of course nowadays, just as important to remove their access to any >>computer systems immediately.
A colleague of my brother's had his security pass revoked at lunchtime.
Quite strange having to switch to 6 Music in the morning now. :-(
Quite strange having to switch to 6 Music in the morning now. :-(
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