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  • R2 FM - Tony Blackburn Show 0600

    From Dickie mint@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 13 20:05:39 2023
    What on earth happened this morning? News at 6 am handed over to Tony
    Blackburn but only silence with seemingly muffled thumps heard for a
    short while then silence again for some minutes. Then a Gearge Ezra
    track played, hardly 60s music!

    Eventually after about 12 minutes Tony came on.

    No attempt at proper continuity with apologies.

    The BBC as we knew it is dead. Its now just the same as commercial radio.

    PS: I can't imagine any scenario that wouldn't allow for continuity
    apologies - apart from there being no continuity staff. Is this what the
    BBC had become?

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  • From Brian Gaff@21:1/5 to Dickie mint on Sun May 14 08:32:01 2023
    Yes is the short answer. Its all automated, and somebody got it wrong.
    I wonder what offering will be given to local radio listeners when they finally do away with regional evening shows later in the year? Alread on Monday, a lot more stations will be taking the feee from the bbc south show, and the presenter of the originals have decided to leave, the current south presenter has announced he is not applying for the new show, and is leaving
    the bbc when the final show starts.
    I think there will be a lot of the older generation who listen to these evening shows who will lose their companion they go to bed with.
    To me the BBC should be providing these sort of shows, and indeed more minority shows as well, but it seems that money is the bottom line here
    again, and one wonders what we will end up with. Hopefully not some bland person who plays music and excerpts from the various regions all night.
    Brian

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    "Dickie mint" <richard_taylor01@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:kca5c3F9btfU1@mid.individual.net...
    What on earth happened this morning? News at 6 am handed over to Tony Blackburn but only silence with seemingly muffled thumps heard for a short while then silence again for some minutes. Then a Gearge Ezra track
    played, hardly 60s music!

    Eventually after about 12 minutes Tony came on.

    No attempt at proper continuity with apologies.

    The BBC as we knew it is dead. Its now just the same as commercial radio.

    PS: I can't imagine any scenario that wouldn't allow for continuity
    apologies - apart from there being no continuity staff. Is this what the
    BBC had become?

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  • From Brian Gaff@21:1/5 to Brian Gaff on Mon May 15 10:26:15 2023
    Somebody has it in for him then, as yesterday evening Freeview bbc london
    had the caption, Tony Blackburn soul show. Itwas not what was playing out.
    BBC south radio stations had Tony Blackburn, but a different show, and that
    was somebody else in fact on air as well.
    This suggests that nobody had change items in the programme guides either.
    If they cock up on the job, how come they are still employed?
    Brian

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    Yes is the short answer. Its all automated, and somebody got it wrong.
    I wonder what offering will be given to local radio listeners when they finally do away with regional evening shows later in the year? Alread on Monday, a lot more stations will be taking the feee from the bbc south
    show, and the presenter of the originals have decided to leave, the
    current south presenter has announced he is not applying for the new show, and is leaving the bbc when the final show starts.
    I think there will be a lot of the older generation who listen to these evening shows who will lose their companion they go to bed with.
    To me the BBC should be providing these sort of shows, and indeed more minority shows as well, but it seems that money is the bottom line here again, and one wonders what we will end up with. Hopefully not some bland person who plays music and excerpts from the various regions all night.
    Brian

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    "Dickie mint" <richard_taylor01@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:kca5c3F9btfU1@mid.individual.net...
    What on earth happened this morning? News at 6 am handed over to Tony
    Blackburn but only silence with seemingly muffled thumps heard for a
    short while then silence again for some minutes. Then a Gearge Ezra track
    played, hardly 60s music!

    Eventually after about 12 minutes Tony came on.

    No attempt at proper continuity with apologies.

    The BBC as we knew it is dead. Its now just the same as commercial radio.

    PS: I can't imagine any scenario that wouldn't allow for continuity
    apologies - apart from there being no continuity staff. Is this what the
    BBC had become?



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  • From Chris Youlden@21:1/5 to Dickie mint on Tue May 16 22:25:58 2023
    On 13/05/2023 20:05, Dickie mint wrote:

    PS: I can't imagine any scenario that wouldn't allow for continuity
    apologies - apart from there being no continuity staff. Is this what the
    BBC had become?

    Agreed. There is no excuse for no continuity announcements. If nothing
    else pre-recorded apologies could be available.

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    Chris

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  • From John Williamson@21:1/5 to Chris Youlden on Wed May 17 08:38:19 2023
    On 16/05/2023 22:25, Chris Youlden wrote:
    On 13/05/2023 20:05, Dickie mint wrote:

    PS: I can't imagine any scenario that wouldn't allow for continuity
    apologies - apart from there being no continuity staff. Is this what
    the BBC had become?

    Agreed. There is no excuse for no continuity announcements. If nothing
    else pre-recorded apologies could be available.

    Which would need to be triggered by someone. In this case, there would
    be no reason to trigger the automatic "dead air" one, as there was still
    a signal.

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    John.

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  • From Brian Gaff@21:1/5 to John Williamson on Wed May 17 10:55:09 2023
    Tony has been on tour with his sounds of the 60 show since around Christmas, and I know that he gets a lot of email, and others read it for him these
    days. On one show near here somebody who went said that he admitted this as there are just not enough hours in a day, which was often why when somebody asked did you get my information about xxx, he said, I really don't know.

    Brian

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    "John Williamson" <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote in message news:kcjej9Fmb32U2@mid.individual.net...
    On 16/05/2023 22:25, Chris Youlden wrote:
    On 13/05/2023 20:05, Dickie mint wrote:

    PS: I can't imagine any scenario that wouldn't allow for continuity
    apologies - apart from there being no continuity staff. Is this what
    the BBC had become?

    Agreed. There is no excuse for no continuity announcements. If nothing
    else pre-recorded apologies could be available.

    Which would need to be triggered by someone. In this case, there would be
    no reason to trigger the automatic "dead air" one, as there was still a signal.

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    John.

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  • From MB@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 17 17:00:10 2023
    Is he back to normal, he missed at least a couple of programmes because
    of some health issue?

    Is his programme pre-recorded and is it done from his home?

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 18 08:32:58 2023
    MB wrote

    Is his programme pre-recorded and is it done from his home?

    Sounded like it was live from his house, you could hear him thumping the controls and muttering "nothing's going out" and his wife(?) whispering
    "shhh, we can hear that on air" ... OWTTE.

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  • From Brian Gregory@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Fri May 19 10:41:50 2023
    On 18/05/2023 08:32, Andy Burns wrote:
    MB wrote

    Is his programme pre-recorded and is it done from his home?

    Sounded like it was live from his house, you could hear him thumping the controls and muttering "nothing's going out" and his wife(?) whispering "shhh, we can hear that on air" ... OWTTE.


    Yes, and he did say sorry about the delay after the first record.

    --
    Brian Gregory (in England).

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  • From Chris Youlden@21:1/5 to John Williamson on Tue May 23 17:41:52 2023
    On 17/05/2023 08:38, John Williamson wrote:
    On 16/05/2023 22:25, Chris Youlden wrote:
    On 13/05/2023 20:05, Dickie mint wrote:

    PS: I can't imagine any scenario that wouldn't allow for continuity
    apologies - apart from there being no continuity staff. Is this what
    the BBC had become?

    Agreed. There is no excuse for no continuity announcements. If nothing
    else pre-recorded apologies could be available.

    Which would need to be triggered by someone. In this case, there would
    be no reason to trigger the automatic "dead air" one, as there was still
    a signal.


    Even in my day 12 minutes of silence could be triggered automatically.
    There must be someone there, even if it's one person across 6 networks?
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    Chris

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