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  • Radio Five Live Sports Extra

    From Scott@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 26 21:31:34 2023
    I did not realise this station had been renamed Radio 5 Sports Extra
    (in 2022).
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radio_5_Sports_Extra

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  • From Phil@21:1/5 to Scott on Tue Nov 28 19:06:57 2023
    On 26/11/2023 21:31, Scott wrote:
    I did not realise this station had been renamed Radio 5 Sports Extra
    (in 2022).
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radio_5_Sports_Extra
    Yes, I found it a strange move. Given it's the sister station of BBC
    Radio 5 Live, which didn't change it's name and it's main purpose is
    live sport commentary.

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  • From Scott@21:1/5 to brian1gaff@gmail.com on Thu Nov 30 12:12:20 2023
    On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:08:21 -0000, "Brian Gaff"
    <brian1gaff@gmail.com> wrote:

    I thought its always been called that, after all the other is Radio 5 Live.
    This all came about when DAB was supposed to be wonderful and they could
    easily create extra channels as and when needed to cover the world >tiddlywinks championships or whatever.
    They did not want to tie it down to a name.

    Changed from 'Radio Five Live Sports Extra' to 'Radio Five Sports
    Extra' (deleting 'Live').

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  • From JMB99@21:1/5 to Brian Gaff on Fri Dec 1 12:36:03 2023
    On 01/12/2023 09:24, Brian Gaff wrote:
    I wonder how many committees it took to make that decision. 26 I'd imagine. The BBC is getting more like the NHS every day!

    Brian



    The BBC have often been accused of that but I think there have been many
    times the BBC have been able to react quicker than ITV.

    From memory, can't guarantee all correct but think there have been
    other examples.

    Weren't the BBC able to get breakfast TV started up whilst ITV were
    still going through lots of committees?

    ITV moved the evening news to late so the BBC moved their news to 22:00h
    then ITV complained and wanted the BBC to moved their news away from 22:00h!

    I remember our manager came back from one of their management meetings
    and came up with the usual mantra of removing layers of management (they
    always seem to end up back where it had always been). He gave an
    example of Morrisons supermarkets where the person on the till could
    take a problem direct to the store manager. So a colleague asked the
    person on till next time he was in Morrisons, she was horrified - it had
    to go through a whole series of layers - far more than we did, I
    remember once taking a call direct from someone VERY senior and
    regularly spoke to people quite senior. After privatisation, there was
    a lot BS but we never saw or spoke to anyone senior.

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  • From Mark Carver@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 1 13:22:14 2023
    On 01/12/2023 12:36, JMB99 wrote:


    Weren't the BBC able to get breakfast TV started up whilst ITV were
    still going through lots of committees?

    No. They beat Tv-am (and not ITV BTW) to air by a fortnight, as a spoiler

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  • From Phil@21:1/5 to Brian Gaff on Sat Dec 2 16:32:20 2023
    On 01/12/2023 09:24, Brian Gaff wrote:
    I wonder how many committees it took to make that decision. 26 I'd imagine. The BBC is getting more like the NHS every day!

    Brian

    I did wonder if it was some new manager, desperate put their 'stamp' on
    things. Can't think of any logical reason to remove Live from the name.

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  • From Scott@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 3 16:59:25 2023
    On Sat, 2 Dec 2023 16:32:20 +0000, Phil <philusenet1458@gmx.com>
    wrote:

    On 01/12/2023 09:24, Brian Gaff wrote:
    I wonder how many committees it took to make that decision. 26 I'd imagine. >> The BBC is getting more like the NHS every day!

    Brian

    I did wonder if it was some new manager, desperate put their 'stamp' on >things. Can't think of any logical reason to remove Live from the name.

    Tautology perhaps?

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