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?
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?
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?
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.
On 16/05/2023 22:25, Chris Youlden wrote:
On 13/05/2023 20:05, Dickie mint wrote:Which would need to be triggered by someone. In this case, there would be
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.
no reason to trigger the automatic "dead air" one, as there was still a signal.
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John.
Is his programme pre-recorded and is it done from his home?
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.
On 16/05/2023 22:25, Chris Youlden wrote:
On 13/05/2023 20:05, Dickie mint wrote:Which would need to be triggered by someone. In this case, there would
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.
be no reason to trigger the automatic "dead air" one, as there was still
a signal.
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