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5th Mar 2019, 9:48 pm | #61 |
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Re: Are you all ready for single channel radio?
Just as an aside, does anyone know where Simon Bates is these days? Is he still broadcasting?
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5th Mar 2019, 9:53 pm | #62 |
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Re: Are you all ready for single channel radio?
According to Wikipedia he left BBC Radio Devon in Jan 2017. Hopefully he is happily retired with his feet up.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Bates
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6th Mar 2019, 11:34 am | #64 | |
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Radio stations are being amalgameted, the 'same-old-same-old' on TV, it has to be said, my car is now a lot shiner than it was & the garden's begining to look lovely! The TV hasn't been on for a fornight now, and it's not been missed, the radio?, am finding myself channel hopping, listening to different adverts if nothing else (sigh). Mark
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6th Mar 2019, 11:58 am | #65 |
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Re: Are you all ready for single channel radio?
This thread's URL is now added to my bookmarks so that I can read through it whenever I need an emotional uplift ...
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6th Mar 2019, 12:15 pm | #66 |
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Re: Are you all ready for single channel radio?
Please stay on topic. Discussion of the BBC licence fee system is OT here, and potentially contravenes the forum ban on political discussions.
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6th Mar 2019, 5:16 pm | #67 |
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Re: Are you all ready for single channel radio?
This thread makes no sense to me. The number of radio stations now available on the internet is variously reported as between 25,000 and 35,000. I've just acquired my third internet radio, which is remote-controlled, has 250 pre-sets and cost less than £50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCzdVRb-FCk.
I have never actually looked for it, but it wouldn't surprise me if there is a station somewhere dealing 24/7 with Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration. Whatever type of music you like, I doubt if there are fewer than 100 stations worldwide offering that particular niche. And of course, all the Beeb stations are there, and whatever local radio station you may be interested in. I really miss Radio Trent and BRMB from the late 70's... but they ain't coming back! B
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6th Mar 2019, 7:35 pm | #68 |
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Re: Are you all ready for single channel radio?
At the moment, BBC Essex are emphasising that their announcers and presenters are all from, and are based in, Essex.
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6th Mar 2019, 7:59 pm | #69 |
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He tells me he has almost carte blanche about what he can play (with the exception of a couple of artists, I'm sure you can guess who). Also, besides the thousands of tracks on the computer server, the studio is equipped with turntables, CD players and, wait for it, MiniDisk.
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9th Mar 2019, 1:02 pm | #71 |
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Re: Are you all ready for single channel radio?
I'm 29 and what I never listen to commercial radio because of my hatred of adverts. Although the BBC TV output has done nothing for me for years (except for using their remarkable 'Archive' facility on iPlayer to watch the original 'Civilisation', Iain Nairn's architecture programmes or Mortimer Wheeler in his various opinionated outings), I only listen to Radios 3, 4, 4Extra and 6.
I like Radio 3 because it is not dumbed down like the TV, it doesn't play only harmonious background music which is my experience of ClassicFM, and there are no adverts. There are programmes that explain music to someone with no knowledge at all, 'Late Junction' (the best programme on the radio, to my mind) which never fails to expose me to an entirely new music, and the presenters genuinely know their stuff. The puckish Sean Rafferty of 'In Tune' would be an integral part of my ideal dinner party! The trouble with Internet Radio is that the ones I've listened to are more along the algorithm line: 'if you liked this, you'll like this'. I want the programme to enlighten me, not just run through records I have. I've yet to find a presenter whose taste or imagination is such that they will programme wildly different music - except on Late Junction. It's possible to have a Mediaeval lute piece followed by Japanese noise-rock. |
9th Mar 2019, 1:11 pm | #72 | |
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Give Solid Gold Gem AM a go then, although you may be a bit young for their playlists. 8000 records and the presenter chooses the ones to play. Sensible people rather than Ginger Whinger types and no adverts. It has become my station of choice. |
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9th Mar 2019, 2:28 pm | #73 |
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Re: Are you all ready for single channel radio?
Listening to quay-fm from Alderney can be pleasurable at times, limited adverts and at times they play lots from, shall we say, our younger years
http://quayfm.ci-servers.org:1071/quay-fm
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9th Mar 2019, 2:40 pm | #74 |
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Whilst I agree with some of the points made by Uncle Bulgaria, I do listen to commercial radio (and watch commercial TV), and prefer Classic FM to Radio 3. I've also listened to the new Scala Radio over the past few days. One of the reasons I do so is that I've always believed in freedom of choice, rather than the limitations imposed by one provider of anything.
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9th Mar 2019, 3:29 pm | #75 |
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I suspect that is why radios were fitted with tuning controls (and off switches) from the beginning. One may not choose many of the current offerings, but it wouldn't be broadcast if there wasn't an audience for it.
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9th Mar 2019, 3:58 pm | #76 | |
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9th Mar 2019, 5:15 pm | #77 |
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Re: Are you all ready for single channel radio?
An MP3 player can be filled up with enough recorded music to last all day.
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15th Mar 2019, 8:05 pm | #78 | |
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15th Mar 2019, 8:25 pm | #79 |
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Re: Are you all ready for single channel radio?
I never really got-on with Late Junction: to me it was always full of odd peoples banging-random-things-together or screaming in languages I didn't understand.
No Synthesizers? I tuned-out. "Scala" - the new online supposedly-classically-oriented channel - has utterly failed to meet my expectations after a few listens. It has annoying "DJs" like Simon Mayo intruding into the music. I really don't want trivial chat interrupting my listening, which is why I'm sticking with my personal-playlists loaded onto a couple of dozen 64Gb USB-sticks. [OK, I still listen to https://www.di.fm/ and Spotify for hardcore trance-stuff, and a few other streams where I can get J-Pop and the latest Ayumi Hamasaki stuff] |
19th Mar 2019, 5:20 pm | #80 |
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Re: Are you all ready for single channel radio?
An interesting (and alarming) blog post about cuts to Late Junction and the jazz programming, Junk Box Nick. I've seen LJ live a number of times at the Edinburgh Festival, compered by the irreplaceable Verity Sharp. It does make the radio worthwhile, although I'd be willing to give the new programme 'Unclassified' a go.
Geoffrey Smith getting axed is really bad news. He made Jazz Record Requests his own, and his graveyard slot, while a good programme, and a great chance to get more of an in-depth listen to his own tastes, always felt like he was being promoted sideways towards the boot. G6Tanuki - sometimes it is as you describe. Occasionally I turn it off as it sounds like demented elephants and I'm not in the mood. However, it's there and challenging and sometimes I am in the mood for elephants! They do have synthesisers too, on occasion. Nick Luscombe often has more electronic music when it's his turn to present. I hadn't heard of 'Scala'...it doesn't sound a match for Petroc Trelawney yet! |