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18th May 2023, 9:21 pm | #21 | |
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Re: Radio listenership figures 2023.
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The thing about R4 I don't understand, is that I liked it as it was (OK, I avoided 'Today' (too confrontational for my personal taste, but each to their own) and 'the Archers' (not really a soap fan) but you can't please all the people all of the time) all through my 20s, and 30s, and half of my 40s - until it began to change. So I can't have been the youth they thought they were changing it for, when they changed it! Why wouldn't a 20-something find Alastair Cooke, or his modern-day equivalent, fascinating? I certainly did - but 'expert' pieces by older people who are good at long-form programmes with no background music - seem to be very much out of favour. I have an 18-yr-old daughter who likes that kind of thing and finds it online...
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18th May 2023, 10:46 pm | #22 |
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Re: Radio listenership figures 2023.
I was probably part of those figures - though I actually listened to very little radio during the survey period. I had a knock on the door one day and I thought it was a dodgy salesman but it turned out he was from RAJAR and looking for people to take the survey.
Afterwards, they tried to recruit me for an extended survey but that involved having an app active on my phone which I didn't fancy. |
18th May 2023, 10:48 pm | #23 |
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Re: Radio listenership figures 2023.
That annoys me. So much spoken material, news etc has music running in the background with the midrange and treble drastically cut, so all you get is bumping and thumping noises under people speaking.
As the surveys they do say that most people do most of their radio listening while driving, it has people like me trying to decide whether the thumping is via the radio or the precursor to another monumentally big bill. For people with limited hearing, it also eats into the dynamic range they need in order to follow what is being said. So, I've stopped listening. The BBC has stopped playing the types of music I enjoy, so I'm one of the group they've chosen to sacrifice in the hope of attracting other people. With their listening figures dropping, but commercial stations going up, they seem to be scoring a lot of home goals. David
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18th May 2023, 11:30 pm | #24 |
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Re: Radio listenership figures 2023.
Those Rajar figures have to be taken with a big pinch of salt as those diaries they give to people to fill in must amount to 10 parts of bugga' all of the radio listenership.
I shall refrain from talking about the BBC, I would get banned if I did.
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18th May 2023, 11:58 pm | #25 | ||
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FWIW I struggle with opera too ! Steve.
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19th May 2023, 8:10 am | #26 |
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Re: Radio listenership figures 2023.
As I think we all have the gist about falling listenership and the ever shifting tides of content, Its time to close this thread.
Cheers Mike T
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