OK, so not really TV ...

They seem to be changing their format somewhat?

When they started they didn't have adverts they had "sponsors" which at the time
was a little different, always getting "sponsored messages" from e.g. landrover.
But now, what they run sounds indistinguishable from adverts to me, and come
from multiple advertisers on the same day/week, not one single sponsor.

Also they made a point of only having journalists and correspondents, but this
morning they had members of the public on giving their opinions on tory candidates.

Have they got any presenters as annoying as Nick Abbot or James O'Brien yet?

Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
> OK, so not really TV ...
>
> They seem to be changing their format somewhat?
>
> When they started they didn't have adverts they had "sponsors" which at the time
> was a little different, always getting "sponsored messages" from e.g. landrover.
> But now, what they run sounds indistinguishable from adverts to me, and come
> from multiple advertisers on the same day/week, not one single sponsor.
>
> Also they made a point of only having journalists and correspondents, but this
> morning they had members of the public on giving their opinions on tory candidates.
>
> Have they got any presenters as annoying as Nick Abbot or James O'Brien yet?
>

Certainly going downhill with the adverts.

I think you need to realise that Nick Abbott is very funny. I'd not take a
single thing he says seriously, but in many cases ironic humour.
Brian

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"Andy Burns" <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote in message
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> OK, so not really TV ...
>
> They seem to be changing their format somewhat?
>
> When they started they didn't have adverts they had "sponsors" which at
> the time was a little different, always getting "sponsored messages" from
> e.g. landrover. But now, what they run sounds indistinguishable from
> adverts to me, and come from multiple advertisers on the same day/week,
> not one single sponsor.
>
> Also they made a point of only having journalists and correspondents, but
> this morning they had members of the public on giving their opinions on
> tory candidates.
>
> Have they got any presenters as annoying as Nick Abbot or James O'Brien
> yet?

Unfortunately, all commercial radio is rubbish in the end as they are
beholden to whoever pays their wages, mostly sponsors and advertisers, that
is why so many of the commercial music stations are almost clones of each
other. Its the inability of the market people to take any chances, so they
go with what they know will work. However they are merely diluting the
target listener and increasingly, radio stations on the Internet run as a
hobby are far more interesting to listen too. Try Mushroom FM for example.
They are mostly oldies but there are tracks played which nobody else will
and where else will you hear Frank Sinatra followed by Adam Ant?
Brian

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> Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
>> OK, so not really TV ...
>>
>> They seem to be changing their format somewhat?
>>
>> When they started they didn't have adverts they had "sponsors" which at
>> the time
>> was a little different, always getting "sponsored messages" from e.g.
>> landrover.
>> But now, what they run sounds indistinguishable from adverts to me, and
>> come
>> from multiple advertisers on the same day/week, not one single sponsor.
>>
>> Also they made a point of only having journalists and correspondents, but
>> this
>> morning they had members of the public on giving their opinions on tory
>> candidates.
>>
>> Have they got any presenters as annoying as Nick Abbot or James O'Brien
>> yet?
>>
>
> Certainly going downhill with the adverts.
>

On 10/07/2022 11:47, Brian Gaff wrote:
> Unfortunately, all commercial radio is rubbish in the end as they are
> beholden to whoever pays their wages, mostly sponsors and advertisers,

And the BBC is rubbish because it's beholden to a far more pernicious
force, left/liberal greeny wokery.

Bill

On 10/07/2022 15:16, williamwright wrote:
> On 10/07/2022 11:47, Brian Gaff wrote:
>> Unfortunately, all commercial radio is rubbish in the end as they are
>> beholden to whoever pays their wages, mostly sponsors and advertisers,
>
> And the BBC is rubbish because it's beholden to a far more pernicious
> force, left/liberal greeny wokery.

You mean that the BBC is fairly centrist, but that you are beholden to a
far more pernicious force, right-wing fake news.

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On Sun, 10 Jul 2022 16:16:15 +0100, Java Jive wrote:

> On 10/07/2022 15:16, williamwright wrote:
>> On 10/07/2022 11:47, Brian Gaff wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, all commercial radio is rubbish in the end as they are
>>> beholden to whoever pays their wages, mostly sponsors and advertisers,
>>
>> And the BBC is rubbish because it's beholden to a far more pernicious
>> force, left/liberal greeny wokery.
>
> You mean that the BBC is fairly centrist, but that you are beholden to a
> far more pernicious force, right-wing fake news.

I like Marianna's voice, it is so much clearer that many of the chipmunk
sounding women.

jon wrote:

> I like Marianna's voice

But what about Mariella's?