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Topic History of: BBC, Tony Hall and mutilation Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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andrew
JK2006 wrote: The relegation of SOTS to graveyard mornings is so dreadful I wince; of course the Beeb will say it's because us oldies are dying off - announced the same day that the NHS is described in crisis because we are all living longer.
I still won't forgive them for reducing Roger Day to a weekend Sunday slot.
JK2006
The relegation of SOTS to graveyard mornings is so dreadful I wince; of course the Beeb will say it's because us oldies are dying off - announced the same day that the NHS is described in crisis because we are all living longer.
Chris
And arrogance it most certainly is, Pru.
The BBC, under Lord Hall-Hall, have forgotten they are answerable to each and every license holder. And something as utterly trivial as a 35 year pop programme repeated, as they said in 2011, "unedited"; if they refuse to answer questions about the reasons for their needless editing since 2012 (and let us not forget they are paying someone our money to do the edits) this tells me there are extremely serious issues of transparency throughout the organisation from top to bottom. To fend off, for instance, James Masterton's FOI request as to why they were removing all trace of Dave Lee Travis as a "private editorial matter" suggests that with more serious matters they are also playing dirty. With our money.
But I also maintain, and have done for years, that the elitist BBC management utterly despise the BBC Four/Radio 2 demographic, which is why they have turned R2 into "BBC One on the radio". rinsing the place of actual DJ's in place of (predominantly) irksome TV presenters & celebrities. If you aren't "one of them" (a left-leaning politico who sees themselves as 'above it all' and eats the news for breakfast, dinner & tea) then you either eat a dumb dish or you starve. Today's news of Tony Blackburn (up until last year broadcasting live to an adoring audience at 1pm on a Saturday) being given Sounds Of The Sixties in the 6am slot (when most people are still asleep) is simply another example of this - it's not "good news", it's the BBC axing one old man for ageist reasons, and installing another old man to broadcast to a nation still asleep in bed - the real message being "Fuck off old farts, forget the 60s and listen to the dude from the X-Factor". And it is - shunting the show to 6am might as well be be shunting it to 2pm - R2 telling the audience of that show to fuck off, and BBC management showing the subversive old duffer Tony that he belongs on the Graveyard Slot.
I'd also like to know what part Phil Swern is playing in this game of DJ Demotions & Audience Insulting given both POTP and SOTS are his supposedly 'independent' productions.
Pru
"we reserve the right to continue to review and edit this in whatever way we see fit.".
The arrogance of it wouldn't be quite so bad if he spoke in the same way to the likes of Whittingdale, The Daily Mail and other assorted thugs and loons, but he cowers before such people whilst acting like a god when brushing aside the BBC's own supporters.
Chris
A 'behind the scenes' look at how that particular edition of TOTP was put together
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