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[b]Bemuso wrote:[/b]
[quote][b]Godiver wrote:[/b]
[quote]No-one in this day and age of genre specific music channels is going to sit through performances of artists they don't like in order to find out who is number one in a chart that no longer matters.[/quote]

That's a bit circular. Channels may be genre specific, but IMHO only a small section of music buyers are. Your monoculture goth or punk is a tiny minority... even the high street clubster is a small part of the whole market. And it has often been good for an act with its roots in one genre to broaden out (or sell out as their original fans often say).

By serving micro-genre fare, these channels are precluding the possibility of mass appeal. That doesn't mean nothing [b]could have[/b] mass appeal any more.

It seems to me the complexity of social and technical developments right now means we can't see the wood for the trees. I'm sure we'll look back in 10 years and get that &quot;Ah! now I see...&quot; moment.

I do think the 20th century may turn out to be a blip in relation to audio. Music has been around for millenia but only sold as a fixed audio product for about 100 years. It may be that (sadly) we've seen the back of &quot;records&quot; as such. But popular songs have been around for much longer...[/quote]

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Topic History of: Top Of The Pops scrapped !
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Author	Message
andrew	wasn't it scrapped a few years ago then brought back? I want Ready Steady Go and Old Grey Whistle Test back.
cillas big arse	It'll be interesting so see what happens now with the christmas No1.a british only tradition.with no TOTP it won't have the same impact.
fred	..loads more football on TV but this programme is still successful - shows the top matches with a decent production team. The problem TOTP has is the same with most of the BBC - too much thought, too much interference. Everyone knows all they had to do was keep it on thursdays, keep the acts miming, an keep playing the most popular hits of the day. It was a winning formula. I'm vry sad its going.
fly_tipper	TOTP's selling point for years has been that it's based around the official chart. That being the case, move it to Sunday nights, make it two hours long, and run it side-by-side with the Radio 1 rundown. While 21-40 is being announced on the radio, show live performances or videos of choice high climbers/new entries, maybe a bit of album chart coverage, and then run down the top 20 in full, skipping over those that've already been played. Book live performances where appropriate, but I'd have no arguments about 3/4 of the music on the show coming from promo videos. Sunday teatime is a time when families are often to be found in front of the box, so you'll get mums and dads moaning about how none of the stuff before them is as good as the TOTPs of the 70s, and kids plotting next week's purchases based on how little their parents approve. People still want to know what's number 1, so why not make the official announcement a visual spectacle as opposed to merely an aural one? Obviously you'd get a high point in terms of viewing figures towards the end of the show as you get towards number one, but I think moving the likes of Songs Of Praise and Antiques Roadshow back an hour to accommodate it on BBC1 would be a masterstroke. BBC1 would basically have Sunday locked down in viewing terms. Then obviously it can be edited down to half an hour or an hour and shown again later in the week. Potentially three hours of culturally relevant television per week, most of which consists of freebie/cheaply acquired promo videos. If the alternatives are another f*cking hospital drama or a dancing-based reality TV show, I know where I'd prefer my license fee to go.
mikemacca	as Jk will tell you, you had to be on the up to get on or at least your peak position in the charts. Recent years have seen the same old tripe thrown out week after week and something having gone down to number 11, 6 weeks after its peak getting prime billing. It was dying in the 80s until a certain big mouthed guy used to bring us the USA news once a month.