https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63088080

I think that it is an outrage that Steve Wright has been ousted from his role on radio 2 in the afternoon, to be replaced by the dreadful Scott Mills. Steve is one of the few great broadcasters left in this country and the BBC are shooting themselves in the foot by getting rid of him. The ratings for Steve were very very good, so there is no need to replace him on those grounds, so I can't see any good reason to remove him, other than for woke reasons to make the bbc more diverse (i.e. remove most white males). Many thousands of people love Steve and will miss him dreadfully. It seems that the bbc are doing a culling of the over 60s (Steve Wright, Liz Kershaw, Sue Barker, Mark Lawrenson), and I think that it is very ageist. Older people need to be represented on screen, just like every other community, so please leave them alone.

robbiex wrote:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63088080

I think that it is an outrage that Steve Wright has been ousted from his role on radio 2 in the afternoon, to be replaced by the dreadful Scott Mills. Steve is one of the few great broadcasters left in this country and the BBC are shooting themselves in the foot by getting rid of him. The ratings for Steve were very very good, so there is no need to replace him on those grounds, so I can't see any good reason to remove him, other than for woke reasons to make the bbc more diverse (i.e. remove most white males). Many thousands of people love Steve and will miss him dreadfully. It seems that the bbc are doing a culling of the over 60s (Steve Wright, Liz Kershaw, Sue Barker, Mark Lawrenson), and I think that it is very ageist. Older people need to be represented on screen, just like every other community, so please leave them alone.

The media have an obsession to try and get youth attention. They youths could not care less, and I doubt they even bother with TV licence also. The young people I meet at work use Disney+, Netflix or Roku. The TV and radio are going to be 2 relics in the next decade or so. I can't even get a reception where I live. I can't be bothered with radio in my truck. Unless I need a traffic report in a different county, so the TA button is also on, then it's back to CD's.
The TV in my house is collecting dust, I have it on to watch DVD's when I can be bothered to sit down. I have no idea what the current trend on TV is.

robbiex wrote:

Older people need to be represented on screen, just like every other community, so please leave them alone.[/quote]

Well said Robbie.

The problem with the BBC's attitude is not that it wants to attract younger listeners - it's supposed to serve ALL listeners, so there's nothing wrong in trying to broaden an audience. No, the problem is the BBC thinks Radio 2, like 1, should be age specific (no, they shouldn't, not in terms of audience: that just shows they don't understand public service broadcasting), and, risibly, BBC bosses seem to think they can attract listeners in the late teens to late twenties by replacing someone over 60 with someone over 40. That's really bizarre. It ignores the fact that not many people in that age group like any DJ-driven channel any more, it ignores the fact that those who do mainly listen for the music, and it also ignores the fact that, for many at that age, ANYONE even SLIGHTLY older than they are is dismissed as 'Old' - so the thinking is naive, muddled and desperate. Terry Wogan would have attracted more young listeners than a young broadcaster because Wogan was a great broadcaster - that's what the bosses continue to miss. Young people are not as superficial as the bosses seem to think.

As for Steve Wright: let's face it, when has he sounded like he actually cares about music? I think I was still at school the last time he did. Long ago he froze: froze in his tastes, style, attitude; he froze with that godawful 'posse' around him (THEY are the ones who should have gone IMHO). A very sharp and clever broadcaster in his prime, but he's been spiritually dead for years. I worry for him a bit - does he have ANY life apart from sitting in front of a mic? If Virgin have indeed signed him up then he'll be happy to just keep life on a loop.

Rick wrote:
The problem with the BBC's attitude is not that it wants to attract younger listeners - it's supposed to serve ALL listeners, so there's nothing wrong in trying to broaden an audience. No, the problem is the BBC thinks Radio 2, like 1, should be age specific (no, they shouldn't, not in terms of audience: that just shows they don't understand public service broadcasting), and, risibly, BBC bosses seem to think they can attract listeners in the late teens to late twenties by replacing someone over 60 with someone over 40. That's really bizarre. It ignores the fact that not many people in that age group like any DJ-driven channel any more, it ignores the fact that those who do mainly listen for the music, and it also ignores the fact that, for many at that age, ANYONE even SLIGHTLY older than they are is dismissed as 'Old' - so the thinking is naive, muddled and desperate. Terry Wogan would have attracted more young listeners than a young broadcaster because Wogan was a great broadcaster - that's what the bosses continue to miss. Young people are not as superficial as the bosses seem to think.

As for Steve Wright: let's face it, when has he sounded like he actually cares about music? I think I was still at school the last time he did. Long ago he froze: froze in his tastes, style, attitude; he froze with that godawful 'posse' around him (THEY are the ones who should have gone IMHO). A very sharp and clever broadcaster in his prime, but he's been spiritually dead for years. I worry for him a bit - does he have ANY life apart from sitting in front of a mic? If Virgin have indeed signed him up then he'll be happy to just keep life on a loop.

Lets face it the no one cares about the old. Just look how the elderly are portrayed in the films and TV shows. Henry Kissinger who is another world elite globalist said the elderly are Useless Eaters. The old are ignored by the younger generations unless they can get something out of them.

Green Man wrote:
Rick wrote:
The problem with the BBC's attitude is not that it wants to attract younger listeners - it's supposed to serve ALL listeners, so there's nothing wrong in trying to broaden an audience. No, the problem is the BBC thinks Radio 2, like 1, should be age specific (no, they shouldn't, not in terms of audience: that just shows they don't understand public service broadcasting), and, risibly, BBC bosses seem to think they can attract listeners in the late teens to late twenties by replacing someone over 60 with someone over 40. That's really bizarre. It ignores the fact that not many people in that age group like any DJ-driven channel any more, it ignores the fact that those who do mainly listen for the music, and it also ignores the fact that, for many at that age, ANYONE even SLIGHTLY older than they are is dismissed as 'Old' - so the thinking is naive, muddled and desperate. Terry Wogan would have attracted more young listeners than a young broadcaster because Wogan was a great broadcaster - that's what the bosses continue to miss. Young people are not as superficial as the bosses seem to think.

As for Steve Wright: let's face it, when has he sounded like he actually cares about music? I think I was still at school the last time he did. Long ago he froze: froze in his tastes, style, attitude; he froze with that godawful 'posse' around him (THEY are the ones who should have gone IMHO). A very sharp and clever broadcaster in his prime, but he's been spiritually dead for years. I worry for him a bit - does he have ANY life apart from sitting in front of a mic? If Virgin have indeed signed him up then he'll be happy to just keep life on a loop.

Lets face it the no one cares about the old. Just look how the elderly are portrayed in the films and TV shows. Henry Kissinger who is another world elite globalist said the elderly are Useless Eaters. The old are ignored by the younger generations unless they can get something out of them.

I agree, the man was still in his prime and he loved doing it.
I hear rumours he is taking the Afternoon show somewhere else in January, Virgin Radio i believe
The BBC's loss will be their gain