Does anyone listen to local BBC radio in the evening now?
mgbstag
Posts: 928
Forum Member
✭✭
I used to listen to BBC London in the evening, then all the changes happened and I now listen to LBC and dinner Jazz on Jazzfm. It doesn't cross my mind to try BBC Local.
0
Comments
I pray that there is either a local football commentary or speedway on in the evenings now to listen too.Local radio is one of the better things the BBC do but replacing it in the evening with total sh*te is terrible,
Don't like the Mark Forrester show at all.
also fill the gap from 01.00-03.00 maybe the cheapest way is to extend both programmes either side.
Dean Martin's show on Gold was very popular, during his final four hour show the studio logged just over 16,000 calls
Dean should get this slot on BBC local radio, I'm sure it would be a sure fire hit.
You can keep Mark Forrest, thank you.
LindaMcDermott is a nice show in the evening on R Merseyside, if you find Pete Price on City a bit too pumped up then it's a good alternative, I'd hate for them to also take this away and replace it with more crap that would go on after Forrest. I listened to Forrest for about 5 minutes once and it was enough for me!
I know a local musician in my area who got to do a half hour of his songs on a 9pm show on Merseyside before the BBC made that awful change, so it's taking away opportunities for things like this that really benefit local people who were actually benefiting from local broadcasting in the evening.
Must admit it's not really my cup of tea and its tone and presentation style is better suited to the shire BBC local stations. But it should also be remembered that the alternative was to regionalise daytime output, so in that context, this was deemed to be a less worse option.
But...
RAJAR says BBC London's reach in the 7-10pm slot M-F was as follows:
2012 (before the change)
Q1 86k
Q2 64k
Q3 63k
Q4 93k
2013 (after the change)
Q1 80k
Q2 102k
Q3 110k
Q4 100k
Or - to summarise - in three out of four quarters last year, Mark scored more listeners than the corresponding quarter the previous year - two of them to the tune of ~60% more.
I'd say there's a hint there that the MF show hasn't been a disaster for BBC London.
Given the apparent RAJAR success - see my post above - there's an argument that the "tone and presentation (of the) shire BBC stations" might be a profitable gap in the market for BBC London to pursue.
What possible interest are Rajar figures to the general listening public who have seen their local radio chopped down by 3 hours and which should be a prime time alternative to national radio or even tv ?
When the BBC licence fee is up for review/renewal then they must stipulate that these hours of local radio are restored immediately in favour of the utter garbage we have now and offer a genuine and proper good local and valued service to listeners.
To my mind the BBC are just playing silly beggars with these hours that have been lost in a licence fee payers budget of £3.6 billion.
Well, it shows that the programme isn't as unpopular as some people suggested it would be.
I agree it's not ideal - but it was better than the other options considered. And I quite like the idea of showcasing BBC local output on other stations.
And this is not the first time stations have not had local output. Some BBC locals regularly took Radio One of a daytime in the 1970s; the BBC locals in the north west had a regional afternoon programme in the 1990s and the late show in the north west was regional in the early 2000s.
To be honest you can make figures prove whatever you want; until Jan 2014 BBC London only carried the MF show 2 or 3 times a week as it had football on FM. From January it now carries MF five days a week with no exceptions; all football is on DAB which has upset a lot of people, cabbies, workers etc who don't have access to DAB. Poor decision all round by very weak mgt at the station.
Don't listen in the evenings because it isn't!
Afternoons and evenings I transfer to Wave 105.
One question I must ask, is when I do tune in, why is the stand in presenters are better than Mark?