Can someone please stop Steve Wright being a total prat?
Charnham
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seriously im having to suffer his "big show" at work, and its crap, first of all lets stop the dinging during the travel, let us stop the crap music, that is out of place on the channel, todays example being "Hi Mickey" , the crap guest, star signs etc
make it stop
make it stop
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What would you prefer?? heart??
Seriously, you want to thank the fact that we have shows like Steve Wright on Radio 2. At least he has something to say and can entertain the listeners.
Erm entertain?? I don't think so. I'm a big fan of Radio 2 but Wright is just rehashing the one creative idea ge had in the 1980's. There is no real personality or anything real from him on his show. Just crap wackyness. Anyone as experienced as him should have worked out that if you hack songs in half to talk over them, you are talking too much or trying to play too much music. Any second rate producer can work out that by ditching the 2 minutes of crap and pointless sig tunes he plays at the start and end of each hour, he could play the songs in full. The fact this doesn't happen is nothing more than ego.
He has been able to do what he does for so long because that is exactly what decent quality radio is all about. Playing some tunes, and entertaining the listener by having something to say, and having the odd guest on. It worked in the 1980s and the system and format is still relevant today.
Certain so called radio stations should take a leaf out of his book and start producing some decent radio. But we all know, it probably won't happen anytime soon.
But the show is not about the back to back music. It is a magazine show, or don't you get that?
That's just it, it's not supposed to be a magazine-type show. It's supposed to be music driven to counter the Vine and Mayo shows either side of it.
No need for the attitude. I don't want back to back music but when a presenter plays a song it's nice to actually hear it in full. You clearly only bother to read part of my post or you would have spotted the part where I suggested that he could play less music but then play the songs in full. Thats not too much to expect from one of the nations biggest radio stations.
Magazine shows can be delivered without ego and still fulfil the requirments of the listeners.
So, they go onto a forum and have a cowardly moan to strangers. Who is it here they're actually asking to "make it stop"?
You have given all the reasons why The Big Show is different from all other shows and hence, why it is such a good programme.
'Quality radio'?
Are there two people called Steve Wright?
Correct. The 80's was a great era for radio so why not use the successful formats that were used then.
The problem is the majority of people don't like personality radio anymore. It gets in the way of the More Music Variety unimaginative pap listeners know and love.
When the likes of Steve Wright come along and offer some alternative to that, it is frowned upon. Shame really, because the show is on one of the most popular stations in the country. People bang on about the fact that heart is so wonderful, but there are alternative ways of broadcasting a radio show other than the heart way.
You would think that such a popular show on such a popular station would have been scrapped by now for something much more boring. Maybe that is part of the problem. The fact that you can tell there is a difference between Jeremy Vine's show and Steve Wright's show. Maybe the main complaint is that they don't all blend into one long show.
And people complain about the fact that he doesn't play the entire song. Yes, because heart have never butchered any songs have they? Oh, the irony.
The Who, Kinks, Steppenwolf etc.
Utter sacrilege
A few options here:
1) Change jobs
2) Sabotage the radio.
3) Request flexitime that avoids the 'big show'
4) Change jobs
5) Tell the boss you get panic attacks / flashbacks as a result of PTSD when listening to him
6) Change jobs.
Hope this helps.
And yet I have younger friends (27+) who have migrated from R1 and love SW.
Mark Radclife is a personality driven alternative to Wright but his partnership with Maconie is very dull compared to the excellent Afternoon show he did with Marc Riley for 5 years, shame he was forced to tone it down just because he reached a certain age, good old BBC ageism.
Then again there is always Scott Mills who is another personality alternative in the afternoon, so all the Steve Wright haters who don't want to go down the more music route have options if they want entertainment.
I don't see what Heart have got to do with anything and believe it or not I don't want to listen to 4 in a row radio anymore than you do. This is why I love Radio 2 but Steve Wrights show could be so much better but he is just goibg through the motions and letting his ego do the show. Don't confuse his ego with personality. There is a diffetence.
I'd love someone to explain to me why Steve cuttibg songs in half for no good reason is better than him playing the song in full? I really see any reason why a show on any station.let alone our biggest one should be produced like this. It's just lazy and given hiw much prep goes into his show, it"s so sad that he wastes that with such poor execution on air.
The great thing about the passage of time is that we can look back and see things in a new light and see what was really great and what was just great in that moment.
We can take the good things but leave some behind. No need to lift everything just because it was good once.
I wonder when the last time he ever thought 'you know what lets try something different' was.
He's turning up every day and taking the money.
News and weather
That was the news and weather, lets just look at the news and weather
half a song
*sings over the end of a song*
His side kicks laugh about something inane
Today's guest is Judith chalmers
Sidekicks murmurr about how she is a friend of the show and a great lady
Factoids
Half a song with the end sang over again
Non stop oldies, which have plenty of stops in them, for inane guff