Radio 3 messageboard closing.
Paul Grayson
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Radio 3's messageboards will be closing sometime next Tuesday.
Unlike many other such boards, some of the station's presenters would contribute to threads, notably Breakfast's Rob Cowan, CD Review's Andrew McGregor and Jazz Library's Alyn Shipton.
I presume it was costing too much to run. The boards were being moderated daily until about midnight, presumably using the same moderation company as the one responsible for running Radio 2 boards. Was the moderation contract simply not renewed?
Unlike many other such boards, some of the station's presenters would contribute to threads, notably Breakfast's Rob Cowan, CD Review's Andrew McGregor and Jazz Library's Alyn Shipton.
I presume it was costing too much to run. The boards were being moderated daily until about midnight, presumably using the same moderation company as the one responsible for running Radio 2 boards. Was the moderation contract simply not renewed?
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They just want you on twitter where they get no criticism.
The messageboards were created at a time when Twitter didn't exist and internet useage was generally lower. This was also at a time of massive expansion and investment across the whole of bbc.co.uk.
Faced with cuts, the BBC made it quite clear earlier this year that the number of pages would reduce by 25%. Messageboards are just one of the casualties. Others are dedicated websites for certain programmes, which are now being mereged into generic ones like Comedy, Drama and History.
One of the key decisions in closing a BBC website is to consider whhether similar content is provided elsewhere. DS is perhaps the biggest example of a UK wide radio forum which discusses all output, BBC and commercial. Therefore using licence fee money to run soemthing that's already out there could be seen as wasteful.
And I suspect the true Radio 3 purists would prefer somewhere more tangible to air their views - possible Feedback on radio 4.
You are clearly ignorant of the fact the BBC don't like criticism and replace anything where the listener can answer back with twitter where they get vacuous Richard Bacon supporting cretins to tweet inanities all day and then can say that the listener has every opportunity to contact them.
Oh dear, you don't like being told the truth that DAB bully boys LOST the argument in trying to persuade the listening public to buy DAB radios so had to run to the last government to force their commercial failure on the rest of us - what don't you understand about that?
You seem to have a strange desire to be told what to listen to and what equipment you can buy.
Oh well, it takes all sorts.
The Radio 3 boards offered a means of discussing classical, jazz and world music in depth, concentrating mainly on the station's musical output but naturally also covering other related topics. The fact that several presenters would chip in from time to time to air their views made them somewhat unique.
Gripes about actual programmes and scheduling - the staple of Radio 4's feedback - was limited mainly to those complaining about the dumbing down of Breakfast and changes to the start time of evening concerts.
http://www.for3.org/forums/index.php
Right. So we'll ad the BBC to your list of nominations for room 101. Thanks for the informed comment.
Here's a question - would you rather the BBC spent more money on output or more money on providing a messageboard similar to one which is already out there - as per John W's post above?
I appreciate that but the fact is that the BBC is ahving to cut costs. Radio 3 - and its web content - is no exception.
Ah the old "informed" put-down - that's another one you've used up!
I would like a message board from the BBC where dissent isn't deleted, controllers answer their paymasters (me and you) and people aren't ignored when points are raised. Have you seen the 5Live Blog lately? Posters are treated like excrement, questions almost never answered and people obviously planted to agree with the management - it's just another example of the BBC's attitude of contempt and we know best.