Four Extra - do we really need to have...
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Loose bloody Ends repeated three times in just 17 hours? It's already been on Four if we really are that in that much need to listen to it...
Radio 7 - a station ruined. Rapidily followed by Five.
Radio 7 - a station ruined. Rapidily followed by Five.
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Most things on Radio 4 Extra are repeated several times during the day, they recognise that the majority of the listeners do not listen to it continuously all day.
Probably because sales of Dab and Internet radios have more than doubled. Frequency of output still poor though.
But why does there need to be a 4 Extra to have all that content available on demand? Surely the best solution would be to make all the shows available on iPlayer and forget about having a "live" station full of repeats.
Because many more people listen "live" than on demand.
And because you can listen in the car and often get a good show as an extra choice from Radio 4 as well.
Not a lot of use for people in their cars if only on iPlayer.
Do we 'need' any radio programme, I am sure there are plenty that you listen to that I, and others, will hate and think are pointless.
It is more important (slightly) than the NHS.
Exactly, it is following the same format as many other stations and channels. If they only broadcast each programme once then there would be someone moaning that they missed it.
Many are listening on portable radios or in their cars so have no provision to record programmes so they can listen later. I suspect that even many of those listening at home forget that they can record radio programmes on their PVR, at least for some channels.
I used to enjoy ;Loose Ends' during the late Ned Sherrin's tenure. The current incarnation though (IMHO) is little more than a St John's Wood narrowcast with disinterested presentation and production.
I'm sure many people (not least himself) have a high opinion of Clive Anderson, but I find his overwhelming aura of self-indulgent smugness to be a huge turn off.
It's all a matter of personal taste, I could never stand Ned Sherrin.
Indeed. You can't please all the people....etc.
However, I once attended the show and was stunned at just how scripted it was.
There was no room for ad-lib manoevre whatsoever.
However, highlights of the live show for me were:
Ned doing his own stand-up before the show itself (better than the show) and - a pre-fame Graham Norton as warm-up man!
The irony is that although the Sherrin-led show was famously filled with his cronies, many of whom joined him at his London club afterwards, the Anderson incarnation sounds even more 'clubby'. That, despite Clive's sharper, lawyer's interviewing abilities.
Ned was really just a satirist.