I hope not it was so boring today i changed station.
Capital FM Network (Part 2)
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Originally Posted by -ajm-:
“I just heard Andi mention about listening to Atlantic 252. I instantly thought of DS
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“I just heard Andi mention about listening to Atlantic 252. I instantly thought of DS
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Andi Durrant does put together a great show, was listening last night whilst driving 1-2am hour until about 1.45.
What did he say about 252?
On a side note Capital FM's website home page is terrible, very cluttered. The silly ads don't help the cause.
Originally Posted by tim raffield:
“It is "The Best of Dave and Lisa" on Capital London this morning.
So that won't be a very long show then!”
“It is "The Best of Dave and Lisa" on Capital London this morning.
So that won't be a very long show then!”
Pretty lazy broadcasting. I guess it saves Capital paying someone else to do a 4 hour shift, but its pretty sad that even Saturday mornings in a huge radio market are now handed over to a pre recorded show.
Originally Posted by dzfootball:
“Andi Durrant does put together a great show, was listening last night whilst driving 1-2am hour until about 1.45.
What did he say about 252?
On a side note Capital FM's website home page is terrible, very cluttered. The silly ads don't help the cause.”
“Andi Durrant does put together a great show, was listening last night whilst driving 1-2am hour until about 1.45.
What did he say about 252?
On a side note Capital FM's website home page is terrible, very cluttered. The silly ads don't help the cause.”
Something like, "I remember listening..." It's on the radio player just have to go through the listen again tab on the Capital London console.
I guess they've gone for the "Empty space is wasted space" approach.
Originally Posted by Ads:
“Pretty lazy broadcasting. I guess it saves Capital paying someone else to do a 4 hour shift, but its pretty sad that even Saturday mornings in a huge radio market are now handed over to a pre recorded show.”
“Pretty lazy broadcasting. I guess it saves Capital paying someone else to do a 4 hour shift, but its pretty sad that even Saturday mornings in a huge radio market are now handed over to a pre recorded show.”
No no no. What it does is introduce the new breakfast team to Capital's weekend audience (different listening patterns) and reinforces to weekday listeners why they listen to the show.
Otherwise you end up with a station where the weekends bear no relation to weekdays. And, if you're paying that much, you really should have some content worth reusing.
Originally Posted by x+y:
“Interesting! I wonder if that idea's going to be eventually rolled out across the network and have a pre-recorded best of breakfast for each local area (e.g the best of Hirsty's Daily dose, etc..) on a Saturday morning. It'll save on paying for local freelance jocks.”
“Interesting! I wonder if that idea's going to be eventually rolled out across the network and have a pre-recorded best of breakfast for each local area (e.g the best of Hirsty's Daily dose, etc..) on a Saturday morning. It'll save on paying for local freelance jocks.”
No Becky Hayes was on Capital Yorkshire and she was live.
I think a "best of" show is the wrong move, this is so typical of other radio stations (especially the Bauer ones) to do a "best of" breakfast show and it's really crap if I'm honest.
I'd rather have Dave & Lisa live doing what Dave did best on weekends, having a laugh, running competitions as the show was brilliant. I haven't had a chance to listen to the new breakfast show yet either so I'll have to give that a listen on RP if I can get it work.
I'd rather have Dave & Lisa live doing what Dave did best on weekends, having a laugh, running competitions as the show was brilliant. I haven't had a chance to listen to the new breakfast show yet either so I'll have to give that a listen on RP if I can get it work.
I listened to a bit of the show this morning, and one repeat played was Lisa trying to put as many Maltesers in her mouth as possible, and this they supply as part of their "best bits" show. Utter crap IMO. Roberto or Greg Burns playing non stop hits would be better.
On a positive side Emily's show sounded good this morning. Better than MT who will be better suited to Heart.
On a positive side Emily's show sounded good this morning. Better than MT who will be better suited to Heart.
Just realised Dave Kelly is in mix on Saturday nights on The Hits Radio, which can be heard on DAB in London 
Capital Yorkshire, North East and Manchester have had a format change granted to reduce the amount of specialist music programmes to 12 hours a week:
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/bro...t-changes-2011
(First three documents)
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/bro...t-changes-2011
(First three documents)
Originally Posted by dpb:
“Capital Yorkshire, North East and Manchester have had a format change granted to reduce the amount of specialist music programmes to 12 hours a week:
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/bro...t-changes-2011
(First three documents)”
“Capital Yorkshire, North East and Manchester have had a format change granted to reduce the amount of specialist music programmes to 12 hours a week:
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/bro...t-changes-2011
(First three documents)”
End of specialist weeknights?
Originally Posted by tim raffield:
“Just realised Dave Kelly is in mix on Saturday nights on The Hits Radio, which can be heard on DAB in London”
“Just realised Dave Kelly is in mix on Saturday nights on The Hits Radio, which can be heard on DAB in London
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Not a bad show if you like it a bit commercial with a cheesy old school tip. Not as upfront as his Galaxy mix show on a weekend used to be suppose that was a dance station.
This show is broadcast on Key, Aire and Hallam so can't be too out there. Some awful mash ups played in my view.
Andi Durrant's show on capital is much more to my taste, shame it is on so late 11-2.
Originally Posted by -ajm-:
“End of specialist weeknights?”
“End of specialist weeknights?”
Well that means they can now just have 11pm - 5am weekends, and presumably return weeknights back to normal playlist.
Originally Posted by djgeeza:
“Well that means they can now just have 11pm - 5am weekends, and presumably return weeknights back to normal playlist.”
“Well that means they can now just have 11pm - 5am weekends, and presumably return weeknights back to normal playlist.”
Or 7-2 since they just introduced Friday 7-11 with James. Then again weekends could just stay as they are.
Originally Posted by hotmat3k:
“That's over the last month! Including Christmas tracks no doubt.
I was listening to Capital the other day as a background source while getting on with some work and I couldn't believe it only took 90 minutes (something close to that!) to get Rihanna twice! It personally drives me mad and I just don't understand why stations need such a tight playlist to the point where anything not released to 6 weeks old or older than 6 months is shifted.
Makes the programming managers job easy certainly whoever does that at Capital/Global! I can get on with the pop genre (take it or leave it), but it does send me insane when the choice is minimised to "chart" only content. With the finance power of Global, surely a networked dance show (more specific to underground music rather than your typical remixed pop tracks) could boost diversity and some of those tracks filtering to the daytime playlist?”
“That's over the last month! Including Christmas tracks no doubt.
I was listening to Capital the other day as a background source while getting on with some work and I couldn't believe it only took 90 minutes (something close to that!) to get Rihanna twice! It personally drives me mad and I just don't understand why stations need such a tight playlist to the point where anything not released to 6 weeks old or older than 6 months is shifted.
Makes the programming managers job easy certainly whoever does that at Capital/Global! I can get on with the pop genre (take it or leave it), but it does send me insane when the choice is minimised to "chart" only content. With the finance power of Global, surely a networked dance show (more specific to underground music rather than your typical remixed pop tracks) could boost diversity and some of those tracks filtering to the daytime playlist?”
Originally Posted by Sean Park:
“If you don't like the 90 min rotation turn it off.
I should point out that is 50% better than I heard the other day.
Rihanna Whats My name at TOH
Then next hour, another Rihanna tune, then the hour later What's my name again.
But it works, they want reach not hours. More people listening less. It works.”
“If you don't like the 90 min rotation turn it off.
I should point out that is 50% better than I heard the other day.
Rihanna Whats My name at TOH
Then next hour, another Rihanna tune, then the hour later What's my name again.
But it works, they want reach not hours. More people listening less. It works.”
I'm glad I'm not the only one annoyed by this. Is it a contractual requirement that they play some kind of song featuring Rihanna twice an hour? Just checked and Rihanna 'We found love' just played at 13.01hrs.
I realise I'm older than their target audience and they probably don't give a monkey's about my opinion. I do like chart music, but cannot bear the Rihanna overload. I now refer to it as Radio Rihanna and have switched to Gem 106.
Just to let you know that a reduction in specialist hours has been approved by Ofcom for Capital NW, NE and Yorkshire.
High five!
High five!
Last week, I was looking at the playlist for New York's Now 92.3 which is even tighter than Z100. They played Rihanna - We Found Love 16 times in 12 hours.
Checking again now, so far today they've played it 12 times in only 8 hours. Capital's playlist must be huge in comparison!
http://923now.radio.com/playlist/
Checking again now, so far today they've played it 12 times in only 8 hours. Capital's playlist must be huge in comparison!
http://923now.radio.com/playlist/
Originally Posted by SmartProgrammer:
“Just to let you know that a reduction in specialist hours has been approved by Ofcom for Capital NW, NE and Yorkshire.
High five!”
“Just to let you know that a reduction in specialist hours has been approved by Ofcom for Capital NW, NE and Yorkshire.
High five!”
So what specialist shows will be cut?
Originally Posted by Bluedabadee:
“So what specialist shows will be cut?”
“So what specialist shows will be cut?”
I presume all James Barr shows (those after 11pm mon-thu, fri 7-11, and sat 7-11) will all simply be the same old repetitive crap we can expect to hear in the daytime.
Meaning the only specialist shows to remain would be Andi Durrants (6hrs), Sacha Brooks (3hrs), Mash (3hrs).
It is crap they have done this, they used an excuse that as the music is played out of hours after 11pm, people aren't tuned in.
This was exactly my point when it first launched. I knew they would use it as an excuse to get rid of dance music completely and keep it mainstream 24/7. Soon it will be 6hrs, and networked 24/7, as the local shows are costing too much.
Originally Posted by Matkingy123:
“I presume all James Barr shows (those after 11pm mon-thu, fri 7-11, and sat 7-11) will all simply be the same old repetitive crap we can expect to hear in the daytime.
Meaning the only specialist shows to remain would be Andi Durrants (6hrs), Sacha Brooks (3hrs), Mash (3hrs).
It is crap they have done this, they used an excuse that as the music is played out of hours after 11pm, people aren't tuned in.
This was exactly my point when it first launched. I knew they would use it as an excuse to get rid of dance music completely and keep it mainstream 24/7. Soon it will be 6hrs, and networked 24/7, as the local shows are costing too much.”
“I presume all James Barr shows (those after 11pm mon-thu, fri 7-11, and sat 7-11) will all simply be the same old repetitive crap we can expect to hear in the daytime.
Meaning the only specialist shows to remain would be Andi Durrants (6hrs), Sacha Brooks (3hrs), Mash (3hrs).
It is crap they have done this, they used an excuse that as the music is played out of hours after 11pm, people aren't tuned in.
This was exactly my point when it first launched. I knew they would use it as an excuse to get rid of dance music completely and keep it mainstream 24/7. Soon it will be 6hrs, and networked 24/7, as the local shows are costing too much.”
Whoahh hold your speculative horses for a minute. There's a big difference between reducing specilaist hours to align all stations with the network and dropping local breakfast and drive.
And if you 'knew' they would do this - and really do object so much - why didn't you lodge your concerns with OFCOM stating the reasons why you think Capital shouldn't be doing this?
Originally Posted by Matkingy123:
“I presume all James Barr shows (those after 11pm mon-thu, fri 7-11, and sat 7-11) will all simply be the same old repetitive crap we can expect to hear in the daytime.
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“I presume all James Barr shows (those after 11pm mon-thu, fri 7-11, and sat 7-11) will all simply be the same old repetitive crap we can expect to hear in the daytime.
”
Have you considered that a lot of people are not able to listen to the radio in the daytime because the boss won't let them have the radio on at work, so the "same old" would actually be welcomed by those people who want to listen in the evenings.
It's the same principle that made Radio Luxembourg popular - back then it was the only place to hear the chart hits after 7pm.
Ultimately it shouldn't be up to a nanny-state regulator to instruct Global what music to play and when in 2012. If you don't like it there are plenty of other stations out there.
Originally Posted by SmartProgrammer:
“Just to let you know that a reduction in specialist hours has been approved by Ofcom for Capital NW, NE and Yorkshire.
High five!”
“Just to let you know that a reduction in specialist hours has been approved by Ofcom for Capital NW, NE and Yorkshire.
High five!”
Yeah its great seeing people put out of their jobs...
I know they don't reduce/change the terms of the format and then not do anything about it, but just because they are only required to have 12 hours, doesn't meant they will cut down to that low.
They've only just put James Barr in the 7-11 on a Friday, so I think that and the Saturday 7-11 show are here to stay for now. I can imagine the 11-3 Sunday-Thurs will go back to normal playlist, though. So with a minimum of 4 more hours, they might ditch Sacha and Mash and keep Andi, which makes 14hrs.
They've only just put James Barr in the 7-11 on a Friday, so I think that and the Saturday 7-11 show are here to stay for now. I can imagine the 11-3 Sunday-Thurs will go back to normal playlist, though. So with a minimum of 4 more hours, they might ditch Sacha and Mash and keep Andi, which makes 14hrs.
Originally Posted by SmartProgrammer:
“Just to let you know that a reduction in specialist hours has been approved by Ofcom for Capital NW, NE and Yorkshire.
High five!”
“Just to let you know that a reduction in specialist hours has been approved by Ofcom for Capital NW, NE and Yorkshire.
High five!”
Totally lost any respect with a post like that
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