Originally Posted by lentini:
“I didn't even notice that, thanks for pointing it out
That's what happens sometimes when I edit stuff the next day”
I really enjoyed viewing a couple of them, including the Thursday night one. I noticed he was looking into the screen and seemed to be answering listeners questions in real time. Tony Blackburn was using periscope now and again when doing Pick Of The Pops, I recall him mentioning. I don't really know the nuts and bolts about how it works though. Ultimately radio is for listening, not seeing. I'm sure there are plenty in studio's that prefer it that way too. I never see the point of the Radio 5 Live webcam to be honest. Much of the time it's pointing at an empty seat!
Originally Posted by radamfi:
“How does seeing his face make a difference? When he was on LBC in 2007 as a proper presenter and in 2006 sitting in for Iain, female posters on DS commented favourably on his looks, but I'm guessing you've got a different angle here.”
Always nice to put a face to the voice, surely. It all adds to a make a rounded judgement of the person you listen to. When local radio (Chiltern) began in my area in the 80's I was always wondering what people looked like. Nowadays you don't even have to wonder. There was a girl in my school who became infatuated with a presenter on that local commercial radio station back in the mid 80's, and became quite emotional about him, simply through his voice, and she expressed how she had fallen in love with the guy, who she'd never seen. It became a bit of a problem overtaking her life in the end and she apparently would get quite tearful about him. I don't know how it came about but she eventually got to see him somehow and was instantly cured of her infatuation because far from being this rather young, slim and good looking male she had been fantasising about he was infact older, fatter and balder and more like her own father!
My own fifth form school tutor was a BBC local radio presenter, who even did an extremely brief stint on 5 Live one Christmas many years after I left. I never understood how he was able to be a schoolteacher and also moonlight as a radio presenter on the BBC at exactly the same time.