Radio 1 to be sold off under Conservatives?

Rarely watch TV... normally just watch downloads of american series (HBO, showtime) and when in the car only listen to my ipod... so sounds awesome for me personally! :p

Sucks for those that like it but then I guess no ones stopping them using their vote elsewhere :)
 
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I actually quite like Moyles and Radio 1 in general... Don't see how they could make it appeal more to youngsters to be honest. I'm generally inline with tory arguments but this one I don't get.
 
Hxc said:
I actually quite like Moyles and Radio 1 in general... Don't see how they could make it appeal more to youngsters to be honest. I'm generally inline with tory arguments but this one I don't get.
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If it is not big enough an issue for you to not vote for them they have not lost anything ... but defo have a chance of gaining votes from people like me, if they are ultimately saving money without affecting me in anyway whatsoever :)
 
only time I hear the radio is when I'm at the gym and the it's always ****ing "kiss me through the phone" or some tool singing "i just think I'm free" makes me want to smash peoples faces in with the weights.
 
radio 1 in the daytime is forgettable at best, but what they do in the evenings is unique - no other radio station has the level of focus on new music across a wide variety of genres that R1 does.

can you see a commercialised radio 1 playing say.... annie mac's mashup? or kutski's show?

i dont care whether you personally like these shows - they're examples of the type of shows that would be lost under a commercial R1, and examples of the type of shows that make radio 1 great
 
atpbx said:
My problem with Radio 1.

Chris moyles.

It was 25 minutes or so on friday before there was a tune on his show, and for that 25 minutes it was the same jokes and mikey taking out of the campmeister John Barrowman and his songs that they have been doing for the past 2 weeks.

If selling off radio one meant the end of this grotesque waste of oxygen, I'd be more than happy.
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I do agree that Chris Moyles does tend to have some annoying things that he gets attached to every now and then, but I prefer radio 1 when moyles is on because they actually play music.

With Scott Mills or Fearn and Reggie it's just:

"Radio 1 R-R-R-Radio 1-1-1-1-1-1 Radio 1 oneeoeonoeonoe!!!1!1! Y-y-y-you are l-listening to Raaaaaadio 1 with Scott Mills"

or

"Today with Fearn and Reggie you'll be listening to the Top 40 chart singles with Fearn and Reggie. They are exactly the same as yesterday's Top 40 except for 1 song, but it's OK because you're listening with Fearn and Reggie. Fearn and Reggie!"

 
Radio 1 is good from Greg James' show until the end of Jo Whiley. Scott Mills is awful, Zane Lowe is unbearable.

When I was doing 400-500 miles a week in the car I would listen to Moyles in the morning on R1 and then in the evening I would listen to Radio 4. PM is a great show, and all of the surrounding programmes are good too, apart from perhaps Mariella Frostrup's show.
 
I don't personally listen to Radio 1 any more, stopped a couple of years ago. More Radio 2 really, and that's only in the car. Radio 1 shouldn't be "sold off" though, not at all. Don't even get me started on local commercial radio! As others have said, constant adverts and a tape of songs that's about 30 minutes long that loops over and over. Drives me mad!

atpbx said:
My problem with Radio 1.

Chris moyles.

It was 25 minutes or so on friday before there was a tune on his show, and for that 25 minutes it was the same jokes and mikey taking out of the campmeister John Barrowman and his songs that they have been doing for the past 2 weeks.

If selling off radio one meant the end of this grotesque waste of oxygen, I'd be more than happy.
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I take it you didn't watch him on "Who do you think you are?" then? ;) Funniest bit was where he found out his surname actually means 'Bald', rather than what he thought it meant! :p

Tefal said:
Don't be silly just because they get rid of the bbc doesn't mean they'll get rid of the license ;)

why screw you once when they can have it both ways.
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I agree, of course they wouldn't get rid of it. Even if you detuned your telly so it doesn't receive any BBC content/channels (or even if you modified it in some way so it couldn't receive it), you'd still have to pay for the licence, as you'd still get all the other channels. Most people don't realise that it's actually a "receiving licence", not a BBC licence. :) (And imho, the BBC should stay as it is. I'm happy to pay a licence fee. We don't want any more commercial stuff and it turning into American telly thanks.)
 
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I've started listening to Radio 1, and it is certainly plays the most varied music, and sunday nights with Nick and Annie is good.

I'm surprised to hear 30s is the average as theres always little kids phoning in, but that average age group says something for how good it is.

I doubt they will get rid of radio 1 they would more likely get rid of the lesser detritus.

Anyway I thought they were all going digital soon so what happens to the radio waves then?
 
Saytan said:
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Whilst I don't listen to these particular shows (I only really listen in the car) this is the values of Radio 1, and the BBC in general. BBC radio has massive listening figures on all channels forcing commmercial radio to put out higher quality than it would otherwise have to. I firmly believe that without the BBC braodcast values would fall across the spectrum. Saying that I think many aspects of the BBC chase ratings too much and there are too many Nathan Barleys in there.
 
radio has some life in the old gal yet.

I love being able to listen to what i want when i want, but there's times i want to concentrate on other things and just listen.

If it wasn't for radio 1 i'd have never stumbled across ppl like dan le sac and others. What i'd like to see and would pay for is digital radio that you can customise what it plays- eg instead of dialing in R1 i chose what styles/genre mix of i feel like. That way i know i'm going to hear some music i really want to but will get to hear new stuff aswell.

Was in a metallica mood this morning, how cool would it be to tell the radio this (in the car) and after of wolf and men get hit by killing in the name of?
 
Doonhamer said:
It wont cut any of your costs though.
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What are you saying my taxes wont go down from it?

My point was simple if they kept cost cutting and saving money without affecting me then I all for it.

On the flipside if they said they are planning on giving the bbc/radio 1 more money I would be against it.. again my tax may not rise directly from it but that money still is coming from public funds.

More money in the pot can only be a good thing and maybe even spent on something which will have a positive impact on my life.

If you feel strongly either way its your vote at the end of the day :) I am not saying your opinion is right or wrong this is just about how I feel about something that I do not use.
 
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Calabi said:
Anyway I thought they were all going digital soon so what happens to the radio waves then?
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You'll have to buy a digital/DAB radio probably. Actually I'm sure I heard on the TV the other week that they'd like all radio to go digital by 2015. They need to get it sorted out first though, I saw a demo of some different types of digital car radios/receivers on a news type report on TV. They were in the middle of London, and to be honest, it was pretty poor reception. It was ok when it was receiving, but really it was typical digital - all or nothing. I still prefer analogue (even analogue TV in some cases), at least if the signals weak you still get something you can understand, rather than a broken up unintelligible jumble or nothing at all.
 
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You'll have to buy a digital/DAB radio probably. Actually I'm sure I heard on the TV the other week that they'd like all radio to go digital by 2015. They need to get it sorted out first though, I saw a demo of some different types of digital car radios/receivers on a news type report on TV. They were in the middle of London, and to be honest, it was pretty poor reception. It was ok when it was receiving, but really it was typical digital - all or nothing. I still prefer analogue (even analogue TV in some cases), at least if the signals weak you still get something you can understand, rather than a broken up unintelligible jumble or nothing at all.
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What they failed to mention is it's the only the fact analogue is hogging most of the spectrum that gives digital such a poor signal, the same reason freeview coverage isn't 100%, once the analogue signals are turned off, 100% digital coverage is no problem.
 
Tefal said:
only time I hear the radio is when I'm at the gym and the it's always ****ing "kiss me through the phone" or some tool singing "i just think I'm free" makes me want to smash peoples faces in with the weights.
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Steroids are bad m'kay :p.
 
Bring back Fat Harry White!!

We have absolute (Virgin) radio on at work at that's quite good although recently there seems to be more talking and less music? Which is no good for work becasue you don't have the time or concentration to follow it so it just turns into an annoying noise.
 
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