(And for the pedants, rather than those who actually care, the East have "recently" adopted the method of split jingles in place of the generic sound the stations had after 7. I always thought the generic sound was much neater and easier on the ears, rather than the jarring, usually misplaced split jingles that crashed in when they were required.)
The West stations have just started something similar. Have to say, I quite like it. GWR stations have been doing it for years without it being noticable so I'm sure the BBC stations will eventually get it spot on.
(And for the pedants, rather than those who actually care, the East have "recently" adopted the method of split jingles in place of the generic sound the stations had after 7. I always thought the generic sound was much neater and easier on the ears, rather than the jarring, usually misplaced split jingles that crashed in when they were required.)
The West stations have just started something similar. Have to say, I quite like it. GWR stations have been doing it for years without it being noticable so I'm sure the BBC stations will eventually get it spot on.
We can live in hope, but the South East stations have done it for years and years and it still doesn't work. When I used to listen a few years back, there would be some classic cockups. For example, Bill Rennells would hit the button to cue the 1 minute news jingle but Radio Kent would trigger the telephone number instead, resulting in 53 seconds of silence, then later on Bill quietly reading out the weather over the news jingle, then the weather jingle in place of the show intro, then the show intro in place of the telephone jingle and so on until the show ended.
Or my personal favourite where he would deliberately read out the phone number three times so he could use up the remaining telephone number jingles before playing the news jingle.
Hopefully they got a more sophisticated system when I got over my BBC Local Radio listening phase.
Interesting to note that Joanne Griffith is doing Stephen's slot tonight. Ive not been listening, so anyone know why? Or is Stephen just having a well deserved break?!
(And for the pedants, rather than those who actually care, the East have "recently" adopted the method of split jingles in place of the generic sound the stations had after 7. I always thought the generic sound was much neater and easier on the ears, rather than the jarring, usually misplaced split jingles that crashed in when they were required.)
The East have had the ability to use split jingles for years. I used them when I presented Early In The Early Counties and Daybreak across the south and east in 1990. I had special carts (as they were then) that used to fire the idents in the individual stations.
And the South West have had them since 1983 - I think Radio Devon and Cornwall were the first to use them anywhere.
Would it still be done that way or would the originating station's playout system be able to put a different jingle into the output fed to each station taking the programme?
I see that 5live are broadcasting the BBC Sports Personality of the Year tomorrow night...is this the first time they have done this? I know they always cover it but its not normally more than a quick report.
I see that 5live are broadcasting the BBC Sports Personality of the Year tomorrow night...is this the first time they have done this? I know they always cover it but its not normally more than a quick report.