SP
Anybody think we should have a Y&L Thread outing?
http://shows.external.bbc.co.uk/help/tours/open_weekend_leeds
http://shows.external.bbc.co.uk/help/tours/open_weekend_hull
http://shows.external.bbc.co.uk/help/tours/open_weekend_leeds
http://shows.external.bbc.co.uk/help/tours/open_weekend_hull
TR
These events are a cheap way of getting aroud the public service access commitment made in the charter.
There used to be a Local Audience Council for each radio station who's purpose was to give local feedback from listeners. This was abolished last year - largely because people were telling them what they thought and they didn't like it.
There is a Regional Audience Council for each English region who is supposed to do they same but is highly manipulated by the BBC who have what could be described as hand picked chairpersons who mainly do as they are told. These report back to the English national Forum based at the Mailbox and then to the Trust. By the time any suggestions or critisisms make it as far as Trust members they are highly watered down.
Thats public accountability for you.
There used to be a Local Audience Council for each radio station who's purpose was to give local feedback from listeners. This was abolished last year - largely because people were telling them what they thought and they didn't like it.
There is a Regional Audience Council for each English region who is supposed to do they same but is highly manipulated by the BBC who have what could be described as hand picked chairpersons who mainly do as they are told. These report back to the English national Forum based at the Mailbox and then to the Trust. By the time any suggestions or critisisms make it as far as Trust members they are highly watered down.
Thats public accountability for you.
WE
No wonder the Doolan show on BBC WM hasn't had any 'Ask the managing editor' phone ins for well over a year.
I'd put it down to Keith Beech (the managing editor at the time) being away in Tibet on attachment & the 'stand in' not feeling it's his job to 'muck about', but there was changes at WM plus RAJARS results & said phone in was normally after those.
I did ask Mike the 'stand in' editor about this, & his silence on the matter was most deafening!
Mind you, listening to the run down of topics on the Doolan show recently, you might say the show was dumbing down.
What happened to the consumer calls we all know & love?
TROGGLES posted:
These events are a cheap way of getting aroud the public service access commitment made in the charter.
There used to be a Local Audience Council for each radio station who's purpose was to give local feedback from listeners. This was abolished last year - largely because people were telling them what they thought and they didn't like it.
There is a Regional Audience Council for each English region who is supposed to do they same but is highly manipulated by the BBC who have what could be described as hand picked chairpersons who mainly do as they are told. These report back to the English national Forum based at the Mailbox and then to the Trust. By the time any suggestions or critisisms make it as far as Trust members they are highly watered down.
Thats public accountability for you.
There used to be a Local Audience Council for each radio station who's purpose was to give local feedback from listeners. This was abolished last year - largely because people were telling them what they thought and they didn't like it.
There is a Regional Audience Council for each English region who is supposed to do they same but is highly manipulated by the BBC who have what could be described as hand picked chairpersons who mainly do as they are told. These report back to the English national Forum based at the Mailbox and then to the Trust. By the time any suggestions or critisisms make it as far as Trust members they are highly watered down.
Thats public accountability for you.
No wonder the Doolan show on BBC WM hasn't had any 'Ask the managing editor' phone ins for well over a year.
I'd put it down to Keith Beech (the managing editor at the time) being away in Tibet on attachment & the 'stand in' not feeling it's his job to 'muck about', but there was changes at WM plus RAJARS results & said phone in was normally after those.
I did ask Mike the 'stand in' editor about this, & his silence on the matter was most deafening!
Mind you, listening to the run down of topics on the Doolan show recently, you might say the show was dumbing down.
What happened to the consumer calls we all know & love?
TR
No wonder the Doolan show on BBC WM hasn't had any 'Ask the managing editor' phone ins for well over a year.
I'd put it down to Keith Beech (the managing editor at the time) being away in Tibet on attachment & the 'stand in' not feeling it's his job to 'muck about', but there was changes at WM plus RAJARS results & said phone in was normally after those.
I did ask Mike the 'stand in' editor about this, & his silence on the matter was most deafening!
Mind you, listening to the run down of topics on the Doolan show recently, you might say the show was dumbing down.
What happened to the consumer calls we all know & love?
Interesting that the managing editor of WM was on a sabbatical, the same happened at Radio Lincolnshire. Off to Canada it is understood. Whilst on this excursion the management executed what might be described 'a night of the long knives. Several people were summarily dismissed and told to leave the building. Allegedly one was told just before going on air that he/she was to leave immediately after they presented their programme! The contracts of experienced staff have not been renewed and their replacements tend to be - shall we say - exiteable student types.
Got to get value for money from the licence fee
Westy2 posted:
TROGGLES posted:
These events are a cheap way of getting aroud the public service access commitment made in the charter.
There used to be a Local Audience Council for each radio station who's purpose was to give local feedback from listeners. This was abolished last year - largely because people were telling them what they thought and they didn't like it.
There is a Regional Audience Council for each English region who is supposed to do they same but is highly manipulated by the BBC who have what could be described as hand picked chairpersons who mainly do as they are told. These report back to the English national Forum based at the Mailbox and then to the Trust. By the time any suggestions or critisisms make it as far as Trust members they are highly watered down.
Thats public accountability for you.
There used to be a Local Audience Council for each radio station who's purpose was to give local feedback from listeners. This was abolished last year - largely because people were telling them what they thought and they didn't like it.
There is a Regional Audience Council for each English region who is supposed to do they same but is highly manipulated by the BBC who have what could be described as hand picked chairpersons who mainly do as they are told. These report back to the English national Forum based at the Mailbox and then to the Trust. By the time any suggestions or critisisms make it as far as Trust members they are highly watered down.
Thats public accountability for you.
No wonder the Doolan show on BBC WM hasn't had any 'Ask the managing editor' phone ins for well over a year.
I'd put it down to Keith Beech (the managing editor at the time) being away in Tibet on attachment & the 'stand in' not feeling it's his job to 'muck about', but there was changes at WM plus RAJARS results & said phone in was normally after those.
I did ask Mike the 'stand in' editor about this, & his silence on the matter was most deafening!
Mind you, listening to the run down of topics on the Doolan show recently, you might say the show was dumbing down.
What happened to the consumer calls we all know & love?
Interesting that the managing editor of WM was on a sabbatical, the same happened at Radio Lincolnshire. Off to Canada it is understood. Whilst on this excursion the management executed what might be described 'a night of the long knives. Several people were summarily dismissed and told to leave the building. Allegedly one was told just before going on air that he/she was to leave immediately after they presented their programme! The contracts of experienced staff have not been renewed and their replacements tend to be - shall we say - exiteable student types.
Got to get value for money from the licence fee
SP
You'd have thought if they were being given the boot at such short notice they might as well have waited til they'd finished the show. Sacking someone just before they go on air does rather mean running the risk of a presenter going off on one.
TROGGLES posted:
Allegedly one was told just before going on air that he/she was to leave immediately after they presented their programme!
You'd have thought if they were being given the boot at such short notice they might as well have waited til they'd finished the show. Sacking someone just before they go on air does rather mean running the risk of a presenter going off on one.
MA
You'd have thought if they were being given the boot at such short notice they might as well have waited til they'd finished the show. Sacking someone just before they go on air does rather mean running the risk of a presenter going off on one.
Or, the case of BBC Birmingham's Alan Towers rather spectacular on air resignation in 1997. In Googling for an mp3 of the event, I see he sadly passed away in May this year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Towers
Spencer For Hire posted:
TROGGLES posted:
Allegedly one was told just before going on air that he/she was to leave immediately after they presented their programme!
You'd have thought if they were being given the boot at such short notice they might as well have waited til they'd finished the show. Sacking someone just before they go on air does rather mean running the risk of a presenter going off on one.
Or, the case of BBC Birmingham's Alan Towers rather spectacular on air resignation in 1997. In Googling for an mp3 of the event, I see he sadly passed away in May this year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Towers
R2
Well that's gone quick. Leeds is already fully booked although, unsurprisingly/surprisingly (delete as applicable), Hull is still available.
I'd have gone to Hull but I'll be in Manchester then and it is a bit more of a journey than from Sheffield.
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Anybody think we should have a Y&L Thread outing?
http://shows.external.bbc.co.uk/help/tours/open_weekend_leeds
http://shows.external.bbc.co.uk/help/tours/open_weekend_hull
http://shows.external.bbc.co.uk/help/tours/open_weekend_leeds
http://shows.external.bbc.co.uk/help/tours/open_weekend_hull
Well that's gone quick. Leeds is already fully booked although, unsurprisingly/surprisingly (delete as applicable), Hull is still available.
I'd have gone to Hull but I'll be in Manchester then and it is a bit more of a journey than from Sheffield.
SP
Bit of a cock up when Christa on the OB at Tinsley handed to Ian in the studio, on a two shot with a guest who wasn't referred to, shuffling his scripts, then once he'd got himself sorted, cut to a much tighter shot and he got through the intro to a VT package.
Wonder if the plan had been to go to the second OB at Leeds Festival off the back of Christa and the OB had failed?
Wonder if the plan had been to go to the second OB at Leeds Festival off the back of Christa and the OB had failed?
ST
Tonights Calendar was pan regional for the whole of the YTV region for some reason? Duncan mentioned that it was nice to see Gaynor again and that she hadnt disappeared but people in the South of the region probably thought the same about Duncan.
RM
Well us folk in YTV South sub-region get our weekly dose of Dunc with Wood You Believe It?
I wondered that about Friday's Calendar too: I reckon it was because the big lead story (Tinsley Towers demolition) was relevant to both sub-regions, and possibly because of people being on holiday? Or maybe a sign of things to come
South Today posted:
Tonights Calendar was pan regional for the whole of the YTV region for some reason? Duncan mentioned that it was nice to see Gaynor again and that she hadnt disappeared but people in the South of the region probably thought the same about Duncan.
Well us folk in YTV South sub-region get our weekly dose of Dunc with Wood You Believe It?
I wondered that about Friday's Calendar too: I reckon it was because the big lead story (Tinsley Towers demolition) was relevant to both sub-regions, and possibly because of people being on holiday? Or maybe a sign of things to come